Lets continue with the drawing course plates 🪲 #insects #sciart #dragonfly #art

Breaking my silence to share this summer fishfly I stumbled across :D I LOVE megalopterans and I’ve always wanted to see one in-person; it’s been dead for weeks in this spiderweb but I’m happy regardless

Traditional Art of a Yutyrannus #dinosaur #paleoart

*Niche critter profile*

Deciding on a taxon to specialize in for future entomological study is so difficult because I evidently am most interested in lepidoptera but there’s already so many entomologists that study that order and I feel a certain need to be able to help expand knowledge of lesser understood taxa

#invertober 31, 💀death’s head hawk moth💀 #invertober2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤

I’m really happy this is a site where insect content farms don’t exist and everyone either posts their own photos or credits the photographers. It’s very refreshing

#invertober 28, pearly green lacewing #invertober2025

Dunno who in my following here plays fortnite, but I'm willing to draw art for this guy (either gift or the needed vbucks) since I spent all my vbucks on flysbee ough

#invertober 25, house centipede!! i think they are so cutes so heres a face focus #invertober2025

i love you whip spider...

#invertober 23, pink sand dunes tiger beetle🐯 #invertober2025

Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday! This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart

At an AES event several years ago, a customer kindly pointed out that some of my earlier drawings had somewhat incorrect colouring, as back then I was drawing from my specimens and hadn't even considered that they might be faded. Well, I'm now pleased to share my updated cecropia silkmoth...

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

Finally hit 500 observations on iNat though :D I should probably have more though, I’ve had this app for maybe four years now

The drive to go to a tropical country to look at all the scuttling critters and research them beats in my head 24/7

I absolutely MUST study insects more

#invertober 15, queen alexandra’s birdwing \o/ #invertober2025

So I got a new lens for macro photography!!!… except it turns out the lens doesn’t fit my phone or any of my phone cases. Minor setback…

this is pif he is twelve minutes old and five molecules long

hands you some bugs

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣 #invertober2025

Some recent pencil drawings compared to their original sketches from 2013. Seeking precision and commitment through sketching in ink taught me things I took back to pencil!

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

Day 6: Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

Everybody thinks they're a photography expert now. I put my camera down for a minute and this mantis has to go and change my settings on me. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #invertebrates #mantids #insects

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

A lifer #butterfly for me today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social, the Zavaleta Glasswing (Godyris zavaleta). These are found mostly in Ecuador and Peru, and this was fun to see in #CostaRica #butterflies #invertebrates #lepidoptera

ofc he's hungry

Do I take the butterfly emojis out of my name this site’s CEO is an actual goober

The last of the giant flower beetle saga... Mecynorrhina Ugandesis The very first one I ever reared, although they were a black-orange variant. I think the blue-pink is so iconic on them though #inverts #SciArt 💜🪲

Enjoying a drink 🍷 Goretober Day 2: Insects! 🦋 #cesargoretober2025 #goretober

extra #Invertober2025 - Tiger mosquito (Aedes aegypti) 🦟 since I wanted to have her in the 2024 edition but took me 11 months to finish that one I'm already done for this edition for all my Aedes people #SciArt #invertebrates

A few things for those engaging in the wildlife trade but care about conservation to make peace with: While exotic pet trade helps understanding the habits of animals , it doesn’t directly help conservation. This is a rhetoric I’ve seen a lot of herp keepers buy, but it’s crazy cope.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

🧵 I’ve gotta be honest, a main reason why it feels like I never post here as much as I did on twitter is because of trying to do alt text. It really is rather exhausting coming up with a caption for each photo, especially when there are just so many of them I want to share. I’ve got so many new-

An unforgettable day with my @mariposanature.bsky.social group. I found Desert Babul Blue on the European mainland! There are a mere handful of past claims of it - this is an African species that's an ultra-rarity in Europe. I'm in a state of some shock. #butterflies @europebutterfly.bsky.social

YAYYYY

This is my favorite wayward tube, found climbing blithely up the white wall of my garage a few years ago

Insectember day 24: citharomantis falcata Common name: 🤷 So fashion✨ 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

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)!💚💚