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Spider silk spun by the rufous net-casting spider (Asianopis subrufa) can stretch up to 24 times its extruded length without breaking.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/silk-net-casting-spiders-prey-web
Spider silk spun by the rufous net-casting spider (Asianopis subrufa) can stretch up to 24 times its extruded length without breaking.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/silk-net-casting-spiders-prey-web
Today's friend, is this cheerful hoverfly! Surely in the Syrphus genus, and likely a female S. ribesii - the common banded hoverfly! I say likely, as there are three main Syrphus species of hoverfly found in the UK that are very hard to distinguish, luckily this lady has a distinctive yellow hind femur or I'd have no hopes of an ID 😊
Their strange slug-like larvae feed on aphids, helping to keep plants healthy, and the adults feed on nectar while helping to pollinate flowers 🥰
#bug #bugs #nature #biology #entomology #BugsOfMastodon #wasps #photography #insects #bugPosting
Today's friend, is this cheerful hoverfly! Surely in the Syrphus genus, and likely a female S. ribesii - the common banded hoverfly! I say likely, as there are three main Syrphus species of hoverfly found in the UK that are very hard to distinguish, luckily this lady has a distinctive yellow hind femur or I'd have no hopes of an ID 😊
Their strange slug-like larvae feed on aphids, helping to keep plants healthy, and the adults feed on nectar while helping to pollinate flowers 🥰
#bug #bugs #nature #biology #entomology #BugsOfMastodon #wasps #photography #insects #bugPosting
#NewSpecies!
New spider from #china just crept in:
Scytodes tanjiashui
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5340D58-DD81-5AB9-8D79-163487D207BA
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e181164
#BiodiversityDataJournal #ScytodesTanjiashui
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider
A new spider species of Scytodes Latreille, 1804 from Jiangxi Province, southern China (Araneae, Scytodidae)
#NewSpecies!
New ladybug from #india just snuck in:
Buprestodera reclusa
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94D28-FF8A-180F-E2C6-841D3422FE7E
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.1
#Zootaxa #BuprestoderaReclusa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #ladybugs #ladybirds
A review of Indian Plotinini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) including description of a new species
#NewSpecies!
New planthopper from #australia just hopped in:
Gelastopsis procyon
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F55278-FFAA-FFA3-F30B-7AB5FB94FDA9
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1039.3177
#EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy #GelastopsisProcyon
#FAIRdata
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Revision of the Eurybrachidae IXX. The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906: two new species, new records, biological data and key (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)
#NewSpecies!
New planthopper from #australia just hopped in:
Gelastopsis procyon
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F55278-FFAA-FFA3-F30B-7AB5FB94FDA9
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1039.3177
#EuropeanJournalOfTaxonomy #GelastopsisProcyon
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hemiptera #bugs #planthoppers
Revision of the Eurybrachidae IXX. The Australian genus Gelastopsis Kirkaldy, 1906: two new species, new records, biological data and key (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)
#NewSpecies!
New ladybug from #india just snuck in:
Buprestodera reclusa
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94D28-FF8A-180F-E2C6-841D3422FE7E
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.1
#Zootaxa #BuprestoderaReclusa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #ladybugs #ladybirds
A review of Indian Plotinini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) including description of a new species
#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #india for #FungiFriday:
Cuphophyllus aureus
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5400917-6B24-611A-37B7-FF77C1A8FEDD
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.721.3.6
#Phytotaxa #CuphophyllusAureus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
Cuphophyllus aureus—a new species from Kerala State, India
#NewSpecies!
New spider from #china just crept in:
Scytodes tanjiashui
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5340D58-DD81-5AB9-8D79-163487D207BA
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e181164
#BiodiversityDataJournal #ScytodesTanjiashui
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider
A new spider species of Scytodes Latreille, 1804 from Jiangxi Province, southern China (Araneae, Scytodidae)
#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #india for #FungiFriday:
Cuphophyllus aureus
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5400917-6B24-611A-37B7-FF77C1A8FEDD
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.721.3.6
#Phytotaxa #CuphophyllusAureus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
Cuphophyllus aureus—a new species from Kerala State, India
