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they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I re-made the wasp, I like this better

fantastical illustration of a black and yellow potter wasp with brown wings, colored in squares almost like a quilt

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

don't cry ok... tardigrade

fanciful illustration of a tardigrade, a small animal with eight legs and a rounded body. this one is green and yellow, with armor plates on its back, and colored in a checkered pattern like a quilt

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A💤ul @passionpeachy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

fruit faeries ✨

Different colored fairies corresponding to the fruit they’re holding, a raspberry, an orange and a blueberry.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 12/06/2025

SNOOT COMPETITION let’s goooo

A 3D model of a fulgorid planthopper with a giant schnoz (actually the top of its head but who can tell) thrust upward, sitting on my open hand.

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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A few weeks ago I posted an adult bark roach (Lanxoblatta rudis) and today I'm posting its super flat nymph. The "starry night" look is a teneral stage right after molting and before camouflage pigmentation appears. You can also see the network of tracheal tubes responsible for respiration.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

BUGS. ARE. SHRIMPS. It me, about papers with @jimmybernot.bsky.social and @ostratodd.bsky.social 🧪🦑

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Birds are dinosaurs Whales are hoofed mammals Bugs are crustaceans Isn’t nature wonderful?

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金 ✨ COMMS PAUSED @dangerouscolors.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

DEVOTION WITH CONDITIONS ISNT DEVOTION AT ALL AN ODE TO THE UNLOVED, TO THE HATED heres the big project i was working on! big smackin commission for @grubgrotto.bsky.social! #SciArt #entomology #arachnology #insects #arachnids #bugs #art #ArtPH

several illustrated insects and arachnids arranged symmetrically around text saying "devotion with conditions isn't devotion at all". the species included are a mosquito, a human head louse, a berry mite, a common flea, a bedbug, and a tick.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

something has gone perhaps slightly wrong in my "frog" pond and the whole basin is now a blizzard of live Spirostomum, giant free living single cell protists. the snails are putting on a brave face but understandably do not enjoy being touched by one million things every second

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金 ✨ COMMS PAUSED @dangerouscolors.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

aedes aegypti and pulex sp., 2 individual parts of a larger comm project! i wonder what the final thing will end up being... ;} #SciArt #entomology #art #ArtPH

flat-color lined illustration of the yellow fever mosquito in dorsal view. it is a black mosquito with white stripes on its six limbs and white lines on its thorax.

flat-color lined illustration of a brown flea in lateral view. there are hairs all over its thorax, abdomen, and legs.

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Bugaboo Pocket @bugaboopocket.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

While you're waiting for Switch 2...play some Bugaboo? Out now on Steam!

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Elli Klaus @ellililalala.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

You don't see me! This #ichneumonid #wasp reminds me of a toddler trying to hide 😃 Found in Bière, #Switzerland #bugsky #insects #arthropod #inat #hymenoptera #macrophotography #pollinator

Black and orange ichneumonid wasp holding on to a blade of grass looking into the camera.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

moderation? an amusing concept

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My garden has not one, not two, but THREE BEE FLIES I feel as happy as this one :)

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Flatworms are gross? Nah. Flatworms are cuties!!! 🥰 Check out this baby with its comical eyes (Geoplanidae)

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Finally the last #InsertAnInvert2024 keyring design, Velvet Worms! The prompt was Peripatopsis capensis, which is the black/brown one, but I'm doing some color variations for fun. (Yes, I will take a group shot at some point. And get them all listed on my Etsy shop.) #SciArt #BugSky

Three 3d printed velvet worm designs. (A velvet worm is a long worm-like creature with antennae and stubby little legs.) The left-most velvet worm is pink with purple specks, facing down. The middle velvet worm is black with brown specks, facing up, with a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring through it's head. The right velvet worm is blue with tan specks, facing downwards.

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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

I got bit by one of these giant centipedes while at the research station this year 😬 and wrote about what happened and the experience in my National Geographic Field Notes Blog: fieldnotes.nationalgeographic.org/expedition/b... (The Sept 2nd post)

Large purple centipede with blue legs with yellow tips and yellow antennae on a white background. Photo by Isabelle Betancourt. www.thebugandthebeetle.net

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Welcome to the family. You’re going to be the best bug ambassador ever I just know it.

a very large, like 7 inch millipede, walks across sarah’s fingers

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Brendan O'Loughlin @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Stick insect in subfamily Anisacanthinae trying very hard to be a stick with moss 📍Madagascar #entomology #phasmida

Crazy looking stick insect that mimics a stick with moss

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I finally found a Japanese house centipede (Thereuonema tuberculata)! I've been hoping to find one in my home for years, what a rush. A gorgeous little critter. This one is from Richmond, Virginia.

Long legged house centipede with a central dark stripe and yellow blunt Spiracles on top of each segment

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hey science writers! As you prep your annual list of coolest species described in the past year, I humbly suggest you highlight the Dragon Ball pill millipede! Discovered by a team of Thai scientists, no parachute science here! Look at these beauties!

Photo collage of small, squat pill millipedes in a variety of poses. When curled up in a ball, they resemble the eponymous Dragon Balls

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 16/12/2024

Teddy bear 🦀

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Bombus: lousy wood-chewing hoodlums, look at all the pollen on my legs and she gets away with a free drink! unbeelievable Xylocopa: playing by the rules? hahaa sucker

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

a thief and an honest bee. the carpenter bee is robbing nectar from the Oenothera by sucking it straight from the flower tube, while the bumblebee is pollinating it the “correct” way.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I was happier to see this giant Narceus millipede in hill country yesterday than it was to see me. It curled into this defensive spiral and just sat there. Made a nice photo, though. With bonus mites, if you look closely.

Photograph in close-up with a coiled millipede filling the frame in a large spiral. It is dark grey with red legs, and red trim on each segment. The lighting is very soft, as if in a studio, allowing us to see all the fine texture on its body. Several tiny white mites cluster near the center.

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Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Taking Bluesky for a spin. New phd and new platform! I recently completed my masters in Montana and moved to Czech Republic to join the Insect Symbiosis Lab! Check out some of the beetles I’m working with - they’re crazy looking. Beetle left, termite right. bucek-lab.org/projects/Ale...

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Today I found this impressive mite in some leaf litter. Oribatids are masters of self-protection: they've evolved protective armour flaps, some wear their old moults on their back like shields, and this Neotrichozetes spinulosa has instead opted to become a sentient pincushion! 🧪 #Invertebrates

A photograph of a round, hard-bodied mite covered in very long, barbed spines.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

old man of the rainforest. in Costa Rica I met this male Sericopelma melanotarsum with a sweet face and brown booties

a sandy tan tarantula with dark brown feet and wild, wispy hair all over its body and legs

face of the tarantula, he’s got little shiny eyes in clusters

closeup of spider foot showing dense hair and two curved claws

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Found next to "Elegant" in the dictionary! Thread-waisted Wasp (Sphecidae) on Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) #inverts #becurious

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Daniel Ehrli - Axolote Gaming @axolotegaming.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

So! first time here, throwing some of my stuff around. Here are my pokemon sculpts based on RJ Palmer's pokemon to start!

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Trilobite Beetle Love

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Gotta post on here more! Anyways heres shrimps with shoes 🦐

A painting of a green-brown tadpole shrimp with a long orange tail and two human-like legs. It is wearing brown hiking boots.

A painting of a peach and lime fairy shrimp frolicking with human legs. It is wearing sparkly sneakers.

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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#Antarctic #amphipods are wild! Currently 564 amphipod species are known in the Antarctic and 417 species in the sub-Antarctic! Commonly known as sand hoppers, sand or sea fleas, scuds, or sideswimmers. @bas.ac.uk

an Antarctic amphipod crustacean with a red eye and spiky body

an Antarctic amphipod crustacean with an orange eye and white and orange body

an Antarctic amphipod crustacean with a red eye and body, with long antennae and legs

an Antarctic amphipod crustacean with a red eye and pale white body

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