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franz
@franzanth.bsky.social
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i draw bugs and stuff. offline on the weekends.
please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇩

contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com

Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Aug 27
Activities for this season of #InverteFest:

Community science
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Art book submission form
docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk...

Writer/artist collab anthology
bsky.app/profile/saim...
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
More blending in. They were made for this environment!

(American Robin) #birds 🌿
The top half of a gray and orange bird is visible among many fallen brown and leaves.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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bealeiderman.bsky.social
I’m a huge fan of @wikipedia.org and just spent about 4 hours uploading a handful of my photos. I hope someone finds them useful. Here’s one of those images. An ant and its funky Cordyceps horn.
An ant that’s been killed by cordyceps fungus. The ant is tangled in a strand of green moss. The fungus sprouts out of the back of its neck like a horn. Then it widens into a ball with a texture like poppy seeds clumped together, then continues again as a thin horn that bends down towards the strand of moss. If not for the horn, the ant looks like it’s eating the moss.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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bealeiderman.bsky.social
Diminutive fairy wombat poop. Tiny cubes under 2mm on each side.

These are egg sacs made by a spider in the family Theridiosomatidae.

They made yesterday’s hike special. Finding something I’ve never seen before is such a thrill.

🌱 #nature #macro #spider
Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish. Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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joabaldwin.com
About to upload Feral Flame to Audible... Criminals...
Preferred distribution option screenshot from Audible, which offer 25% or 40% royalties in their scammy system: Exclusive distribution Earn 40% royalties on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes Distribution by ACX only Non-exclusive distribution Earn 25% royalties on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes Distribution allowed by additional parties
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
My first third of #Nudivember paintings, all done in watercolor and ink and a touch of white gauche.

#TradArt
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of various nudibranchs, from white and curly to sleek black and yellow A collage of 5 different types of nudibranchs in watercolor and ink
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
Art train time!

Next stops:
@delightmonster.bsky.social
@lordsovorn.bsky.social
@emilyjaneart.bsky.social
@trigonotarbida.bsky.social
two dome-shaped round beetles grazing, viewed from a low angle, illustration a pink spider with black spots like ladybug, hanging between flowers, illustration a landscape of stick-like fungi with a big slug looming in the background mantisfly, an insect that heavily resembles mantises, illustrated with ornate pattern fillings in green and gold
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
We’re snail posting, post your snails!

#invertebrates 🌿
A snail peeks over a blurry brown leaf in the foreground. Its shell is orange and its fleshy antennae are translucent.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Art train time 🚆🎨

