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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

✨ Twinkle twinkle long bugs 🪱

Long and diverse bugs smile in a dark background like the night sky. Their bright bodies have sparkling star-shaped patterns.
Inspired bug species: Ivory millipede, Desert centipede, Land planarians (Flatworm, Hammerhead worm) Velvet worm, Earth worm, Spotted snake millipede

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BENSECT @bensect.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"more than i was built for" (yes this is disney planes fanart)

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BENSECT @bensect.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

havent been posting a lot of my recent art It Will Happen i prommy

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming r o u n d

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 29/11/2024

You all thought I was joking

A gray resin cicada sculpture in my hand, body about the size of my hand and wings hanging off. Rough draft at this stage, no textures, but good to see scale and proportion compared to the (real) double drummer cicada in the quoted post 😳

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🎾Glack @glack.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

for @ Ekzonzzzz 🤠🌵

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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds. Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here. I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds. Please share! Gracias! 😸

Screenshot of my lists:

Forestry & Forest Ecosystems
Canids
Plant Science, Botany
Nature and Animal Art
Nature and Wildlife Photography
Corvids
Ecology
Fungi & Mycology

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

"an't" cracks me up every time.

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BENSECT @bensect.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

hey i haven't been active on here in a while but with tumblr shitting the bed i felt like i should cover my bases. what's up

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CuttleDreams @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Shop item of the week: Beetle grub acrylic charm! A squishy companion, pocket-sized and ready to go on adventures. Available here! cuttledreams.bigcartel.com

A photo of an acrylic charm. It depicts a beetle grub curled, with a red circular graphic pattern behind it. The charm is laying on a bed of greenery.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

#InsertAnInvert2024 Relationships - Babies After hatching, vinegaroon babies cling to their mother's butt for protection, forming a clump of tangled orbs with legs. In most species, this lasts for a few weeks, until the dozens of babies are old enough to molt for the very first time. 🎨 🐡

a scorpion-like adult animal with a pile on her back looking like spaghetti with meatballs. illustration.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Package art of Allosaurus fragilis I did for the Beasts Of The Mesozoic upcoming figure 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #dinosaur

Illustration depicting Allosaurus on top of its prey, a juvenile Camptosaurus. The Allosaurus is greenish with orangish stripes of the neck and blue crests on the snout

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

On this episode of "Weird Lumps Emerging From Weird Lumps and Ovipositing More Weird Lumps into More Weird Lumps", well, observe this Gargoyle caught in the act of ovipositing. 🖤 🌿 🐝🧪

Chonky black gall wasp on the tip of a little oak protrusion of some kind, in the shadows under her one can make out the ovipositor going into the oak lump

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👑 🦨 スカンク -> ANE '27 🦨 🏳️‍⚧️ @boiler.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

We lost a real one today. Mark was the reason we have anime & furry fandoms in the US. He gave us all, all the hundreds of thousands of us or more now, the biggest gift we could ever ask for: each other. You will be deeply, deeply missed Mark. You live on in us and the community you so loved.

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BENSECT @bensect.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

sorry i haven't been active here much i promise i am alive

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Sketches of Tupuxuara since I am in a pterosaur mood 🐡 🧪 🎨 #paleontology

Two line sketches of Tupuxuara. The one on the left shows the animal as if catching some small ground prey. The in on the right shows it walking with its head turned a bit to one side

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

A tiny male sweat bee - around 4 or 5 mm. - drinking nectar on goldenrod in Montana last month. Single shot at about 3x and cropped. People are probably more familiar with the bright metallic green sweat bees, but I also like the more subtle coppery hues on this little guy's head. #ento 🐙 🌿

Closeup on the face and eyes of a copper-metallic sweat bee, sipping nectar on yellow goldenrod flowers.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Couple months ago I was in central Florida and unwittingly photographed a described (but not yet published) maevia species. Was scrolling through my salticid folder with GB Edwards today looking for something else, and he pointed out this lovely boy. Lol. I learned things! 🌿🧪🕷️

Pale gold salticid with stripy black and clear legs, Abess orange chevrons on his booty. Backdrop of white sugar sand.

Top view. He has a black "bat" pattern on the back of his head which is a diagnostic feature of the species.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 31/10/2023

lunch break doodle

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✦ Adam ✦ @wanderingwastes.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Another gang member! This is Augustus Ferguson but everyone knows him as Gus. (Or Gusgus but only Judas called him that and they were the only one who could get away with it anyway.) He was the oldest member of the gang he was there from the beginning

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Dr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

🧪🌿documentaries: "dinosaurs RULED THE WORLD for over 150 million years" animal life before dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs animal life during dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs animal life after dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Gonna kick-off #Arachtober with some self-promo. (Sorry, I'll post just pictures too.) This Spiny Orbweaver design, as well as some other arachnids, inverts, and critters, is available as a keyring or magnet in my Etsy store: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com #SciArt

Two 3d printed spider designs, a large yellow abdomen with red spikes over a black head and legs. The one on the right has a keyring in it's abdomen.

