Phoroncidia americana, the weird little lumpy theridiids who hunt with a single silk line composed of tiny sticky balls loaded with moth pheromones. I love them. 🧪

I have no idea if he's actually horny though He didn't catcall me, which could mean any number of things

Coming out to my sibling/significant other group went infinitely better than when Bug informed her mom about me 😆

Guy, just asking questions: "Are we sure cruelty is bad"

My man, I'm 37, and I've barely even begun to find Bugs

A horny lad (his booty is horn-shaped, the booty itself has a tiny horn at the tip (phrasing?), and his face has a horn, between his eyes) Rhomphaea projiciens

Small fuzzy orb weaver* with silly booty bumps: Ms Kaira alba, one of my favorites 🤍 *orb weaver who doesn't make any web at all really, she's one of those crafty buggers which use moth pheromones to attract snacks, just like bolas spiders, and the tiny lumpy Phoroncidia americana theridiids 🧪

That whole officiating crew valiantly trying to keep Kirby Smart's pants from getting pulled down by an interim coach and a former D-3 QB; fruitless, but goddamn they tried

I wanted to make a lemon pig but I didn’t have lemons or toothpicks now I’ve gone and summoned the spirit of Dali and will have a surrealist year ☹️

I have no idea if he's actually horny though He didn't catcall me, which could mean any number of things

A horny lad (his booty is horn-shaped, the booty itself has a tiny horn at the tip (phrasing?), and his face has a horn, between his eyes) Rhomphaea projiciens

Phoroncidia americana, the weird little lumpy theridiids who hunt with a single silk line composed of tiny sticky balls loaded with moth pheromones. I love them. 🧪

Small fuzzy orb weaver* with silly booty bumps: Ms Kaira alba, one of my favorites 🤍 *orb weaver who doesn't make any web at all really, she's one of those crafty buggers which use moth pheromones to attract snacks, just like bolas spiders, and the tiny lumpy Phoroncidia americana theridiids 🧪

A chocolate cake decorated to look like a KING JAMES BIBLE

Black lives matter. No human being is illegal. Abolish the police. Happy Pride.🧱

Love this thread. Just went through some of this, meeting my partner's family over Christmas. At least some of them appreciated my efforts 😆 and Bug definitely appreciated that I tried. You gotta try. People like being seen. Weird, i know

Me to my mother, a firebrand of a human, but also a Boomer woman who has not, I think, put in any conscious effort to decenter men: yeah, I keep comparing men women in my social circles are dating to women and they come up way short like, let’s take basic social stuff, like being introduced (contd)

Bug acquired a friend while poking at some pine bark 🥹 (Baby Ogre)

Heeeey, I can do this one

Miniscule (sub 1mm) stripy little pseudoscorpion guy under tree bark in Texas

Baby bristlepedes (bristle millipedes), if you need them 🥹

🥹🥹🥹 *gently wavy antenniforms* #InverteFest

Day 31 of my 2025 Favorites: Bucket List Creature! Bug and I had wanted to find one of Florida's strangest arachnids, the tailless whipscorpion, since we learned of them. They were a primary reason for our visit to the Florida Keys, and we were not disappointed. Look at them 🤎 #InverteFest

My future mother in law may not like me now even in my much more undercover queer state, but this year I resolve to be even more flamboyantly Queer

Thank you all for giving my creatures love this year, let's do it all again next year, but with 100% MOAR bugs. 🖤

🥹🥹🥹 *gently wavy antenniforms* #InverteFest

Bug's mom has still not given her any feedback on what she thought of me after meeting for the first time, even though they talked at length today. Extremely mature behavior, going with the "pretend they don't exist" route.

Walter Clayton Jr's entire ice cold run through the NCAA men's basketball tournament. I thought UF would have a decent team, but I wasn't prepared for the heights that man went to to win some of those games. The things he did to UCONN, Texas Tech, and Auburn in particular 😳

Galaxy Spood 🌌 #InverteFest There's a tiny Micaria species of ground spider which looks like a galaxy full of stars and I love them 🖤

Never gonna forget this merry gang of grabby hands, who feasted on wasp for days probably. #InverteFest

Please take some time to look through some of the discoveries photographed in 2025. It should interest some invertebrate enthusiasts. yes? yes? bit.ly/nickybay2025

Day 30 of my 2025 Favorites: That time I learned the fun way that social pseudoscorpions (Paratemnoides) can take down a live goddamn yellow jacket 😳 They caught it, held it down until it exhausted. I'm still kind of flabbergasted, months later. Incredible teamwork. 🤎 #InverteFest

Never gonna forget this merry gang of grabby hands, who feasted on wasp for days probably. #InverteFest

I have an NBA game on in the background and Bug couldn't quite make out what one of the teams was, she read Celtics as the Boston Celiacs, and well now it's stuck in my head

I managed Pip the Demon Cat cuddles 🥹 She allows no one but Bug to pick her up, and she loved it. She's happy here. 🖤

Galaxy Spood 🌌 #InverteFest There's a tiny Micaria species of ground spider which looks like a galaxy full of stars and I love them 🖤

Me, breaking up with someone while digging through a pile of clothes to find a shirt that says AITA: "I'm just going through a lot of stuff right now"

Well you just said how you do it, what's the problem

please look at this spider called a "Queensland Ultraflat" (pic by Marten Stevens)

I have inside thoughts which in a person with functioning shame you couldn't extract under torture. Put me in the NY Times, I need a platform

i'm stupid. put me in the ny times.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Anime spider grandpa has come to judge your life decisions.

Day 28 of my 2025 Favorites: Toad Bug 🤎 He's just Toad Bug - toad, but bug - what else is there to say. Bug spotted this little lump by a shallow pool, and it made us both happy. #InverteFest

Day 29 of my 2025 Favorites: Needs No Introduction I'd somehow never found a live eastern diamondback rattlesnake before, until this magnificent creature appeared on the road near my home away from home and made my day. Gently encouraged her to leave the road, and she posed for me 🤎

Mr Habronattus notialis from today, with his green legs and little black feets and white eyebrows 💚 #EmotionalSupportSpood #InverteFest Goodnight y'all

Mr Habronattus notialis from today, with his green legs and little black feets and white eyebrows 💚 #EmotionalSupportSpood #InverteFest Goodnight y'all

Yep

Missed posting him yesterday because it was a day 🫠 But, Toad Bug 🥹

*quietly floats my plan to revive Protogen* We just want to see what the blue goo can do for you!