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but it’s a crab
A hermit crab on its back has all its legs folded in front of it, coming slightly out of the shell, with its two eyes sticking out of the center, close together, so so so cute
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
It’s Weevil Wednesday! Weevils are probably the most diverse and successful group of any kind of living things, and their adorable snouts are definitely playing a critical part in their success. I’m happy to complete a new illustration & sticker sheet design for them! 💚🌱
September 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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barkitect.bsky.social
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jfcudennec.bsky.social Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · Sep 24
major traffic incident
September 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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derptiles.art
It’s 9/9, Japanese Giant Salamander day! They’re called Oosanshou, roughly translated it means big pepper fish. When upset, these big salamanders supposedly produce a stinky mucus that smells kind of like Japanese pepper 🌶️
A quick drawing of a giant Japanese salamander sitting in a shallow rocky river. Text says “Giant salamander day” in both English and Japanese.
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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johnlechner.bsky.social
Here's my drawing of the Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, which can grow up to 90 mm (3.5 inches) in length #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
Ink and watercolor drawing of a pill millipede, with a long segmented green body and many legs, standing in a natural background of greens and browns.
August 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
Velvet worm repeat pattern! Putting more invertebrate linocuts into surface design! 🧪🐡

These adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand (Aotearoa). Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture and somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongated, 🧵
A repeat pattern made with my linocut blue S-shaped velvet worm, resembling a many-legged caterpillar with two antennas and a pattern of spots. Along its length there’s a central darker blue stripe. The image is repeated and reflected to make mesh of nearly interlocking S-shaped velvet worms against a deep raspberry purple background.
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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spiritcrowart.bsky.social
Happy #InverteFest! Pink bug upon ye 🌸
August 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
Just thinking about crabs who hang out with echinoderms 🦀🦑🧪

1. unidentified Lithodidae riding a sea pig
2. Lissocarcinus orbicularis up a sea cucumber hole
3. Dorippe frascone with fire urchin hat
4. Allogalathea elegans on a crinoid
Still from a gif of a smol pink colored spiny king crab on the belly of a squishy sea cucumber. The cuke is a "sea pig" meaning it has squishy little legs along the sides of its body. The cuke is in the water column so the crab is literally riding it. Photo: MBARI, 4000 feet below Monterey Bay, California A pretty rounded crab, Lissocarcinus orbicularis, with a whiteish background color mottled by large brown marks. It is in a hole. The anal hole of a sea cucumber, whose flesh you see surrounding the crab/hole in attractive orange photo: Mark Rosenstein, Puerto Galera, Philippines https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13477630 Dorippe frascone, a brown crab with algae on it, and legs splayed out. Except the back pair of legs, which you cannot see in this pic but they are hooked onto a sea urchin that it wears as a hat. Specifically a fire urchin (bright orange/pink with striped spines) that is more than 2x the size of the crab. photo: Albert Kang, Anilao, Philippines https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61457192 Side view of an attractive squat lobster, its elongate arms outstretched. It is vertically striped white and black to camouflage on its host, a crinoid. In the pic you can see a riot of striped crinoid arms and their pinnules. photo: uwkwaj, Kubu, Bali, Indonesia https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155019124
November 29, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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This bundle supports Game Devs of Color, a nonprofit organization that uplifts and amplifies game creators of color.

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August 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
I asked iChatBio how many kinds of bees are in Florida and it says there are none. Couldn't have made this up if I tried
I ask iChatBio "how many kinds of bees are in florida" and is says it will search for information IChatBio replies that there are zero bee species listed from Florida using "bee" as a search term.
August 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Those whom I pass on the trail are known as Trailures. They are likely to hurt themselves and ought stay home reading about trails, not hiking them

Those whom pass me are known as Trailhards. They've sacrificed their humanity to hike marginally better than me. One must imagine them miserable
August 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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aplante.com
if anyone replies to this with “you just have the wrong size” i WILL hunt you for sport

#comic
cartoon with a bunch of drawings of bras and their innate failings So sick of feeling comfortable? try… BRAS! Helps tight shirts look and feel worse! Straps come in two awful options! (illustration: digging into shoulder or falling off) Cups: one size fits ONE* (illustration: one boob spilling out, the other one barely filling) *or neither, if splitting the difference Endless* styles and colours to choose from! Cute and frilly! casual and fun! seductive lace! plunging! sexy netting! *up to DD And for our big-tiddy ladies (can i get a holla) PLAIN BEIGE (so practical!)
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Hahaha, I love this photo of a snake nerd researcher from the Phoenix Herpetological Society using a fake leg to step on rattlesnakes & see how likely they are to bite. He "stepped" on 175 of them, and was bitten by only SIX. Snakes desperately want to just get away! 🐍🧪

www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1...
A guy out in the desert scrub who looks like Napoleon Dynamite uses a jeans-wrapped pole with a hiking boot on the bottom to "step" on a rattlesnake.
August 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
boys be like, "i have a type" and the type is bug
October 9, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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justinchan.bsky.social
I drew a new iNaturalist profile pic!
August 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
The bigger an animal’s eyes are in relation to the rest of its body, the squeakier its voice is in my head. Mayflies’ voice squeakiness is off the charts.
A yellow highlighter got turned into a bug with big wings and a striped butt, and god gave him the biggest eyes of all
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
How are you coping with the ills of the modern age? Stages of pterosaur decomposition. Tag yourself.
A) Bloating & Floating. B) Sinking. C) Decapitation. D) Sinking. E) Hit the rock bottom
August 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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After nearly twenty years in the making, our attempt at understanding what makes the chaetognath phylum so unique has finally been published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with #LauraPiovani @dariagavr.bsky.social @alexdemendoza.bsky.social @chemamd.bsky.social and others /1
The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature
Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem ...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
This August, we're aiming for the ambitious number of 100 artists in the art book. Submit now while the form is still open! docs.google.com/forms/d/1KaR...
August 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Don't have an invertebrate artwork to post for #InverteFest?

I got you covered. I teamed up with multiple experts to create guides to comprehend various invertebrate anatomy.

Links to the full posts in the reply below.
complex crab anatomy guide, covering the basic parts of the arms, legs, body shape, and tail. complex bivalve anatomy guide covering the basic jargons of the anatomy, the shape, shell margin, and ribbed texture called sculpture. complex crinoid anatomy guide focusing on the different jargons used to describe their body parts like the stalk, calyx, and arms complex cephalopod anatomy guide primarily concerning the basic anatomy, eye shape, and how some of them are shelled while most are naked
August 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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yuksiiis.bsky.social
oc | Set and Asha

🫦 When the night falls, my heart calls
For love and devotion
The characters belong to me. The sun god Set with his wife Asha. Set has dark skin, golden eyes, a nose with a strong hump. Long brown hair in a ponytail. Lots of gold jewelry, tattoos. Red robe. Asha is a cat with vitiligo, in the frame is a golden eye, gold jewelry, pink curly hair also in a ponytail.
August 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
God I fucking love tumblr.
An anonymous person has messaged me with the following message "if you start getting a lot more messages to the Squid Facts Hotline from California area codes: that's my fault. I'm using the Squid Facts t-shirt to chat people up in the gay leather bars of San Francisco. it's working better than I expected it to. i'm sorry." and I reply "UM. Hell. Yeah Hell. yeah." and the first um and hell yeah are in all caps and the second just the first hell in the yeah is all caps for the sake of emphasis
August 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
just make it exist first
you can make it crab later
a comic in two parts. part one. text says, just make it exist first. image is a drawing of a circle. part two. text says, you can make it crab later, but the word crab is scribbled as if it replaced something. image is a drawing of a crab. footer says: by joabaldwin, based on the comic by growthbyvisuals, then carcinized by franzanth.
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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toysdream.bsky.social
I don't think I've ever posted this here on Bluesky, so have some bug-drawing tutorials... (1/3)
Let's Discuss: Bug Basics! Intro to insect body anatomy. Let's Investigate: Insect Legs! In which we detour for some reason into talking about human hands. Insect leg pattern 1: Bees, ants, and flies. Insect leg patterns 2 and 3: Beetles and dragonflies.
August 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM