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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Any ant farmers tending those aphids? They're my favorite duo

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One of my favorite spots each summer!!!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy #nationalmothweek! I will be celebrating in MA on Weds at the Cambridge Moth Ball at Fresh Pond and at the Nature Center in Plymouth! Here are some moths I've seen lately: -Arta Genus snout moth -Sweetfern Underwing moth -Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth -Dagger Moth

Small brown-purple moth with thin white lines on its wings

Gray moth on a windowsill with striped legs and slight white eyespots

Very fuzzy moth facing the camera. He has long fluffy antenna and big black eyes and looks like a small lion

Gray and light Gray moth with kaleidoscopic patterns on its wings

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One thing I've learned from paying attention to the bugs is that i will not stop seeing something new. Here are some "lifers" I've added recently: -Wasp, Genus Ectemnius (Somerville, MA) -Springtail, Lepidocyrtus paradoxus (Bethel, VT) -Beggar Moth (Bethel, VT)

A small black and yellow wasp feasting on goldenrod nectar

Iridescent purple and gold springtail, grain of rice sized, with a pointy head and low antennae.

Cream moth with gray spots on a mossy tree trunk

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Daily bunny no.3383 is a friend of the devil

A bunny in a suit offers deviled eggs to a devil bunny, with red fur and horns, at an ominous-looking gate in a cave underground. torches light the cave, and the devil bunny holds up one of the deviled eggs eagerly

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: Courtney Barnett Metric AURORA They Might Be Giants CHVRCHES Sylvan Esso Weird Al Ben Folds Five Barenaked Ladies Indigo Girls (like 4 times?)

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Oh yes, it's so busy! Picking up all kinds of things. Does yours have googly eyes?

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Do you want bug facts, nature pics like the click beetle below, and an update on what I'm making and where I'm tabling approximately every month? Sign up for the Creature Chronicle! New issue drops this weekend! mailchi.mp/146aab4b7d4a...

Close-up of a 2cm-long click beetle on a fence post, from the side. In-frame is its head, one eye, thorax, and half of its abdomen. You can also see its little mouthparts below its segmented antennae, which look kind of like a tiny beak.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Bug photos taken with my Pixel 7 and Xenvo macro clip-on lens

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A few tidbits from the last week: -Phone call doodle of a warbler -Flea beetle -Leafroller caterpillar (maybe Geometerodae) The bugs are good! #letsgobugging #beetle #caterpillar #doodle #bird #bugs

Black line drawing of a cartoon warbler with wide, empty-brain eyes. Caption is gasp! A perfect warbler! Bubble lettering above says get curious.

Small (fingernail length) flea beetle on a leaf. It's iridescent green with orange legs and antennae.

Two young leaves pulled apart to reveal a tiny green leaf-roller caterpillar who was hiding between them.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Looks like a water stick bug! Fascinating!

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

playing a little tune

a medieval drawing of a dandily dressed centaur with a face on his butt, playing a lute

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Pictured: a cabbage white butterfly I saw last week, my first of the season! A lot of people think they're moths because of their color. It was still a little chilly so this one let me get pretty close with my phone. #bugsky #bugpics #bugphotography #butterfly

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Excited for the @inaturalist.bsky.social #citynaturechallenge this weekend! If you live in a city of any size, feel free to join! There are also specific project pages for some bigger cities, like Boston and New York. www.inaturalist.org/pages/cityna...

A whiteish-yellow butterfly, zoomed into the middle of the photo so you can see the details of faint black spots on its wings and its cute fuzzy body and compound eyes, and thin antennae that have little bulbs on the end of them. It's a cabbage white butterfly!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I wonder if there's a way to use the carousel creatively for comics in a way that the current mediums don't? Just trying to think...positively......here? I am also sad at the "instagramification" it seems they need to do to keep/get users that are falling away from other platforms. :(

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The other robins are stuffing grass in their ears like, "Dude we'll give you our worms, just shut up please." The females do not find this attractive at ALL.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

How I know it's spring: 1. Buds 2. Sneezing randomly 3. There's that one robin who's like, "Eff this early bird shit, Imma get that worm before it even goes to bed" at 2:30am.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

OMG Alex please introduce me to @alexandragallant.com I did not have enough time to properly meet all the nature nerds last weekend!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It was great to see you! Hope you enjoy your mini!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I only had a few minutes to escape my table and browse but I was DELIGHTED when my partner bought me several goodies from you! Cannot wait to put them up!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thanks to @massmice.bsky.social for welcoming me this year! Was super nervous but pulled off my first story comic just in time! Thanks also to everyone who took home some creatures, left me a Doodlebug, and chatted bugs and birds. Love my nature nerds! #indiecomics #naturecomics #bugart #insectart

I'm standing behind my table of zines,a comic,a box of buttons,and a stand display of stickers. I'm a light skinned person with a curly pink short haircut and shaved sides. I'm wearing a button down short-sleeved shirt and have rainbow glasses.

A stack of my story comic called Eat at Lu's, which has a cartoon weevil holding a food tray above her head with the top of a flower on it, face-up. She's waving. She's also holding a notepad.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Great to see you too! Thanks for the shout-out!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My partner: This does a really good job of capturing what Aklu sees in Olli the first time they meet. I totally agree!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I'm halfway through the third book and my partner is done, and we've been combing the internet for art. We are DELIGHTED to see your depictions!!!!!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Saw my first jumping spider of the year yesterday! This little shy baby let me get a few photos before hiding back in the fence post. Possibly Genus Pseudeuophrys. #invertfest #salticidae #jumpingspider #arachnerd

Small brown and tan jumping spider viewed from the top

Small brown and tan jumping spider from a three-quarter front view. He's sitting in a crevice in a fencepost.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hey hey it's a fuzzy bee day! Here are some bumblebees to kick off #invertfest!

Big fuzzy bumblebee in a light purple azalea flower, side view

Big fuzzy bumblebee in a light purple azalea flower, top view

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Yeah and I have NO arm strength. Last time I attempted a rope swing into a river I met the bank very quickly.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Imma need to pet one of these immediately

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Beautiful, and underlining my belief that they are wholly friend-shaped

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I need to try this. Except imma try to pretend to be a potato.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

To try and show the world that we are not all like this

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Alternate idea: Buy pins, shirts, and other things from local artists that make it clear what kind of American you are.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Asking the really important questions today: if you are a "giraffic designer" do you: A. Design giraffes B. Design FOR giraffes C. ARE a giraffe, and a designer #showerthoughts #graphicdesign #giraffes #wordplay #poll

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Aaah I forgot alt text. My black cat laying on his back with his feets in the air

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I'm just wondering how far down your face would go before it stops.

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Calls themselves a god/is actually baby" I actually call myself a potato so am I doing something wrong?

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

They're both members of the family of beetles called Coccinellidae and will gladly eat the aphids from your garden!

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Kate Bugstrop @ilikebugs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Right? I just don't think the stylist who said she likes fig newtons but doesn't like figs is going to change her mind with that information, you know?

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