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Dawny | side account for silly things | he/him | 18+ | Cold blooded things enjoyer | pfp by Acid-Redux
So are there any certain ways invertebrate/niche animal enjoyers seek info now that google and many other search engines are literally useless?
08.11.2025 09:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0wtf larvae
31.10.2025 03:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wish all the affection I hold for them could manifest into something real and meaningful in the world, it's hard feeling so helpless
30.10.2025 05:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love these creatures so much
30.10.2025 05:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights
Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.
Brilliant #beeflies
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28.10.2025 08:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Draadknotszwammen, ze zijn met velen! .
#fungifriends
アオバハゴロモの妖（あやかし）
2025.10.12
Crab in moist crack
getting sleepy, thinking about scuttling into the ol’ hole
13.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 449 🔁 91 💬 8 📌 3🐸お伝えしたいこと🐸
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#ヒキガエル #toad #カエル #frog
Toads kinda really are like the dogs of the frog world, so much variation
13.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pinkish red planthopper with large veiny wings like a maple seed and a pointed face outlined by white, with silly little white legs and pink compound eyes with a false pupil staring at you
Unable to resist shooting Apache degeeri, as always ♥️
#InverteFest
A rice shaped insect with red and green stripes and a yellow head. It is standing in the curl of a leaf and facing left.
A snazzy sharpshooter hides in the curl of a leaf. Sharpshooters get their name because they drink lots of plant sap and projectile pee to get their waste away from them. #InverteFest
28.08.2025 02:30 — 👍 228 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
An illustration of the earwig Oreasiobia fedtschenkoi. It is swooping down wings outstretched. Around it is a wavy golden boarder and star shapes. The background is waves of pastel purples pinks and greens with glitter-like sparkles.
Bug time!! Got this one done just in time for #Invertefest ~
26.08.2025 02:42 — 👍 740 🔁 250 💬 22 📌 3
A desert image in blue.
A false color image of a desert.
A false color image of the Nile.
A false color image of an erupting volcano
Landsat images from "Mission to Earth" (1976) (1/3)
03.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 114 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1🐸お伝えしたいこと🐸
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#ヒキガエル #toad #カエル #frog
A highly detailed close-up photo of a bright orange velvet mite walking across a textured, brownish-red soil surface. The mite’s fuzzy, vividly colored body is densely covered in fine setae, giving it a plush, velvety look. It has eight long, slender legs extending outward with some partially raised, adding a sense of movement. Its small, rounded body is compact, and one small red eye is clearly visible on the side of its head. The image is sharply focused on the mite, creating a dramatic contrast between the creature and the blurred, earthy background. The lighting emphasizes the vibrant orange hue and the minute surface textures of both the mite and the soil. The overall composition draws attention to the mite’s "muppet-like" appearance, highlighting its endearing and alien features in remarkable detail.
Close-up macro image of a bright red-orange velvet mite, likely in the genus Callidosoma, positioned on a rough, speckled rock surface. The mite is shown facing the camera with its two red eyes clearly visible, flanked by small sensory appendages near the mouth. Its eight legs are slightly bent and bristled, showing fine detail in the joints and setae. The fuzzy texture of its body is especially prominent in this image, creating a soft halo of fine hairs against the contrasting dark background. The photo captures both the intricate morphology and the vivid coloration, lending the mite a characterful, almost animated expression.
The late Dr. Gary Buchan at USDA used to call our SEM sessions an "intelligence test." I'd say morphology. He'd say, "no, that critter looks like a muppet." In his honor, here's a mite from the Chiricahuas that absolutely passes the muppet test.
#bugsky #Invert 🌿
