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Neeed to work but my brain has been in a perpetual state of sludge ever since I returned to this country aughh

Freelance schedule now OPEN!

Throwback to some absolute bluesky sketches for an AR project done via Massive Black for an undisclosed client. A ton of fun to explore these themes and something I'd love to do again and take further!

Pleopsidium flavum, the Gold Cobblestone Lichen, a yellow patch with cracks growing on a rock

Rhizoplaca melanophthalma, the Green Rock-posy, a collection of light yellow cup shaped bits growing on a rock

A gray-brown foliose lichen with black spots. Umbilicaria phaea, the Emory Rocktripe Lichen

Rhizocarpon geographicum, the Yellow Map Lichen growing on a rock

Lichens seen on the Old Kiln Trail today 🌿

Names of what I think they are in alt-text

God the passive aggressive unfollowing/refollowing and the reliking/retweeting the same posts over and over is worse than the dms

アズマヒキガエル + ナガレヒキガエル

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Bufo japonicus markings on my bufo torrenticola sculpt, markings based off of one of @/siroururi47.bsky.social 's lovely toads!

ウメノキゴケ。名前がわかると嬉しいね。名前を調べる前の、生き物の形容だけが映る時間とそのやりとりは楽しい。しかし名前が分かった瞬間、自己紹介しながらしゃなりしゃなりと心の棚に鎮座してくる様も可愛い。

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#ヒキガエル #toad #frog

Seeing one of your favorite animals in person for the first time is like meeting a celebrity

I’m summoning mites to your home

A common midwife toad carrying yellow eggs surrounded by blue text. From top to bottom: Alytidae [Midwife Toads] Males carry the fertilized eggs on their back or legs Has small parotid glands under their arms and ankles Hibernates on land in the winter

Hoppy New Year: Midwife toads live mostly in Europe. In the same family are painted frogs, which have smoother skin and splotchy patterns.

#hoppynewyear #frog #midwifetoad #toad #amphibian #alytidae #education #art #SciArt

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明けましておめでとうございます🎍
今年も宜しくお願いします🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸😊
#ヒキガエル #toad #frog

fantastical drawing of an ostracod, a bean-shaped crustacean found in lakes and caves. it is colored in a pastel checkerboard pattern, almost like a quilt

Fabaeformiscandona ostracod (no eyes)

I have no idea where this year went but it's December 1st again, so here we go

Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.

Just need all the awesome Japanese users who post toads and arthropods to move over here so I can stop using that awful website for good

ちょっぴりクリスマスっぽい...かもしれない土壌動物風景。
苔の生えた朽ち木の上では存在感抜群なナミケダニ科の一種。
#202504_Australia

Platecarpus is a mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile with four flippers. This one is covered with colorful squares like a quilt, beginning dark teal at its back and fading towards light blue and yellow on the underside. Two Hoploscaphites, ammonite cephalopods, are swimming nearby.

Platecarpus & Hoploscaphites

Tiny black stubby beetle-like wasp with big red eyes, running down a green stem

The silly creature running on a green leaf, little flappy antennae tapping the surface as she goes

The other species, a brilliant gold-red nugget of a creature on a dry leaf

Day 14 of my 2025 Favorites: Aenasius nuggets!

In our visit to the Keys, I spotted one of my favorite tiny nugget creatures, an Aenasius encyrtid wasp, and a species I hadn't seen before (no idea which species, just different than the others I've seen, 3rd pic)! Perfect baby 🥹

Several lichen species growing on rock. The lichens include a bright orange Xanthoria (sunburst) species and several grey, Physcia species.

A favourite lichen scene from my time in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The orange is Xanthoria(Rusavskia) with Physcia spp top and bottom.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

A close-up macrophotograph of a vibrant red snout mite from the family Bdellidae. The mite has a bulbous, segmented body and long, spindly legs, especially prominent front legs, with fine sensory hairs. Its head is small and pointed, equipped with forward-facing appendages. The background consists of damp mosses, lichen, and pale rock, creating a vivid forest floor microhabitat. Light glistens off the mite’s glossy exoskeleton, emphasizing its tiny, alien-like form.

A detailed macro scene showing two small arthropods in a mossy microhabitat. On the left, a red snout mite (Bdellidae) climbs over moss and rock. On the right, an Archaeognathan (commonly called a bristletail) with long antennae and a black body speckled with white markings perches on the stone surface. Its body is segmented and covered in fine scales, with three tail filaments extending from the rear. Moss and organic debris fill the rocky environment, illustrating a miniature wilderness.

🪲🪳 Somewhere nearby, the forest was torn away by the power company. A concrete slab remains, the last oasis for the undergrowth. Here: a red snout mite (Bdellidae) and an Archaeognathan. Two alien arthropods in a beautiful oasis. #Invert 🌿

My hand with about 20 tiny black water beetles on it

photo from September of me sticking my hand into the water underneath a concrete tunnel while looking for shrimps and the swimmy beetles literally eating me alive (very slowly)

still angry. you would think maybe the people who care for rare little groundwater animals in places with ongoing water shortages would also care about the encroach of useless generative AI toys and the construction of massive water-sucking data centers and things like that. guess that's just me

Stripy yellow and black chalcid wasp under a leaf, showing off her thick toothed hind leg femur

The creature, peering at you with big black eyes in her bright yellow face

Ms Conura, aka Leg Day Bae, aka Femur Teef, aka the Chonky Chalcid 💛

She looked like a yellow jacket while buzzing around. They're very large for chalcid wasps.

snake or worm like creature with tiny pink wings, colored shades of pink and purple in a quilt-like pattern

hmm

Macro photograph in side view of a diminutive, shiny black cricket-like animal with broad, shovel-shaped forelegs and short, upright antennae standing alert on a rocky substrate.

Up close with a pygmy mole cricket, Neotridactylus apicalis. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas.

ittle critters playing dead! 🐛🪲💀

I’ve been sick after a period of intense work but on the other hand I was able to slow down and draw something fun & relaxing… hope you folks enjoy it too!

A tall and slender anthro tiger beetle wearing a large brimmed hat, red bandanna, poncho and boots with spurs. He's holding a pistol in one hand while having a piercing glare. His eye color are an off-white with a black sclera. He also wears brown leather gloves while rest of his outfit is mainly a dark green and a very dark blue with light yellow accents on his poncho

Had a tiger beetle chitinoid OC cookin' in my head for quite some time. Never ended up drawing him myself, so I commissioned him. And can I just say, artist did a wonderful job based on the things I described!

Let me introduce you to Sergio
🎨: BlueKiwi101 on FA
#bugfurry #furryart #bugoc #insect

Wtf bruh this site 😭 hope you can get it resolved

So are there any certain ways invertebrate/niche animal enjoyers seek info now that google and many other search engines are literally useless?

wtf larvae