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Explore my newest Instagram Images

Fresh photo drop on Instagram
Take a look (you’ll need an account) — which one’s your favorite?

Are you interested in discovering the oldest rocks on our planet? Looking for a breath of fresh air beyond the familiar images of amber? Then step into a world that reaches back 4.6 billion years, to the very beginnings of our planet, and enjoy the journey through time. Parapolycentropus paraburmiticus (Mecoptera) Petite promenade sous la neige à Cointe (Liège, Belgique) Palaeoglaesum cf. stebneri (Diptera: Psychodidae) Two is better than one 🙂 Psocoptera infected by a parasitic fungus, likely attributable to Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae). This fungus is naturally distributed in soils worldwide and acts as a parasite of numerous arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it therefore belongs to the group of entomopathogenic fungi. Ancora un evento da non perdere: il magnifico presepio nella Chiesa dei Neri a Finale Ligure (Savona, Italia). Let's close this troubled year of 2025 with a pseudoscorpion and a Paradoxosysirinae, immersed in a rain of fecal pellets... a predator and a prey that fate has brought together to succumb in a sea of excrement. Nel bellissimo decoro dell'Oratorio dei Disciplinanti in Piazza Santa Caterina a Finalborgo, non dovete perdervi la mostra fotografica del talentuoso Carlo Lovisolo . Le sue eccezionali fotografie paesaggistiche rivelano in toto la grande bellezza del territorio finalese. Un augurio di un Buon Santo Natale e felice anno nuovo 2026 a tutti i miei amici virtuali e reali, sparsi in questo magnifico piccolo punto blu perso nell'immensità dell'Universo Gelastocoridae nymph (Hemiptera) Orchid-like dust seed (upper left, see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27211-6) and small fruit (undetermined). Very nice couple of anthers Zoropelecinus periosus GUO et al. 2016 https://enrico-bonino.eu/paleontology-publications/ Lampyridae larva (Coleoptera) Have you ever looked closely at the scales on a butterfly or moth wing? They are a marvel of nature, perfectly overlapping structures, each with its own color, combining to create the spectacular patterns these insects display. And that “powder” left on your fingers when you accidentally touch their delicate wings (unfortunate for the insect, but fascinating for us) is made up of hundreds or even thousands of these tiny tiles. cf. Burfessonia maryae Burmorthezia sp. Electromyiomma sp. nov. breacking the sound barrier... 🙂 Archemyiomma sp.nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) Before starting the photo shoots for the newly received amber specimens (from the University of Katowice, Poland), I’m putting together a lookbook that gathers all the pieces, complete with their dimensions and archive codes. cf. Prophora sp. (Diptera: Phoridae: Sciadocerinae) Putative “golden” coleopteran (?) larvae (can anyone help with the identification?). Click… click… click… Today I’d like to present another fascinating subject, except, perhaps, for those who suffer from arachnophobia! I had kept this piece of amber from the Dominican Republic tucked away in a small box, carefully protected from light, for many years. It was a gift from a dear friend, and although it held sentimental value, it had never revealed anything particularly exciting during my earliest acquisition and printing tests. Those initial attempts were unconvincing, almost disappointing, and so the specimen slowly slipped into obscurity within my collection, a nice memento, perhaps, but nothing more. Nice acicular crystals of Shuiskite and Uvarovite (green garnet) from the Saranovskii Mine, Sarany, Gornozavodskii District, Perm Krai, (Russia)

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