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bugs and shrews, critters with booze
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They're up! come grab a couple shrews. I promise they look better in person than my crappy photos.
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brother gregor's agitated about something
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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shrewdles
somewhere around 40 tiny shrew monks
January 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Gibbobruchus minimus, a remarkably handsome and leggy bruchid
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Happy wasp wednesday. I've decided to maky my life harder by processing a bunch of bethylid wasps
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Brother Herbert's prize pepo
little shrew monk guy with a bigass pumpkin
September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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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....
A plate of 24 rove beetle images. Caption from original paper: "Genera of the Platydracus group, habitus images. a, Primor ater sp. nov.; b, Chitocompsus methneri (Bernhauer) comb. nov. (ex. Platydracus); c, C. sjostedti (Fauvel) comb. nov. (ex. Platydracus); d, C. fauvelianus (Fagel) comb. nov. (ex. Platydracus); e, Emus hirtus (Linnaeus); f, Attadracus fulvomaculatus (Nordmann) comb. nov. (ex. Platydracus); g, Bubastis trimaculatus (Fauvel) comb. nov. (ex. Platydracus); h, Naddia rufipennis Bernhauer; i, Lunata mirabilis gen. et sp. nov.; j, Abemus chloropterus (Creutzer); k, Philetaerius sarawakensis (Bernhauer) comb. nov. (ex. Thoracostrongylus); l, P. elegans Sharp m, Leistotrophus africanus Bernhauer, 1904 comb. rest. (ex. Ontholestes); n, L. versicolor (Gravenhorst); o, Lesonthotes vulneratus Smetana & Brunke; p, Platydracus globus (Fauvel) comb. nov. (ex. Euristus); q, P. princeps (Bernhauer) comb. nov. (ex. Paragastrisus); r, P. mirei (Levasseur) comb. nov. (ex. Bafutella); s, P. bicolor (Schubert) comb. nov. (ex. Pancarpius); t, P. ruficollis (Fauvel) comb. nov. (ex. Saniderus); u, P. harrissoni (Rougemont) comb. nov. (ex. Boothia); v, P. cf. bodongi (Bernhauer); w, P. cf. vividus (Sharp); x, P. chrysotrichopterus (Scheerpeltz)."
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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a tender dram for the kind brother
solpugid monk enjoying the tiniest cordial
January 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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so many furries are sleeping on how fun it is to give characters beady little animal eyes instead of big cartoon mascot ones
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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decided I like the critterstyle Cadfael enough I might just file the serial numbers off and add a badger herbalist to the menagerie. haven't settled on a name yet.
badger monk
January 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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シロヒゲナガゾウムシ
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Brother Gregor of the Order of Ascalaphid

Come visit him this weekend at @ane.boston!
Clay sculpture of an anthropomorphic gharial in a brown monk's robe with a rope belt. The figure is posed on a deck railing in front of a forest. The same sculpture, viewed from behind so the long tail is visible poking out from his robe.
January 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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#goblinweek
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Couldn't go to bed without doodling this.
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Benson...
Benson Hedges the cat looking fucking insane mid-yawn
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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A little clunkier than Molumbo but I think I'm on to something
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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Hoverfly ID project coming along nicely
Hundreds of unidentified and partially identified syrphids
January 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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brother gregor!
February 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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A late post for #artfight but one of my absolute favorites of the year!

I love the merry monastery menagerie of @ascalaphid.com ! Featuring Brother Gregor the gator, Brother Mo the wooly bear caterpillar, and Brother Shrewblin the shrew all returning after a morning's fishing trip!
A long snouted crocodile wearing brown monk robes carries two smaller animal monks, similarly robed, in a large fishing basket on his back. His passengers are a wooly brown caterpillar and a sleepy long nosed shrew who carried a fishing rod. The band looks happy despite their lack of a catch.
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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catch!
brother gregor catching a fish
January 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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finished updating my 2025 gallery. something on the order of 130 completed pieces and a bunch more doodles
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2025
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January 11, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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you do not get to enjoy my little guys
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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i appreciate the grace with which the tumblr zoology pedants allowed me to pretend this was intentional
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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brother gregor's fish dumplings
now in color
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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I drew a field-guide type page on how it looks when wispers are born!! (excited excited I'm excited wheee)

🎨 #worldofwispers #bugpeople
worldofwispers.straw.page
A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining how wispers are born. In four pencil-lined sketches it shows a bright light behind a grasshopper sitting on a stem, then the bright light taking a humanoid shape, then the bright light encompassing the grasshopper, and then the glowing grasshopper morphing into a humanoid version of itself. The fifth illustration shows the anthropomorphized green grasshopper, crouching on the stem and looking up, the glow fading away from it. There is text on the page. The heading says, "Observed: Birth of a Grasshopper Wisper (valanga irregularis - juvenile). There are annotations beside each sketch that says in order, "Glow observed near other grasshoppers that faded away), Insects seem unfazed.", "Humanoid shape?", "Bright flash.", "Only lasts a second.", "Morphs into humanoid form.", "New wisper born! Regarded me with caution before jumping away.". Beneath the last drawing is a block of text that says, "Hypothesis - Wispie seeks a host, seen by glowing near insects. When host is chosen, the wispie chooses what form to morph it into (humanoid shape 2) and combines with host in bright flash."
January 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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happy Movies Friday. love the movies
Junk World (2025), Junk Head (2017), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (1994)
January 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM