🦋 Roura 🦋

An illustration of a green beetle of the species mecynorrhina torquota. It has light cream spots and a white face with a short dark horn.

Mecynorrhina Torquota

#sciArt #insects 🪲🦐

But here's the jumper

A photo of a large grey moth with orange hind winds. The moth is resting someone's finger. It had white thread like antenna and brown legs.

A poplar hawk moth, Laothoe populi, from last year. Found the moth on the ground and moved it some where else to prevent it from getting stepped on.

#moth #bugs #entomology #insects

Preferably ecological!

QUICK DO YALL HAVE INTERESTING PAPERS ABOUT INSECT POPULATION MODELING

Artwork of my Moth OC, Nuri. He's a Blue Tiger Moth.

The same artwork, minus the robes, giving a better look at the clothing underneath.

The mandatory Nuri design tweaks every year

Will make a full ref for the moth later I haven't been in a great state the past 2 days and I'm focusing on finishing a comm atm

ento taxonomy is crying over your microscope because you have 10 unpublished manuscripts describing new species of dust mite that no one will ever give a fuck about. meanwhile ornithologists have been arguing about the same beloved warblers for decades

Digital artwork of a dragon head caterpillar (Polyura schreiber) with the many dots on its horned head and chubby body rendered to resemble little stars, a few actually being tiny four-pointed stars. Above its head a partially eclipsed moon is framed between its inner horns, and large four-pointed stars rest on the center of its upper head and hang on either side of its head between its outer horns. More stylized rays and stars radiate out into the edges of the image, rich textured gold against a dark blue framing the green bug's body. The caterpillar is outlined in metallic gold and has fairly realistic face details and feet. Art by Moth Monarch.

🌘 "Starchild" 🌟
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.

Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). Top view: White and dark brown hues of mosaic design, left lower wing slightly torn. Pink eyes.

Time for #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth
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First one for February - Thysania agrippina (The White Witch). I really like the underside wings that is totally different in colour (dark iridescent blue; not shown). 💙 #moth #teamMoth mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social

I think I’m out of bugs to post again

Nature is beautiful photo of a sour gummy worm chillin on a leaf

BIG things are happening this fall

Rant(?): I hate it when people only care about non human animals if the animal is "useful" to humans/ when people are unable to appreciate animals beyond what humans might use them for.
I just find it sad that we share a planet with so many interesting species and yet some people don't care unless-

Something big might be happening for me this fall, will update when I find out 🦋

Vaejovis mexicanus, 12/30/25

A blurry photo of a scorpion within scattered detritus and stones. The scorpion is a uniform light brown color and blends in well with the ground, but its shape can be made out in contrast to the white sticks littering the ground.

This was a bug I’ve always wanted to see; my first ever scorpion! It’s a pretty blurry photo, sorry, but if you look for the claws you should be able to make it out!

@pterouras2.bsky.social hiiii here's my side account, feel free to follow it

not much on it though besides my random thoughts just keep that in mind

not on the poll, but perhaps lacewings?

Yo happy birthday!!! Hope you enjoy it!

yeah that’s fair lmao. sorry wasp I caught two years ago for ento class you will remain a mystery to me

Would you believe me if I said those are the easy ones. IDing an ichneumon wasp or stonefly without a microscope or something is akin to pulling your teeth out

i haven’t drawn in a while

A sun-drenched painted lady butterfly drinking from an orange flower against a grey background.

#one sunlit butterfly on an orange flower for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #macro #EastCoastKin #entomology #insects

Digital illustration of Linne's Cicada

It's a Linne's Cicada, originally for #invertober2024.

I fell off the Invertober train in 2024 when it got near the end. Started on this Linne's Cicada and could not finish the colour! So while I'm in a rut, decided to pick this one back up again to complete it.

#SciArt #invertart #cicada #art

オオミズアオ♂Japanese Luna Moth
“Actias aliena”

Material: Colored pencil.
Kent paper(Post card)

Extracted text: "In a recent study, 3-trans-caffeoyl-muco-quinic acid was found to be the substance that compelled spicebush swallowtails to lay their eggs on members of Lauraceae. However, 3-trans-caffeoyl-muco-quinic acid is a component of the extract from sassafras plants but not from spicebush, redbay or camphor tree, the other top three host plants of spicebush swallowtails. This substance is not-". The excerpt is cut off from there.

According to wikipedia, the chemical compound 3-trans-caffeoyl-muco-quinic acid is important in the lifecyles of spicebush swallowtails like my bugsona.

This is a subtle reference to the fact that I am trans

Also wanna correct this ID to Arachnis dilecta!! The type locality was Teotihuacan, iNat suggests A. picta as the species but the locality doesn’t have any adults of that species seen. Instead it’s all A. dilecta, so my guess is this caterpillar actually belongs to that species

ID not possible, likely scarabeidae?

12/30/25

A beetle larva resting on the palm of a hand. It has a mostly white body, with orange head and legs. The posterior half of the body curves inwards and develops a gray sheen to it.

The same grub, but facing the opposite direction.

More bugs!!! Here’s a silly grub