I found a reliable crash.

Drag SVG file from Nautilus, and when it is over VSCode (not even dropping it), gnome-shell crashes.

Every time.

Anyone know what's going on with the tabletop.social Masto instance?

I can see the posts of the person I know, if I go to their profile. I can like and boost them. But on their end they can't see me and get no notification for anything I do.

No other instance seems to have this problem with my one, so I think it must be theirs. It's not a new problem either. Just wondered if there's a workaround neither of us is aware of.
#federation #bugs #glitches

I did a drawing of a deep sea isopod

Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.

#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.

Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ripple-bugs-robots-skate-on-water-fan-feet-vortex-physics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=ripple_bugs

#NewSpecies!
New scarab beetle from #honduras just snuck in:

Phanaeus lempira

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/11E2387E-69E4-5880-B510-854B2DA2D54E
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1255.150586
#ZooKeys #PhanaeusLempira

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #scarabs #dungbeetles #rainbowscarabs

Here’s a fun bug. It’s on iPadOS and it’s ONLY in Calendar.

Another colorful butterfly in this series. :)

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-butterfly-art-five-sharon-cummings.html

I KNOW what I'm doing on Nov. 13!

I'm going to Greenwich!

#ants #antNews #bugs #bugnews

(There are a few photos from @alexwild in this article. )

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/arts/design/ants-smell-museum.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.tD2e.4JUfEkCR01fO&smid=url-share

The Asian ladybug, Harmonia axyridis, is, of course, a predator. I managed to photograph it thanks to its dead bug strategy—the lens was too close, so the bug froze, even though it had been darting around the moss until then. Ladybugs are doubly protected – their color clearly says: don't eat me, you'll get sick.
#nature #macro #insects #bugs

So my useful job for today was I finally got round to finishing constructing the bug hotel I mostly built last winter. Hopefully it's in time for the guests to take up residence this year.

Well, I say "finishing". I think I still need to get a few more bamboo canes to fill in the gap in the 4th storey, but that might have to be a job for next weekend.

#NewSpecies!
New issid planthopper from #vietnam just hopped in:

Hemisphaerius thaydoius

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F6C023-FF94-2C63-FC4C-9992E24EFA29
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.994.2911
#ejtaxonomy #HemisphaeriusThaydoius

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hemiptera #bugs #planthopper

#NewSpecies!
New weevil from #southafrica just snuck in:

Epibrithus longicarinatus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC87AA-FFD1-FFC7-BB89-BEF237E0FDC3
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1012.3043
#ejtaxonomy #EpibrithusLongicarinatus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #weevils

Today’s waddle in local patch was quiet. Birds were hiding in the bushes and flying away as soon As they spotted me. Luckily there were plenty of mushroom and insects. Here are some photos of the latter.

#Nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #flies #hoverflies #insects #bugs

Colorful Butterfly 4

We still have butterflies in the garden and I enjoy watching them as often as I can!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-butterfly-art-four-sharon-cummings.html

AI has found 50 bugs in cURL. "AI-native SASTs work well"

https://etn.se/72494

For my first “real” post I’d like to share this absolutely INCREDIBLE moth I found on campus a few days back. This is *Cosmosoma myrodora*, the Scarlet Bodied Wasp Moth. This striking moth is native to the southeastern US and is named because its appearance is believed to be mimicry of wasps— If I had to guess, likely a Polistidae species. This moth is a tiger moth (Arctiini) in the family Erebidae, much like the Salt Marsh Moth (*Estigmine acrea*) that is also native to Galveston, though I don’t think anyone is at high risk of confusing the two as they look very different. *C. myrodora* larva feed on *Mikania* genus plants called hempvines. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s an absolutely massive hempvine by the parking lot on campus. Maybe I’ll pop over there and see if I can find some larvae or pupae.

Sources:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/217647-Cosmosoma-myrodora

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/~/media/system/3/f/5/c/3f5cfb9d3e2ea5c70320e1f7b390218b/3740%20scarlet%20bodied%20wasp%20mothpdf.pdf

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN996

Soft White Butterfly...Fresh from my newest series!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/soft-white-butterfly-art-sharon-cummings.html