I found this rove beetle friend on the rainforest floor. They are so so fast, you can imaging me chasing it around with my camera just rolling around in the leaf litter. Just unbelievable colors. In person the rainbow iridescence is stunning. It’s hard to say much here beyond just wow.

orbital vibe maintenance #art

The idiom "like a moth to the flame" dates to at least the 12th century, to Persian love poem "Layla and Majnun". Shakespeare references it in "Merchant of Venice." But here's the thing. Moths DON'T fly to flames. And we're just now understanding that. Let's talk about dorsal light response.

secret friend in the goldenrod #lacewing #bugsky #insects

Marker, ink pen, colored pencil, and gel pen 9 x 12in

it's a mirepoix party #art

p l u m p #spiders #bugsky #bees

just some wasp resting... with moth-like antennae, and a moth-like fluffy body, and kinda moth-like legs, and--hey what the heck~ #bugsky #moth #insect #mimic

8 years ago today, I was featured in a question on “who wants to be a millionaire”

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)!💚💚

Data isn’t vibes. If you need vibes, check out the hate filled comments the rightwing will leave on this post and all my posts.

just beetle things i guess #bugsky #beetles

I got a cheap go-pro and made a quick shrimping tutorial. Is this something people would like to see more of? I would greatly appreciate suggestions!

day 986: a digital painting based on a picture I took at the park the other day. It was late afternoon and the sun was doing pleasant things ☀️ #DigitalPainting #Procreate #ProcreateArtist #Drawing #DigitalArt #daily #dailyArt #colorful #park #nature #digitalImpressionism #art #NewArt #new

be like debris-carrying lacewing larvae #sciart #invertebrates

This quietly got published amongst all the horror of late 2020, and I feel like it got overlooked. Beautiful color plates for every mecopteran in Virginia! Flint et al 2020. The Insects of Virginia Number 16.

A dream of the fields study

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

Wonderland • 18x24

And to be extraordinarily clear: Charlie Kirk’s white supremacist politics were a politics of permanent political violence for anyone who wasn’t white hetcis and male and that is what Ezra Klein is hailing as politics done the right way Political violence

Turning Point USA is a fascist organization. Kirk’s legacy is creating a climate of fear and violence. Getting shot does not change the dark reality of what he did.

I haven't seen as many Castianeira this year as I usually do, but this magnificent lass showed up at the end of my walk today and made me happy. Red lightning in the sand. ♥️ (still unclear which species this is, 4+ years after my first sighting)

Silly speckly guy (Otiocerus abbotii, derbid planthopper of course) 💛

It's a strange flower petal.. no wait, it's a moth! A Goldenrod Stowaway Moth hanging out in the local wildflower meadow this afternoon. I thought maybe a spider had caught it, but apparently resting on yellow flowers is just something they do. #inverts (Cirrhophanus triangulifer) PA

i'm hiding #spider

did NOT find any members of this genus, but found some fun Taiwanese moths that are in the middle of evolving a picture of a ghost going "😯"

New video today! Megaloptera, owlflies, bioluminescent click beetles, and MORE! youtu.be/lD8sKzA_FZU

veggies! 🍅🥕🫜 #art #cuteart

And I'm available to give my famous talk on cephalic modification in Linyphiidae, "Who are you calling Dickhead?" #Arachnids #Spiders

nobody told me about the dress code today, i felt like a real idiot in my grey shirt. #bugsky #insects

🕷️#Arachnews alert! 🦂 New Foelix (the definitive reference for general spider biology, a must-have for every arachnologist & arachnophile) just dropped. Now called Spider Biology, this is an completely rewritten & updated version of the Biology of Spiders (2011). link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

and the #AugArthroAwe collage is complete! I quite enjoyed these 15-20min sketch version of inverts compared to the 1.5-2h ones I do for #Invertober (which is probably the next challenge I'll take part of, need to catch up to commissions now...) #invertebrates #SciArt

He's going for the pin!

Owlfly appreciation post for #InverteFest, featuring an adult and a stalk full of fresh children Old dry plants bearing weird Fruit 🤎

That’s not who’s supposed to be at the end of the tunnel!

Face of a guy who really wants to find all the ladies in the world at once and 2 antennae just aren't enough (he technically just has two antennae like normal god-fearing sawflies, they're just split at the base so it looks like he has four) #InverteFest

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

one of my favorite bugs yippee #invertebrates #InverteFest 📷

"ASK ME ABOUT MY ANAL FORKS" that's okay man maybe later #insect #bugsky #invertefest

me walking into work with a baby squirrel, pet pigeon, and various unwholesome cats

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG... #Art #SciArt

I giant get a chance at a photoshoot, but on a hike Monday with my sibs and Bug, I spotted a Small-Headed Fly buzzing her way up a tree and I was appropriately excited about it 🖤 Just a tiny orb tacked on to a much larger Orb. Only the 2nd one I've seen! #InverteFest

larva AND adult antlion shirts???

Got to introduce my sibs to Ms Teef (Sphodros abboti, Abbot's Purseweb Spider) today 🥹 She's safe back in her comfy tube now. Just a big derpy lump who gets extremely fierce for 0.5 seconds at Snack Time 🖤 #InverteFest #EmotionalSupportSpood

Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...