An old memorial piece for one of my best friends @evanesce.bsky.social of her Monty moos 💜❤️

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

I like how people are making jokes about platypuses being classed as ‘women’ as a Diogenesian response to that One Author’s transphobic drivel, but. I’m pretty sure the image they keep using is a/ i. Or at least a render of some kind. Guys can we not feed the Incorrect Animal issues on the internet

Please help the lovely Zee out if you can!! Check the thread for the donation link. 💖

My research project has BEGUN 🥳 Unfortunately I’m crook and trying not to drip snot all over my literature review papers but I’m excited!!!

I like recording quotes from books I read, especially if they’re moving or a fact I want to remember. This one though, it gut punches me every time I open my quotes page in my notebook. The tragedy of begging people to care about an animal that seems so insignificant, but means the world to you.

Time to rep The Shirt™️ gifted to me by @reneguybabord.bsky.social 🐛

Velvet ribbon worm🎀

I love that Poduromorpha are called “plump” springtails. It’s perfect. Just look at this ridiculous little animal. What is going on here. #Collembola #Invert #macrophotography 🪲🪳 🌿

Finally… it has been raining… it is colder… the fungi……. THE FUNGI IS COMING

A couple of my favourite invert photos from Sri Lanka! Check out all my photos here clumsyvelvetworms.tumblr.com/tagged/sri%2... - I still have to finish uploading them so my blog doesn't have all of them yet but they are queued!! 💖🇱🇰

ant #insectart

Deepsea angler fish are famous for their fearsome appearance, but they pose no real threat to humans. Some are larger, but they are usually small, less than 10 inches long. The males are much smaller and parasitic on the females.

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm! NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

He’s just so polite……….

Fun Fact: we have native bees that sleep in the petals of one of our plants in the garden bed (Alogyne) 🥰 It’s actually too cute I can’t handle it lmao

Just gotta buy some new socks, sandals, and a white sheet for mothing, and I am all packed for Sri Lanka on Saturday 🫣

An alpine subspecies of Killamoth; huge, intelligent predators from the world of #Amphibia. Their social structures show sophisticated intra-specific communication and co-operation, extending in one documented case into a alliance with their usual prey among the coastal subspecies!

Observe: artsy photos I took at one of work’s biodiversity offset sites which ran along some salt flats. There was uhh… just the front wheels/base/axel, some seat springs, ??? Where was the rest of the car??? Only god knows

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Summer is such a sad time of year as a naturalist in Australia. The Gariwerd/Grampians and the Gurdies are both on fire at the moment - Gariwerd is such a special place ecologically, I’m devastated.. Hopefully they can reign the fire in asap

anniversary weekend!!! 7 years with @evanesce.bsky.social 🌄🌄🌄💕💕💕

FOUND A STAG BEETLE TODAY... she is beautiful...

I might actually create a second account for fantasy art stuff. Wasn't going to split accounts like that but I think I'd rather keep this as science and sci-art oriented so that fantasy stuff isn't burying science posts in my feed and vice-versa. Expect follows from another account soonish probs

Also started my new internship and I'm having SO much fun, it's an incredible company I've landed in and I'm so grateful that I was picked :') Have some bugs from my second day!

Replacing the GBR's substrate for like the 4th time because last time I put potting mix in the bottom half and we have been plagued by fungus gnats for the past 6 months

chien-pao #pokemon #pokemonfanart

Did somebody say a TRAIN of DRAGONS?!!! Thanks for the tag Ali ily, I'm not sure if I've anyone left to tag but if you see this and want to do it here's your chance!!

The colours in this photo I took at uni are so 🥰

A reminder that commissions are open to help me afford my move back to australia! Need something to draw on the plane 😋 ko-fi.com/Z8Z6ACFS

I’m back from my holiday and here is the first thing I drew on my iPad in 3 or so weeks! Always got dragons on my mind smh… Oh! Also my partner and I got engaged 😳just as a little bonus hehe #dragon #easterndragon #scalie

What I’d give to be a chicken right now. Not a single clue who Donald Trump is. Strawberry for dinner

Tawny Frogmouth with BABBY

Oon

Don’t worry, they’re besties

Begging society to normalise knowledge on copyright and etiquette in regards to using artwork. Like forgetting about the ai slop, I see so many women in local pages who buy a mug/bottle press and suddenly they make hundreds of them with stolen artworks to sell online and art markets...

#invertober number 14, the Redwood Sideband Snail. #invertober2024 #sciart #invertart #art 🐌

I made a Tumblr for all my nature photos 👀 Thought it would be the best way to find specific photos/species I've found! I'll sporadically update with all the backlog so photos won't necessarily be chronological for now. clumsyvelvetworms.tumblr.com

had the TIME OF MY LIFE YESTERDAY

Pigeons deserve so much more love. #illustration #pigeon #birdart #meekorart

Thread from last night's ento event!! Starting with some bugs of course

Saw some flower wasps making more flower wasps… I always feel for the females hanging off the end like that lmao

Today’s #Aussiebirdcount effort, feat. a gorgeous resident tawny!!

Need to start this account off right with cat photos

Sometimes friends show me a funny photo of their pets and sometimes I get possessed and draw it immediately

Some recent critterssss

Some recent lichens and a Rainbowia sp. mite 🥰

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Got to see my favourite puppy the other day