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A photograph of a ladybird peeking over the edge of a green leaf. From this angle, the dark underside of the beetle can be seen. Its head, thorax, legs and elytron are a bright yellow-orange while its underbelly, eyes and edges of its elytron are black.

Doing a little peak👀

🪲ID Guess: Variable Ladybird
#bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

It was like 7mm, so tiny!

right? its got such lovely warm tones <3

I swear, macro photography with live subjects is like.. 95% luck🤣

A sideview photo off a brown peacock spider sitting on the edge of a grey painted beam, with mottled green shades in the background. The spider has a small, compact body covered in light brown fluff. across its six large eyes is a band of black that extends to the white splotch at the top of its abdomen.

A different angle of the same peacock spider from a closer front-view. With this view its squarish head and big round eyes are better seen. Its small pedipalps tuck over its chelicerae. Each joint of its legs begin with a small dark spot while the rest is the same light brown as the rest of its body.

A top view of the same peacock spider from a top view. The crescent pattern of black on the back of its thorax, and the subtle patterns on its almond shaped abdomen is better seen from this view.

Taking a small break from drawing, so its time to share some photography! First up, this polite and photogenic fella <3

🪲ID Guess: Peacock Spiders
#bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spiders

Quilbug's Insectember 2025 - Quilbug's Ko-fi Shop Insectember is a drawing event held every year on September, challenging artists to draw an insect every day from a prompt list. After completing this...

I have compiled all 30 illustrations from Insectember 2025 into a downloadable PDF and Zip folder on my ko-fi✨

This download is free! But 'pay what you want' is enabled for anyone who would like to leave a tip <3

ko-fi.com/s/c775919694

🥹💚 thank youuu

🥹 thank you for the kind words💚💚

Hurray I'm so glad they brought joy! Thank you💚

Naptober sounds perfect xD

Insect Musician

I'm glad you enjoyed the arts :D💚

Thank you #Insectember for the prompt list <3
And thank you everyone who interacted with my art, especially the lovely comments :>> It makes me very happy to see others enjoy bugs as much as I do :D <3 (2/2)

A digital illustration of quilbugs insect persona standing in exhausted triumph after completing a month drawing challenge. They hold onto a large stylus for support and lifts a triumphant fist with its top pair of arms, and holds their pages of art in one of their bottom pair of arms. Their antenna are crooked, their eyes have disorientated swirls in them and their limbs are a bit shaky, but they are proud. Quilbug is a small, segmented anthro bug, mostly fluffy and green with red and yellow bands on their back and abdomen, and transparent wings.

We did it!! That was exhausting but very very fun✨
These challenged always upgrade my art somehow, and this time it was rendering and colour experimentation :D And I also got to learn about a whole bunch of new bugs! (1/2)

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized longhorn beetle with large mandibles flying on patrol. The beetle's strong, segmented body is made of shiny black chitin, and is boxy and long. Its long elytron are open for its transparent brown wings to flap under them. It has long segmented limbs and antenna, and large mandibles on the front of its head. It carries a wooden spear over its shoulder as it flies.

Insectember day 30: dorysthenes walkeri
Common name: longhorn beetle

On patrol

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

AW thats so good!!🤩 so shiny✨

>:D ya! i wanna draw more types of lil guys :>

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized bird dropping moth facing away from the camera and conducting an implied orchestra. The maestro is mostly a creamy white with shiny black patterns on its arms and wings. It has big black eyes, long thing antenna, and neat fluff around its neck going down its back. Its folded wings are patterned with an eerie picture of a spiders face, as if in shadow with a gleam in its eyes. The moths four arms are posed in various motions, and one holds a maestro's baton.

Insectember day 29: eusceptis effusa
Common name: bird dropping moth

do you see it?

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

RIGHT?? gotta do it without flash or its impossible xD

omg that shouldve been the caption🤣

😂
I have this idea that next year i could ask the peeps who follow me for their favourite arthropods, and then put it on a spin wheel :> could be fun

Fruit bugs

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized long-legged fly performing a scene of a live stage play, holding a script and props. The fly has a small, segmented body with two rounded wings and six thin limbs. It has large oval eyes on the side of its head, and long clubbed antenna. Its underbelly is a silvery white, while its eyes and back shine with iridescent rainbow colours. It has sparse hairs along its back, abdomen and limbs, and its wings are semi-transparent black. It wears a feathered beret and neck ruffle, and holds a paper script, a cicada molt's head, and a thorn dagger.

Insectember day 28: plagiozopelma biseta
Common name: Long leg fly

Theatre bug 🎭

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

Thank youuu! September is always such a busy month for me so I'm honestly surprised I'm sort of keeping up xD
I'm working off of a prompt list made here facebook.com/insectember

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized ship timber beetle flying on its way to deliver mail. It has a long, sleek body of shiny dark-brown chitin and two tattered looking transparent wings. It's eyes are large and muted mauve, and it has a pointy mouthpart peeking out from under it. It wears a blue old fashion mailman hat, carries a blue mail bag and holds some paper scrolls under one of its arms. Its long abdomen curves in the motion of its flight as it seems to swoop in a downward curve.

Insectember day 27: atractocerus brasiliensis
Common name: ship timber beetle

Nyoom!

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized dead leaf katydid walking gracefully with a shopping bag held by each of its four arms. The katydid has a large, rounded body with mostly mottled brown hues, and its wings patterned like a dying green leaf fold over the sides. It has thin limbs that seem to be transparent near the ends, and thin antennae. It has a long face with oval eyes on the side and little mandibles on the end. It carries paper shopping bags with various logos and illegible writing on them.

Insectember day 26: pycnopalpa bicordata
Common name: dead leaf katydid

treat yoself

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

aw hell yea, i wonder if you could use the model for other things🤔 i really want to get into 3d modeling so i can have drawing reference for my characters at all angles xD that would be my go-to use

OMG PRETTY!! It looks like a blue tailed skink inspired bug and that is AWESOME🤩
Thank youu💚 i hope youre having a great day too :D

Thank you! A velvet ant would look so cute as a little guy🤩 but unfortunately I'm working off of a prompt list for this challenge

A digital ilustration of an anthropomorphized dung beetle sitting at a mushroom table tinkering with jewellery. The beetle has a boxy, segmented body that is mostly a shiny near-black brown. Its head is almost triangular and its eyes sit high up on it. It has feathered antennae coming out from the bottom. Its top pair of arms only have little claws instead of hands and claws like the rest of its limbs. It sits at an orange flat-topped mushroom with some sprawled tools and parts ontop of it, and peers through a monocle at a ring it holds in its little hand.

Insectember day 25: Deltochilum carinatum
Common name: True dung beetle

little hands for little tinkering

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart