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SNOOT COMPETITION let’s goooo

A few weeks ago I posted an adult bark roach (Lanxoblatta rudis) and today I'm posting its super flat nymph. The "starry night" look is a teneral stage right after molting and before camouflage pigmentation appears. You can also see the network of tracheal tubes responsible for respiration.

BUGS. ARE. SHRIMPS. It me, about papers with @jimmybernot.bsky.social and @ostratodd.bsky.social 🧪🦑

Birds are dinosaurs Whales are hoofed mammals Bugs are crustaceans Isn’t nature wonderful?

DEVOTION WITH CONDITIONS ISNT DEVOTION AT ALL AN ODE TO THE UNLOVED, TO THE HATED heres the big project i was working on! big smackin commission for @grubgrotto.bsky.social! #SciArt #entomology #arachnology #insects #arachnids #bugs #art #ArtPH

something has gone perhaps slightly wrong in my "frog" pond and the whole basin is now a blizzard of live Spirostomum, giant free living single cell protists. the snails are putting on a brave face but understandably do not enjoy being touched by one million things every second

aedes aegypti and pulex sp., 2 individual parts of a larger comm project! i wonder what the final thing will end up being... ;} #SciArt #entomology #art #ArtPH

While you're waiting for Switch 2...play some Bugaboo? Out now on Steam!

You don't see me! This #ichneumonid #wasp reminds me of a toddler trying to hide 😃 Found in Bière, #Switzerland #bugsky #insects #arthropod #inat #hymenoptera #macrophotography #pollinator

unrestricted fun #entomology

for u 💙

moderation? an amusing concept

My garden has not one, not two, but THREE BEE FLIES I feel as happy as this one :)

Flatworms are gross? Nah. Flatworms are cuties!!! 🥰 Check out this baby with its comical eyes (Geoplanidae)

Finally the last #InsertAnInvert2024 keyring design, Velvet Worms! The prompt was Peripatopsis capensis, which is the black/brown one, but I'm doing some color variations for fun. (Yes, I will take a group shot at some point. And get them all listed on my Etsy shop.) #SciArt #BugSky

HE IS HERE #Crustmas

Can confirm actual size

I got bit by one of these giant centipedes while at the research station this year 😬 and wrote about what happened and the experience in my National Geographic Field Notes Blog: fieldnotes.nationalgeographic.org/expedition/b... (The Sept 2nd post)

Welcome to the family. You’re going to be the best bug ambassador ever I just know it.

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Stick insect in subfamily Anisacanthinae trying very hard to be a stick with moss 📍Madagascar #entomology #phasmida

I finally found a Japanese house centipede (Thereuonema tuberculata)! I've been hoping to find one in my home for years, what a rush. A gorgeous little critter. This one is from Richmond, Virginia.

Hey science writers! As you prep your annual list of coolest species described in the past year, I humbly suggest you highlight the Dragon Ball pill millipede! Discovered by a team of Thai scientists, no parachute science here! Look at these beauties!

Teddy bear 🦀

Bombus: lousy wood-chewing hoodlums, look at all the pollen on my legs and she gets away with a free drink! unbeelievable Xylocopa: playing by the rules? hahaa sucker

a thief and an honest bee. the carpenter bee is robbing nectar from the Oenothera by sucking it straight from the flower tube, while the bumblebee is pollinating it the “correct” way.

I was happier to see this giant Narceus millipede in hill country yesterday than it was to see me. It curled into this defensive spiral and just sat there. Made a nice photo, though. With bonus mites, if you look closely.

Taking Bluesky for a spin. New phd and new platform! I recently completed my masters in Montana and moved to Czech Republic to join the Insect Symbiosis Lab! Check out some of the beetles I’m working with - they’re crazy looking. Beetle left, termite right. bucek-lab.org/projects/Ale...

Today I found this impressive mite in some leaf litter. Oribatids are masters of self-protection: they've evolved protective armour flaps, some wear their old moults on their back like shields, and this Neotrichozetes spinulosa has instead opted to become a sentient pincushion! 🧪 #Invertebrates

old man of the rainforest. in Costa Rica I met this male Sericopelma melanotarsum with a sweet face and brown booties

Found next to "Elegant" in the dictionary! Thread-waisted Wasp (Sphecidae) on Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) #inverts #becurious

So! first time here, throwing some of my stuff around. Here are my pokemon sculpts based on RJ Palmer's pokemon to start!

Autumn Macros

Weevil time

Trilobite Beetle Love

Gotta post on here more! Anyways heres shrimps with shoes 🦐

#Antarctic #amphipods are wild! Currently 564 amphipod species are known in the Antarctic and 417 species in the sub-Antarctic! Commonly known as sand hoppers, sand or sea fleas, scuds, or sideswimmers. @bas.ac.uk