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Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 5, 2025 Parasitoid wasp Rhyssella sp. Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae By Christian Brockes (wildmacro.de), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany #arthropodPOTW

Another version of the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) with spread wings. 🪲 #SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates

'You're adopted' ---------- (For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)

Ms Habronattus georgiensis being adorable as she waits for her takeout to arrive #EmotionalSupportSpood

it is DONE my dudes, 32 goobers for #Invertober2025 now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH #SciArt #invertebrates

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 🎃👻 Is that a pumpkin or a spider butt? The marbled #orbweaver is all decked out for fall and the spooky season (though, really, this lovely lady was very shy and harmless)! #Araneidae: #Araneus marmoreus #Arachtober

Inside Dewey the Jumping Spider’s head 👀🔍

Hear from Dr. Lindsay Zanno, associate research professor at North Carolina State University, head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and co-author of a new study published in Nature.

Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa

Just your normal classic bumblebee with the normal number of wings and totally a vegetarian, don't worry about it (bumblebee mimic robberfly, of course 🖤)

Henny Halloween. 🐔🎃 Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

#Invertober2025 day 24: Perna canaliculus. Pencil. Verdict: Surprisingly tiresome to draw despite total lack of appendages. #Invertober #SciArt

It’s me fr 😇🐞🦀🪰🦋🪳🦠🐜🧪

Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots): youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...

This teeny, tiny jumping spider can be found in Florida's long-leaf pine savannah habitat. The granules at the spider's feet are grains of sand. This is another fabulous spider introduced to me by @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social #Arachtober (Naphrys bufoides) FL 2024

Casting day 🔥🐜 One last major piece to finish for a very patient collector…here’s a complete ant, redesigned, cast in two flasks just now. Looks good, let the finishing commence! 🛠️

Fun camel spider (solifugid) encounter in the desert tonight

Floof Lump 🥹 #FloofLump #Arachtober #EmotionalSupportSpood (Hamataliwa grisea)

Isopods!! 🧡

It’s not #arachtober without Phidippus mystaceus 😮‍💨 Was lucky enough to photograph some super handsome P mystaceus males on a recent trip to Texas! Scanning fences and railing beneath trees paid off! in situ, fuji, laowa 65mm

We need a superhero pair like these two

Cicada adult and nymph, designed and folded by @brianchandesigns.bsky.social using handmade Origamido paper. A birthday gift for my partner, keeping her company on her sabbatical 💚💚

Dorantes Longtail skipper butterfly (Cecropterus dorantes) On paths near Naples zoo yesterday, admiring these flowers, freely sweating, when this little skipper arrives, fits like the missing piece. #nature #native #insects #Lepidoptera #butterflies #macro #photography #macrophotography #art 🦋

Same, same, same

For #TrilobiteTuesday please enjoy this unidentified Harpetid sculpted from scratch and cast in bronze. So fun to do the textures on this guy! A little patrol boat of a creature.

HUMAN ARTISTS! Use one piece to convince people to follow you!

Went to Yosemite, saw my first black hole in the wild

Went to Yosemite, saw my first black hole in the wild

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔 Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙 Link also in profile. ko-fi.com/himmapaan

Here is your Sunday Spider, I think a Psecas chapoda jumping spider. From what I've read, they have a mutualistic relationship with a bromeliad, Bromelia balansae. The spiders live exclusively among the plant's spiny rosettes; in turn their debris/droppings feed the plant. #Arachtober #Bugsky 🌿🐙

From the vault: my life-size Meganeuropsis model, a giant griffinfly (Meganeuridae) from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of North America. The wingspan is 71cm. #SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian

Original artwork available via everydayoriginal.com. An older drawing from 2018 of Diplodocus. I would do things differently now, both in terms of reconstruction and the way I draw, but I'm still fond of this one. Brown and graphite pencils on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 207 x 127 mm. 1/2

For #FossilFriday, one more look at Cryptolithus bellulus, a 440 million year old trilobite reconstructed in bronze. She can be disassembled to view her digestive tract and exopods/gills. Sound on for all the satisfying clicks, particularly as she’s reassembled ⚡️🧲 #sciart

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Day 16 #Invertober2025 - Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬🌊 #SciArt #invertebrates

Xylethrus superbus is a fabulous species of orb weaving spider from the Amazon rainforest. While she looks a bit like a strawberry, eating her is not recommended. #Arachtober Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

In the final hours of #WorldFossilDay please enjoy some very real Olenellus trilobites being visited by my massive bronze reconstruction including all the legs and gills. #sciart

Hen and Squirrel. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm. Dedicated to the neighbourhood Goblin Squirrel (who might possibly just be a new mother after all).

Mole crab! 🦀🪏 (Emerita species) On the beach in the Bay Area, most folks are walking dogs or watching surfers. My head is in the sand 😅 Remembering my childhood trying to dig under these guys before they could burrow away. Beautiful animals…this one was baking in the sun, still alive but barely. 💔

It’s #PortfolioDay! I’m a multidisciplinary artist whose visual work is #SciArt #symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery. I’m also a writer and composer. If you’d like to support what I do, you can tip me on ko-fi ko-fi.com/lia_pas

Second Wave of Longhorns is in full swing around here. No fewer than three sets of Sleepytime Twins in the Cosmo patch on the way to work this morning (and many lone ones). [Berkeley, CA 7-2-25] #bees #nativebees

A large Lirometopum cf. coronatum "Bastimentos" male, nearly fully grown. Also known as Pitbull katydids due to their massive heads and aggressive disposition. #katydid #grasshopper #insect #macro #nature #wildlife #bugsky

They're such Lumps, so tiny and shy 🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

1½ minutes worth of Brown Creeper lad, creeping 🥹 I'd seen a grand total of one (1) adult male Attidops cinctipes before this afternoon, in which I lost count at a dozen 🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

"Lacking even any particularly useful theory of emergence, and confronted with the obvious wild variety of emergent phenomena, it seems likely that predictive theories of biology are unknowably far off" via @dadrummond.art open.substack.com/pub/clauswil...

Gotta love these tiny guys! Awesome sculpt. These are two I found, compared to notebook paper and a quarter.

We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

There is a such a lovely one in a chanterelle :)