Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social Experimental and applied entomology - Scientific journal of the Netherlands Entomological Society @nev.nl with research papers and reviews. #entomology #biocontrol 🪲🦋🪰🐜🐞🐝🪳🦗🦟🐛
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15707458
tracy @tracylynn86.bsky.social
Fin Roe @finroe.bsky.social Arachnologist/Pan Species Lister. Mostly focusing on Kent, occasional forays out of the county
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social Professional bird botherer & bug chaser (not like that), based in Dorset. Freelance ecologist / leader for Wildlife Travel #LGBTQinSTEM. Mainly birds, inverts, & plants, with the occasional arty photo. All views my own.
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. previously DPhil @ Oxford: insect social evolution 🐝
Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social Nature lover, especially Birds, Bugs, Beetles, Butterflies and the rest. Keeper of a small wild garden. I love Sheep too. All pics posted are taken by my other half, Pete Fenn.
Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social Still Curious
Editor, author, biologist, horticulturist. FLS
Dilettante now, with interests in
Scientific Latin
Plant-invertebrate interactions
Colours of Nature
Truth and Beauty
naturallatin.com
Tylan Berry @tylanberry.bsky.social Spiders. It's all about the spiders.
Cornwall, UK 〓〓
Summerfield Books @summerfieldbooks.com New & second-hand books to understand the natural world.
Online www.summerfieldbooks.com and in our Penrith shop.
Botany🌼 Trees🌲 Arboriculture🌳 Fungi🍄 Birds🦉 Wildlife🐞
Andy Pym @exmoormothman.bsky.social A raven mad naturalist with a passion for moths. Mainly Exmoor & the Bristol region.
George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social Zoologist, entomologist, broadcaster and Zero Hour Ambassador.
Arturo Santos @aispinsects.bsky.social Ecologist/Naturalist/Taxonomist, insects (Pterygota, Diptera). Also an iNaturalist Curator and BugGuide editor
https://arturosantosperez.wordpress.com/
Marta Álvarez-Presas @martaalvarez.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist expert in terrestrial planarians and also digging into the genomic regulation of unicellular Holozoans. Ramon y cajal researcher at the zoology section from the University of Barcelona (Spain)
Jess Marsh @jessmarsh.bsky.social Researcher Adelaide Uni. Arachnology, taxonomy, conservation. Caves + cave biodiversity. Mum, hiker, ally. She / her.
Co-founder Invertebrates Australia, Councillor Biodiversity Council, Co-chair IUCN Australia Species Specialist Group.
Shreyas Kuchibhotla @snake-spider-et-al.bsky.social Biology DPhil student at Oxford | Elapid (🐍), Gnaphosid, Oonopid (🕷️) and Scolopendrid (no centipede emoji) fan | Aspiring toxinologist | Hobbyist macro photographer
Rockwolf 🇪🇺 @rockwolf74.bsky.social Love photography, wildlife, Entomology (especially Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea and Coccinellidae!) ...nature in general! National iRecord verifier for Terrestrial Heteroptera. 333.19 PPM
also @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Mia Croft (she/they) @miacroftento.bsky.social PhD Researcher @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ForagingEcology.bsky.social investigating impacts of artifical light at night on ecological networks, using eDNA and nutritional analysis 🧬🔬🌿🐛🐜🪲🦗🦋🪳🐝🐞🕷
sergius @aurumnostrum.bsky.social Lepidoptera, plants and fungi researcher from Serbia
Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social Entomologist, documenting patterns of beetle diversity (especially histerids & staphylinoids); University prof sharing systematics with the next generation; popular science writer (Under One Canopy); would rather be in the field.
Simon Knott @sjbknott.bsky.social Birds, Chess, Coleoptera, Flora, Moths, R&I, Syrphidae, Stratiomyidae et al.
Slowly rewilding Herts garden & trying to photograph its fauna & flora.
Matthew Shepherd @acaricious.bsky.social Soil Biologist at Natural England. Unreasonably interested in mites.
Ballheath @ballheath.bsky.social Thinking it over
Dawlish Warren Recording Group @warrenbirding.bsky.social Wildlife news from Dawlish Warren in south Devon. www.dawlishwarren.co.uk Email: dawlish_warren at hotmail.com
Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social I have Grandkids - so no longer use Airport Departure Lounges.
Natural History has been the unbroken story of my life.
Watching wildlife, mostly under Dorset skies.
Wrens; Greenfinches; Little Owls; Raptors & Adders are a preoccupation.
