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Front legs, who needs them right? It's not only mantis who dispense of them for walking. But to be fair midgets don't really ever walk. So the sensory neurons at the tips of their legs (hence flies can taste with their feet) may here have become part of a second pair of antennae.

Microtendipes sp. midget in full double antennae mode. The bushiness of its actual antennae suggests it's a male.
inaturalist.org/observations/2
#iNaturalist #Diptera #midgets #entomology

iNaturalistGenus MicrotendipesMicrotendipes from Hedgerley Close, Cambridge, Anglaterra, GB on April 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM by Albert Cardona
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@JMarkOckerbloom
This looks very appealing.
1) It's a Nature Conservancy site.
2) There are few iNaturalist observations. That's what I would be doing.

There's a visitors center and nature center (possibly the same). I'll check in there to see what they know that would be interesting for a quick bioblitz. I could easily triple, at least, their observations to date in an hour, the way I document things.

inaturalist.org/observations?o

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