Elaine T

@elntangle.bsky.social

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birder, biologist, bedoodler: birds and bugs 🐦🐜🎨 (they/them) currently living in Sydney AUS

A photo of an entomological pin with one round brown pinhead conjoining two pins, held slightly open by pale fingers.
A photo of a common bronzewing pigeon (Phaps chalcoptera). The bird's subtly colored purple-orange-blue-grey head with white markings around the black eyes pokes out of a white bag, pale fingers encircling its body in the bag.
A pinned specimen with labels of a yellow-brown Habropoda digger bee from Malaysia in a white unit tray. The bee's tongue is extremely long and curls in front of it, touching the bottom of the unit tray.
A photo of 5 round, low-growing, pinkish-red plants on sandy soil surrounded by sparse grass.
A photo of a pinned blue-banded bee specimen facing left. The bee has gold-orange fur on its middle segment and legs, and its black rear segment has iridescent blue bands. Its golden hind legs are posed as if the bee is high stepping, and its long orange tongue ends in a spiral.
A digital art drawing of an iridescent orchid bee in light green and sky blue, with white hairs on the bee's body and legs. The bee's tongue sticks out, touching the letters "MLeM" in the same colors.
A teal-blue weevil beetle with black patterns facing right, perched on green wattle branches with wattle leaves in the background.
A photo of a black swan floating on water below a concrete ledge. Three metal wires from a fence cross the photo, separating the viewer and the swan. Dewdrops speckle the swan's head.
A photo of a pinned large black and yellow carpenter bee specimen facing right. The bee's right antennae has a small black ant's head attached by its clamped jaws.
A photo of a pale hand holding a dark gray bird, fingers encircling the bird's whole body.
A photo of a brown hand holding a gray bird by its feet. The bird's wings are open, showing white and light gray undersides.
A photo of an Australian magpie being held by a pale hand over a wooden table covered in various bird banding tools.
A photo of a kookaburra being held by a pale hand that thrusts the bird forward as if offering a telephone receiver. In the outdoor sparsely wooded background there are bags at the base of a tree, and a folding table and chair are nearby.
A photo of a highly patterned bird, a spotted pardalote held in photographer's grip, its legs held firmly between fingers.
A photo of two pinned bee specimens with labels inside a white unit tray. The bees are black with neon blue hair forming broad stripes on their bodies.
A photo of a blackish-purple, slightly iridescent ground beetle with its right legs pinched between pale fingers to hold it in place.
A photo taken from a low angle of the inside of an insect specimen drawer filled with hundreds of specimens of a single species, the European honeybee (Apis (Apis) mellifera). The white unit trays of specimens are reflected blurrily in the drawer's glass lid.
A photo of a pinned green bee specimen, facing left with labels underneath.
A photo of a pinned bee specimen facing left with wings and legs spread. The bee's leg and body fur is green, fading to yellow at the hind end.
A photo of a white ibis bird with a black featherless head, thick pink-black legs, and black plumed tail feathers stands on a waist-high partition in an area busy with human pedestrians and bicyclists. The ibis has a green wing tag on its right wing facing the viewer.
A digiscoped photo of a barn owl heavily obscured by needle-like leaves.
A photo of the inside of a wooden box held open by a hand. Both sides of the box are covered with small insects on pins, mostly moths and butterflies.
A digital art piece of a giant prickly stick insect in orange, blue, and white. Text around the insect in the same colors reads "STICKing to my FRIENDS".
A close-up photo through binoculars of a feral pigeon's head in side view, facing left. The pigeon's head is tucked close to its chest so its neck feathers are fluffed up.
A digiscoped photo of a black-and-white bird on a powerline, seen from the front. The bird's head is thrown back singing and its wings are slightly spread.
Aphoto of a large brown beetle with thin black markings like patterns on wood.
A photo of a black and orange bee specimen on a corroded metal pin. The orange-tipped third body segment is arched upwards.
A photo of an entomology collection drawer full of evenly spaced pinned specimens.
A close-up photo, taken at a low angle, of a unit tray brimming with pinned bee specimens. The bees are uniformy tiny and black, with black pins spearing them to slightly yellowed handwritten labels.
