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pterouras.bsky.social
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real butterfly | Learning lepidopteran raiser | aspiring entomologist | 🧡 @cekrophia.bsky.social 🧡 | they/them 🏳️‍⚧️, 20 (NSFW DNI)

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All photos are my own unless credited otherwise
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aekur.xyz
the rgb gaming butterfly
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November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
ittle critters playing dead! 🐛🪲💀

I’ve been sick after a period of intense work but on the other hand I was able to slow down and draw something fun & relaxing… hope you folks enjoy it too!
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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phazonharbinger.bsky.social
Orthomeria pandora "Laguna" hatchling. Very unusually behaved phasmids, they react just at the mere sight of you and run around very fast, quite erractic for stick insects. #wildlife #nature #macro #photography #stickinsect #stickbug #phasmid #insect
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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vigiscar.bsky.social
Illustration of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) 🐞
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #beetle #harlequinbeetle #harlequin
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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lazaroillustration.bsky.social
Lets continue with the drawing course plates 🪲

#insects #sciart #dragonfly #art
Illustration of a dragonfly
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
pterouras.bsky.social
Breaking my silence to share this summer fishfly I stumbled across :D I LOVE megalopterans and I’ve always wanted to see one in-person; it’s been dead for weeks in this spiderweb but I’m happy regardless
A large winged insect hanging from a spiderweb next to a window. The body is mostly varying shades of grey all over. The wings are exceptionally long with a pleated texture to them; one wing is hanging down perpendicular to the other wings and is damaged. The same insect with a finger for size comparison. Its wing is a little over twice the length of a fingernail. An angular view of the same insect. Its face is somewhat visible, revealing shiny grey damselfly-like eyes on the sides of the head, and an angular, boxy head shape.
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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athruwinter.bsky.social
Traditional Art of a Yutyrannus

#dinosaur #paleoart
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
*Niche critter profile*
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
pterouras.bsky.social
Deciding on a taxon to specialize in for future entomological study is so difficult because I evidently am most interested in lepidoptera but there’s already so many entomologists that study that order and I feel a certain need to be able to help expand knowledge of lesser understood taxa
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 31, 💀death’s head hawk moth💀

#invertober2025
symmetrical color block art of a death's head hawk moth . it is drawn in simplified colors and patterns on an orange background, with a black frame with cartoony bones and skulls and a moth at the keystone. death's head is written at the center bottom
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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chentomology.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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pterouras.bsky.social
I’m really happy this is a site where insect content farms don’t exist and everyone either posts their own photos or credits the photographers. It’s very refreshing
August 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 28, pearly green lacewing

#invertober2025
color block art of a pearly green lacewing on a swirling background vaguely resembling plants. it is sitting on green swirls backed with purples and pinks
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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cekrophia.bsky.social
Dunno who in my following here plays fortnite, but I'm willing to draw art for this guy (either gift or the needed vbucks) since I spent all my vbucks on flysbee ough
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 25, house centipede!! i think they are so cutes so heres a face focus

#invertober2025
head focus icon of a house centipede. it has cartoonish hay expression to its eyes, and a few hearts floating near its face
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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dragonymango.bsky.social
i love you whip spider...
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 23, pink sand dunes tiger beetle🐯

#invertober2025
color block art of a pink sand dunes tiger beetle on a sandy pink background. it is stanced with its abdomen raised, mandibles bared, and antennae curled
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday!
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
A brown butterfly or moth-like insect with an eyes pot on its wing sitting on a yellow flower like cone.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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martynwarren.bsky.social
At an AES event several years ago, a customer kindly pointed out that some of my earlier drawings had somewhat incorrect colouring, as back then I was drawing from my specimens and hadn't even considered that they might be faded. Well, I'm now pleased to share my updated cecropia silkmoth...
My new cecropia silkmoth, with a much more red body and wing details. My original drawing, which looks slightly more brown / orange as it was based on a slightly faded specimen.
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
From the vault: my life-size Meganeuropsis model, a giant griffinfly (Meganeuridae) from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of North America. The wingspan is 71cm.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Meganeuropsis #Meganeura #Griffinfly #DragonFly #Permian
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
pterouras.bsky.social
Finally hit 500 observations on iNat though :D

I should probably have more though, I’ve had this app for maybe four years now
A snippet of a screenshot from my inaturalist page (pterouras), having hit a milestone for 500 observations
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
pterouras.bsky.social
The drive to go to a tropical country to look at all the scuttling critters and research them beats in my head 24/7
pterouras.bsky.social 🦋 Roura 🦋 @pterouras.bsky.social · Oct 18
I absolutely MUST study insects more
October 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
pterouras.bsky.social
I absolutely MUST study insects more
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 15, queen alexandra’s birdwing \o/

#invertober2025
symmetrical art of a male queen alexandra's birdwing from the back with its wings open. there are leaf and flower patterns on the yellow-green gradient background
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
pterouras.bsky.social
So I got a new lens for macro photography!!!… except it turns out the lens doesn’t fit my phone or any of my phone cases. Minor setback…
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM