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don't cry ok... tardigrade
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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fruit faeries ✨
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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SNOOT COMPETITION let’s goooo
June 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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A few weeks ago I posted an adult bark roach (Lanxoblatta rudis) and today I'm posting its super flat nymph. The "starry night" look is a teneral stage right after molting and before camouflage pigmentation appears. You can also see the network of tracheal tubes responsible for respiration.
April 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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BUGS. ARE. SHRIMPS.

It me, about papers with @jimmybernot.bsky.social and @ostratodd.bsky.social 🧪🦑
April 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Birds are dinosaurs
Whales are hoofed mammals
Bugs are crustaceans

Isn’t nature wonderful?
April 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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DEVOTION WITH CONDITIONS ISNT DEVOTION AT ALL
AN ODE TO THE UNLOVED, TO THE HATED

heres the big project i was working on! big smackin commission for @grubgrotto.bsky.social!

#SciArt #entomology #arachnology #insects #arachnids #bugs #art #ArtPH
April 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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something has gone perhaps slightly wrong in my "frog" pond and the whole basin is now a blizzard of live Spirostomum, giant free living single cell protists. the snails are putting on a brave face but understandably do not enjoy being touched by one million things every second
April 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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aedes aegypti and pulex sp., 2 individual parts of a larger comm project! i wonder what the final thing will end up being... ;}

#SciArt #entomology #art #ArtPH
April 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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While you're waiting for Switch 2...play some Bugaboo?

Out now on Steam!
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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You don't see me! This #ichneumonid #wasp reminds me of a toddler trying to hide 😃

Found in Bière, #Switzerland

#bugsky #insects #arthropod #inat #hymenoptera #macrophotography #pollinator
April 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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unrestricted fun #entomology
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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for u 💙
April 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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moderation? an amusing concept
April 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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My garden has not one, not two, but THREE BEE FLIES

I feel as happy as this one :)
April 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Flatworms are gross? Nah. Flatworms are cuties!!! 🥰

Check out this baby with its comical eyes (Geoplanidae)
August 20, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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Finally the last #InsertAnInvert2024 keyring design, Velvet Worms! The prompt was Peripatopsis capensis, which is the black/brown one, but I'm doing some color variations for fun.

(Yes, I will take a group shot at some point. And get them all listed on my Etsy shop.)

#SciArt #BugSky
January 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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HE IS HERE #Crustmas
December 17, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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I got bit by one of these giant centipedes while at the research station this year 😬 and wrote about what happened and the experience in my National Geographic Field Notes Blog:
fieldnotes.nationalgeographic.org/expedition/b...
(The Sept 2nd post)
September 14, 2023 at 4:40 AM
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Welcome to the family. You’re going to be the best bug ambassador ever I just know it.
December 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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thrib
December 17, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Stick insect in subfamily Anisacanthinae trying very hard to be a stick with moss

📍Madagascar

#entomology #phasmida
November 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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I finally found a Japanese house centipede (Thereuonema tuberculata)! I've been hoping to find one in my home for years, what a rush. A gorgeous little critter. This one is from Richmond, Virginia.
December 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Hey science writers! As you prep your annual list of coolest species described in the past year, I humbly suggest you highlight the Dragon Ball pill millipede! Discovered by a team of Thai scientists, no parachute science here! Look at these beauties!
December 18, 2024 at 3:36 AM