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D. Allan Drummond
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Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · Oct 19
Huntress, my solid bronze mantis. She’s articulated…look closely and you can see the neodymium magnets at her neck and shoulders (coxae) 🔬
Bronze metal praying mantis looking left, shot from the waist up, her left foreleg extended to show her raptorial claw.
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Always be #CrabPosting
Drawing in white ink against a black background of 5 crabs hovering in a starry sky like constellations.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil)
#Bugsky 🐙🌿
A macro photo of a weevil, in profile, upper left in the frame atop a fuzzy gray-green leaf. The weevil is orange with a coating of sparse yellow hairs, some of which are dense enough to form spots.
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Out today in the UK is a new paperback printing of Children of Time, the 10th anniversary edition, including a brand new in-universe short story ‘Unbearable’ and some other bits and pieces. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Find out more about Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
www.panmacmillan.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Lets continue with the drawing course plates 🪲

#insects #sciart #dragonfly #art
Illustration of a dragonfly
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Real...!?
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Dung beetles know where they want to go. They roll, push or shove their dung ball & every few seconds they stop pushing to climb on top of the ball to make sure they are going in the right direction. This dung beetle male is just climbing down after a look around.
More info in alt text
#insects
This male dung beetle is black and a deep iridescent metallic purple colour. He has just taken a look around from the top of his dung ball to make sure he’s going in the right direction, and is now climbing down to resume pushing! Dung beetles navigate by the sun and stars!
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Asks Us to Consider the Monster
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 5, 2025
Parasitoid wasp
Rhyssella sp.
Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae
By Christian Brockes (wildmacro.de), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
#arthropodPOTW
A close-up image of a black ichneumon wasp with long antennae and orange legs standing on a piece of wood, with a blurred green background.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Another version of the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) with spread wings. 🪲
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
Creative process of a stag beetle drawing
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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'You're adopted'

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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
Single panel comic in sepia tones of a Tyrannosaurus addressing a Nanotyrannus with the words 'you're adopted,' to which the Nanotyrannus replies, 'WOW.'
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Ms Habronattus georgiensis being adorable as she waits for her takeout to arrive
#EmotionalSupportSpood
Little grey fuzzy jumping spider with 2 black stripes down her face over her big eyes, perched on a closed yellow flower peering up at you
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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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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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🎃👻
Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)!

#Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus
#Arachtober
A large round marbled orange rump faces the camera. Radiating out from it are 8 striped legs. An orange marbled orbweaver spider sits on a white background facing the viewer. It has small eyes and spiky striped legs. An orange marbled orbweaver spider sits on a white background facing to the left. It has small eyes and spiky striped legs.
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Inside Dewey the Jumping Spider’s head 👀🔍
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Hear from Dr. Lindsay Zanno, associate research professor at North Carolina State University, head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and co-author of a new study published in Nature.
Nanotyrannus Confirmed: Dueling Dinosaurs Fossil Rewrites the Story of T. rex
YouTube video by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa
Most of a wolf spider, taken from directly above. The last segments of a few legs have been cut off by the frame. It is standing on holy salty sand, so the background looks like a solid slab of black specked beige. The spider is a mainly soft grey body with four black eyes showing. The abdomen is marked with a grey line and black rimmed blobs all over it. This made it incredibly hard to see if you weren't paying close attention. The legs are a more pinky white with diffuse black barring. If it was big enough people would be wearing the "pelt" as luxury coats. It's gorgeous. The same spider taken from a low angle, looking at the face slightly angled. This shows the female palps and the entire set of 8 black eyes. It also showed how the spider was right up on its "toes" ready for a fast get-away (or maybe the blinding white salt was hot to stand on). There is a bit of a shadow from the intense sunlight. Spider description is on the other photo.
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Just your normal classic bumblebee with the normal number of wings and totally a vegetarian, don't worry about it

(bumblebee mimic robberfly, of course 🖤)
Chonky black and yellow bumblebee-like robberfly, chilling on a green oak leaf. Side view Close shot of the creature's face; big black compound eyes and a yellow "beard" nearly covering the face Very close shot put the creature's point yellow face floof. It's almost like a lion's mane Close shot of one of the creature's feets, black with two claws and little orange flappy pads behind them
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Henny Halloween. 🐔🎃

Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.
Drawing in mainly black ink, primarily in silhouette, of a hen standing on a pumpkin on the vine, bending her head quizzically down towards it. The pumpkin bears a grinning expression like that if a carved jack-o-lantern. The hen's comb and wattle are the only touch of red gouache.
October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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#Invertober2025 day 24: Perna canaliculus. Pencil.

Verdict: Surprisingly tiresome to draw despite total lack of appendages.

#Invertober #SciArt
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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It’s me fr 😇🐞🦀🪰🦋🪳🦠🐜🧪
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October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):

youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...
Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
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October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This teeny, tiny jumping spider can be found in Florida's long-leaf pine savannah habitat. The granules at the spider's feet are grains of sand. This is another fabulous spider introduced to me by @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social #Arachtober
(Naphrys bufoides) FL 2024
A tiny gray, brown, and tan striped spider with a pair of large forward facing eyes. It is standing on a piece of wood with a few grains of sand strewn about.
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Casting day 🔥🐜 One last major piece to finish for a very patient collector…here’s a complete ant, redesigned, cast in two flasks just now. Looks good, let the finishing commence! 🛠️
Close-up of the red-hot crucible in a casting machine. Two rods extend into the crucible. Both are graphite. The first blocks the crucible hole while the metal melts. The second allows me to stir the metal as it melts. A freshly cast crucible showing a red hot button on the top. This is the molten metal that has just been poured into the flask and must now cool. Two freshly cast bronze trees. A “tree” means a series of parts arranged around a central trunk. In this case, on the left are the legs, and on the right are the other pieces of the ant, including its head and body. The ant body part casting tree held in my hand so that you can better see the head of the ant with its mandibles open.
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM