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24 & totally obsessed with the tiniest insects :) Photographing hidden biodiversity from leaf litter, deadwood & soil alive @ up to 10x +other habitats & museum specimens Preparator of beetles @smnstuttgart.bsky.social inaturalist.org/people/coleomaniac
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It's #weevilwedneday again :) So here is a pretty little fungus weevil: Dissoleucas niveirostris Sitting on some grass near deadwood in a mixed (mainly beech) forest. It sat still enough for me to combine two pictures handheld for extra DOF Wetzlar May 2023 #coleoptera #anthribidae #macrophotography

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This beautiful metallic #chalcidoidea wasp Torymus varians is drilling her super long ovipositor into a hawthorn berry (protective sheaths stay in place) It's one of the species, which are actually phytophagous and her larvae will feed on seeds inside #hymenoptera #torymidae #macro #macrophotography

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Very pretty weevil Tapinotus sellatus :) Found it on yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) next to an abandoned fish pond in the woods. Wetzlar, May 2023 #weevilwednesday #weevil #insect #coleoptera #curculionidae #ceutorhynchinae #macrohoto #macrophotography

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

0.8mm tiny Aphelinidae wasp (Centrodora sp.?) I found in some hay last autumn Single shot using Mitutoyo MPlan APO10X on a tube lens with variable aperture on a mirrorless aps-c camera. #hymenoptera #Aphelinidae #insects #insect #macrophotography #macrophoto #ultramacro #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Perfect round little #Aleocharinae #rovebeetle Cypha longicornis :) Aleocharinae are crazy diverse (~17.000 species described!) and often somewhat challenging to id but often very rewarding with interesting new records. And maybe I just like comparing tiniest of details #marcophotography #beetle

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Fabulous Astichus arithmeticus 🤩 One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps. Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2 #hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Cute little 1mm beetle Corylophus cassidoides navigating through moss :) Flooded forest near Strasbourg Okt 2021 #coleoptera #corylophidae #macro #macrophotography

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, Bluesky! I'm an insect person and choose to spend my time searching, collecting, photographing and identifying mostly tiny beetles. I will share pictures of obscure little critters like this blind, soil dwelling ground beetle and wingless parasitoid wasp. #macrophoto #macro #insects #beetle

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment