Still one of my favorite paintings 🧡✨ #art #acrylicpainting #moth #mothart #smallartist

The spectacular Gonometa nysa, a lappet moth from Africa. The males have this lovely burgandy colour on the wings hiding a brilliant metallic blue abdomen. The caterpillars are gigantic and covered in sharp spines which are like fibre glass to the touch. #moths #insects #bugsky #macro #nature

Done with classes for this semester, finally ^^ just have to make it through finals week After that I’ve got a very exciting announcement to make hehe

Glover’s silk moth

Todays moth: Procitheronia principalis Found in Brazil! These dudes are barely mentioned in English speaking corners of the internet, so no wingspan estimates unfortunately. Colours are usually orange or brown, but occasionally seen in yellow! #moths #mothposting

“Man, if only I had a paper organizer and citation formatter program that screwed me over by deleting half of my assignment progress when trying to insert citations and made it impossible to restore” Zotero:

Pterulina distinctissima eating leaf :)

What I think is awesome about entomology is how the field changes so rapidly that there is ALWAYS something new to learn. Insects are just so absurdly diverse that there will always be a new species to discover or research to be done on an existing species and that’s amazing

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Recently I got a camera to use to take photos of insects with!! Here’s my first photo ^^ I need to learn a lot more about it though to get better photos

A moth — Dirphia monticola — photographed in the high-altitude tundra of Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, southern Brazil. This endangered species had never been recorded alive on iNaturalist before this observation!

Ahh it's not too late! Last day of #InverteFest this month. I've been swamped, but I wanted to get in here if I could with some of the invertebrates (and a toad) I illustrated last year for BLM interpretive signs based around a southeast Oregon desert pond, a small oasis. #SciArt 🎨 🦋🐝

I kinda miss raising caterpillars ngl

Older than the dinosaurs: scientists finally unlock secret of the mayfly’s dance New article in @theguardian.com on research by @stfabian.bsky.social 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another moth eclosed, so we took graduation pictures

drawing isn't really going too well for me rn so for #invertefest im sharing a bunch of tiny moths that i crocheted a while back. the pattern isn't mine but i did modify the wings for the last one so it could look more similar to a hawkmoth!!

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 one of the Children has graduated

A little Pseudogaurotina excellens sketch #Invertefest

Life-sized Microraptor! Done with alcohol markers

Greta oto, the glasswing butterfly, ranges from S. America to Texas. They're one of a handful of terrestrial species that are truly *transparent*, neither scattering nor reflecting light. This aids in camouflage in any environment, an alternative to mimicry. (📷: David Tiller)

Here's an adult Ranchman’s Tiger Moth (Arctia virginalis) - the ONLY ONE I've ever seen! Finding the pillar was quite the surprise! Really hope I get to see more adults in a few weeks! They are diurnal moths and often fold their wings up like butterflies! #inverts

カーシノネパ リベレランテス Carcinonepa libererrantes 鋏型の前脚を持つ白亜紀のタイコウチ下目（おそらくアシブトメミズムシ類）のカメムシ。昆虫の系統において真の鋏型付属肢を進化した数少ない例の1つ。 A Cretaceous nepomorph bug (possibly toad bug) with pincer-like front legs. One of the very few examples of insect lineage that evolve true pincer-like appendages. #paleoart

This is NOT AI. These are green dragontail butterflies (Lamproptera meges), native to S & SE Asia. They compensate for undersized wings with long 'swallowtails' to generate lift. Butterflies that fly in cursive, swimming like fish through the air. (📷: Center for Biological Diversity)

We spent the day chasing butterflies. Much harder to photograph than moths. This is the Periander metalmark, Rhetus periander.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Cozy 'pedes, bouba and kiki flavoured! Both available on my ko-fi^^ ko-fi.com/honeymoss/shop 🐛 #furry #adopt #art 🐛

mantis sona ref !!

A traditonal art commission I did recently for @jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social :) Thank you for commissioning me!!! #art #bugart #springtail #artist #furryart #bug

New bug from a while back… found under the bark of a rotting log :D

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

"Alit (Rocky Mountain High)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025- $450 (Cdn). #art #sciart #invertebrates

"Elephant mosquitoes" in genus 'Toxorhynchites' are one of the few groups of mosquitoes that don't drink blood. The larvae of many species in this genus eat the larvae of other mosquito genera, making them CANNIBALS of a sort. So introducing them can *reduce disease-causing mosquito species*.

Today's #RepostYourArt prompt is soft, I feel the soft fluffy body of this stunning female emperor moth should do the trick... #SciArt #Illustration #ArtSky #Moths #Nature

say happy birthday to my bf NOOOOWWWWWWWW

Making friends with a handsome male Dobsonfly. Intag Refugio, Ecuador

#RepostYourArt Day 11 is Sparkles. I actually used some glitter brushes in the wings of this amazing purple-washed eyed metalmark #butterfly, a really lovely #insect. Feel free to view full size. 🐡 ✨ 🦋 #art #painting #DigitalArt

LITERATURE REVIEW DRAFT DONE YAYYYY I’ll have to wait for my professor to leave comments on it so I can revise it for the final version but that’s like. Biggest assignment of the semester mostly done now

it’s cool to see people are finding out about 17776 from today. I read it last semester as assigned reading for one of my classes and oh my god it is so good

Writing a literature review for class is funny because it doesn’t really feel difficult so far once my professor explained the formula to me but damn it is SOOOO TIME-CONSSUMMMINNGGH

I know that a lot of people ended up moving to bluesky to escape the mess that Twitter had become. And I understand that completely, that place is horrible. That being said, if you're someone who posts AI generated images and videos, you're just helping to make this place more like Twitter. (1/3)

Bugs may be coming out earlier than anticipated… here’s a winter firefly! The “winter” in its name tells you how cold it gets up here

Purple Emperor butterfly, ca. 30 Mya. See: phys.org/news/2026-04...

Still going on with the #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth . . Here's 9th moth. Meet the playful Heterogynis penella. 💙 #playful #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social @amnh.org

!!!!! #tdov #TransDayOfVisibility #bugs

wishing all other trans individuals a happy TDOV!! it’s a little scary for me but I’d like to make more strides into being recognized as enby irl more No matter how far along you’re in the process though I wish you all the best ^^

Seems like a pretty important result; title says it all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I enjoyed my little burst of activity here but college semester resumes tomorrow. Time to crawl back into the little leaf I came from

Thinking about how cool moths are.

I’ve held for a while now that a lot of the reason giant bugs disappeared was because vertebrates had evolved to fill the same niches more efficiently Looking at pterosaurs emerging suspiciously soon after the meganisopterans died out