A close-up photo, taken at a low angle, of a unit tray brimming with pinned bee specimens. The bees are uniformy tiny and black, with black pins spearing them to slightly yellowed handwritten labels.
A large orange insect perches vertically in casuarina leaf "needles". The insect has huge blue-black eyes and white tips on its long abdomen and wings.
A photo of a pinned bee specimen and its cocoon-nest made of leaf fragments. The main pin on the left goes through the brown tubular nest, a strip of foam, and a label ("K.202848"). The black-gray-yellow bee is pinned to the foam block in front of the opening to the nest, as if it had just emerged. The circular lid also made of leaves is pinned to the foam block in front of the bee.
A photo of a pinned parasitoid wasp specimen. The tiny black wasp is almost the same size as the label below it on the pin, and the wasp's hind legs are raised forward in an unnatural way. The label reads "AustMuseum, Sydney NSW. 17-Dec 1980, D.K. McAlpine" with line breaks instead of commas.
A chocolate sculpture of a bilby wrapped entirely in labelled pink foil on an office desk.
A photo of a pinned bee specimen. The pin that goes through the bee and the three paper labels underneath is bent at a few different spots, while a second straight pin holds only the labels.
A digiscoped photo of the partial eclipse. Less than half of the red-colored moon is visible behind clouds and Earth's shadow.
A photo of four fly specimens on pins with labels in a white tray. Two of the flies have eyes on the ends of long stalks. The trail is labelled "Achias rothschildi", though the first few letters are cut off.
A photo of 4 bee specimens on pins inside a small white tray lined with foam under a glass cover.
A photo of a computer screen with a shiny red, green, and blue beetle and several specimen labels on it.
A photo of a shiny blue-black ant standing on a piece of wood in leaf litter, carrying a red scrap of presumably food bigger than itself.
A large yellow-and-black striped fly with reddish eyes and black hairs faces right while sitting on a green leaf.
A drawing in orange highlighter of an Asian dragon over the back and front covers of a dot grid notebook, with accents in yellow and dark red highlighter.
A photo of an iridescent blue-green-black insect with an orange-red third body segment, facing down and resting on a white plastic woven sheet against a green background. The insect has four wings and stout feathery antennae.
A cropped screenshot of the iNaturalist app, showing the "My Observations" page with "3,000 OBSERVATIONS", "1,718 SPECIES", and "1,354 IDENTIFICATIONS" across the top along with three recent observations of "Smooth Toadfish", "Wedge-tailed Shearwater", and "Australian Pelican".
A digiscoped phone photo through a microscope of a bee's third body segment. The body is black with faint white hair bands. White text labels the photo as female in the upper right.
A black swan in a hunched-over posture stands in the middle of a loose gathering of feral rock pigeons. The birds are gathered on wide stone steps leading to a lake with coots and ducks in the background.
A photo of a shiny black snake resting in long loops between green weeds in woodchips next to a sidewalk.
A saturated photo of a brown lizard with black and rusty markings, sitting on a rock next to a lake with green lilypads and grass near the water.
Two large white birds stand in a grassy patch, hunched over with crest and wings spread.
A photo of an orangey-brown spider with white stripes down either side. The spider stands on top of shallow underwater brown leaf litter smeared with pale water reflections.
Three red bugs with black patterns on the beige lumpy surface of a termite mound. The two bugs on the right are mating.
A photo of a circular lid under a microscope with harsh light casting strong shadows. On the lid is a lump of putty, which holds the pointy ends of 4 insect specimen pins, each with labels and specimens, forming an X-pattern around the putty.
A phone camera photo digiscoped through a microscope showing a close up of a bee's face. The bee is black with pale hairs.
A photo of a bright orange-yellow true bug with bluish-gray patterns facing right while perched on green leaves against a green background.
A small black and yellow bee with reddish brown legs perched on a branching grass stalk.
A photo of a reddish-black chafer beetle with lime green markings and reddish-brown legs, perched on a cluster of small white flowers. A pale finger is pushing up the flowers underneath the beetle.
A photo of a long-legged brown spider with a thick body and darker brown markings hangs from a curved twig, with its front legs resting on black gloved fingers.