ev’s bug corner 🐛🕷🎀

my indian stickbugs in a rectangular acrylic enclosure. it’s labeled in pink writing ‘yoshi (oldest) & jingle (youngest) (indian stickbugs)’

game changer: labeling my enclosures with acrylic paint pens (should wash off later)

green stickbug in enclosure with lettuce

yoshi :3

A stamp collector, who offers to deliver people's packages... as long as they get to keep the stamps afterward!

An adopt I finished today and wanted to post. SB is 30, MI is 5 and AB is 200 :D
Feel free to bid here or on th: toyhou.se/32917215.ope...
#adopt #furryadopt #furryart #frogcroaksart

path water bottle labeled ‘AUTISM ACCEPTANCE 2025’ + my name drawn on it. in view, there is a centipede/millipede/snail drawing.

front view of path water bottle. in view, there is a caterpillar/isopod/bee/wasp(?)/grasshopper/stinkbug

side view of path water bottle. in view, there is a mantis/beetle/butterfly/weevil/lunar moth/earth worm

consumerism unfortunately won and i bought some bug water bc cute and i will definitely reuse these

(answer: they get upgrades as they get bigger, but they actually prefer small spaces to chill in and they rarely do much else. jumping spiders need lots of space comparatively)

was talking to my wife’s mom about my tarantulas on facetime and she asked something like ‘do they ever get upset living in those small plastic containers?’ meanwhile on camera my #tarantula sling was doing a lil happy dance after eating a cricket

i love her eyes they are so 0oo0

nom nom nom 🎀 #OBT #tarantula #bugsky

💚💚💚 #bugsky #stickbug

phiddipus morpheus male holding a large waxworm between its chelicerae

my babies never cease to impress me

the music is kinda silly for the context of what’s happening. she’s just a lil cat

twilight feeding timelapse ✨ #jumpingspider

#invertefest gonna share on main as well, bonus vid
flat fuck 😔😔😔

i imagine the obvious answer is to blend in with green stems in the wild but it’s so silly to see irl

green baby mantis resting on my hand a and stretching her limbs to appear flat

question for #invertefest
why do she go flat (giant asian mantis)

orange phiddipus regius female (back view). she is sipping honey

orange phiddipus regius female (front view). she is sipping honey

the same dark phase regal spider that’s in my profile banner did a complete 180 and molted into a bright orange adult. you never know what they will look like in when they mature 🧡🖤 #invertefest #jumpingspider

my therapy sessions always end with me talking my therapists ear off about my pet bugs and other bug discoveries 💀 i just talked so much until i was out of breath bc we were kind of out of time already

omg gimme…..

YouTube video by Travis McEnery Interview with Dr. Sebastian Echeverri, authour of "Spiders of the United States and Canada"

Hi #InverteFest! Curious about that spider you saw?
Check out my field guide to USA+CAN spiders! I wrote it to be super accessible & its only $10!
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🕷 Want to learn what makes it so great? Watch my interview w/ @travismcenery.bsky.social!
youtu.be/BczBmRasoiE?...

A photo of the head and raptorial arms of a brown and bronze mantidfly. The mantifly's large globular eyes are a bronze metallic, its triangular face pale tan almost yellow, it's powerful mantid-like raptorial arms are a rich brown color.

A photo of the mantid fly from the upper side as it eats what I believe is a bug. The mantidfly grasps its dark colored prey in its raptorial arms as it eats it. visible here is the long tube like thorax from which the lacy net-like wings extend backward over the brown and orange colored curved abdomen

A photo of the mantidfly's dorsal surface, showing the lacy net-ike wings covering the abdomen, the long tube-like thorax and the head and raptorial arms.

a photo of the mantidfly's side sowing the raptorial arms in greater detail, tucked up close to the mantidfly's thorax and the lacy wings.

Happy #invertefest #Friday from my first #mantidfly of the season, the Four-spotted Mandtidfly, #Dicromantispa interrupta.

#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro

#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#invertebrate
#Insects

Hand embroidery of a salt marsh moth, with white forewings with black speckles and bright yellow hindwings. The moth is stitched with a 3d stumpwork effect, giving it the appearance of coming of the surface of the fabric. It is mounted in a round wooden frame.

I love stitching insects and displaying them on my walls (faux taxidermy style). Nature is my vibe and I'm slowly making my craft space looks as much like a forest as I can 😁

I'm trying to think of the next insect to stitch. What would you pick?

🧶
#embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart

Two valley carpenter bees side by side, the one on the left is colored like a typical male with orange fuzz and green eyes, and the female on the right colored so black that it is hard to distinguish any features. Speech bubble from the left bee reads, "Hi, I'm Sunny B and this is my wife, VOID"

Valley Carpenter bees and their fun sexual dimorphism for #invertefest

woolly bear that has pupated into a full grown tiger moth. it is entirely orange in color and has black spots down its abdomen and speckled on its wings.

the iconic woolly bear. fuzzy and blackish brown with a thick brownish orange stripe across its midsection.

the most iconic woolly bear looks like this FYI. they are named the ‘isabella tiger moth’.

agreeable tiger moth larva. it has more thick black stripes than the average woolly bear. the orange stripes are thinner, and the black stripes have large bristles.

pic of agreeable tiger moth on google search

From Google: Why is it called an agreeable tiger moth? Tiger moth caterpillars are bristly (woolly bears are tiger moths, too), and in some species, the hairs cause skin irritation. The Agreeable tiger moth’s bristles are, well, agreeable.

this one is specifically an ‘agreeable tiger moth’. i found them yesterday at my local park. it’s been so cold out that when i found them they weren’t moving.. i’m keeping them inside for a day or so until it gets a bit warmer out.

i’m sure u have all heard of woolly bears, but have u ever seen its final form? #invertefest 🐛

a close up of a cat 's face with its eyes closed . Alt: a close up of an orange cat’s face with its eyes closed. its being recorded by a ring camera. it’s mouthing the noises ‘ahwuh… awohh’

i’m going to continue this tomorrow bc i’m exhausted from a long day, but to be continued

my chinese mantis ‘honey’ doing a threat pose

‘tiramisu’, my female phiddipus regius. she is tan with blue ish fangs.

‘puppy’ the cecropia moth. in this photo she has laid eggs on my hand 🥲 but she was so soft and cute so i don’t care

general picture of my bug shelves. mostly acrylic tarantula crib enclosures and primarily spiders inside them.

my fave thing is taking photos and trying to find matches using reverse image searching :3 i get to learn about things i usually don’t notice.
i prob am going to sound under educated in some areas. i do this as a hobby primarily with moths/mantids/spiders
(3/10)

some of my pets i had/have:

my wife and an irl friend went with me bug hunting yesterday. my friend that i typically go bug hunting with moved away last year, but im happy i have others in my life willing to indulge in my silly little interests (2/10)

a chalk drawing of earth with two hearts next to it. there is a text caption that reads ‘YOUR MOM’.

omg i almost forgot to #invertefest

here’s an april 24th thread!
some things i noticed at a local park between yesterday and today. probably a bit boring, i didn’t discover much since it is still cold out here in MN. but i still wanna blab 💗🐛 🧵
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