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Ben Jolma
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Belongs to Garret, who likes bugs.
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Look who I found at work today! It's A Bug With A Big Ass by @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social from @gamechangershow.bsky.social
A pinned beetle from an entomology collection. The beetle is red, has a skinny head and thorax, and a very rotund abdomen. The beetle is shaped like a maraca.
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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#entomology #lotr
A scientific illustration of three beetles, labeled as billbugs. A caption says "Billbugs? Billbugs Baggins?"
February 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A ladybug
February 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Kinda bummed this season's edition of American Entomologist has a cover made by AI. This isn't even that much an homage to classic horror, it's just a dragonfly with four antennae and eight legs and a misplaced abdomen.

#entsoc #entomology
The cover of a magazine: an illustration of a man facing a large insect. Except the "insect" has eight legs and four antennae and looks to be made by AI.
February 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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My favorite bee!

This is the back end of a Nomia, an alkali bee. They have rainbow butts. That is all.

#entomology #bee #rainbow
The abdomen of a bee as seen under a microscope. The bee has stripes of black and rainbow; the rainbow stripes are reddish in the middle, fading to yellow and then to greenish blue on the outside edges.
January 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A display case I made at work this past week! This one's for potential donors; less for educational purposes, more to look pretty.

I always enjoy putting together display cases like this. Arranging the insects is very zen.

All insects caught in western Colorado.
#entomology #insects #colorado
A display case with butterflies, bees, beetles, and other insects. They are not arranged in rows, but each type of insects is here and there and everywhere. The butterflies are at the four corners, with the lower-left butterfly being a swallowtail butterfly: striped yellow and black and little blue spots.
January 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Here Benjamin sits between his humans, not as a child sits between their parents, but as a villain sits between his henchmen.
A big orange cat sits between two people; he has an air of superiority on his smug little face.
January 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Butterflies get all the attention, but grasshoppers can be pretty too!
This one, Xanthippus corallipes, has bright hindwings meant to startle predators as it flies away.

#entomology #bugs #grasshopper
A large grasshopper on a pin with its left wings spread out. The front wing has leopard spots, and the hind wing is pink and black.
January 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Provisional ID?
"wasp with THIGHS"

#entomology #bugs #wasp
A microscope image of a small black wasp that is very slender except for the first segment of the back legs, which are as big around as the wasp's head.
January 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM