been getting a lot of asks about the critter monks on tumblr. i like to make little doodles to go along with my answers

Brother Mort liked the peace and solitude of his herb garden but even so a visit from Sister Dot and her latest tranche of dirty jokes rarely went unappreciated

just a little baby child (from @mosquitolab.bsky.social's pitfall samples; I can see how this one got sorted into the beetle pile)

I'll toss in some traditional art for the train this time 'round too. 4 different mediums! I tag @mosspond.design @ascalaphid.com @birdfingers.bsky.social @irispolaris.com ... and YOU! 🫵 .... if you want to

First week of #Febugary2026 !

I could probably draw weevils all day long...I love any critter with a snoot. #febugary2026

Molumbo

Love how the dark facial fovea give this arizonan Perdita (aff. luteola or xanthochroa) little false cartoon dot eyes

Everyone look at the dumplinghopper my partner made www.tumblr.com/gachimushi/8...

Buying a roll of hockey tape to make my pens more ergonomic was such a good idea

What if I fucked around and tried to see how far I could ID our big collection of unsorted inchneumonids

got a fancy pigment-based printer for making higher quality stickers (and prints) with. celebrated by spending most of the weekend printing and cutting new designs. gonna try and get them up on the store next weekend

there are some drawbacks to doing 10 hour workdays but the 3 day weekends are so much more conducive to actually working on my little art projects and I'm gonna be so pissed if I ever have to switch back to a regular 5/8 schedule

Shrewcchini

Brother Gregor is concerned

jokes on you i've been doing #goblinweek this whole time, just as shitty little bedtime shrewblin scribbles that in the spirit of goblins i will not be cleaning up or inking

Trying to rearrange the limbs and antennae of a freshly pinned 1mm long beetle without snapping them off is close to what I imagine being a bomb diffuser feels like

idea: vertical monastery populated by treecreepers & nuthatches (nunhatches?)

i'm always saying this

goblin love 2019

I process a lot of what’s going on around me through insects. Inspired by a good friend I made this drawing of a bombardier beetle spraying acid at ice. Abolish ICE

Here's some art. Abolish ICE.

if anyone wants to take advantage of my compulsion to clear out a bunch of perfectly good stickers for rock bottom prices now's a good time to join the misprint club where I send you a bunch of non-misprints as well sometimes ko-fi.com/ascalaphid/t...

sometimes i'll check the accounts reposting my little critter monk drawings and they'll just be sandwiched between massive walls of porn and i feel like the chillout table at an orgy handing out bottled water and orange slices.

the worlds smallest mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, enjoying a pickle

Daily bunny no.3209 is quite solemn

Cousin Ricky's Hot Chips drawn by my partner

www.mcht.org/story/a-whis... perfect creatures. perfect collective noun for the perfect creatures

if only the shaw bros had produced a gibsonian cyberpunk film in the early to mid-80s it probably would have been my favorite movie of all time

Anyone know a good guide to replacing pocket zippers? The one on this jacket I've had for 20 years has been busted for the last like 5

happy birf 🎉

borth happy borth 🍷

womp womp

Acorn Knight

going to be making an effort this year to actually update my site's gallery regularly instead of like every 6 months ascalaphid.com/art/2026

quick stoat & rat watercolor

the menagerie webpage is not *complete* but is at least presentable now ascalaphid.com/characters/m...

Art train! 🌿🌿🌿🚂🚃🚃🚃🌿🌿🌿 Come share your art if you want to! 🐦✨ @ascalaphid.com @zoethetsitsa.bsky.social @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social @natedraws.bsky.social

Perdita sp., Anthidium manicatum & Laphria saffrana

art train go chooooooo 🚄🦟🦀🎨 tagging: @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social @kakapojay.bsky.social @whistberry.bsky.social @ascalaphid.com

trouble brewing in the garden

brother gregor's agitated about something

shrewdles

Gibbobruchus minimus, a remarkably handsome and leggy bruchid

Happy wasp wednesday. I've decided to maky my life harder by processing a bunch of bethylid wasps

Brother Herbert's prize pepo

I missed this paper by Zhao & friends when it came out last summer - a big tree of big beetles! Gorgeous staphylinids. Great to see some order coming to their classification. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....