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thatonecreature.bsky.social
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Bug person with a particular interest in beetles, wasps and mining bees! Also a big fan of flies.

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I draw whatever I feel like drawing and talk about insects.
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thatonecreature.bsky.social
Hover fly on a small plant I saw today, something from the genus Syrphus is my best guess. It was rather still and unresponsive but didn't seem to be dead.

#insects #entomology #flies #bugs #bug #insect
A small yellow and black fly with red eyes resting on a green small leafy plant. It has its clear wings folded over its back and has tiny antenna located just under its eyes, right in between them.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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naturebureau.bsky.social
Dr Erica McAlister with the 3 authors (Steven Falk, Gail Ashton & Rory Dimond) who gave a presentation for the
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterists Day in Cambridge about the #FliesofBritainandIreland. Due for publication late Jan/early Feb 2026 @gailashton.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Polybothris sp. from Madagascar. It was collected in 2006 according to the label.

#bugs #insects #entomology #beetles #coleoptera
A photo showing the top view of a pinned jewel beetle specimen. The beetle is brown with four large yellow spots on either side of its elytra, two on each side. There are smaller yellow spots visible aswell. It is pinned, with a pin going through the top of the right elytra. Side view of a pinned jewel beetle specimen. It is brown and there are two large yellow spots visible on the side of the elytra.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Q: Why are Bugs so silly?

A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body

*loud booing*

Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
Pinkish red planthopper with large wings like a maple seed, and a pointy triangular snoot topped with wavy white lines
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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tdikow.bsky.social
#FlyFriday

beautiful dark-colored assassin fly Diogmites nigripennis (Macquart, 1847) (Asilidae: Dasypogoninae) with wasp prey - collected at La Selva, Costa Rica in 2010 - 1 of 125 species of assassin flies known from this lowland rainforest habitat - n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

#asiloidflies
assassin fly mounted on pin with prey wasp it captured assassin fly mounted on pin with prey wasp it captured assassin fly mounted on pin with prey wasp it captured locality label for assassin fly
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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mavisbickle.bsky.social
A single Palpita vitrealis, Silver Y, Turnips and White-points, Yellow-line Quaker, Blair’s Shoulder-knot, R-G Carpet and some LBAMs made 12:9 for me to the light last night VC33 Stroud
Oh, and another late Uncertain for @ruthnewby.bsky.social
#teammoth
Palpita vitrealis White-point Turnip The Uncertain
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
I feel like misinformation and fear mongering is unfortunately rather common with insects and arachnids online and its really disappointing every time I stumble across a post or video or article that's pushing false narratives about these already misunderstood and often hated groups of animals. :(
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
"Musca depicta ("painted fly" in Latin; plural: muscae depictae) is a depiction of a fly as a conspicuous element of various paintings."

WHY IS THIS A THING
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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colethebug.bsky.social
Quote with your purple art! 🟣
Fanart of Blackarachnia from Transformers Animated An OC of mine based on the paddle-legged mosquito. She's blue and wears purple
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Rough insect drawings I did today!
Top left- Xenos peckii
Top right - Hemiodoecus leai
Bottom left - Hymenopus coronatus
Bottom right -Systelloderes biceps
#bugs #bugart #bug #insect #art #furryart #insectart
Rough drawing of four different species of insect. Each drawing is rough and sketchy. Top left shows a insect with large wings. It is greyish black with antenna that look a bit like antlers and has round big eyes. It has one wing spread out and the other folded behind it. Top left shows an insect that is shaped like a shield. It's eyes look as if they are on stalks and are orange. It has short yellow antenna, a grey blue thorax and a yellowish abdomen and orange legs. Bottom left shows the head of a mantis. It is white with triangular eyes that have a pink stripe pattern running straight through them. It has thin dark antenna and a protrusion on its head that looks like a crown almost. The crown is triangular with a red centre and pale outsides. Bottom right shows an insect with a long beak like mouth part. It is orange. Its head is brown and so is the neck but this changes later to red and then orange. Its wings are pale and folded over its back. It has red eyes and long antenna and a clawed hooked arm. It is bent over and looks concerned.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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0rthoptera.bsky.social
holy crunches
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
Mauricio Ramirez of UM giving a great talk about cool moths in the hydroptilid subfamily Stactobiinae
Illustrations from an earlier paper of a bunch of microcaddisflies that look like moths. Let’s be serious this is all just moths.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
I also forgot to post this before but here are some insects I drew a few weeks ago!
Top- Palomena prasina
Top right - Chasmoptera huttii
Bottom right - Eudiagogus pulcher
Center - Phanaeus difformis
Left - Idolothrips spectrum
#bugs #insectart #bugart #furryart #art #insects #insect
A drawing showing a few different types of anthropomorphic insects on a grey background. The top shows a green shield bug also known as a stink bug. The top left shows a spoon wing, a winged insect with long hind wings that are shaped like spoons. It is yellow with black hind wings with white tips. The centre shows a blue and green shiny dung beetle that appears to be facing the spoon wing with its arms outstretched. The bottom right corner shows a pink and black and grey weevil that is walking and it is very sparkly and shiny. The left side shows a tall lanky thrips insect with long thin antenna, feather like wings and long back legs. Its abdomen is also sparkly and it is looking behind it.
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Did some more rough insect doodles today!
Top right - Psychoda sigma
Bottom right- Dolichovespula maculata
Left- Pyrops gunjii
#insects #bugart #bugs #furryart #bug
Insects are fun to draw :)
A rough drawing of some anthropomorphic insects. All of the drawings are rough and sketchy. Top shows a moth fly that is white with grey patches and lots of fluff. Bottom shows the head of a black and white bald faced hornet and left shows a colourful lantern fly with its wings spread out.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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entcollnet.bsky.social
And finally, Lubo’s message to the young: LESS COMPUTER, MORE COLLECTING
Lubo Masner’s “message to the young” (anyone under 70): “Less computer, more collecting”
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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stephskipp.bsky.social
It is generally frowned upon to mount multiple insects on the same pin. It makes databaseing difficult + the chance that multiple species could be mounted together - a nightmare!
Even so, you have to admire the creativity and precision of this example from the UK Latridiidae collection at the NHM
A piece of card cut into a serrated shape with 17 points next to each other. The card is mounted on a pin and most of the points have small beetles (latridiidae) glued onto them. The card is visibly old and yellowed and most of the beetles are damaged, missing their heads and pronotums.
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Drew another bug, oak bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum). I haven't really drawn any anthropomorphic orthoptera yet so I thought I'd give it a go.
:)

