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Different color morphs of Idothea baltica (Baltic Isopod). Idk, I think they’re pretty :)

#syns arthropod adventures #isopods #isopod #baltic isopod #idothea baltica #Arthropods #ugh one day i'm gonna learn how to photograph them properly...#synsphotos #wildlife photography

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*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

audpaints

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

ruusverd

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

#I do it #because when I started studying physics I *very* quickly learned to write my numbers and letters (latin; greek; and some special fonts)#as distinguishable as possible or else I would NOT have been able to decipher any of my lecture notes afterwards #(sometimes it matters whether that is a one or a seven)#anyways #one single alphabet is clearly not enough for physicists and mathematicians. we need all the symbols we can get #and some of them look awfully similar #I have like two different ways of how to write the minor “i” alone to distinguish between index i and imaginary unit i #So I guess all in all my handwriting profited a lot from my study times lol #fun fact: since we used almost all greek letters regularly for variables I also accidentally learned to read the greek alphabet #I know a single greek word and I know nothing about greek pronounciation but I CAN read it.

Merry Last Days of 2025! Got a little UV light for Christmas, mainly to use on the search for fluorescent caterpillars and some other invertebrates, but until it's spring again, it'll have to be used for other things. So, I ran around the house checking everything I could find for fluorescence and then taking some photos of the items under white light and the UV/black light torch. Because why not?

This is a two-parter; I took way too many pictures haha. Next part will come whenever.

More info (on what is what, etc.) under the cut:

#synsphotos #syns nature adventures #fluorescence #photography

Not an animal for once. Just bad weather at sea!

#I mean. There are some gulls in the picture.#synsphotos #sea #rain #syns nature adventures

Not my first time posting four-spot orb-weavers (Araneus quadratus, GER: Vierfleck-Kreuzspinne) and probably not the last time either. I just love them so much!! Look at this beautiful lady hiding in the grass!

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #syns arthropod adventures #spider #spiders #four spot orb weaver #araneus #araneus quadratus #orb weaver #they are fairly common over here and yet i get excited over every single one i find

An unidentified geometer moth that I will not try to ID beyond this very unspecific term... but I liked the look of it on this rusty background :).

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #syns arthropod adventures #insect #insects #bug #moth #geometer #geometer moth

Whoopsie, did not mean to disappear again, but I was very busy. Anyways, have some Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis, GER: Eissturmvogel)!

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #birding #birds #synsbirding #fulmar #northern fulmar #I was at a conference #defended my phd thesis (yes hello I have a title now)#and went to sea for another research cruise #(not necessarily in that order)#so... you know. busy.#next post will be invertebrates again. I promise.

Charagmus gressorius (GER: Lupinen-Blattrandkäfer)

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #syns arthropod adventures #beetle #beetles #bug #bugs #insect #insects #curculionidae #Charagmus

Male Anthidium manicatum (European Wool Carder Bee, GER: Garten-Wollbiene). One of my favourite wild bee species!

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #syns arthropod adventures #bees #wild bees #bee #wool carder bee #Anthidium #bug #insect #bugs #insects

Pictures from a couple days ago :).

Top: Male of Chrysochraon dispar (GER: Große Goldschrecke), Center: An artistically challenging Northern Dune Tiger Beetle Cicindela hybrida (GER: Dünen-Sandlaufkäfer), Bottom: A female Black Mining Bee, Andrena pilipes (GER: Kohlschwarze Sandbiene), feeding on fennel flowers.

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #syns arthropod adventures #insect #insects #bug #beetle #beetles #mining bee #andrena #cicindela #tiger beetle #chrysochraon #grasshopper

A lovely immature specimen of Dolomedes fimbriatus, the Raft Spider (GER: Gerandete Jagdspinne) that I found recently :). Hoping to find an adult one, too! They are easily a 5/5 in terms of Spider Shape (tm) to me.

#synsphotos #wildlife photography #syns arthropod adventures #spider #raft spider #Dolomedes #pisauridae #spiders