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📸 Pollinator at work

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#Photography #photo #Photographer #Nature #Naturelover #Hawaii #Sony #photographersofbluesky #bee #bees #plants #flower #plant #insecty #colors #macro #island #hawaiiisland #bright

October 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

@mrcwarwick.bsky.social

Diaries can often disappoint - you look for innermost thoughts & find notes of the weather - but Eileen Younghusband's journals include personal & sometimes reflective views of her life as she grew into adulthood.

Step back in time through the diaries at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Extracts from Eileen Younghusband's diary about her diary:

19 October 1917: "I was thinking the other day what awful crackers I might tell about the war and things in general in this diary and then when I am old and in my dotage my grandchildren would rummage this diary gracefully falling to peices and with the writting yellow and faded out of some old and frousty and insecty trunk and marvel that anyone so prim and proper and dull as grandma should have had such exciting things happen to her"

28 April 1918, "There are also several volumes of my grannie's diary written in the most beautiful, neat handwriting and very prim because it was all corrected by a very strict French governess they had when they were children. It is a great pity she saw the diaries because they would probably have been much more interesting if she hadn't. I wonder if my grandchildren nearly 90 years hence will read and laugh over, as something terribly old fashioned, my diary? alas! they won't be able to admire the beauty and neatness of my handwriting or the exactness of my style 'cos I ain't got none! and how they will laugh at the dresses in the photographs I have stuck in my diaries!"

28 August 1921, "I read over some old 1917 diaries this evening, very comic in more ways than one. I must say I did write my diary very much better then but there was so much more time. I must have been a funny child! It is amusing to think how one's point of view has changed. All the war part might have been really interesting if only one had written for the future, luckily for me I hadn't started to think about things in those days & didn't the least realize the horror of it all."

September 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Birdingprof

@birdingprof.bsky.social

“@NotQuiteScilly: In the garden right now - some weird insecty thing... https://x.com/NotQuiteScilly/status/362956273773314048/photo/1” Avert your eyes lest it lure you in

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https://x.com/NotQuiteScilly/status/362956273773314048/photo/1”

December 2, 2024 at 6:26 PM Everybody can reply

KENNETH SCOTT 2: KENNETH’S REVENGE

@superactionfunboy.bsky.social

#portfolioDay ! Hi, I'm Kenneth Scott ! #gamedev art Director and smokin' hot 2D/3D generalist. HAHAH. I've spent the last seven years making VR games you've never heard of and one roguelike you also never heard of apparently. :D #gameart

a vr game screenshot of GUNHEART, a VR coop shooter. Space hallway. Humanoid insecty creatures advancing. they clearly have feelings about you. two gloved hands hold big chonky space pistols firing.

A screenshot of VR horror game 'LIES BENEATH' styled after the Warren era of horror comics from the 90s. 3 zombiesque creatures stand in a dimly lit cabin.

A screenshot of a Game model from Superior. Cel shaded, brightly colored. A girl in a slouchy Beany, Angry teen Makeup, quick scars down her face. Robotic legs. Murmur!

A giant deformed, zombiefied super hero Monster. Cel Shaded Yellow Mask. Glowing eyes. Jack Kirby-esque tuning-fork forehead deco. Ribcage exposed.

January 9, 2024 at 6:58 PM Everybody can reply

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Dutiful Murdock

@dutifulmurdock.bsky.social

I have some of these and they are beautiful and very well made.

Go! Buy insecty trinkets!

MOTH👑MONARCH ain't dead yet @mothmonarch.bsky.social · Jul 23

🦋 IT'S NATIONAL MOTH WEEK! 🦋
Celebrate with me & take 10% off MY WHOLE SHOP through July 28th - just use code "MOTHWEEK" at checkout!
#SciArt #mothweek #BskyNightMarket
shop.mothmonar.ch ✨

Artist's advertisement reading "MOTH WEEK SALE: July 23 - 28, take 10% off with MOTHWEEK, shop.mothmonar.ch". A center block of 12 images show off various products: a celestial cicada enamel pin, a close-up of a black bandana with golden bees and honeycomb print, a gold metallic sticker of two white-lined sphinx moth moths with stars, a celestial bumblebee enamel pin, a notecard with an illustration of a death's-head hawk moth holding a radiant moon with phases below it, a sticker of two iridescent and black moths with opposite markings and moon phases, an a celestial centipede enamel pin, a yellow bandana with dark brown bees printed on it, two stickers of a millipede coiled into an infinity symbol in rainbow and red metallics, a set of three pill bug enamel pins, a close-up of a black bandana with a pattern made from a swarm of white moths and moon phases, and a double-sided pellucid hawk moth acrylic charm.

