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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Surprise from my lab today 🥹🧪

A glass plaque on a desk etched with text that reads “20 YEARS
Congratulations
D. Allan Drummond
In honor of 20 years leading your own research lab. We thank you for your leadership, commitment, and mentorship.
May the years ahead bring continued discovery and rigorous science that pushes the boundaries of the field:
Drummond Lab
October 1, 2026”

The “0” in 20 is rendered as a budding yeast cell, the organism we’ve worked on most in those two decades.

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Moth 5/12 - Ashinaga #Art #SciArt

illustration of a dark brown moth with triangular wings going backwards, long legs with fluff that look like baggy jeans, and a pair of long, featherlike antennae in bright red/orange.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mr Attidops cinctipes, in a lovely little mossy crevice in magnolia bark. Very small 🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood

Lumpy brown jumping spider with stripy stubby legs, peering at you from a mossy crevice

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Managed to catch him on our back window and could hyper-process the super washed-out shot to get his ventral aspect!

A bold jumping spider seen from underneath showing ventral details like his fangs, mouth, and sternum.

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More shots of this lad before and after his kill 🏆

Side view of a bold jumping spider on gray brick.

Two thirds view of a bold jumping spider on gray brick.

Top view of a bold jumping spider with prey in his jaws.

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Stay back, Two-Legs, this is mine 😠 Phidippus audax male caught a midge. Good job, mate! Hope you catch 1e6 more…

Black and brown jumping spider with a winged insect in his jaws. His chelicerae are metallic green. He’s looking at a spot just below the camera, head on.

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“Mom, there’s a monster under the bed!” 😳 “Don’t be silly, go to sleep” 😱

A bunch of brilliant orange baby milkweed bugs snuggle on an old milkweed pod mattress. Below them, a large black jumping spider (Phidippus audax male) lies in wait.

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Fantaspy is right there 🤓

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🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵🦵☺️

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 22/09/2026

Centipedes have many legs (jazz hands) Millipedes have the *most* legs (wiggle jazz hands) Legs legs legs! (turn to the left) So many legs! (turn to the right)

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ヤドカリがアイデンティティを取り戻した

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Astral Bollshit @tinyarms-tinyart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I read this too early and went, "Wait, what did I do??" Oh well, at least I'm gorgeous 💅🏼

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 16/09/2026

Aster murderess is still at it. And still gorgeous, heaven help me. Her night eyes are just turning on here 👽 #bugsky

A female Chinese mantid, looking at the camera from close-up, against a background of purple asters. One purple aster flower covers her raptorial forelegs. Her eyes are slightly darker than her brown body.

Full view of the mantis in her purple aster killing field.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2026

Virtuoso Grasshopper Absolutely Wailing On Leg

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on some Ironweed in the garden #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky #NativePlants

A large black and yellow butterfly stands on top of a cluster of rule flowers, its proboscis down into one of them to suck up nectar.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 14/09/2026

Would recognize that dance move anywhere 🤩

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 14/09/2026

Went back to the same plant and there are SEVEN 🤯🐛 (six of which you can see in this single shot!)

Six out of seven small monarch caterpillars on a single milkweed plant. They are small and tiger-striped and adorable.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 14/09/2026

FOUR monarch caterpillars on ONE milkweed plant today in the main quad at the University of Chicago! 🐛🐛🐛🐛 #bugsky

A milkweed plant in a planted flower bed showing signs of caterpillar damage. Four small monarch caterpillars can be seen on the leaves. Go little ones!

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 13/09/2026

Busted this criminal on the asters, which are sensational, thank you

A female Tenodera sinensis mantid looking at me from her perch on a large cluster of purple aster blossoms. She is trying to hide the bee head in her right foreleg’s grasp.

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh my. This Clouded Yellow has just let me photograph it on my phone. Just look at the colour of its eye 😁 So glad this beautiful butterflies have turned up on patch this year.

Close up of a Clouded Yellow butterfly with its striking green eye

Close up of a Clouded Yellow butterfly with its striking green eyes

Clouded Yellow butterfly in the dewy grass

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Polyrhachis trapezoidea here to teach you geometry with its thorax.

Macro photograph of a golden spiny ant walking towards us on a pure white background.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been seized with an urge to draw barnacle geese after seeing The Wild Robot (which I enjoyed very much), and remembered that I drew this in 2014 after seeing a documentary about how barnacle goslings have to simply hurl themselves off their cliff nests to join their parents at ground level.

Single-panel comic drawn in black ink of a pair of barnacle goose parents at the bottom of a cliff, regarding their dazed and confused gosling, who looks up at them with a plaintive 'why??'

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt

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Why, the day I go out looking for them, I can't find one. But prior days at the same time, I'm looking at a new eclosion, a mating pair just sitting there on the sidewalk, freshly dead bugs... meanwhile, up in the trees, EEEEEEEohEEEEEEoh

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Apparently that's only the result of a minority of couplings. Good luck to our little dude 😬

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*carolina, not carolinensis! Additional dual-mantis shot as compensation...

Another shot of the mating pair, with a walking path as backdrop.

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