Next stops:
@lassflores.bsky.social
@franzanth.bsky.social
@saimihanma.bsky.social
@filonico.bsky.social
two stickers with a white border, one is of a mosquito in a labcoat with pipettes, the other is a diplodocud in yellow and orange painting over an ai sign with the test no genAI images, all human made! semi-realistic #SciArt drawing of a deep sea isopod, very orange, very friend shaped, whiny with chubby segmented leggies, on a black background super silly doodle of a velvet worm sitting on Cthulhu's lap, holding a lolly and wearing a hat, while Cthulhu is a grampa with glasses and grey tentacle beard, behind is a sign saying live laugh lovecraft and a halucigenia drawing with the text saying heart grandma a very pissed looking cassowari bird sitting on their butt, big leggies stretched at the front, on a grey background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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emilyjaneart.bsky.social
We're snailposting, post your snails 🐌🐡
A photograph of a black and white ink illustration of a steampunk snail kitted out with a tiny top hat, monocle and cogs attached to its shell to help it go faster! An exhaust pipe lets out smoke behind it. A Staedtler pigment liner rests on the paper. Art by Emily Jane Foster. A photograph of a Staedtler 0.05mm pigment liner pen resting on an ACEO sized black and white illustration of a steampunk snail in a top hat. A cup of tea is just visible by the pen. The shell is striped and has pipes, cogs and rivets visible. Signed by Emily Jane Foster.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Smol baby shrimp
In the center of the blue background is a tiny, transparent baby shrimp. Freshwater baby shrimp are quite small and difficult to find.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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tansterdesgnz.bsky.social
Anyhoo, back to art posting. I parked my Dia de los Muertos Skull island piece (I missed it anyways and have a full year to finish). Instead I am already thinking Christmas and my love for #Tron1982 - so hopefully I can turn this into something useful namely a #Tron themed Christmas painting. 1/2
Concept art work in progress: Tron themed environment in perspective looking up; a control tower that will have a neon/circuit/rings like Christmas tree. There will be circuit panels and a Programme with a disk in hero pose with one knee bent. Man, I love and miss the 80s. And when I was a kid I had a mighty crush on Tron. 🥰 I am still mad that with subsequent movies his story got diminished to in the end nothing, not even a mention. He’s the titular character yet Flynn Flynn Flynn. Come on! 😂 rant over.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
...my pet got prescribed anxiety meds before me
i wonder if this is a sign for me to finally stop procrastinating fixing my own problems
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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sarkastiklover.bsky.social
Imma tell you guys a secret: whenever you catch me repeatedly using the same word, or turn of phrase, it's because I am tired, English is my second language and my brain has decided that speaking 1.5 languages is enough for the moment...
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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nollthere.bsky.social
what if I became a leech Vtuber
#Blender
Screenshot in Blender 3D of a realistic model of a medicinal leech standing upright.
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
OK, I already posted tiny terrestrial snails, let's do a GIANT AQUATIC SNAIL. This is one of the largest marine snails in the world, a Horned helmet shell (C. cornuta). Helmet is right, that shell is THICK. #Snailposting #Invertebrates 🌿📷🐙
A gigantic Horned helmet snail. Its shell is covered by knobby extrusions and adhering sand and algae, its mostly brown but showing some green at the edge of the shell and you can just make out the yellow of the actual animal thru the siphon hole at lower foreground
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
i was away for half a day and my notifications are absolutely hammered by snails
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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colpizen.bsky.social
Snails :) 🐌🐌🐌
My gouache drawings of 10 different and colorful snail shells
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Took me a while, but I found my endemic Hawaiian tree snail images. :) These lil' ones approx 5mm long, species unknown. 🐙📷🌿 #Invertebrates
A pair of tiny tiny snails crawling along a leaf, which looks like a huge furrowed field at this scale A very tiny snail crawling along a leaf. It has long eyestalks and a brown shell
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
@franzanth.bsky.social's Campanile giganteum also needs a shout out, as the reconstruction for "largest ever snail"

These meter (3 ft) long contented filter feeders hung out in the warm seas of Eocene France. Real fossil of one on display in the case below is ~18 in long
Above a case on "the gastropod shell" creeps a large brown shelled snail with a pink adorable face. A sign reads " the giant creeper" next to it A large fossil snail stood uprigg4 in a case
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Snails 🐌 ! a 🧵 of snail pics on my phone as a snail paleontologist.

Turritella cooperi

Excluded: videos, John Oliver save PRI posts, pics of snails with lots od not snails.
BTW, donating to PRI is definitely in the realm of "save the snails", lots of snail history there, 1 mil+ 🐌specimens
Many turritella cooperi in a box from LACMIP
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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spissatella.bsky.social
Some snails from work: Cross-sectioned pleurotomarioid, cross-sectioned Campanile, truly behemoth cowry, and ( just casually) the type of Ecphora quadricostata (Say)
A cross-sectioned specimen of a fossil pleurotomarioid snail, infilled with pale yellow sediment A cross-sectioned specimen of Campanile giganteum, the top third of the spire is broken off and in a separate box A hand holding an enormous round brown fossil cowry A specimen of Ecphora quadricostata with all its museum labels and a Paleontological Society scalebar
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
A pleasingly round and stripey snail.

The variations in background colour and stripes on its shell have been studied by geneticists and ecologists.

We salute your contributions to science, little snail pal!

#SciArt
Colour pencil drawing of a brown-lipped snail, Cepea nemoralis, and four empty shells demonstrating variations in the thickness of brown stripes on its yellow shell. The snail's shell is pleasingly rounded, and its body is a glistening slimey grey wedge-shape with little bumps all over. It has 2 long thin eyestalks, and 2 shorter ones. Adorable. A watermark in the corner reads @lycomorpha - lycomorpha.etsy.com.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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miekeroth.com
We’re snailposting, post your snails!
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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sohkamyung.bsky.social
A large snail from Singapore. Was surprised when I first saw it.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Hemiplecta humphreysiana
Hemiplecta humphreysiana from Central Water Catchment, Singapore on February 5, 2023 at 09:26 AM by Soh Kam Yung. Large: about palm size. As big as a large adult African Giant Snail (Lissachatina ful...
www.inaturalist.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM