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Daniel Lachlan
@vrgssmncht.bsky.social
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ARTIST - Interested in entomology and ecology. May be found covered in ants and leaves 🪴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇨 He/Him
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vrgssmncht.bsky.social
Holy shit (FINALS WEEK OVER WOHOO)
A digital drawing of two bug-anthro one on the left is a spider wearing a blue sweater and a white brown hat, the other is a tiger beetle wearing a blue cap and a yellow sweater with brown coat and jeans. they both are looking at flying fishes with the spider in awe and visibly saying HOLY SHIT in a text bubble. tha background is blue cloudy sky with white border around the drawing. on the right side is vertically written dolomedes on the ocean and on the lower left side written 10-12-23 and a drawing of a star
December 17, 2023 at 1:52 PM
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kelporama.bsky.social
Was shoving my face under a rock when a piece of barnacle rubble near my nose started rearing up. Turtle Crab! Just what the doctor ordered. They've got the same gig as umbrella crabs but with a few key differences. Stick around and I'll compare the two species side by side. 🦀
A small beige crab with a dome shaped carapace. Its pincer legs hang down while I hold it in the air between my fingers showing the view of the animal from the front The top down view of the turtle crab's flared carapace. In terms of shape looks like if you put squidward's face on a Mercator projection. It is beige with lighter and darker dappling. I'm holding it on my hand The crab back near where I found it. It looks in shape and colour exactly like the barnacle rubble substrate that makes up the floor of the surge channel
December 16, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
🧪🦑
Assessing coral reef conservation planning in Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia) from larval connect...
Wakatobi National Park (WNP), located in the heart of the Coral Triangle in Indonesia, is one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth. Coral ecosystems within the park, however, are threatened...
link.springer.com
November 30, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Look as much as I love birds, I'm not really cut out to be a birder. There was a probable lifer species (henslow sparrow - awful pics later) in the cypress swamp around me, but I was losing my mind over finding Neelids under a scrap of cypress bark 😍🌿 #BUG
Pale translucent barely sentient eyeless dot, very chonky springtail "face" of the creature, not much to see. Top view. They look like a little nugget pillow, with legs
December 1, 2023 at 12:18 AM
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noelle.monster
Carnivorous Artificial Predatory Tool to Consume Humans and Approximate them
whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Nov 30
We just got this wrong at pub trivia:

Without googling, did anyone know what CAPTCHA stands for?

We were not close.
November 30, 2023 at 1:15 AM
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drhoz.bsky.social
Melon Hill, Perth, light trap- Northern Emerald Prasinocyma rhodocosma. Despite the name, found in coastal regions of most of Australia, where it eats eucalyptus
November 14, 2023 at 2:30 AM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
Today is all waiting, waiting, waiting. So am crab-sketching.

We're at the "draw the rest of the fkn owl" stage, except crabbier. 🦀 #SciArt
A delightful lyre crab being sketched in colour pencil over ink and watercolour. It has a characteristic tear-shaped body, a front pair of pinchy legs, and four pairs of gangly pointy legs. It's based on the very fine crab that is the Atlantic lyre crab. A+ crab.
November 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM
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bradthecurator.bsky.social
Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology
November 2, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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heatmap.news
"The remaining barrier to bug-eating might be as flimsy as just that: the word bug."
If You Eat Sea Bugs, You Can Eat Land Bugs
Crabs are gross too, okay?
heatmap.news
October 23, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
is there a term for when my government never explicitly denied climate change, but also never explicitly admitted it either while explaining why the temps keep getting hotter and droughts keep getting longer?
October 20, 2023 at 10:25 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
It's time for #PortfolioDay again!

hi I draw bugs and stuff.
Colorful squat lobster sitting on piles of clams Ant on a dark forest floor among dead plant bits, with light shining from above Face close up of a mosquito-like fly hovering above a flower to feed Butterfly among leaf litter on the forest floor
October 10, 2023 at 11:32 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Checking on my Weird Little Guys enclosure and was pleased to find my pair of grumpilump harvestpeople are still doing well! The brown lump is from North Carolina, the orange (Crosbyella spinturnix) is local. I love them, of course 🥹
#Arachtober 🌿🕷️
Chonky little solid orange harvestperson with short legs and beefy palps Face/palp view of the orange lump Side view of the brown grump, legs bunched up around them, face hidden behind giant chonky palps
October 10, 2023 at 3:51 AM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
Spammers attacked my website and I had to spend the evening turning off comments because they were getting through all my spam protection. Yay fun!

