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Pat
@beetlecandy.bsky.social
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21 🪲 Studying scientific illustration 🐛 I like bugs and drawing. Commissions open! https://linktr.ee/BeetleCandy
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · Aug 6
I initially made this for an illustration contest. I wanted to go out of my comfort zone a bit. Nothing super special but I’m proud of it nonetheless.

#illustration #digitalart #tiny #oc #sona #digitalpainting
A tiny humanoid creature with blue hair sitting atop a tomato pin-cushion. It is holding a lit match above its head. A cockroach peacefully stands by.
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 2d
as a kid I didn’t understand the appeal of bears, but now I see how awesome they are. #kemonefriends #けものフレンズ #procreate
sketch page of the japanese black bear from kemono friends, decorated with bright yellow patterns
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大岩抱い太 @daitaohiwa.bsky.social · 9d
#INKTOBER #INKTOBER2025 #けものフレンズ
DAY1 MUSTACHE
ヒゲダンスはコスチュームも動作もペンギンぽいなーというお話
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 7d
I don’t think I’ve ever seen iridescence rendered like that before… so cool!
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 Spicy gummy worm alert! 🚨 🐛

Though it may look delicious, the bright colors warn of its ability to sting. Kinda looks like it's wearing pajamas...

Thanks to @dradriansmith.bsky.social for hosting the specimen.

stinging rose #caterpillar
#Limacodidae: #Parasa indetermina
NC, USA
A squishy-looking caterpillar sits on a leaf. It has four thin black lines alternating with white running down its back, with alternating orangish-red and yellow stripes down the sides. Along its body are a few tentacle-like protuberances covered in stinging spines. There are smaller round, evenly spaced warts covered in spines along the body as well. A squishy-looking caterpillar sits on a leaf. It has four thin black lines alternating with white running down its back, with alternating orangish-red and yellow stripes down the sides. Along its body are a few tentacle-like protuberances covered in stinging spines. There are smaller round, evenly spaced warts covered in spines along the body as well. A squishy-looking caterpillar sits on a leaf. It has four thin black lines alternating with white running down its back, with alternating orangish-red and yellow stripes down the sides. Along its body are a few tentacle-like protuberances covered in stinging spines. There are smaller round, evenly spaced warts covered in spines along the body as well. The squishy head region of a caterpillar can be seen curling around the edge of the leaf, its spiky protuberances can also be seen cresting the edge of the leaf.
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 12d
unbothered beaver #kemonofriends #けものフレンズ #procreate #wip
american beaver
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teal @tealightjay.bsky.social · 14d
elephant shrew lucario. i call him shrewcario
a drawing of an elephant shrew that is like lucario
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Andrew Rakich @atunshei.bsky.social · 13d
Like the mass murder of bison on the Plains or the clearing of the Eastern Woodlands for animal agriculture, colonialism annihilates and replaces ecosystems as well as peoples, polities, and cultures.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13d
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 15d
It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures
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PsySon @psy-son.bsky.social · 16d
Me when I spread misinformation about the Mario Movie

#Rosalina #fanart
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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 19d
detail from the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights but everybody consents
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 22d
💥 HIPSTER ANIMALS 10th Anniversary 💥

DIY furniture hacker #IKEAmonkey

→ hipster-animals.tumblr.com/archive
It's the IKEA Monkey with an allen key
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 22d
I also think about this a lot. I don’t like to expect the worst of humanity often, but it’s not hard to imagine.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22d
Keep up the pressure
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 22d
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 22d
Hululu… and some friends #kemonofriends #けものフレンズ #フンボルトペンギン #penguin #fanart
Sketch page of Hululu from Kemono Friends (humboldt penguin)
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Dinchen @dinchenix.bsky.social · 23d
"How do you get so much detail in your Pixel Art?"
- I trust the process, and I keep going, and going, and going, and going... until I am somewhere:)
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#pixelart #artprocess #dinchenix
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 23d
thing i made for some reason #pikmin #pikmin3 #AlphPikmin #berryeatingdome
“Bruce in his berry eating dome” but I replaced Bruce the bird with Alph from Pikmin
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mellie ⋆˙⟡♡ @melibelle.bsky.social · Dec 4
Made this a while ago to help me stay motivated at work
#Pikmin #Olimar #ピクミン
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 24d
the SIZE of her
Unit tray of Plotinus, one of which is simply enormous, the exact color, size, and shape of a fresh horse chestnut
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · 26d
I laughed my ass off when I watched it for the first time. So good
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · Sep 10
another friend #fanart ! #けものフレンズ #kemonofriends #procreate
blue whale from kemono friends, with a blue, watery background
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · Sep 9
I originally named this "Goldenrod Crab Spider on Goldenrod" (Misumena vatia) but...

Now it's "Goldenrod Crab Spider on Flower that Due to Morphological Differences Has Been Moved to Genus Euthamia so is no Longer a True Goldenrod"

Taxonomy is fun! (Goldenrods are Genus Solidago) #inverts #plants
Macro photo of a white goldenrod crab spider on the head of a yellow grass-leaved goldenrod flower AKA goldentop flower. the spider is in profile facing left.
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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Sep 9
I am now at liberty to share with you another of the numerous concept art pieces I did for the upcoming docuseries “Surviving Earth”. This time is for the juvenile Ischigualastia jenseni

#paleoart #SurvivingEarth #conceptart #nbcuniversal
Concept art of Ischigualastia juvenile showing it in frontal, dorsal, lateral and three quarters view
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Sep 8
IT'S ADORABLE!
New fish species just dropped: the bumpy snailfish at 10,000 ft down in the ocean
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · Sep 9
oh hey, I just learned that the ~2005 website we made to function as a fully illustrated, HTML-based key to California's arthropods is STILL THERE, a miracle in this age of linkrot essigdb.berkeley.edu/biokeys/inve...
blurry ancient jpg logo of "UC Berkeley BioKeys" featuring a cute bug under a magnifying glass
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Pat @beetlecandy.bsky.social · Sep 7
grey wolf 🐺💙
#kemonofriends #fanart #procreate #けものフレンズ
sketch page featuring gray wolf from kemono friends
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