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Zenny❄️
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Easily distracted by isopods ([[[[){ ✧˖°.
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falseknees.bsky.social
Finished is better than terrible #oldknees
A crow kicks a small ball of snow. They then start rolling it into a larger ball while saying "trust the process...". They kick more snow into a pile and stick a branch in repeating "trust the process" to itself. They place small stones. They say "Phew!" and stand back to look at its creation, which we see now is a mess of a project that looks somewhat like a melted bird. The final panel the crow says "haha it's terrible".
January 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
It’s probably weird to say that, but I do have a lot of personal attachment to cockroaches. When I draw 1 roach, there are always another 10 more I wanna do! But there’s only so much canvas space so I had to make choices … swipe to see the species list!
January 22, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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ehrenenglish.bsky.social
It's a metallic green scarab-type beetle, today. I'm on a green insect roll.

The ref for this had no identifying notes attached, so if anyone has details, share them!

#art #SciArt #invertart #scarab
A metallic blue-green scarab type beetle
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Sharing leaf umbrella
Two isopods sharing a heart-shaped leaf on a rainy day.
August 29, 2023 at 5:57 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I’m picking these valentines up from the printer tomorrow and will be shipping them all week!

Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines.

As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social

Get em at SquidFacts.net
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
January 18, 2026 at 7:32 PM
zencollie.bsky.social
Happy anniversary @dogtorjem.bsky.social 💖 I am beyond lucky to have you in my life! You've been so supportive and amazing despite the hard year last year, I don't know what I'd do without you. I love and appreciate you so much and I can't wait to see what our future holds 💖

🎨 @dogzound.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
zencollie.bsky.social
For #invertefest I'm sharing my favourite invertebrate drawings I've done this year!🍃🐛

#sciart #inverteart
Illustration of a Goliath Beetle Illustration of an Ember Bee Isopod Illustration of a Porcellio Expansus Isopod Illustration of a Luna Moth
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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citrussapling.bsky.social
horSeShoe crabS!! #art #invertefest
Two horseshoe crabs, drawing an S in the sand with their tracks. There's some starfish and shells in the sand, and the ocean coming in on the right.
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
zencollie.bsky.social
Pillbugs!✧˖°.

Based off my favourite plushie by @squishable.bsky.social

#pillbug #isopod #squishable
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
fantastical drawing of Diplomoceras, a large extinct ammonite with a shell shaped like a paperclip somehow. It is colored in orange and brown tones. surrounding it are eight Pseudocenoceras, extinct nautiloids with round spiral shells, colored tan and orange.
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
zencollie.bsky.social
❄️ Love this new base by @rowdymushmutt.bsky.social ❄️
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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mothmonarch.bsky.social
"Praise the Sun"
2019, digital
Ever my choice for the Solstice.
#ArtAdventCalendar
Digital illustration of a green scarab beetle with amber wings extended, raising a textured red sun with its front legs. Rays surround it on all sides, shining through rings of golden clouds, with tiny stars throughout the surrounding darkness of space and more stylized six-pointed stars below the beetle. Art by Moth Monarch.
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
last #InvertArtChallenge goober of the year, the goth firefly 🖤

#SciArt #invertebrates
semi-realistic drawing of a pacific northwest firefly, chunky long beetle all black with shimmery blue and white dots and two red stripes on the thorax, on a black background. semi-realistic drawing of a pacific northwest firefly, chunky long beetle all black with shimmery blue and white dots and two red stripes on the thorax, on a white background.
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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mothmonarch.bsky.social
"Little Dance, Little Bugs"
2022, digital for fun & print products 🦗
#ArtAdventCalendar
Digital art illustration of cartoon insects partying: fireflies sit on a frame above shining light on a dancing caterpillar, ant, bumblebee, and mantis below. Text top, middle, and bottom reads "do a little dance / you're a little bug / get down tonight"
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
zencollie.bsky.social
Does anyone know of any good bug podcasts? 🐛🐞🦋
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte
Three panel black and white comic. Panel 1. A smiling eel-like primitive fish shows off it's new iPhone in front of it to two trilobites. Fish dialogue: check out my new phone! It's got 16 gigabytes it can hold! Trilobite dialogue: oh yeah? How many trilobites can it hold? Panel 2: the fish looks on, concerned, as the two trilobites crawl onto the phone and others join. Panel 3: the fish looks upset, its phone is buried in several trilobites. Fish dialogue: please stop
November 26, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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francinefox.bsky.social
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.