#bug #insect #art #bugart #furryart
A digital drawing of an anthropomorphic green katy did also known as a bush cricket. It is standing on its hind legs which are covered in small spikes. It is all green with long green wings hanging from its back. Its four arms stick out slightly and it has a reddish orange eye and long thin antenna which are divided into about 6 segments. It has a yellow striped marking running down the back of its head. It is looking behind it. Beside it is a small photo of a real oak bush cricket which it is based off. The insect is small and green with wings folded over its back. It is on a branch or twig and the blue sky is faintly visibly in the background behind the insect.
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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bug-gwen.bsky.social
Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Detail of the water pot decoration. Grasshoppers carrying flowers are also accompanying a palanquin, used to carry... presumably high ranking lady grasshoppers. A couple might also be katydids based on antennae length, but let's not get uptight about imaginary anthropomorphized bugs, eh? The little freshwater pot, with a wooden top. This side shows more grasshoppers (possibly a katydid) carrying fruit and flowers as they march along on their hind legs.
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Random thought:
I cannot stand how normalised torturing and killing bugs is online, whether it is those videos of people forcing bugs to fight to the death or memes that involve someone harming a bug in a shocking way because it's "funny".
🧵
#bugs #insect
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Quite pleased with this shot of an Urosigalphus braconid wasp I got in central Austin today. I suspect the wasps are emerging from live oak acorns, having parasitized the grubs acorn weevils.

Not many live photos exist of this genus, it seems.
Macro photo of a robust black wasp with red legs walking on a twig against a blurry green background. The wasp's antennae are raised.
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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0rthoptera.bsky.social
tympanal organs (for hearing) of a katydid
Siliquofera grandis nymph pictured from the front. tympanal organs on forelimbs (specifically tibia) circled red
October 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Decided to use my drawing tablet again after not touching it for ages and drew this little guy based off the species Notiophilus rufipes. :)
#bugart #insect #furryart #bugs

Still need to improve on rendering my art, I'm not very used to doing so on my drawing tablet.
A drawing. This is a reference sheet for a beetle character. They have big eyes, four legs and two arms. There is a fully rendered image in the middle with shading and highlights and around it are two flat coloured images. The rendered image of the beetle is posing.
October 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
I think I'll post my art here more often. :))

A bunch of fly doodles from a few weeks ago. It's fun playing around with bug anatomy and trying to stylise it.

#diptera #bugart #bugs #insects
Seven rough drawings of flies on a grey background. The flies are drawn in a non realistic way.
October 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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vannabartlett.bsky.social
Finding pseudoscopions. Our compost bin had Pselaphochernes scorpioides in it. To search: scoop out top layer of kitchen/garden waste & put in bucket. Sieve next layer down using garden riddle over a bowl. Then use finer potting sieve over tray. They are small, around 2mm. 1/2
@duleyp.bsky.social
A plastic garden compost bin with the lid off showing the contents - a mixture of kitchen and garden waste. On the grass next to the bin are a plastic bucket, a black plastic garden riddle (sieve) sitting over a red bowl, a smaller potting sieve on a round plastic plant pot tray and a white plastic tray with sieved compost in it. A white plastic tray with sieved garden compost in it. Roughly in the centre is a tiny pseudoscorpion which has been circled in blue on the photo. White plastic tray with sieved garden compost and two tiny pseudoscorpions in the middle, highlighted with blue arrows on the photo. Close up of a pseudoscorpion on a white plastic tray. It is pale reddish brown with long arm-like pedipalps that end in claws.
September 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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cyndavilachase.bsky.social
BEES
-honey
-bumble
-blue carpenter
-green sweet
-tawny mining
-ashy mining

#art | #insects | #bees
A colorful illustration of 6 different species of bees
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM