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Bugs Like Kate
@ilikebugs.bsky.social
Creature drawer, pixel pusher, bi nonmonogamous enby in the northeast. Mostly a personal account with some Kestrop Studio thrown in.

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Saw my first jumping spider of the year yesterday! This little shy baby let me get a few photos before hiding back in the fence post. Possibly Genus Pseudeuophrys. #invertfest #salticidae #jumpingspider #arachnerd
April 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hey hey it's a fuzzy bee day! Here are some bumblebees to kick off #invertfest!
April 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Here, take this.
February 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
February 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Last two of the night. Thanks for following along! #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomics
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yoshi lets Gizmo the Quaker parrot "floss" her "teeth" (supervised). But what if she had teeth teeth? No. Then we found terrifying berries. #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomics
February 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Interiors, landscapes, and backgrounds are not my forte so consider this a practice!
February 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A theeefer! (Plus the hardest thing about getting new merch to the shop)
February 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I know the point of a 5-line-a-day journal is to write those five lines...each day. Also this one took me longer to draw because I had to remind myself I am actually right-handed.
February 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The easier part: pack the order.
February 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This should read from like 9:30 to 11:00am, but one should probably not draw a screen for three whole panels...
#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomics
February 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hourly comics day is here!!!! Will be posting in this thread. #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomics 🧵
February 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year: #hourlycomicsday! I'll be posting here in a thread. Excited to see who else here participates! #hourlycomics #hourlycomicsday2025
February 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Trying out new acrylic markers with some colorful pigeons and reminding myself that I need to make more time for play! #pigeons #pigeonart #animalart #birdart
January 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
What the world needs now
Is bugs sweet bugs
#bugphotos #letsgobugging #insects #insectphotos #parody
January 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Due to this pattern on my CV, I'm due for another certification this year! What takes less than a year to get that I should clearly do? Wrong answers preferred ;)
#lifelonglearning #updatingmyresume #adultlearner #wronganswersonly
January 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This has been a greeting card for two years (but FOR WHAT OCCASION???) and I finally gave the dumpster a setting to make it prints. Tag yourself! I'm the rat with the pepper.
#dontbesuspicious #pigeons #rat #raccoons #animalart
January 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
During two 6-hour drives this holiday season, Dad and I counted hawks. 19 total in three days, noted between naps. I also identified some kind of woodpecker, lots of pigeons and starlings, and several smaller raptors as we sped by.

#birder #birdnerd #birdcomic #comic #naturecomic
January 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It's finally time to open the 24th little door of our #ArtAdventCalendar! Behind it comes bounding out a baby goat, excited to wish you SEASONS BLEATINGS! #goat #babygoat #greetingcarddesign #animalart
December 25, 2024 at 6:15 AM
2 pieces of bird art for days 22 and 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar! The warblers played their northeastern US tour this summer, it was great so I had to draw them a show poster (art featured in one of my bird zines). Also a parrot I made my dad a few years ago.
December 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Some suspicious looking characters for #ArtAdventCalendar day 21! More 2-charm shrinky dink earrings. Love making these even though they take forever and haven't sold as much. #handmadejewelry #poscamarkers #uvresin #shrinkydinks
December 22, 2024 at 4:04 AM
The 20th tiny door opens for #ArtAdventCalendar to give you a... Tomato Wombat! Or Wombato! They have square seeds. #animalmashup #wombat #tomato
December 21, 2024 at 1:22 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 19, sketch I did for my mom years ago, based on a photo of me in the Boston Public Gardens long before I lived here. (In the area, not in the Gardens.) I checked the other day and the ducks are all wearing winter hats and scarves to stay warm! #makewayforducklings #boston
December 20, 2024 at 4:21 AM
I love random drawing prompts so have made several large wheels on spinthewheel.io. This morning I made a vegetable wheel to go along with my animal wheel, which spawned today’s #ArtAdventCalendar post: Turnip the Bass!
#animalmashup #turnip #bassfish #drawingprompt
December 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Strolling through the leaves is the subject of #ArtAdventCalendar day 17, a chill vibes goose. #animalart #birdart
December 18, 2024 at 1:34 AM