*more in comments*

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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rebeccawangart.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Small: this is an isopod, a small land dwelling crustacean in the genus Armadillidium. Acrylic painting on wood panel. #art #painting #bugs #traditionalart #colorful
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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erujayy.bsky.social
The trio of giant flowers in the Mecynorrhina family I've completed so far 💜

#inverts #SciArt 🪲🦐
An illustration of three giant flower beetles from the Mecynorrhina family. The first Oberthuri Decorata has splotches of orange and is sitting on blue and purple flowers. The middle Polyphemus is green with yellow spots, yellow outstretched wings and sitting on red flowers. The last Ugandesis is blue-red with cream splotches, sitting on orange flowers.
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
Finally, today is the day! I’ve completed a new set of pin design just for Cubaris isopods! I’m so looking forward to see them completed. Which one is your favorite? 💚💚
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
4 years of #invertober #SciArt goobers

you know what, from going through 3-4 months of one of my worst art blocks ever to an outpouring of art 2025 was overall a good art year

#HumanMade #noAI #invertebrates
a collage of 32 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are beetles, millipedes, squids, butterflies, shrimp, slugs, crabs, jellifish, starfish, grasshoppers, leaf bugs, caterpillars, nautiluses, scorpions, damselflies, mussels, velvet worm, peacock spider, isopod, mantis, mosquito the text (white on black) in the middle: INVERTOBER 2022 1 | Chrysina beyeri 2 | Archispirostreptus gigas 3 | Oryctes nasicornis 4 | Sepioteuthis lessoniana 5 | Battus philenor 6 | Lysmata amboinensis 7 | Cicadella viridis 8 | Ariolimax columbianus 9 | Mnemiopsis leidyi 10 | Ocypode quadrata 11 | Junonia coenia 12 | Romalea microptera 13 | Patiria miniata 14 | Polyura athamas 15 | Pulchriphyllium giganteum 16 | Allonautilus scrobiculatus 17 | Antheraea yamamai 18 | Centruroides sculpturatus 19 | Enallagma cyathigerum 20 | Platycotis vittata 21 | Chalcosoma atlas 22 | Mytilus edulis 23 | Estigmene acrea 24 | Opisthopatus roseus 25 | Greta oto 26 | Maratus volans 27 | Peponapis pruinosa 28 | Acraga coa 29 | Armadillidium maculatum 30 | Typophyllum erosum 31 | Phyllocrania paradoxa extra | Anopheles gambiae a collage of 32 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are beetles, bees, ants, snails, octopus, flies, crabs, moths, isopods, grasshoppers, slugs, flatworms, jellyfish, mantis, spider, wasp, scorpion, starfish, clam, leaf bug, cuttlefish, millipede, dragonfly, mosquito the text (white on black) in the middle: INVERTOBER 2023 1 | Thermonectus marmoratus 2 | Megachile leachella 3 | Wasmannia auropunctata 4 | Papustyla pulcherrima 5 | Diaprepes abbreviatus 6 | Amphioctopus marginatus 7 | Syrphus ribesii 8 | Hepatus epheliticus 9 | Deilephila elpenor 10 | Magicicada septendecim 11 | Drosophila melanogaster 12 | Pentidotea resecata 13 | Melanoplus devastator 14 | Glaucus atlanticus 15 | Libelloides macaronius 16 | Pseudoceros ferrugineus 17 | Morpho peleides 18 | Lucanus capreolus 19 | Phyllorhiza punctata 20 | Mantis religiosa 21 | Thomisus onustus 22 | Dasymutilla occidentalis 23 | Heterometrus spinifer 24 | Danaus chrysippus 25 | Protoreaster nodosus 26 | Siphanta acuta 27 | Chlamys islandica 28 | Sepioloidea lineolata 29 | Scolopendra polymorpha 30 | Limax maximus 31 | Celithemis eponina extra | Sabethes sp. a collage of 31 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are lanternbugs, butterflies, cephalopods, jellyfish, flies, spiders, wasps, flatworms, ants, chnidarians, beetles, crabs, bees, snails, isopods, sea slugs, sponges, sea cucumbers, and bottom right occupying two spaces a horseshoe crab with a long tail. the text (white on black) in the middle: Invertober 2025 1 | Fulgora laternaria 2 | Siproeta stelenes 3 | Sepia officinalis 4 | Cotylorhiza tuberculata 5 | Bombylius major 6 | Brachypelma smithi 7 | Chrysis ignita 8 | Bipalium choristosperma 9 | Nothomyrmecia sp. 10 | Radianthus magnifica 11 | Goliathus goliatus 12 | Macrocheira kaempferi 13 | Bombus pratorum 14 | Monadenia infumata 15 | Argema mittrei 16 | Armadillidium gestroi 17 | Lampyris noctiluca 18 | Chromodoris annae 19 | Aplysina fistularis 20 | Coccinella trifasciata 21 | Histioteuthis heteropsis 22 | Neotibicen linnei 23 | Eristalis flavipes 24 | Hierodula membranacea 25 | Tachypleus gigas 26 | Chicobolus spinigerus 27 | Kiwa hirsuta 28 | Synchlora aerata 29 | Phidippus audax 30 | Parastichopus johnsoni 31 | Gecarcinus quadratus 7x5 grid on a black background of 32 invertebrates, from jellyfish, leafhoppers, anemones, weevils, lobsters, moths, snails, flies, cuttlefish, worms, spiders, clams, spiders, caterpillars, isopods, flatworms, nudibranch, dragonflies, ticks, centipedes, sea urchins, lacewings, squid, mosquitoes in the middle are their latin names in white text: INVERTOBER 2025 1 | Chrysaora pacifica 2 | Graphocephala coccinea 3 | Anthopleura xanthogrammica 4 | Rhynchophorus cruentatus 5 | Panulirus versicolor 6 | Phalera bucephala 7 | Chrysomallon squamiferum 8 | Mallophora fautrix 9 | Ascarosepion pfefferi 10 | Lumbricus terrestris 11 | Dolomedes tenebrosus 12 | Siliqua patula 13 | Camponotus consobrinus 14 | Eunice aphroditois 15 | Ornithoptera alexandrae 16 | Bathynomus giganteus 17 | Pseudoceros concinnus 18 | Sceliphron caementarium 19 | Vampyroteuthis infernalis 20 | Velella velella 21 | Libellula saturata 22 | Clione limacina 23 | Cicindela albissima 24 | Perna canaliculus 25 | Scutigera coleoptrata 26 | Jorunna parva 27 | Dermacentor variabilis 28 | Chrysopa perla 29 | Mesocentrotus franciscanus 30 | Anoplognathus pallidicollis 31 | Acherontia atropos extra | Aedes aegypti
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
zencollie.bsky.social
🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
it is DONE my dudes, 32 goobers for #Invertober2025

now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH

#SciArt #invertebrates
7x5 grid on a black background of 32 invertebrates, from jellyfish, leafhoppers, anemones, weevils, lobsters, moths, snails, flies, cuttlefish, worms, spiders, clams, spiders, caterpillars, isopods, flatworms, nudibranch, dragonflies, ticks, centipedes, sea urchins, lacewings, squid, mosquitoes in the middle are their latin names in white text: INVERTOBER 2025 1 | Chrysaora pacifica 2 | Graphocephala coccinea 3 | Anthopleura xanthogrammica 4 | Rhynchophorus cruentatus 5 | Panulirus versicolor 6 | Phalera bucephala 7 | Chrysomallon squamiferum 8 | Mallophora fautrix 9 | Ascarosepion pfefferi 10 | Lumbricus terrestris 11 | Dolomedes tenebrosus 12 | Siliqua patula 13 | Camponotus consobrinus 14 | Eunice aphroditois 15 | Ornithoptera alexandrae 16 | Bathynomus giganteus 17 | Pseudoceros concinnus 18 | Sceliphron caementarium 19 | Vampyroteuthis infernalis 20 | Velella velella 21 | Libellula saturata 22 | Clione limacina 23 | Cicindela albissima 24 | Perna canaliculus 25 | Scutigera coleoptrata 26 | Jorunna parva 27 | Dermacentor variabilis 28 | Chrysopa perla 29 | Mesocentrotus franciscanus 30 | Anoplognathus pallidicollis 31 | Acherontia atropos extra | Aedes aegypti 7x5 grid on a white background of 32 invertebrates, from jellyfish, leafhoppers, anemones, weevils, lobsters, moths, snails, flies, cuttlefish, worms, spiders, clams, spiders, caterpillars, isopods, flatworms, nudibranch, dragonflies, ticks, centipedes, sea urchins, lacewings, squid, mosquitoes in the middle are their latin names in white text: INVERTOBER 2025 1 | Chrysaora pacifica 2 | Graphocephala coccinea 3 | Anthopleura xanthogrammica 4 | Rhynchophorus cruentatus 5 | Panulirus versicolor 6 | Phalera bucephala 7 | Chrysomallon squamiferum 8 | Mallophora fautrix 9 | Ascarosepion pfefferi 10 | Lumbricus terrestris 11 | Dolomedes tenebrosus 12 | Siliqua patula 13 | Camponotus consobrinus 14 | Eunice aphroditois 15 | Ornithoptera alexandrae 16 | Bathynomus giganteus 17 | Pseudoceros concinnus 18 | Sceliphron caementarium 19 | Vampyroteuthis infernalis 20 | Velella velella 21 | Libellula saturata 22 | Clione limacina 23 | Cicindela albissima 24 | Perna canaliculus 25 | Scutigera coleoptrata 26 | Jorunna parva 27 | Dermacentor variabilis 28 | Chrysopa perla 29 | Mesocentrotus franciscanus 30 | Anoplognathus pallidicollis 31 | Acherontia atropos extra | Aedes aegypti
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
Isopods!! 🧡
A vibrant illustrated poster featuring 14 species/varieties of isopods of various colors. They are illustrated on a yellow-vibrant orange background and have numbers with a key describing which species is which.
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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erujayy.bsky.social
I heard it's #TrilobiteTuesday and although this isn't a true trilobite, the trilobite beetle is one of my favourite remnants of that prehistoric creature! [From 2022]

#SciArt #inverts
a drawing of a large trilobite beetle female with a small trilobite beetle male with hearts in between them.
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM