✨ Twinkle twinkle long bugs 🪱

"more than i was built for" (yes this is disney planes fanart)

havent been posting a lot of my recent art It Will Happen i prommy

It's finally getting cold, and the birds are becoming r o u n d

You all thought I was joking

for @ Ekzonzzzz 🤠🌵

Art comic

Here are my lists, soon to become science and nature feeds. Want to be added? Which ones? Leave a comment here. I know there's already an "Ecology and Conservation" feed. I don't intend to compete. I'll be encouraging people to join and contribute to both feeds. Please share! Gracias! 😸

"an't" cracks me up every time.

hey i haven't been active on here in a while but with tumblr shitting the bed i felt like i should cover my bases. what's up

Shop item of the week: Beetle grub acrylic charm! A squishy companion, pocket-sized and ready to go on adventures. Available here! cuttledreams.bigcartel.com

#InsertAnInvert2024 Relationships - Babies After hatching, vinegaroon babies cling to their mother's butt for protection, forming a clump of tangled orbs with legs. In most species, this lasts for a few weeks, until the dozens of babies are old enough to molt for the very first time. 🎨 🐡

Package art of Allosaurus fragilis I did for the Beasts Of The Mesozoic upcoming figure 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #dinosaur

On this episode of "Weird Lumps Emerging From Weird Lumps and Ovipositing More Weird Lumps into More Weird Lumps", well, observe this Gargoyle caught in the act of ovipositing. 🖤 🌿 🐝🧪

We lost a real one today. Mark was the reason we have anime & furry fandoms in the US. He gave us all, all the hundreds of thousands of us or more now, the biggest gift we could ever ask for: each other. You will be deeply, deeply missed Mark. You live on in us and the community you so loved.

sorry i haven't been active here much i promise i am alive

Sketches of Tupuxuara since I am in a pterosaur mood 🐡 🧪 🎨 #paleontology

A tiny male sweat bee - around 4 or 5 mm. - drinking nectar on goldenrod in Montana last month. Single shot at about 3x and cropped. People are probably more familiar with the bright metallic green sweat bees, but I also like the more subtle coppery hues on this little guy's head. #ento 🐙 🌿

Couple months ago I was in central Florida and unwittingly photographed a described (but not yet published) maevia species. Was scrolling through my salticid folder with GB Edwards today looking for something else, and he pointed out this lovely boy. Lol. I learned things! 🌿🧪🕷️

lunch break doodle

Another gang member! This is Augustus Ferguson but everyone knows him as Gus. (Or Gusgus but only Judas called him that and they were the only one who could get away with it anyway.) He was the oldest member of the gang he was there from the beginning

🧪🌿documentaries: "dinosaurs RULED THE WORLD for over 150 million years" animal life before dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs animal life during dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs animal life after dinosaurs: almost entirely bugs

Gonna kick-off #Arachtober with some self-promo. (Sorry, I'll post just pictures too.) This Spiny Orbweaver design, as well as some other arachnids, inverts, and critters, is available as a keyring or magnet in my Etsy store: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com #SciArt

At long last, the return of in-person Bug Drawing Day, hosted by the wonderful Stephanie Dole (www.beetlelady.com). So nice to meet up with friends and spend a sunny afternoon watching Goliath beetles eat bananas... (1/2)

Will it crack? Morrosaurus, Cretaceous Antarctica #SciArt #artbyjulio

crank it up

This is a fun #Insect,a female Greene’s Giant Ichneumonid Wasp,  #Megarhyssa greenei who is ovipositing her eggs into the larvae of a Pigeon Horntail Wasp, #Tremex columba which is buried deep into this Tupelo tree. #Hymenoptera #DamnNatureYouScary #NaturePhotography #Photography #Inverterbrate

Hey Bluesky! 🐝 Here's an adorable Megachilid bee absolutely *loaded* with pollen visiting grindelia flowers on a hot morning! 🌞

this one goes up to 11

Happy Tripod fish Frogfish Handfish and Mudskipper

Upside down jellyfishes look like anemones, but they're true jellies. Though they can swim, they tend to live upside down in the shallows. They bask in sunlight to feed the photosynthetic symbionts living inside its body—just like corals. 🎨 🧪 🐡

Finally finished this ttrpg race design!

Split Head - cover illustration for Monstroddities

Reupload

It is mind blowing. I got a photo of one with wings out, but the head is out of focus. 😭 Right after that, it packed the wings back up and walked away. I don't photo stack or Photoshop very often, but I might do something to combine a head in focus on the wings deployed shot. It's so amazing.

Earwigs used to scare me when I was a kid. Those pincers look dangerous! Now I know they do their best to hide from people. This female was hiding on the underside of goldenrod blossoms. 🧪🌿 #invertebrate European Earwig (Complex Forficula auricularia)

haven't been That active here but i promise i'm alive, college is kicking my ass

Packing the latest order batch to go out! Some supporter faves this time 🐛✨ shop.mothmonar.ch

hey i have commissions open and i draw a lot of bug furries! i made a tumblr post about it: www.tumblr.com/bensect/7275...

assorted general grievous arts from the past like year, i am extremely normal and not at all gay about him

found a dryinid!

Spooky Cat 🐈‍⬛👁️

Up close with a worker fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. The crispness of this image is a result of focus-stacking, where I took just the sharpest part from each of the dozens of input images at different focal planes and merged them.

No way

As a matter of fact, it will c: I'm waiting for the summer heat to cool a bit since it was melting goods during shipping, but come fall I'll be ready with these guys + some other updated stuff~

#InverteFest Going deco with some invertebrates!

#InverteFest continued. Three Insect paintings from this year. Cicada (South American version), male Atlas beetle (in funky colours) and a spiced up Ladybug/Ladybird. All acrylic on wood panels, my fave #art medium at the moment.

#Invertefest 🧪🌿 #SciArt

Sejeshrem Cephalopod Dragon 𝕾𝕸𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖚𝖘𝖙 11