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marshy

@dolomedes.bsky.social

300 followers 280 following 770 posts

i like spiders, i like lacewings, i like cats, i like coffee, i like funky bass, and i guess i like some other stuff too.

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wolf pupy @wolfpupy.bsky.social · Aug 4

the Treasure Trolls taught us that all you need in life is long beautiful hair and a wish granting gemstone on your belly.

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 3d

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣

#invertober2025

symmetrical blocky art of a dark fishing spider with stylized patterning, colored like black on red greek pottery. there is a black border on the image with a greek-esque choppy line pattern

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 2d

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 3d

Day 11 #Invertober2025 - Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) 🕷️

daaang, girl got legs for ~ daaaaays ~

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a very long legged hairy spider, in orange base with black and grey dots, on a black background.

semi-realistic drawing of a very long legged hairy spider, in orange base with black and grey dots, on a white background.

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 6d

marsh mixup
we doodlin (woodlin)
#art

a sketch of a heron and an egret with their heads underwater, each emerging behind the other bird

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 3d

this bat-eared dog was Otis, as in the bat genus Myotis

a white and brown dog with a green collar in the passenger seat of a car. his ears are large and upright, his nose and eyes are brown, and his mouth is wide open.

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 4d

walked into that

‪acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻‬
‪@acabylonbee.bsky.social‬
fact check: most people who don't know their beautiful, arent

‪Just A Boo Owl ☭ 👻‬
‪@justabarnowl.bsky.social‬
they're

acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻
‪@acabylonbee.bsky.social‬
they'rent actually

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 4d

he was on the first ICP album in like '91. he used the n-word.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4d

And if you're thinking "Wow look at these guys vote against their own interests," no they didn't.

Most US farmers' interests are just NOT what people think they are.

The loudest voices in ag are millionaires who're worried about taxes more than anything else.

They're just rich. It's not that deep

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 4d

butterflies make up a monophyletic group, moths are just the leps that aren't butterflies. fairer to say *moths* don't exist (unless you include butterflies).

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 4d

#NewSpecies!
New planthopper from #vietnam just hopped in:

Hemisphaerius thaydoius

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03F6C023-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#ejtaxonomy #HemisphaeriusThaydoius

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #animals #entomology #insects #bugs #planthopper

Hemisphaerius thaydoius, live specimen in Bach Ma National Park.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 5d

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 5d

Two surgeons are performing and autopsy. They are extracting various organs from a corpse. Another surgeon has shown up in a large Spongebob mascot outfit.

Caption "Aw Jeez, I'm the only one who wore a costume."

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 5d

an unfortunate caterpillar that became host to lots of braconid wasps which have emerged to pupate #bugsky #insects

a brown caterpillar with multiple projections and a light green couple of segments near its head. under the caterpillar is a neat stack of fluffy white cocoons, affixed to thorny vegetation

another angle of the caterpillar and wasp-stack. the caterpillar appears spotted due to the numerous holes from which wasp larvae emerged.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5d

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 5d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 6d

#invertober 8, bee killer robber fly. GO my diptera 👐

#invertober2025

thick lineart drawing of a bee-killer robber fly from the side, head angled to look towards the viewer. there is a pattern of simple bees and honeycomb on the yellow background

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 5d

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 6d

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 7d

hey Phidippus, it's Arachtober - you're only supposed to eat insects! #arachtober #spiders #phidippus

a crab spider getting a taste of its own medicine - its face being eaten by a jumping spider.

marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 7d

murphy brown is that you

marshy @dolomedes.bsky.social · 10d

bacon, as in jeff bacon

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 11d

#invertober day 3, giant green anemone 👐

#invertober2025

rough color block art showing a close up of the tentacles and mouth of a giant green anemone

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