Anyway. The spider is just sitting here keeping Austin weird, unlike the rest of you slackers.

This spider looks like an angry squirrel, and now I can't unsee it.

#Spiders

I love that Cicada Mania is not only an amazing passion/hobby website, but that it was one of the very first websites, dating back to 1996, and it is still very active in 2023.

#Entomology #Cicadas

https://www.cicadamania.com/

A gallery of fireflies.

#Fireflies #Insects #Photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Fireflies/

About 20 minutes of fireflies in the Smoky Mountains:

A sign that the fediverse continues to grow: the world's largest society of insect scientists launched an account today. Say hello to The Entomological Society of America:

@entsocamerica

#Fediverse #Entomology #Academia

Pretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sample-images-of-each-class-of-the-self-created-dataset-for-early-pest-detection_fig1_366224366