Insectember day 20: sphinx ligustri Common name: Privet hawk moth (Did you know I love hawk moths so much) 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

I forgot I need to post art oops. Go my birthday art for the butterfly partner

idk if you knew but im actually a bug irl new ref for a new sona bc my main persona has been needing a rework for ~4 years very rough for a start but i plan on making a more polished version somewhere down the line

Following up on my previous bug plushes, I finally finished some new plushy concepts based on tags/comments~ May the dreams of plush phasmids, mayfly larva, vinegaroons, crane flies and dung beetles all come true <3

Insectember day 18: sabethes Common name: canopy mosquito And it was a fairy🧚✨ 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

Photo study for funsies 🐛✨

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

We love jumping spiders because they are smol, cute, active, friendly and always looking around curiously with their huge eyes. But do you know they’re also masters of mimicry? Check out the bugs they pretend to be (and some of those are really good)!💚💚

Insectember day 17: diaphora mendica Common name: muslin moth immaculate floof✨ 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

gigantic imperial moth caterpillar I spotted on a hike in the woods last week 😍

Insectember day 15: papilio agenor Common name: Great mormon butterfly Theres so many regional variants of these guys :D 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

The beautiful Titaea lemoulti from Ecuador. Titaea moths sit on leaves during the day, but if disturbed they display an interesting escape response: they fly high, then suddenly stop and slowly glide down to the ground like a falling dry leaf. It's very difficult to find the moth in the leaf litter!

The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Spanish Moon Moth 🌙

#SciArtSeptember 11 - Venomous Whoops, I forgot to post this yesterday. Cretan giant centipede (Scolopendra cretica). Though almost all endemic mammals of the Mediterranean islands are extinct, there is still numerous unique species to preserve: reptiles, arthropods, plants and so on.

be like debris-carrying lacewing larvae #sciart #invertebrates

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

As much as I want to celebrate the court ruling, I can't find the joy in my heart, as I feel the damage has been done. Years of rw misinformation, sabotage and bad-faith arguments have abolutely brainrotted most of my family, who I feel have become shells, moving from outrage to outrage.

birthday

A great purple hairstreak takes a sip of Rudbeckia nectar. Austin, Texas.

Lil dragonfly I caught,,,

Insectember day 7: trithemis aurora Common name: Crimson marsh glider got that high-vis swag 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

Leaf bug, leaf bug! 🍃 #bugoc #art #ocsky

I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good morning! For day 2 of #Leptember here is one of natures finest, an Oleander Hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii). A home reared specimen, held by my daughter just before its release.

Insectember day 4: Heliconius clysonymus Common name: Montane longwing Bug with hat, my go-to apparently 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

Pretty butterfly friends I saw at a butterfly conservatory 🦋 #art #sketchbook #sciart

(Old/Sold) #Art #Adopt #Fanart #Monster #SkyCotL

Insectember day 1: Metallyticus splendidus Common name: Iridescent bark mantis It's hard choosing jewelry when you outshine them all✨ #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

Last day of #InverteFest! May post a few things because no one can stop me 😂 #art #SciArt

I wanted to draw them more 💅

Posting this outside the Questions thread! Reposting it onto there later✨ Let it be known fluffy butterfly species exist!! And I wanna see more characters based off of them ; u ;

Tonight I saw 3 moon moths (Actias ningpoana) in a single walk. This is the third brood of the year, with the last one coming in October. #invertefest

Moth friend finally finished up ✨

Did some last minute bug catching,, noticed a scoliid wasp swarm and snagged a few!!!

I'm working on a series of black ink drawings of Dutch indigenous species. I drew this Papilio machaon (🇳🇱 Koninginnepage) for #InverteFest 🦋 #invert #butterfly #inkdrawing #drawing #art #SciArt #insects

If I ever get a more permanent arthropod pet in the future I’d love a giant centipede or amblypygid,,, preferably the latter bc they don’t risk hospitalizing me

Back in college soon!!! I’ll be busy, but I should have more bugs to look for soon And thanks to ento class last year now I know where to look hehe

Antheraea montezuma, a superb silkmoth from Mexico. The caterpillars are adorned with stunningly iridescent pearl droplets along their bodies. #bugsky #moths #butterflies #insects #macro #nature

Here's my rendition of the ethereal Spoonwing Lacewing, ink and watercolor #AugArthroAwe #invertefest

reposting this old 2021 philippine atlas #moth piece for #InverteFest since i died badly and have nothing new to post LOL #bugs #invertebrates #entomology #SciArt #art #ArtPH

"Humanity’s invention of agriculture 12,000 years ago is understandably hailed as one of our greatest achievements. But leaf cutter ants beat us to it. These ants (from the species Atta and Acromyrmex) evolved to undertake large-scale agriculture about 55 million years ago." #InverteFest

Eu tô mais pra vídeo nessa #Invertefest Recebendo a ilustre visita de uma belíssima Copiopteryx semiramis

By the way with 31 letters that genus name is the longest valid genus name ever. I roughly translated most of it to “short-winged dragonfly from Kimmeridge” but idk what the -idium part means

Bug time!! Got this one done just in time for #Invertefest ~

I love you Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium etchesi (extinct fossil species of dragonfly)

With larvae weighing over 250 grams and adults weighing only a quarter of its larval weight, Megasoma rex is the heaviest insect in the world. It is split from Megasoma actaeon in 2018, based on small morphological differences and geographical isolation. #invertefest

I was demotivated to go for insects for a bit of this summer bc I had lost my special bug net, but I’ve got it back now!! Made a strong return by catching this cicada with it right away