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Kuna @wryote.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Inching back into drawing. Dearest Hazelnut, a magnificent creature to have beheld.

Illustration bust of a brown tabby. The cat is watching a dandelion tuft.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

just a little coues deer 🩵

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

first sunset / dusk sky gradient of autumn

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Berberis repens (or Mahonia repens - plant folks don't all agree), aka Creeping Oregon Grape. Only a few inches high, it's one of my favorite native plants. It has yellow flowers in spring, followed by dusty blue berries, then amazing fall colors. This stem was particularly beautiful. (Montana) 🌿🍂

A stem with a cluster of five leaflets, with prickly margins like holly leaves, brilliantly colored for fall. The leaves, in a vibrant mix of red, yellow, pink, orange, and green, show up brightly against the muted browns and grays of the forest floor.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

agave weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus) found this morning. quite the robust beetle!

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

bugs spotted this week at work 🙂

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

kit fox mama with kits, from a few months back, far northern Nevada. two more kits were in the burrow, and even though I waited patiently, I couldn't capture a frame will all together when I first drove past (at 55 mph) I thought to myself, "hmmm, prairie dogs". then I contemplated further ....

a female kit fox with two small pups (kits) by her side, on open ground near the burrow

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

clouds and saguaros from yesterday evening

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

three species of ferns and bonus moss from a short walk in the mountains this afternoon

Fern with small, fuzzy lobed leaves growing out from beneath a rock

A more typically-shaped fern growing out from beneath a rock. The leaflets are shaped like oak leaves.

A cluster of fern leaves that are gray-green and soft in texture.

A very green, sort of leggy/spiky looking moss creeping among chunks of rock.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I always appreciate seeing spiders just Doing Their Thing; here’s a little wolf spider today doodling around

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Herboreal @herboreal.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hey do you like fluffy deer llaama elk reindeer? my ARPG's biggest event of the year is happening now! You can start with a (make-your-own) free character anytime, but if you join during this event, you get other bonus goodies too! Check our news post for deets! www.bepotelkh.com/news/53.autu...

Digital art of a village scene in mostly browns and tans with little pops of color. Some elk-like creatures appear to be talking from the sides, with another elk in the distance and a human watering flowers in the far background. There are fall leaves on the ground.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

some penance for my lack of posting here! (off being deranged elsewhere)

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

recently fb reminded me of a photo taken 13 years ago of me skinning out a roadkill gray fox and I couldn’t stop laughing about how in the photo I’m wearing like. a dressy shirt. Why

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

New tea towels just got added to the shop! Redwood Forest Floor, North American Moths, and Nudibranchs!! 🦋☘️🌊 Available here! shop.fossilforager.art

A photo of three different colorful tea towels folded next to each other. The vibrant patterns from left to right are: Redwood Forest Floor, North American Moths, and Nudibranchs.

A second photo of the tea towels folded next to each other, this time close up and at an angle to show the cotton fabric. The designs feature 1) small redwood forest critters like snakes, slugs, and salamanders, 2) various species of North American moths, and 3) sea slugs/Nudibranchs of vibrant colors and shapes

A photo of the same three tea towels, this time displayed folded horizontally and arranged top to bottom.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I’m always accepting photos of the weird critters you see,

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

sorry for the lack of posting here!!! it's been a very odd summer!

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🐙🌿 Happy #InverteFest! Shall we talk about anal forks? Hold on, we'll get there. First, here are your Tuesday Tortoise Beetles. (I think this one is Jonthonota sp.). TBs are a subgroup in the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae. They're often small and round and can sort of resemble ladybugs. Their--

A macro photo, front three-quarter angle, of a round, flattened, orange and metallic gold beetle with a few black dots, on a piece of old wood. The beetle's head, legs, and antennae are tucked under the edge of its tortoise-like "shell" - the elytra (hard wing covers over the abdomen) and pronotum (shield-like upper surface of the thorax). The front part of the pronotum is actually transparent.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Velvet Ants of North America! 🐜

An illustrated poster showing 9 different species of velvet ants, which are actually female flightless wasps. They are mostly brownish, yellow, orange, and red in color, with various degrees of black markings. They are illustrated on a vibrant orange background.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

saw four different species of snakes on a recent night hike. the coral snake was a new species for me. the other three pictured are tiger rattlesnake, desert king snake, and blind snake

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

🐙🌿Here is your Sunday Solifugid - an arachnid in the family Solifugae. They have several common names - sun spider, camel spider, wind scorpion - but are neither spiders nor scorpions. They have no venom. They are predators, and have cool, double-crab-claw jaws at the bitey end. This one was--

A macro photo looking down at a solifugid - aka wind scorpion, camel spider, or sun spider - in a rock crevice. This arachnid (in their own family, Solifugae, so not actually a spider or scorpion) has an orange head and legs, and a dark purple-brown abdomen.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

a lovely amblypygid from last night!

