Photography, Sensory Ecology, Animal Behavior, Evolution, Bioacoustics, Education. All things Meadow Katydids. PhD from Mizzou , Biologist at Francis Marion University https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3mvn4nyhlx22nAcadia National Park this morning16 Sep 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvn4nyhlx22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lqd3j7sfyc2kLook. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.29 May 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqd3j7sfyc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3mmi5io2ezc25Not for cuddling23 May 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmi5io2ezc25https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3mmaxgqbaxs2pHola Giant Katydid20 May 2026 03:25 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmaxgqbaxs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m6kbvwddqk25An orb weaver spider and her egg sack in the lowland Amazon. Pretty stellar colors 🕷️🕸️26 Nov 2025 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kbvwddqk25https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m6ewg44hfc2xJust a murderous fungus having taken over a wasp and compelled it to die in a place advantageous to finding more victims. With its tiny spores floating off through the air in hopes of just one landing on an exoskeleton.. nothing in the rainforest wants anything to do with this little scene here…24 Nov 2025 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ewg44hfc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m6d7qthpis26Hello from a Frog Hopper and a spittle nest I found along the Napo River in Ecuador. All that foam is how the nymph frog hopper keeps itself safe from harm. I love this photo because if you look at the largest bubble you can see the nymph living in there(!!). Tiny little worlds everywhere23 Nov 2025 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6d7qthpis26https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m5wj5dizhk2i..I mean since you asked.. 😅 Here’s a baby katydid mimicking a wasp— he will wave those antennae around and move on the leaf JUST like a little wasp -&- next to him is a fly also mimicking a wasp- but pretending her ARMS are antennae. You can see her waving them around desperately trying to fool me [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wj5dizhk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m5wj5dizhk2i..I mean since you asked.. 😅 Here’s a baby katydid mimicking a wasp— he will wave those antennae around and move on the leaf JUST like a little wasp -&- next to him is a fly also mimicking a wasp- but pretending her ARMS are antennae. You can see her waving them around desperately trying to fool me [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wj5dizhk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m5ktaw2kj22bI saw these monkeys all in one day, in the lowland Amazon. I almost fell out of the canoe seeing the endangered spider monkey. An incredible forest 🧪🐒🪾14 Nov 2025 04:19 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ktaw2kj22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m3geil5qdc2zHello there. Here’s the 1st wonder of the world- a peacock katydid displaying for us here in the Amazon 😍17 Oct 2025 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3geil5qdc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m2zipiv6jc2a😍12 Oct 2025 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2zipiv6jc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m2n7ayjuck2mCaterpillar? Don’t want to be eaten as a snack? Here’s a popular strategy I found this week in the cloud forest.07 Oct 2025 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2n7ayjuck2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m2jsgh4xac2mA view into the Amazon from Sumaco Volcano. So many little worlds playing out in the forest below. An entire universe of beetles and monkeys and birds and humans. You could spend all your life learning about the ants in one of those little trees down there. Overwhelmingly beautiful.06 Oct 2025 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jsgh4xac2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3m23vuv2wec2lI found this rove beetle friend on the rainforest floor. They are so so fast, you can imaging me chasing it around with my camera just rolling around in the leaf litter. Just unbelievable colors. In person the rainbow iridescence is stunning. It’s hard to say much here beyond just wow.01 Oct 2025 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3m23vuv2wec2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lv2vfahglc26Some vertebrates I found in Southeast Alaska. (It was really great to finally see bubble netting)29 Jul 2025 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv2vfahglc26https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3luthhgh3n22zThe entrance to Fords Terror. A fjord just off of Endicott Arm in Alaska. You can only get into (or out of) this fjord at high slack tide- for about twenty minutes a day. More photos of the stunning effects of glaciers on mountain rock soon to come26 Jul 2025 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3luthhgh3n22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lusq4iyxhk2bA humpback whale checking out her above water surroundings (Spyhopping)25 Jul 2025 18:57 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lusq4iyxhk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lubyd6mra22vWhat spectacular shades of blue. An iceberg just off the face of the Dawes Glacier in Southeast Alaska. That little spec in front of the upper left part of the berg is an Arctic Tern, absolutely dwarfed by this chunk of mountain-carving-ice.19 Jul 2025 03:09 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lubyd6mra22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3ls5rr3ooac2lJust a stick cleaning its antennae22 Jun 2025 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls5rr3ooac2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lqqf7p63oc2w🎶horror music🎶 Another cordyceps victim. This particular species of fungus is targeting a different insect. It’s taken over the bugs body and moved it up a tree, where it killed it and consumed it (leaving behind the exoskeleton) using the energy to grow those orange mushrooms and spread more spores03 Jun 2025 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqqf7p63oc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lqmsv5fqgc23!. Look at this astonishing animal. My velvet worm friend lives on moss in the rainforest. He is ANCIENT. WAY older than dinosaurs, lobopods like him even make an appearance in the Cambrian- when multicellular life became trendy. You can find him today on a tree at Wildsumaco, in Ecuador :)02 Jun 2025 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqmsv5fqgc23https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lqghhcsf5k24Magic on the other side of a tree (Red-Bordered Stink Bug)31 May 2025 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqghhcsf5k24https://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lqd3j7sfyc2kLook. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.29 May 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqd3j7sfyc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nathanharness.bsky.social/post/3lqacddf4ss2mCome take a hike on Antpitta Trail they said... 🐌 👀 Antpitta is right behind the biological station at Wildsumaco, Home of untold wonders, like these Giant South American Snails— and most of the other stuff I post on here. It is a real privilege to live in the same time on earth as these guys.28 May 2025 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:jxpdpno667leozulmto7ffmz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqacddf4ss2m