Massimo Martini

@entomassi.bsky.social

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Entomologist | PhD @ Uni Freiburg 🐝 Insect ecology & multitrophic interactions 🌿 Food web dynamics in growing forests 📸 Macrophotography

Syrphid fly pointing face first towards camera, big red eyes, perched on my finger
Tiny grasshopper nymph, brown with some lighter coloured bands. Very tiny antennae a long face. Resting on a leaf, surrounded by blurred-out green
A tiny bee of the genus Ceratina. Black, mostly hairless, with yellow legs and yellow thin horizontal stripes on the abdomen. Perched on a yellow flower with white petals (similar to a daisy).
Picture of two flies, approximately 5 mm long, copulating on a leaf
An embalmed thorned devil lizard, about 15 cm long, covered in thons as the name suggests, standing next to its scientific name Moloch horridus.
Tiny jumping spider peering over from behind an old pvc tube with reeds inside for cavity-nesting Hymenoptera