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The Valley of Butterflies
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Rodhes Island is one of the most crowded tourists location in Greece. It’s a big island, covered by an arid landscape, pine forest...
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Il gambero venuto da lontano
gambero_med.jpgE’ arrivato in Italia alla fine degli anni ottanta per essere allevato e servito nei ristoranti come piatto prelibato...
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Elogio della chiocciola
chiocciola_pic.jpgRaramente le è concessa grande attenzione anche se è una presenza costante nei nostri campi e nei giardini. Infatti, più di molti altri animali, la chiocciola...
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The day of the frogs
thumb_frogs_breed_med.jpgEach year at the beginning of Spring thousands of frogs mate in a single pond. A closer look at one of the most spectacular breeding...
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Saving frogs in the Amazon
thumb_saving_frogs_pic.jpgAmphibians are disappearing around the globe. They are under pressure because of habitat loss, climate change and the deadly Chitrid fungus...
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Cave life
thumb_cave_life_med.jpgJust a few rays of sun invade the cave entrance. But after a few meters all light is gone. This is the kingdom of dark and silence. Few creatures manage to survive here...
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Surprising spiders
thumb_nephila_pic.jpgSpiders belong to the class Arachnida, together with scorpions, acari and other minor groups. They are the most diverse and exciting group...
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Much feared spiders
thumb_dang_spiders_med.jpgEach spring new alarm calls warn about the danger of Arthopods bites and spiders and their kin are the most targeted...
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Surprising mantids
1_quirimbas_014.jpgFrom the fabolous orchid mantis to the impressive devil’s flower mantis, here is a pictures gallery of praying mantids with amazing forms and colours...
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Il ritorno delle lucciole
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Le lucciole sono insetti famosi, avvolti da un’aura di malinconia e fascino. Di loro parlò anche Pier Paolo Pasolini in un famoso editoriale sul Corriere...
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L'invasione degli alieni
aedes_med.jpgQuando un organismo viene trasportato lontano dal suo luogo di origine può espandersi senza controllo, favorito dall'assenza di nemici
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Sedotti dalle orchidee
thumb_ophrys_pic.jpgHanno fiori fragili e bellissimi. Ma sono anche piante specializzate, che intessono relazioni intime con gli insetti e gli ambienti dove vivono...
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Ants war
thumb_ant_war_med.jpgArmy ants have numbers, cohesion and aggressiveness. Bullet ants have strength and size. The clash between the two insect species that rule the Amazon...
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The spider and the frog
thumb_spiderfrog_pic.jpgFrogs have difficult lives in South American rainforests. Many of them are preyed by Snakes and by Artropods, especially by spiders which are big and particularly...
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Survival of the fittest
thumb_weirdpred_med.jpgInvertebrates eating vertebrates. Recent studies show that big spiders, mantids and centipedes have a broader diet than expected...
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Fighting the red fire ant
thumb_fireants_pic.jpgAn invading ant is expanding in all the world damaging local ecosystem and harming people. This is the story of a battle still to be won...
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The freshwater crab
thumb_potamon_med.jpgPotamon fluviatile is one of the less known macro-invertebrates in Europe. It can be found from Italy to Balkans and Greece in small lowland streams covered...
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The tarantula myth
thumb_europe_lycosa_med.jpgThe famous european tarantula (genus Lycosa) is one of the biggest spider in our continent. They are called with the same vulgar name...
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News

16-12-2011 Two new short stories in "Strange but true" with tiger beetles and devil flower mantis. Updated Quirimbas Islands reportage 

30-4-2011 New scientific exhibition Predatori del microcosmo at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, until 27-6-2011 

25-02-2011 New photo gallery on fireflies, Il ritorno delle lucciole.

03-02-2011 New scientific exhibition Copioni e copiati for Arte e Scienza in Piazza 2011, in Bologna, until 13-02-2011.

08-1-2011 New photo gallery on Iran and persian architecture

05-12-2010 New scientific exhibition Predatori del microcosmo at Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento, until 13-2-2011 

29-11-2010 New gallery Professione naturalista, on people working in natural sciences

28-10-2010 New scientific exhibition Copioni e copiati, for Festival della Scienza 2010, at Castello d'Albertis, Genova, until 5-12-2010

22-10-2010 New pictures exhibition until 11-06-2011 at Museo di Storia Naturale di Torino: Taxon, with pictures by F. Tomasinelli and P. Richaud

13-09-2010 New gallery on Valley of Butterflies, Rhodes, Greece

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Welcome to Isopoda.net, website of Italian biologist and science photographer Francesco Tomasinelli. My favourite photographic subjects are unusual animals, travels and scientists at work, but I shoot many other topics, like sports, events and corporate pictures. I work as scientific consultant too, mainly on ecology topics.

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