Tom Hibbert @wildlifetom.bsky.social Obsessed with wildlife, particularly birds, bugs and beetles! Lucky enough to write about nature for The Wildlife Trusts.
@david-lester.bsky.social @david-lester.bsky.social
Rafael @rafifos.dev front-end weeb developer, tired.
John Martin @pilning.bsky.social Birds, botany, insects and stuff mainly but not always in Shropshire and often Venus Pool
Humphrey Keeper @humphrey-keeper.bsky.social 25 - Naturalist - Engagement Assistant @ Birds of Poole Harbour - Previously Junior Researcher @ Springwatch - SNH MA @ the National Film and Television School - Zoology @ The University of Exeter
Ciarán Byrne @kiwibyrne.bsky.social Ecologist | Field botanist 🌿 | Entomologist 🐞
Meg Skinner @megabunus.bsky.social BAS Harvestmen Recording Scheme organiser, invertebrate ecologist and overall bug nerd
Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com UK based in 🏴 Entomologist 🇵🇷
Former ITAP.gov Invert chair
Former US Labor Union Leader
Film Ent: imdb.com/name/nm13959020/
Editorial admin at: https://www.sswento.org/
Board Member: circulodepr.org
Views are personal.
Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales🏴
Mattia De Vivo @forianfinest.bsky.social Currently a postdoc in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, @unibz.bsky.social. From the island of Ischia.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-1941
WayneS @wsnatureandfossils.bsky.social Nature. Happier outside.
Photographer - mainly macro 🐞🪲🐌
Fossil hunting and preparation
Website.... Dorsetmacrophotography.co.uk
Shahan Derkarabetian @sderkarabetian.bsky.social Opiliones. Systematics. Evolution. Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Sci-fi. Metal. Cyborg. deaf w CI. He/him. Opinions are mine.
American Arachnological Society (AAS) @arachnology.bsky.social The official account of the American Arachnological Society (AAS). AAS furthers the study and appreciation of arachnids, and publishes the Journal of Arachnology. 🕸️🕷️🦂 & other wonderful #arachnids!
https://linktr.ee/american_arachnology
Angela Chuang @arachnonaut.bsky.social Invasion Biology, Arachnology, Ethology, Agroecology | Washington College | board game enthusiast and reviewer
Dr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood spider scientist!|ADHD & autistic|Cohost of the BBC Earth Podcast|Designed Crash Course Zoology|Find me across the web @ https://spiderdaynightlive.carrd.co/
Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social devoted to the study & understanding of biodiversity, and public sharing of biodiversity knowledge and beauty. a "curator" of biological collections, and of the planet. Dad, Univ Prof
Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social Spider taxonomist / conservationist / ecologist. Professor of Biology at the University of Indianapolis. Canadian. Lover of metal, cats, and hockey. 🌹
Jillian 정화 @bugsorbust.bsky.social Spider gyno | PhD Student | 🇺🇸🇰🇷🕷🕸
Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social No-longer-a-professional arachnologist/behavioural ecologist/natural historian; current research-admin type & luddite. I also knit, sew, & have strong opinions. Pronouns: she or they
Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social Behavioral & Evol Ecologists | Emmy Noether Group Leader Uni Bonn | @sleeblab.bsky.social | Spider Sleep🕷️💤 | Pred-Prey Interactions | Sens Ecol | LGBTQ+ 🌈 | firstgen | she/her | https://danielaroessler.weebly.com
Prev: Harvard, Uni Konstanz & MPI-AB
Lauren Esposito (they/she) @arachnologynerd.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist | Arachnologist | #QueerinSTEM
The postings on this site are my own and do not represent the positions, strategies, or opinions of any organization.
Travis McEnery @travismcenery.bsky.social Making less wronger spider science productions on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/@travismcenery2919
Joe Lapp @josephtlapp.bsky.social Grad student at Johns Hopkins studying the similarities between biological systems and computing systems, esp. networks. Sr. software engineer and amateur-but-published spider taxonomist. Occasional tree pics, cool bugs, bug poetry. Charlottesville, VA.
Sean McCann @ibycter.bsky.social Entomologist, sometime arachnologist, natural history enthusiast.
I used study caracaras. I still do, but I used to as well. Avatar by the endlessly talented @blackmudpuppy.bluesky.social
Also, photographer!
Sérgio Henriques @henriquesbio.bsky.social Dad👼, husband🪢, Invertebrates Conservation Coordinator 🌏 author of the first National Nature Assessment ☠️, professor of Ecology & Evolution 🎓 & co-chair of the IUCN Spider and Scorpion SG 🕷 - Working towards protecting all wildlife
Gustavo Silva de Miranda @gustavo-de-miranda.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates @ Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History/University of Oklahoma.
Evolutionary biology | Arachnology | Entomology | Museum collections.
Guilherme Azevedo @ghfazevedo.bsky.social Science, nature, spiders and music.
L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social Arachnologist, ecologist, dabbling in evolutionary biology. Views are mine and are not the views of my workplace.
Tarantulateacher @tarantulateacher.bsky.social
Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social Amateur wildlife/animal photographer, zoology nerd, bug lover, tarantula keeper, herper, zoo lurker, aquarium hobbyist, frog guy, ecology enthusiast, beginner birder.
He/him in Cincinnati, Oh
📸s: canon rebel T2i & T7i, iPhone 15 pro, GoPro hero black 13
Nijat Nariman @nnariman.bsky.social Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecologist | Biological Invasions | Spiders and sometimes beetles | https://linktr.ee/nnariman | he / him | 🏳️🌈
Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Emeritus Prof @ UBC
Fiona Cross @drspidernz.bsky.social Arachnologist at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Spider cognition, SciComm, and writer 🕷 #LoveSpiders
www.doctorspider.net
Brogan L Pett @broganlpett.bsky.social Biodiversity scientist / arachnologist at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Proud member of BINCO (www.binco.eu); Research director of SpiDiverse.
1. Arachnologist
2. Systematist, Biogeographer, Community ecologist
3. Classical music, coffee, cheese
Dr. Erin Brandt @arachnogal.bsky.social Postdoc studying spider locomotion at U Chicago with Jasmine Nirody. Interested in sexual selection, biomechanics, thermal ecology, and the tradeoffs between them. Spreading spider love figuratively and literally!
CristinaTuni @cristinatuni.bsky.social Evolutionary behavioural ecologist. Associate Professor at @unito @dbiosunito. Interested in reproduction of 6-to-8-legged creatures. Mom of 2. Big fan of @MacroBeatsRecords
Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social Soil ecologist & macrophotographer | He/Him |
Author of 'The World Beneath Our Feet', publishing in Aug/Sep '26!
www.frankashwood.com
Andy Murray @mesofauna.bsky.social Macro photographer, writer and copy editor for hire. I also run chaosofdelight.org, a soil biodiversity website. I'm also on Instagram @soilanimals
Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social Spiders! Art?
most active on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=tshahan
Ed Phillips @ed-phillips.bsky.social A UK-based photographer; particularly keen on macro, wildlife and still-life.
www.edphillipswildlife.com
Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social Macro photographer, cat slave, dedicated to flood your feed with cool spiders, insects, snakes, or anything small that moves.
Tim Jonas @timothyjonas.bsky.social Nature photographer. Exploring and documenting tiny worlds through the art of macro photography.
Danae Wolfe | Chasing Bugs @chasingbugs.com I talk about, write about, and photograph backyard bugs and wildlife. Conservation starts at home. 🏡
chasingbugs.com
Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social Writer & nature photographer, especially macro photography of arthropods. Board member, Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee (conservation nonprofit). Fan of California, Montana, the rest of the planet. Photo website: https://www.tomastlephotography.com/
Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him
Raleigh, NC, USA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76790273@N07/
Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social Nature pics with Alt Text. Swarthmore, PA, USA. https://colinpurrington.com
@christiannby.bsky.social @christiannby.bsky.social Photomicrographer, Dipl.Biol, MSc,. Olympus BH2 sonst nix.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsansibar/
Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social Engineer by day | Nature & landscape photographer | Birds, bugs, spiders | Friend of animals that scare people | Be decent & kind | she / her | IG heyjencross
📸www.jencrossphoto.com
Dani Leis มาลี 🧢 ⬆️ @danileis.bsky.social American expat in Chiang Mai, Thailand. #LifeInAThaiForest photographs are my own. I used to make graphics & gifs for Yang Gang, UBI, and the Forward Party.
Macroarthropods @macroarthropods.bsky.social Brazilian zoologist (PhD), taxonomist, Environmental Analyst, Law student, enthusiastic macro photographer. Hate against extreme right.
Download, use for free, cite source.
Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social Dr. rer.nat., ecologist, working on biodiversity 🌷🐝🦋 and pest control in agricultural landscapes 🌽🐛🐞
postdoc @uni-wuerzburg.de,
born at 354 ppm, part-time tiger beetle taxonomist, curator @inaturalist.bsky.social, japanophile 🍙🗾🇯🇵, https://linktr.ee/fboetzl
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
Arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social Celebrate October by posting arachnids and spiders with the tag #Arachtober. I am jciv, a macro photographer living in South Texas, USA, who loves spiders. At the moment, I am posting mainly stereographic 3D macro photos. 🇺🇸📸🕷️
https://arachtober.com
Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. Man't. They/Them (she/her even, if you're not creepy about it)
IG: @apsciencebylyn
Discord: evelyndroid
Tumblr: apsciencebylyn
Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social Naturalist with a particular interest in the true bugs, Heteroptera, but fascinated by pretty much all insects and nature. He/Him. https://www.flickr.com/photos/runnerwill/
Luxomancer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social He/them (ENBY)
Photographer ( Macros, skies, cats and things). Bug Wizard ( INaturalist observation page https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=luxomancer&verifiable=any )
AUDHD, cat servant, Mystic Pixie Dream Bear, often weird.
Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social Insect photographer & bibliophile
Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social Photojournalist, striving to show the beauty of the little things in life; one arthropod at a time. Always happy to help with critter ID! Become a Patron to get to know Crawlies I post about up close and personal!
https://www.patreon.com/Crawlieswithcri
Jitte @jittebug.nl Macro photography, Neuroscience, (Urban) Entomology, Myrmecology.
Dutch/English skeets; he/him.
Current Occupations:
Lab manager Sensory Ecology @ Ento, WUR
Groothuis Onderzoek en Advies
Jittebug Ento Art
Board member @nev.nl
John Christensen @jaspersailfin.bsky.social Macrophotographer (Jasper Sailfin Photography), nature admirer, butterfly chaser, tech writer, aging soccer player, music lover, gecko breeder, Healthcare IT
https://www.flickr.com/photos/83310407@N04/collections
British Arachnological Society @britishspiders.bsky.social The British Arachnological Society (BAS) is the UK’s only body devoted exclusively to the study of arachnids (spiders, harvestmen & pseudoscorpions): https://britishspiders.org.uk. To record GB spiders, please use https://irecord.org.uk/enter-srs-records.
John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social Wildlife artist and ecologist based in Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK
Andy Marquis @andym105.bsky.social Entomologist and pan-species lister based in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Current Section Secretary of Entomology at La Société Guernesiaise https://societe.org.gg/.
Website at http://www.guernseywildlife.co.uk, working on an upgrade as I type this...
Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social Freelance entomologist specialising in reserve management, conservation grazing, rewilding & farming. 2nd place pan-species listing. Spiders. Bugs. Grew up below poverty line. AuDHD. Writing this https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan-species-listing
Esmond Brown @chalkspring.bsky.social Gentleman, scholar and sometime acrobat. Foodie, chef, rugby player, birder, diplomat, drinker of fine malt whisky and gin. Your friendly neighbourhood spiderman – if your neighbourhood is The Chilterns, South Buckinghamshire or the Scottish Highlands – UK
Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social Spiders, inverts, botany, birds, wine, beer, food, pottery, aircraft. Not necessarily in that order. See @andydouglas1967-IT.bsky.social for IT/Computer Science stuff. West Norfolk and South Northamptonshire.
Pond Watcher @watcherpond.bsky.social Interested in natural history, particularly ponds. Yorkshire based.
Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social Flies/sawflies mostly; mostly from Yorkshire, UK.
Run the UK Heleomyzid Recording Scheme...
https://dipterists.org.uk/heleomyzid-scheme/home
...and Yorkshire County Recorder for Sawflies
https://www.ynu.org.uk/recording-sections/sections/insects/sawflies
AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social Gentleman Scientist, ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
LLPS Natural History Section: https://www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/Natural-History-Section
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Hymenoptera #Leicester
Ireland's Incredible Invertebrates! @microwild.bsky.social TL;DR: All things about Irish insects and invertebrates.
An Irish naturalist sharing experiences, education and enthusiasm.
Harvestman validator for the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
Founder of https://microwild.org
Call me: Brian
Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social Artist, naturalist, author, cyclist. Loves insects/invertebrates especially solitary bees & harvestmen. County Recorder for Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions. Hefted to Norfolk.
Website https://arthropedia.co.uk/
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app