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Texas Blind Snake, aka Texas Thread Snake (Rena dulcis), SE Arizona. 🐍 These tiny, harmless snakes usually live underground eating termites & ants. A study of Eastern Screech Owls back in the late 1980s showed that the owls, which usually only bring dead prey to their chicks, brought these snakes--

A macro photo, ground level on the desert sand, of the head and front of the body of a strange, worm-like snake. The snake is of uniform thickness, with no "neck," and vestigial black eye spots under the head scales. It is overall pinkish, like an earthworm, and its scales are smooth and shiny.

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Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It's world snake day!!! Here's a corn snake I painted :)

A pretty pretty princess corn snake in a special ribbon and also there's a nice magnolia flower

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, SE Arizona. This one was very calm; it didn't rattle while I saw it and just stayed curled up under a bush. I love the subtle pink on the lower body scales. A gorgeous animal. #reptiles 🐍

A photo, at ground level, of a calm, coiled rattlesnake on the desert floor at night. The snake is overall tan/brown, with darker diamond-shaped scales along the back, and subtly pink scales near the bottom of the body. The snake's forked tongue is flicking out.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Paw 🐾 The adorably-fuzzy front foot of a female Aphonopelma sp. tarantula, as she was peeking out of her burrow in the southeastern Arizona desert. We saw several of these beautiful, harmless spiders over the week I spent in the area. #arachnids 🐙🌿

A closeup photo of a brownish tarantula just emerging from her burrow on the desert floor. The focus is on the lower left of the frame, where her right front leg is extended, showing the fuzzy tip of her tarsus (outermost leg segment). The rest of the tarantula is out of focus in the background.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

not a great photo but seeing the full Buck Moon rise over the canyon was a highlight of last night’s hike

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Herboreal @herboreal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

My shop is open again!

a variety of stickers laid out on a table with various "witchy" animals, florals, and disability themed stickers

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

nothing quite as withering as the side-eye of a lizard

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A juvenile grasshopper mantis, Yersiniops sp., Arizona. Less than an inch long, with most excellent eyewear. These small mantises hop a little like grasshoppers, hence the common name. They're almost invisible in dry grass. #insects 🌿🐙

A macro photo looking into the face of a straw-colored mantis against a tan background. The mantis's large compound eyes are vertically almond-shaped, and come to points at the top, sort of like cat-eye glasses.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

some photos from early June that I forgot I took! desert cottontail eating fresh cholla growth, a desert spiny lizard eating ????? (almost looks like cicada nymph), and a robber fly eating a honeybee.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

looking better and better but this will be a summer-long affair if not more

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Monarch butterflies journey thousands of miles across multiple generations, symbolizing new beginnings and the right we all have to move freely. We must stand with immigrants!! 🧡

An illustration of three flying monarch butterflies in various poses. They are bright orange butterflies with black wing veins and small white dotted markings on the edge of the wings. Black handwritten text reads “Migration is Magnificent”

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

i cannot remember ever seeing a post get ratio'd to this degree. jesus fucking christ

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

went to a talk from one of inat's founders at a conference several years ago and fell in love with the platform. using genai negates everything that makes it wonderful and unique. DON'T FUCKING DO THIS

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

wasn’t expecting this gal to shed today! (Brachypelma emilia) Her last molt was 9/12/24

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

didn’t realize this gal was ready to molt! Ella is a Tliltocatl albopilosus. When I received her in April 2020 as a freebie, she was the size of my pinkie nail.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

some critters i've encountered in recent days

a roadrunner perched on the arm of a saguaro cactus. it has an intense look to its eyes as it stares at the viewer.

a dark-colored desert king snake spread out in the dry dirt.

a close-up shot of the head and neck of a sonoran gopher snake.

a young desert cottontail rabbit laying in the dirt in an attempt to cool off.

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

this gal finally molted last week! here she is stretching her new, regrown legs for the first time 😭🩵🕷️

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Celebrate Invertebrate Biodiversity stickers are now available in my shop! 🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art 🪱🪼🐛🐙🪰🦐

A photo of me holding a circular blue sticker with arched circle text that reads “Celebrate Invertebrate Biodiversity”. Inside the arched circle text are various colorful species of invertebrates from different phylums!

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Herboreal @herboreal.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy Pride! Reminder that one thing you can do for your fellow queers is wear a mask in public, esp at Pride! Did you know there is a connection between being queer and having EDS & related syndromes? Did you know long covid hits queer & EDS folks harder than others? Let's protect each other!

digital art of timbre's sona; a femme pomeranian, saluting the lesbian pride flag. art by nopalrabbit

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Deer @dead-blue-deer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

not much flowering (due to drought) this spring but the chollas are lovely as always.

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