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so on and so on (i tag all irl bugs by orders and other taxonomic labels but those are more for me /organizational purposes)
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Pfp by Nicolas Reusens.
Header by tjeales
@floridianfireflyfaith submitted: This lady and I spooked the heck out of each other the other day at work when I accidentally disturbed her corner. She’s a BIG girl; I’d say her leg span was about the length of a golf ball. My guess is a huntsman spider, and a gravid one at that! Found in Northeast Florida.
Big woman! I love her. Either she’s gravid or she just had a BIG meal. Good for her either way
standing out among most other local tachinids thanks to their size, bright colors and relatively leisurely disposition, Ectophasia is almost always a fun surprise. i say almost because there must have been some sort of mass emergence from several nearby hosts as a small area of only about a dozen square meters was covered in them and with each individual i found i was less and less surprised
the sheer amount of sleepy flies allowed me to take my time searching for a good model - tachinids like to have silly abdomen shapes sometimes, and this individual that was enjoying some rare sunlight was a perfect opportunity to show how completely two-dimensional they are from the side in spite of their impressive width
(October 8th, 2025)
my slightly evil puppy
Did this illustration for the #InverteFEST Anthology that just got released! It's an illustration for the story "The Potter and Her Prey" that my collaborator Jesse Jing wrote.
Check out the whole anthology for free here. The book features 17 collabs between writers and artists, that all focus on different invertebrates!
Colonial pseudoscorpion, Paratemnoides nidificator, Atemnidae
Paratemnoides nidificator is a widely-distributed species of neotropic pseudoscorpion. It lives in colonies and is one of only a few species of arachnids known to engage in complex social behavior. Read more here.
Photo 1 by José Roberto Peruca, 2-4 by celiomoura, and 5 (for scale) by diegoferreira
let’s hatch on the mint leaves with mama
Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.
Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical 🦋
The world by the presence or absence of ants in the wild
we are everywhere
I mean they
holy shit
