Notices by Alex Wild (alexwild@mastodon.online)

American elites created the greatest universities the world had ever seen, with the aim of generating humanity's deepest pool of knowledge, but when that knowledge turned out to be "American elites are the root cause of many of the world's problems" they decided to shut it all down.

One small pro-democracy act you can do is delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts.

Meta is aligned with the incoming regime, and your presence there helps them.

Now that, annoyingly, so much of the online visual space is going to portrait orientation, I should probably take more pictures suited to the vertical format. Like this one.

#photography #Coleoptera #Tenebrionidae

I'm guessing this little ground beetle is Notiobia. But there are an awful lot of nearly identical genera. Texas.

#Carabidae #Beetles #Insects

Calosoma scrutator, the fiery searcher, is among North America's most attractive native insects. Illinois.

#Insects #Calosoma #Coleoptera #Beetles #Color

Twitter is serving literal, mask-off Nazi advertisements.

You should not be on that platform. At all. Unless you approve of this kind of content.

Some point soon I’m going to start blocking people here and on Blue Sky who still post there, because by now you’re actively helping white supremacists ramp up a genocide and I’m not ok with that.

Female (left) and male Ox beetles, photographed in Arizona.

#Strategus #Beetles #Insects

At what point do civilized countries start to sanction the United States for bringing a wrecking ball to our planet?

#climate

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-oil-production-to-reach-all-time-high-in-2023/ar-AA1eY8rp

The oil has to stay underground. This is killing us.

Gonna start a religion based entirely on this Ecuadorian leafhopper.

#Cicadellidae #Insects #leafhopper #nature

Entomology never fails to surprise. We found this metallic Phanolinus rove beetle in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

#Beetles #Insects #Staphylinidae

Looks like it’s 80’s week in the rainforest! I used an additional flash behind the leaf to make it glow a little.

(Aspicela bourcieri, Maquipucuna Reserve, Ecuador.)

#Chrysomelidae #Beetles #color #Insects #Photography.

Twitter’s most important function in 2023 was to bleed $40B out of a bigoted billionaire. Impressive work, really. #Twitter

My plan for cleaning the air in New York City is to strap Texas fossil fuel execs to the bottoms of helicopters and fly around until their lungs have absorbed most of the particulates.

It's what I call "Executive Filtration".

A gallery of fireflies.

#Fireflies #Insects #Photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Fireflies/

As far as I know, there is no Stink Bug Monthly magazine.

But if there were, I would like to submit this as a cover photograph. Brochymena cariosa, rough stink bug, from UTAustin’s fabulous Brackenridge Field Lab.

#Brochymena #Insects #Pentatomidae

A Pleasing Fungus Beetle (yes, that’s what it’s called) from the cloud forests of Mindo, Ecuador.

#Beetles #Erotylidae #Insects

March 15 is the day people leave Twitter.

The abandonment of Twitter in the Musk era has, for now, been inconsistent and chaotic, with people leaving at different times and for different reasons.

An organized effort to promote a "Leave Twitter" day, when everyone still reluctantly there logs off for the last time, with enough advance to line up alternate sites, should help get people out.

Thus, March 15. The Ides of Musk. Spread the word.

#Twitter #IdesOfMusk #LeaveTwitterDay

One of my favorite new photos from our Australia trip: the jewel beetle Melobasis nervosa, photographed at Tower Hill, Victoria.

#Buprestidae #Beetles #Insects #Photography #Entomology #Australia

Too many spots? Not enough? Beetles have so many options.

Pelidnota punctata, the grapevine beetle. Illinois.

#beetles #insects