But on the bright side, I'm reminded that I have written hundreds of articles so here's one. とんぼ

www.metrofieldguide.com/folklore-nat...
Folklore & Nature: Dragonflies
Devil's Darning Needle, Snake Doctor, Devil's Horse, Horse Stinger, Mosquito Hawk, Adderbolt, Ear Cutter, Water Witch, Hobgoblin Fly -- dragonflies have had many names owing to the folklore and super
www.metrofieldguide.com
October 8, 2023 at 2:36 AM
vrgssmncht.bsky.social
Throwback to the time I went hiking and too focused with this damselfly (Vestalis luctuosa) that I didn't notice a whole SCORPIONFLY in the damn background- I--
An image of blue coloured damselfly resting on very saturated green foliage with a scorpionfly visible in the background The scorpionfly
October 8, 2023 at 8:47 AM
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mashpotassium.bsky.social
Jumping spiders are easy to make cute cuz they already are... but how about Ogre-Faced Spiders? Maybe if we turn those gigantic eyes into aviator goggles for the little eyes? ;)

Quick sketch for #Inktober prompts SPIDER and MAP. Clearly, it's not finished, I just liked the concept.
October 6, 2023 at 12:00 AM
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sawaharuhiko.bsky.social
庭にヤママユちゃん落ちてた🦋
文字通りの虫の息……だいじょうぶ？と手を差し伸べたら迷惑だったようで、必死に羽ばたいて去りました。達者でな……！
それにしてもモフモフで可愛いなあ〜
ヤママユガの顔。黒くて大きな目、上下にまつ毛みたいなフサフサが生えた触角、哺乳類みたいなふわふわの毛が生えた顔、前脚。 枯れ葉色の翅、数カ所破れている
October 7, 2023 at 4:17 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
I am going to have to do another in my series of cowboys herding food with legs (here’s the sushi one)
Sushi cowboys in Japanese print style kinda
October 7, 2023 at 4:40 AM
vrgssmncht.bsky.social
Universe really throw me a celebs at times I don't bring my camera- I present to you all, the blue Asian forest scorpion! (Javanimetrus cyaneus)!!
A bluish blackish scorpion facing sideways to the left resting on a pile of leaves beside a concrete wall
September 20, 2023 at 11:22 PM
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andyantarctica.bsky.social
More icyinverts research team animal pics from our research cruises in Antarctica. Some amazing creatures, including those cerolids (the things that look like trilobites!) 🧪🦑🌎🇦🇶🧬🪱🪼
September 14, 2023 at 1:37 PM
vrgssmncht.bsky.social
Been busy with uni and all those jazz but look! I won third place for a painting contest in my uni! (Dan always finds a way to put bugs into everything)
A painting between two other paintings, the painting depicted a grasshopper with paintings of images of flashbacks of the lives in ancient java from my interpretation, the upper wings are painted with the grasshoppers that saw the scenes. The main grasshopper abdomen is covered with jasmine that falls of it. The grasshopper is positioned as if it was flying. A paper is stuck to it with the title "nusantara through the compound eyes, Dan (rip deadname) edited into it.
September 10, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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kristalerista.bsky.social
Aprasia parapulchella! They’re in the group Pygopodidae.

Like 30 million years ago these guy’s gecko ancestors said no to limbs (though they still indulge a bit in legs).

Here’s another Pygoodid, Pygopus lepidopus by Ken Griffiths and a close up of the foot by Peter Robertson🧪
Is that a rearing snake on a rocky surface? Wait no. It has a tiny leg. The leg is a flap of scaly skin and looks like it could be a deformity. A close up of the hip area of the common scaly-foot. There is a flipper covered in scales that is about the dimensions of the last joint of a pinky finger, but flat against the body.
July 11, 2023 at 7:53 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Sometimes you just need to find the tiniest lad and watch him spood around for awhile. Thanks boo. 🥹

Naphrys xerophila ♂️
7/11/23. N. Florida 🌿
Tiny jumping spider on a dry oak leaf; his head is bright red/orange, with two white stripes running down each side. His palps are floofy and white on the outside, black on the inner side. He's peering at the camera. The tiny handsome jumper, gazing into the distance (towards the right of the frame) Top view: his abdomen is visible, which is black, with a short white stripe on top, and two white dots on each side near the back. The little man "waving" at the camera with his palps
July 12, 2023 at 2:46 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Snoot beetle about to dive into that sweet, sweet sandhill laurel 🩷

7/11/23. N. Florida 🌿
Tiny grey and black weevil paused on the outside of a pink flower
July 12, 2023 at 3:36 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Happy first #PortfolioDay I'm Heather. I'm an illustrator who creates images to support my work making interpretive media - everything from small diagrams to murals. I also teach online nature drawing classes using graphite and coloured pencils.
A digitally illustrated poster featuring different pollinators and plants they live on. It's a colourful image with a hummingbird, several bees, columbine, yellow black-eye susans, white turtlehead and yellow violets. A woman (me) standing in front of the mural I created illustrating the Lake Winnipeg food web. It's a cut through of the lake with an otter, walleye, pike, pelicans, whitefish and microbes. A pencil drawing of a great horned owl profile. A coloured pencil drawing of a yellow lady slipper orchid.
July 11, 2023 at 2:11 PM