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mossworm.bsky.social
don't cry ok... tardigrade
fanciful illustration of a tardigrade, a small animal with eight legs and a rounded body. this one is green and yellow, with armor plates on its back, and colored in a checkered pattern like a quilt
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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passionpeachy.bsky.social
fruit faeries ✨
Different colored fairies corresponding to the fruit they’re holding, a raspberry, an orange and a blueberry.
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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dadrummond.art
SNOOT COMPETITION let’s goooo
A 3D model of a fulgorid planthopper with a giant schnoz (actually the top of its head but who can tell) thrust upward, sitting on my open hand.
June 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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wizentrop.bsky.social
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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jopabinia.bsky.social
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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restingdinoface.bsky.social
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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dangerouscolors.bsky.social
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
several illustrated insects and arachnids arranged symmetrically around text saying "devotion with conditions isn't devotion at all". the species included are a mosquito, a human head louse, a berry mite, a common flea, a bedbug, and a tick.
April 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
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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dangerouscolors.bsky.social
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
flat-color lined illustration of the yellow fever mosquito in dorsal view. it is a black mosquito with white stripes on its six limbs and white lines on its thorax. flat-color lined illustration of a brown flea in lateral view. there are hairs all over its thorax, abdomen, and legs.
April 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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bugaboopocket.bsky.social
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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ellililalala.bsky.social
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
Black and orange ichneumonid wasp holding on to a blade of grass looking into the camera.
April 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
unrestricted fun #entomology
Yellow coreopsis flower with a dark flower scarab beetle smashing its face into the center close up of the scarab with its face buried in the flower
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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lauraillustrates.bsky.social
for u 💙
an illustration of a cute cartoon stag beetle holding blue flowers. what type of flowers? the artist doesn't fully know as she took a picture of them out in the wild and is drawing from that photograph.
April 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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crevicedwelling.bsky.social
moderation? an amusing concept
my hand is full of dull greenish worms
April 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
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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bertonemyia.bsky.social
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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blueappaloosa.bsky.social
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
Three 3d printed velvet worm designs. (A velvet worm is a long worm-like creature with antennae and stubby little legs.) The left-most velvet worm is pink with purple specks, facing down. The middle velvet worm is black with brown specks, facing up, with a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring through it's head. The right velvet worm is blue with tan specks, facing downwards.
January 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
HE IS HERE #Crustmas
The giant Eurypterid body pillow from PRI in Ithaca, it is light tan and about five feet long, with two tiny black eyes me holding the giant eurypterid, taking a photo of the mirror. I'm 5 ft 8 inch and it's covering up my whole body
December 17, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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isabetabug.bsky.social
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)
Large purple centipede with blue legs with yellow tips and yellow antennae on a white background. Photo by Isabelle Betancourt. www.thebugandthebeetle.net
September 14, 2023 at 4:40 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Welcome to the family. You’re going to be the best bug ambassador ever I just know it.
a very large, like 7 inch millipede, walks across sarah’s fingers
December 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
thrib
A black thrips, a tiny winged insect with a long thin body, on my thumbnail
December 17, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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brendanoloughlin.bsky.social
Stick insect in subfamily Anisacanthinae trying very hard to be a stick with moss

📍Madagascar

#entomology #phasmida
Crazy looking stick insect that mimics a stick with moss
November 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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derekhennen.bsky.social
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.
Long legged house centipede with a central dark stripe and yellow blunt Spiracles on top of each segment
December 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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derekhennen.bsky.social
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!
Photo collage of small, squat pill millipedes in a variety of poses. When curled up in a ball, they resemble the eponymous Dragon Balls
December 18, 2024 at 3:36 AM