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artist, firefly furry + otherkin, 22 he/it
not inherently nsfw but no minors please
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pikaole.bsky.social
✨ Twinkle twinkle long bugs 🪱
Long and diverse bugs smile in a dark background like the night sky. Their bright bodies have sparkling star-shaped patterns. Inspired bug species: Ivory millipede, Desert centipede, Land planarians (Flatworm, Hammerhead worm) Velvet worm, Earth worm, Spotted snake millipede
December 10, 2024 at 5:43 PM
bensect.bsky.social
"more than i was built for"
(yes this is disney planes fanart)
December 2, 2024 at 3:50 AM
bensect.bsky.social
havent been posting a lot of my recent art It Will Happen i prommy
November 29, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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asmeesh.bsky.social
It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming
r o u n d
November 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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dadrummond.art
You all thought I was joking
A gray resin cicada sculpture in my hand, body about the size of my hand and wings hanging off. Rough draft at this stage, no textures, but good to see scale and proportion compared to the (real) double drummer cicada in the quoted post 😳
November 29, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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glack.bsky.social
for @ Ekzonzzzz 🤠🌵
November 29, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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snidemollusk.bsky.social
Art comic
November 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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hannahorca.bsky.social Hannah Comstock @hannahorca.bsky.social · Nov 29
Spider 🕷️
Illustration of a spider on a black background. It’s body is orange with spikes and many eyes throughout
November 29, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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easterncoyote.bsky.social
Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds.

Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.

I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.

Please share! Gracias! 😸
Screenshot of my lists: Forestry & Forest Ecosystems Canids Plant Science, Botany Nature and Animal Art Nature and Wildlife Photography Corvids Ecology Fungi & Mycology
February 21, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
"an't" cracks me up every time.
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Feb 20
I love the little an'ts so much 🥹
Female Synemosyna look even derpier to me than their male counterparts because they have less chelicerae and palps to fill out their face. They're just two giant eyes peering out of a cardboard tube. 🖤
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A slender ant mimic salticid peering up at you. She's dark red, with a tiny face dominated by those giant salticid eyes, 2 small thin palps covering her chelicerae Side cure of the creature. She's very long,, ant-like, and possibly pregger. 1st leg pair held like antennae
February 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
bensect.bsky.social
hey i haven't been active on here in a while but with tumblr shitting the bed i felt like i should cover my bases. what's up
February 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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cuttledreams.bsky.social
Shop item of the week: Beetle grub acrylic charm!

A squishy companion, pocket-sized and ready to go on adventures.

Available here! cuttledreams.bigcartel.com
A photo of an acrylic charm. It depicts a beetle grub curled, with a red circular graphic pattern behind it. The charm is laying on a bed of greenery.
February 21, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InsertAnInvert2024
Relationships - Babies

After hatching, vinegaroon babies cling to their mother's butt for protection, forming a clump of tangled orbs with legs.

In most species, this lasts for a few weeks, until the dozens of babies are old enough to molt for the very first time. 🎨 🐡
a scorpion-like adult animal with a pile on her back looking like spaghetti with meatballs. illustration.
February 18, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Package art of Allosaurus fragilis I did for the Beasts Of The Mesozoic upcoming figure

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #dinosaur
Illustration depicting Allosaurus on top of its prey, a juvenile Camptosaurus. The Allosaurus is greenish with orangish stripes of the neck and blue crests on the snout
February 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
On this episode of "Weird Lumps Emerging From Weird Lumps and Ovipositing More Weird Lumps into More Weird Lumps", well, observe this Gargoyle caught in the act of ovipositing. 🖤
🌿 🐝🧪
Chonky black gall wasp on the tip of a little oak protrusion of some kind, in the shadows under her one can make out the ovipositor going into the oak lump
February 21, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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boiler.bsky.social
We lost a real one today. Mark was the reason we have anime & furry fandoms in the US. He gave us all, all the hundreds of thousands of us or more now, the biggest gift we could ever ask for: each other.

You will be deeply, deeply missed Mark. You live on in us and the community you so loved.
February 20, 2024 at 4:55 PM
bensect.bsky.social
sorry i haven't been active here much i promise i am alive
November 30, 2023 at 1:59 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Sketches of Tupuxuara since I am in a pterosaur mood
🐡 🧪 🎨 #paleontology
Two line sketches of Tupuxuara. The one on the left shows the animal as if catching some small ground prey. The in on the right shows it walking with its head turned a bit to one side
November 29, 2023 at 4:22 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
A tiny male sweat bee - around 4 or 5 mm. - drinking nectar on goldenrod in Montana last month. Single shot at about 3x and cropped. People are probably more familiar with the bright metallic green sweat bees, but I also like the more subtle coppery hues on this little guy's head. #ento 🐙 🌿
Closeup on the face and eyes of a copper-metallic sweat bee, sipping nectar on yellow goldenrod flowers.
November 4, 2023 at 11:18 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Couple months ago I was in central Florida and unwittingly photographed a described (but not yet published) maevia species. Was scrolling through my salticid folder with GB Edwards today looking for something else, and he pointed out this lovely boy. Lol. I learned things! 🌿🧪🕷️
Pale gold salticid with stripy black and clear legs, Abess orange chevrons on his booty. Backdrop of white sugar sand. Top view. He has a black "bat" pattern on the back of his head which is a diagnostic feature of the species.
November 5, 2023 at 1:40 AM
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ascalaphid.com
lunch break doodle
October 31, 2023 at 1:33 PM
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wanderingwastes.bsky.social
Another gang member! This is Augustus Ferguson but everyone knows him as Gus. (Or Gusgus but only Judas called him that and they were the only one who could get away with it anyway.) He was the oldest member of the gang he was there from the beginning
October 3, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social
🧪🌿documentaries: "dinosaurs RULED THE WORLD for over 150 million years"

animal life before dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs
animal life during dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs
animal life after dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs
October 3, 2023 at 8:18 PM
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blueappaloosa.bsky.social
Gonna kick-off #Arachtober with some self-promo. (Sorry, I'll post just pictures too.) This Spiny Orbweaver design, as well as some other arachnids, inverts, and critters, is available as a keyring or magnet in my Etsy store: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt
Two 3d printed spider designs, a large yellow abdomen with red spikes over a black head and legs. The one on the right has a keyring in it's abdomen.
October 2, 2023 at 7:54 PM
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toysdream.bsky.social
At long last, the return of in-person Bug Drawing Day, hosted by the wonderful Stephanie Dole (www.beetlelady.com). So nice to meet up with friends and spend a sunny afternoon watching Goliath beetles eat bananas... (1/2)
October 2, 2023 at 6:59 PM