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Long and diverse bugs smile in a dark background like the night sky. Their bright bodies have sparkling star-shaped patterns. Inspired bug species: Ivory millipede, Desert centipede, Land planarians (Flatworm, Hammerhead worm) Velvet worm, Earth worm, Spotted snake millipede

✨ Twinkle twinkle long bugs 🪱

"more than i was built for"
(yes this is disney planes fanart)

havent been posting a lot of my recent art It Will Happen i prommy

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming
r o u n d

You all thought I was joking

for @ Ekzonzzzz 🤠🌵

Art comic

Screenshot of my lists: Forestry & Forest Ecosystems Canids Plant Science, Botany Nature and Animal Art Nature and Wildlife Photography Corvids Ecology Fungi & Mycology

Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds.

Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here.

I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds.

Please share! Gracias! 😸

"an't" cracks me up every time.

hey i haven't been active on here in a while but with tumblr shitting the bed i felt like i should cover my bases. what's up

A photo of an acrylic charm. It depicts a beetle grub curled, with a red circular graphic pattern behind it. The charm is laying on a bed of greenery.

Shop item of the week: Beetle grub acrylic charm!

A squishy companion, pocket-sized and ready to go on adventures.

Available here! cuttledreams.bigcartel.com

a scorpion-like adult animal with a pile on her back looking like spaghetti with meatballs. illustration.

#InsertAnInvert2024
Relationships - Babies

After hatching, vinegaroon babies cling to their mother's butt for protection, forming a clump of tangled orbs with legs.

In most species, this lasts for a few weeks, until the dozens of babies are old enough to molt for the very first time. 🎨 🐡

Illustration depicting Allosaurus on top of its prey, a juvenile Camptosaurus. The Allosaurus is greenish with orangish stripes of the neck and blue crests on the snout

Package art of Allosaurus fragilis I did for the Beasts Of The Mesozoic upcoming figure

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #dinosaur

Chonky black gall wasp on the tip of a little oak protrusion of some kind, in the shadows under her one can make out the ovipositor going into the oak lump

On this episode of "Weird Lumps Emerging From Weird Lumps and Ovipositing More Weird Lumps into More Weird Lumps", well, observe this Gargoyle caught in the act of ovipositing. 🖤
🌿 🐝🧪

We lost a real one today. Mark was the reason we have anime & furry fandoms in the US. He gave us all, all the hundreds of thousands of us or more now, the biggest gift we could ever ask for: each other.

You will be deeply, deeply missed Mark. You live on in us and the community you so loved.

sorry i haven't been active here much i promise i am alive

Two line sketches of Tupuxuara. The one on the left shows the animal as if catching some small ground prey. The in on the right shows it walking with its head turned a bit to one side

Sketches of Tupuxuara since I am in a pterosaur mood
🐡 🧪 🎨 #paleontology

Closeup on the face and eyes of a copper-metallic sweat bee, sipping nectar on yellow goldenrod flowers.

A tiny male sweat bee - around 4 or 5 mm. - drinking nectar on goldenrod in Montana last month. Single shot at about 3x and cropped. People are probably more familiar with the bright metallic green sweat bees, but I also like the more subtle coppery hues on this little guy's head. #ento 🐙 🌿

Pale gold salticid with stripy black and clear legs, Abess orange chevrons on his booty. Backdrop of white sugar sand.

Top view. He has a black "bat" pattern on the back of his head which is a diagnostic feature of the species.

Couple months ago I was in central Florida and unwittingly photographed a described (but not yet published) maevia species. Was scrolling through my salticid folder with GB Edwards today looking for something else, and he pointed out this lovely boy. Lol. I learned things! 🌿🧪🕷️

lunch break doodle

Another gang member! This is Augustus Ferguson but everyone knows him as Gus. (Or Gusgus but only Judas called him that and they were the only one who could get away with it anyway.) He was the oldest member of the gang he was there from the beginning

🧪🌿documentaries: "dinosaurs RULED THE WORLD for over 150 million years"

animal life before dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs
animal life during dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs
animal life after dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs

Two 3d printed spider designs, a large yellow abdomen with red spikes over a black head and legs. The one on the right has a keyring in it's abdomen.

Gonna kick-off #Arachtober with some self-promo. (Sorry, I'll post just pictures too.) This Spiny Orbweaver design, as well as some other arachnids, inverts, and critters, is available as a keyring or magnet in my Etsy store: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt

At long last, the return of in-person Bug Drawing Day, hosted by the wonderful Stephanie Dole (www.beetlelady.com). So nice to meet up with friends and spend a sunny afternoon watching Goliath beetles eat bananas... (1/2)

A fluffly Morrosaurus studies the cracked surface of a frozen river from its perch on a fallen log, amidst a snow-covered forest.

Will it crack?

Morrosaurus, Cretaceous Antarctica

#SciArt #artbyjulio

crank it up

A photo of the front of the wasp, her markings are red, black and yellow, her face is small and triangular, her long abdomen rises behind her her very long ovipositor extending away.

A side view of the wasp showing her bold markings of red and yellow stripes, her dark wings, and the long needle like ovipositor

The wasp has found a host buried into the tree, her abdomen is raised upwards as she drills the shap point of her ovipositor into the tree

THe ovipositor is now fully extended the end of her abdomen fanned out, as she lays her eg on a horntail wasp larvae. Her own larvae will hatch, consume the Horntail Wasp larvae

This is a fun #Insect,a female Greene’s Giant Ichneumonid Wasp,  #Megarhyssa greenei who is ovipositing her eggs into the larvae of a Pigeon Horntail Wasp, #Tremex columba which is buried deep into this Tupelo tree.

#Hymenoptera
#DamnNatureYouScary
#NaturePhotography
#Photography
#Inverterbrate

Hey Bluesky! 🐝 Here's an adorable Megachilid bee absolutely *loaded* with pollen visiting grindelia flowers on a hot morning! 🌞

this one goes up to 11