Cole Watson

Street art, insects in 3D!

Zucchini season is well underway thanks in large part to North American squash bees like this Peponapis, a native squash flower specialist.

Back from a wonderful two weeks in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique teaching a macro workshop with @singaporemacro @naskrecki and @AbbottNature ! Check out this Tetraponera sp ant and the excellent ant-mimicking salticid found nearby!

About to database a squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa) that was caught in 1914. Amazing how good it… instagram.com/p/BgCkQ-vlUsw/

Patrick Syme’s “Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours” helped Darwin encode the hues of an unfamiliar world—and carry them safely home. nyer.cm/fsSvfEI

Calochroa mouhoti ラオスにいる長いハンミョウ

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, 'What good is it?'" - Aldo Leopold, considered the father of wildlife ecology, was born OTD in 1887

Not all cockroaches are gross! The sky blue neotropical cockroach can be found in the rainforests of Guyana.

200 Years ago TODAY- "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" was published on Jan. 1st 1818 FUN FACTS: It was written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley when she was still a teenager & was a breakout role for Boris Karloff in the movie version 113 years later.

Having fun sketching out one of my recent #dungeonsanddragons characters on the back of a Carl's Jr tray paper. And yes, his shield is a hobbit door.

As @realDonaldTrump prepares to shrink 2 of Utah’s national monuments today we should pause to recognize the unique biodiversity these areas protect. #RainForestForBees

Have you seen this giant critter on the beach? Unlikely: with a leg span of up to 4 m, Japanese spider crabs (Macrocheira kaempferi) are the world's largest arthropods and live deep in the Pacific Ocean.

久々の新作。フレンチギアナのチビタマムシです。種名は分からない。。。こんな綺麗なのが日本にもいたらね。

Can we agree that net-winged beetles (family Lycidae) are awesome, even if they don't look like typical beetles? Photographed in Mindo, Ecuador

Well! It’s an honour to make it into @PrivateEyeNews doing what entomologists have been doing for centuries: recording & preserving the world’s biodiversity because, well, humans. #biodiversity #privateeye #bugs

Everybody wants to be a wasp. Exhibit A: Ichneumonid wasp mimicry by a true bug

Alkali flies create bubbles like diving suits to survive harsh California lake, study finds - The Washington Post (includes comments from me 😉) washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-…