🦋 Roura 🦋
@pterouras.bsky.social
real butterfly | Learning lepidopteran raiser | aspiring entomologist | 🧡 @cekrophia.bsky.social 🧡 | they/them 🏳️⚧️, 20 (NSFW DNI)
Pfp: @softysapphie.heartlodged.xyz, banner: cekrophia
All photos are my own unless credited otherwise
Pfp: @softysapphie.heartlodged.xyz, banner: cekrophia
All photos are my own unless credited otherwise
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November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Breaking my silence to share this summer fishfly I stumbled across :D I LOVE megalopterans and I’ve always wanted to see one in-person; it’s been dead for weeks in this spiderweb but I’m happy regardless
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Breaking my silence to share this summer fishfly I stumbled across :D I LOVE megalopterans and I’ve always wanted to see one in-person; it’s been dead for weeks in this spiderweb but I’m happy regardless
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*Niche critter profile*
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
*Niche critter profile*
Deciding on a taxon to specialize in for future entomological study is so difficult because I evidently am most interested in lepidoptera but there’s already so many entomologists that study that order and I feel a certain need to be able to help expand knowledge of lesser understood taxa
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Deciding on a taxon to specialize in for future entomological study is so difficult because I evidently am most interested in lepidoptera but there’s already so many entomologists that study that order and I feel a certain need to be able to help expand knowledge of lesser understood taxa
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November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤
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I’m really happy this is a site where insect content farms don’t exist and everyone either posts their own photos or credits the photographers. It’s very refreshing
August 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’m really happy this is a site where insect content farms don’t exist and everyone either posts their own photos or credits the photographers. It’s very refreshing
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October 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Dunno who in my following here plays fortnite, but I'm willing to draw art for this guy (either gift or the needed vbucks) since I spent all my vbucks on flysbee ough
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Dunno who in my following here plays fortnite, but I'm willing to draw art for this guy (either gift or the needed vbucks) since I spent all my vbucks on flysbee ough
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October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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i love you whip spider...
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
i love you whip spider...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday!
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday!
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
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At an AES event several years ago, a customer kindly pointed out that some of my earlier drawings had somewhat incorrect colouring, as back then I was drawing from my specimens and hadn't even considered that they might be faded. Well, I'm now pleased to share my updated cecropia silkmoth...
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
At an AES event several years ago, a customer kindly pointed out that some of my earlier drawings had somewhat incorrect colouring, as back then I was drawing from my specimens and hadn't even considered that they might be faded. Well, I'm now pleased to share my updated cecropia silkmoth...
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From the vault: my life-size Meganeuropsis model, a giant griffinfly (Meganeuridae) from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of North America. The wingspan is 71cm.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian
#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
From the vault: my life-size Meganeuropsis model, a giant griffinfly (Meganeuridae) from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of North America. The wingspan is 71cm.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian
#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian
Finally hit 500 observations on iNat though :D
I should probably have more though, I’ve had this app for maybe four years now
I should probably have more though, I’ve had this app for maybe four years now
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Finally hit 500 observations on iNat though :D
I should probably have more though, I’ve had this app for maybe four years now
I should probably have more though, I’ve had this app for maybe four years now
The drive to go to a tropical country to look at all the scuttling critters and research them beats in my head 24/7
I absolutely MUST study insects more
October 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The drive to go to a tropical country to look at all the scuttling critters and research them beats in my head 24/7
I absolutely MUST study insects more
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I absolutely MUST study insects more
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October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So I got a new lens for macro photography!!!… except it turns out the lens doesn’t fit my phone or any of my phone cases. Minor setback…
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
So I got a new lens for macro photography!!!… except it turns out the lens doesn’t fit my phone or any of my phone cases. Minor setback…
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this is pif he is twelve minutes old and five molecules long
October 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
this is pif he is twelve minutes old and five molecules long
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October 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Some recent pencil drawings compared to their original sketches from 2013. Seeking precision and commitment through sketching in ink taught me things I took back to pencil!
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Some recent pencil drawings compared to their original sketches from 2013. Seeking precision and commitment through sketching in ink taught me things I took back to pencil!