July 28, 2024 at 6:15 PM Everybody can reply

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✨Sparky Summers✨ Your Carbuncle Vtuber💛⨺⃝

@sparkysummers.vtubers.social

Here's stills from the new Starting Soon/BRB animations @katie-kat-yo.bsky.social slaved over to make me!

Both Male and Female sparky 👀✨

The carbies are designed after my friends! I'll tag them in the replies!

Thanks so much katie!

Four mythological carbuncles of various colour in dark cave full of glowing magical gemstones and crystals, with an intricate blue spell circle drawn between them. A fifth carbuncle is in the foreground, directing them in their actions to summon the semi-transparent Sparky, who floats, asleep, above the circle. There are two bananas and a single red gemstone at each intercardinal position on the circle, and the four different coloured and shaped crystals at the cardinal points.

The top-left Carbuncle is a purple one, with dark purple tail tips, and is juggling the bananas that should be beside the crystal. He has a rainbow head-gem, and wears a crown and rainbow-coloured crocs.

The top-right Carbuncle is a lighter purple wth darker purple tail tips and has green insecty-fairy wings. She has a green head-gem and is drawing part of the circle with a crayon.

The bottom-left Carbuncle is yellow, with dark orange tail tips., and also has wings. He has a star-shaped head-gem with a sunset-like design on it, and is holding a book with one forepaw and a candle with the other. He seems to be focused on summoning, his eyes closed and mouth open.

The bottom-right carbuncle is yellow, with darker brown tail-and-ear tips, and three brown stripes on his back. He has black sclera and red eyes, and a red head-gem. He seems to be taking notes and observing.

The carbuncle in the foreground is Stella - a green carbuncle with yellow at the base of her tail and dark grey at the tips. She has black sclera and green eyes, and a scarf, as well as a gold circlet holding her head-gem, which cannot be seen in the image.

The form of Sparky shown here is the Male version.

October 28, 2024 at 10:17 PM Everybody can reply

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Louise Hutt

@saycheeselouise.bsky.social

Muggy is a completely fair criticism, but insecty? I don't really notice that! 😅😅

August 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM Everybody can reply

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Huw

@followhuw.bsky.social

Maybe you could feed the birds with your insecty hair

March 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Momodriller

@momodriller.bsky.social

old art from 2021 of my bug sona but slightly more insecty #momodrillerart

A yellow velvet ant sits on someone's hand, smelling with its antenna. It was bright yellow fuzz, black exoskeleton, and red eyes. Another image shows it looking up at a person's finger and gently touching it with its antenna.

February 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM Everybody can reply

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👻 🧹 🐈‍⬛ hob bug boo 🐈‍⬛ 🧹 👻

@dubdobdee.bsky.social

more insecty observations as news breaks

November 26, 2024 at 4:38 PM Everybody can reply

David ‘We Are All Resistance Amphibians’ Burrows

@sodamasochist.bsky.social

🎶 I breath through my spiracles
Where you from?
Insecty thing (insecty thing you)
And I eat with my mandibles
Which are really strong
Insecty thing! 🎵

September 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM Everybody can reply

Lisa

@legolovinglisa.bsky.social

Just did some gardening. Still do not like one bit. Especially when you get all sweaty and insecty and have to shower and change afterwards, then you look out and it doesn’t look much better than before despite the garden waste bin now being full. Really don’t know how people can enjoy gardening 😂

September 25, 2023 at 11:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Logan :)

@joelogan.bsky.social

What's the word for whatever spiderman is? Insecty? Buggy? Arachny?

July 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM Everybody can reply

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Anne Billson

@annebillson.bsky.social

amazing photo! I don't think I've ever been able to study a cicada in such close-up before. Also, it's quite beautiful in its own insecty way. (What lens did you use?)

June 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM Everybody can reply

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🍂🌾 Bramble - No Buy 🌾🍂

@bramblebones.bsky.social

Insect & Spider warning ⚠️

Im feeling very insecty this month soooo! Heres a few pics of them!! (Also my favourite gemstone Inspo pic!!!)

November 14, 2024 at 9:21 PM Everybody can reply

Don't Be Afraid of the Clarke

@apclarke.bsky.social

Cocoon, a new insecty puzzle game, is absolutely lovely in its visual storytelling of a world run on alien logic

But!

The mechanics of these games train you to see through that visual surface to the 'put like with like' 'connect a to b' underlying logic.

It trains you to ignore its unique bits!

COCOON - Reveal Trailer - Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022

COCOON is coming to Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One in 2023.From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes y...

www.youtube.com

September 30, 2023 at 9:54 AM Everybody can reply

Chris Marsden

@chrismarsden.bsky.social

Very loud eagles breaking the buzzy insecty peace

December 21, 2024 at 11:54 AM Everybody can reply

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The Backward Birder

@backwardbirder.bsky.social

A day later and a little sunnier, I went a' looking for this and that around Exminster and Powderham Marshes. I found this, but not that.
🤷

It was a bit Spring-y... but a lot more insecty;
🐝🦋

Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee on Willow catkins.

Look how worn her wings are..

Barnacle Goose. Unringed, wary, and definitely wild honest!
Photo'd at distance through reeds [autofocus behaved for once!! ::faints:: ]

March 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Scott Harrison 🏳️‍⚧️ 💜🤍🩶🖤

@8bitliv.es

I feel like showing off some insecty sex tonight. Fairley with Maxine Luna, and both of them seperated being caught in some spider webs.

cw: hypnosis, ovipositor eggs bondage webs spider

#8bitlewds #ovipositor #webbing #hypnosis

Fairley getting caught in a web and getting rather embarrassed at the amount of eggs they are laying.

Maxine caught and hypnotised by a large feral arachnid.

November 25, 2024 at 10:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Feather Dancer

@feather-dancer.bsky.social

Catch me belatedly remembering this sketch exists.

Raoul is currently seeing two people. One of them happens to be a living shadow who was gifted the ability to manipulate water and did the only thing they could, make an insecty body with it. The Forest Guardian does not have a specific name.

Digital sketch. A human figure is sitting with a book between the limbs of a large insectoid looking creature which has three sets of limbs. The latter appears to be dozing.

April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Jack Bernhardt

@jackbern.bsky.social

"don't tell me any spoilers for Up, I was meant to see it last night but my bedroom had an infestation of buzzing insecty thingamajigs"

"House flies?"

"I SAID NO SPOILERS"

June 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM Everybody can reply

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Alex

@alexdegreine.bsky.social

Yes. Love all beings, including our beautiful insecty friends. I find the age expectancy numbers strange personally. I know many autistic folk who lived into their 70s and even 90s.

May 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM Everybody can reply

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Dr Jill Whitelock

@jillwhitelock.bsky.social

The very insecty frontispiece to the Rev. J. G. Wood’s ‘Insects at home’ (London, 1872), hilariously misbound facing p. 193 in the @theulspeccoll.bsky.social copy. MB.36.50 @theul.bsky.social

Colourful frontispiece of many different insects opposite a page of text.

January 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Ryan Trainor

@ryan-of-cbr.bsky.social

Imagine you haven’t voted yet and you wake up as a gigantic insect! They might not let you vote like that! Now it’s all stress and “can I get changed back in time to vote?” instead of getting to hang out and enjoy being gigantic and insecty. Avoid this stress. Vote early!

October 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Em Gray

@em-words.bsky.social

I did a little photoshoot with these mussel shells yesterday, each found on separate swims but seeming to want to get close. #seashells #photography

A photo of two mussel shells (each a hinged pair) on a clean white background. The hinged ends of each are far left and far right of the horizontal placing. One shell is opened wider than the other, so mostly holds the other in its 'mouth'.

A photo of two empty mussel shells (each one a connected pair). The higher one is hinged wider and placed like jaws around the other. There is an insecty look about their placing together this way, like two sets of closed wings.

October 19, 2023 at 10:06 AM Everybody can reply

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