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Mark Simmons @toysdream.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

At long last, the return of in-person Bug Drawing Day, hosted by the wonderful Stephanie Dole (www.beetlelady.com). So nice to meet up with friends and spend a sunny afternoon watching Goliath beetles eat bananas... (1/2)

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Will it crack? Morrosaurus, Cretaceous Antarctica #SciArt #artbyjulio

A fluffly Morrosaurus studies the cracked surface of a frozen river from its perch on a fallen log, amidst a snow-covered forest.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 24/09/2023

crank it up

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This is a fun #Insect,a female Greene’s Giant Ichneumonid Wasp, #Megarhyssa greenei who is ovipositing her eggs into the larvae of a Pigeon Horntail Wasp, #Tremex columba which is buried deep into this Tupelo tree. #Hymenoptera #DamnNatureYouScary #NaturePhotography #Photography #Inverterbrate

A photo of the front of the wasp, her markings are red, black and yellow, her face is small and triangular, her long abdomen rises behind her her very long ovipositor extending away.

A side view of the wasp showing her bold markings of red and yellow stripes, her dark wings, and the long needle like ovipositor

The wasp has found a host buried into the tree, her abdomen is raised upwards as she drills the shap point of her ovipositor into the tree

THe ovipositor is now fully extended the end of her abdomen fanned out, as she lays her eg on a horntail wasp larvae. Her own larvae will hatch, consume the Horntail Wasp larvae

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Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Hey Bluesky! 🐝 Here's an adorable Megachilid bee absolutely *loaded* with pollen visiting grindelia flowers on a hot morning! 🌞

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 20/09/2023

this one goes up to 11

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Happy Tripod fish Frogfish Handfish and Mudskipper

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Upside down jellyfishes look like anemones, but they're true jellies. Though they can swim, they tend to live upside down in the shallows. They bask in sunlight to feed the photosynthetic symbionts living inside its body—just like corals. 🎨 🧪 🐡

jellyfish but with the blob part at the bottom, literally upside down. the top part is like the head of a cauliflower with leaves sprouting between the frills. illustration.

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Mortimer @webvein.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Finally finished this ttrpg race design!

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Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Split Head - cover illustration for Monstroddities

A monster emerges from the darkness. It has twisting jaws with saliva dripping off of them. The top of its head is exposed and brain-like

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

It is mind blowing. I got a photo of one with wings out, but the head is out of focus. 😭 Right after that, it packed the wings back up and walked away. I don't photo stack or Photoshop very often, but I might do something to combine a head in focus on the wings deployed shot. It's so amazing.

An earwig standing on a lead with wings out.

An earwig standing on a leaf, pulling its wings back in and packing them up.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Earwigs used to scare me when I was a kid. Those pincers look dangerous! Now I know they do their best to hide from people. This female was hiding on the underside of goldenrod blossoms. 🧪🌿 #invertebrate European Earwig (Complex Forficula auricularia)

A brown insect with large pincers at the end of the abdomen. She is standing on the underside of goldenrod blossoms with blue sky in the background.

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BENSECT @bensect.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

haven't been That active here but i promise i'm alive, college is kicking my ass

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MOTH👑MONARCH 🤖🔪 Robot Knife Fight Recovery Zone @mothmonarch.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Packing the latest order batch to go out! Some supporter faves this time 🐛✨ shop.mothmonar.ch

Photo of an enamel pin design based on a jumping spider, with celestial motifs in the markings. It has two long legs raised and a sun and moon scene on its displayed abdomen. The pin is resting on a blue cloth background with golden accents.

Photo of a wooden printed bumblebee charm on a red plaid cloth. The cartoon bee is facing right with a smiling expression. Top of the charm has a star clasp.

Photo of a notecard featuring art of a death's-head hawk moth holding a glowing moon with an array of moon phases framing the moth from below. Stylized rays and stars radiate out into the edges of the image. The moth is outlined in metallic gold and has detailed, realism-inspired markings. Colors overall very heavy on gold and a rich but dark blue. The notecard itself is resting on wooden outdoor floor tiles.

Photo of an enamel pin design based on a wasp, with celestial motifs in the markings. It has stars among the wing veins and body, with a sun and rays behind its head. Its forelegs are extended beyond its antennae holding a tiny glowing sun. The pin is resting on a blue cloth background with golden accents.

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BENSECT @bensect.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

assorted general grievous arts from the past like year, i am extremely normal and not at all gay about him

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 30/08/2023

found a dryinid!

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Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Spooky Cat 🐈‍⬛👁️

Illustration of a black/dark purple cat on a red background. The cat has 5 eyes, a long forked tongue, and horns

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Up close with a worker fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. The crispness of this image is a result of focus-stacking, where I took just the sharpest part from each of the dozens of input images at different focal planes and merged them.

A reddish-brown ant in close-up, showing a glasslike skin and many fine hairs, against a sky blue backdrop.

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CuttleDreams @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

As a matter of fact, it will c: I'm waiting for the summer heat to cool a bit since it was melting goods during shipping, but come fall I'll be ready with these guys + some other updated stuff~

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CuttleDreams @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

#InverteFest Going deco with some invertebrates!

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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

#InverteFest continued. Three Insect paintings from this year. Cicada (South American version), male Atlas beetle (in funky colours) and a spiced up Ladybug/Ladybird. All acrylic on wood panels, my fave #art medium at the moment.

Painting of a south American cicada, teal and green circles over a dusty orange BG.

A male Atlas beetle painting, painted in blues, purples and pinks on a yellow orange background.

A bright ladybug painting, painted in reds, oranges and purples, on a teal background.

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ᙎOᗫᙓᙎOᖇᙏ🔻 @wodeworm.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Sejeshrem Cephalopod Dragon 𝕾𝕸𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖚𝖘𝖙 11

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