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★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug @erujayy.bsky.social · 17d

Mecynorrhina Oberthuri Decorata

My favourite beetle of all time ✨

#inverts #SciArt 🪲🦐

An illustration of an orange splotched beetle with cream stripes sits atop blue and purple flowers.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · 22d

PEPO !!

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PokuriMio @pokurimio.bsky.social · 25d

...and I believe...THEY CAN SAVE THE WORLD 🌪️

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · 28d

These clumsy goobers are my favorite. 💙

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 29d

#SciArtSeptember 11 - Venomous

Whoops, I forgot to post this yesterday.

Cretan giant centipede (Scolopendra cretica). Though almost all endemic mammals of the Mediterranean islands are extinct, there is still numerous unique species to preserve: reptiles, arthropods, plants and so on.

Illustration of a Cretan giant centipede - a long, many-legged creature with orange, purple and bluish body segments, pale yellow legs and dark orange jaws.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · 29d

Got lost in the squash with this one...
Squash bees are specialists on cucurbits, and I think that's pretty cool and niche of them.

Sept. 8 Prompt: niche
#squashbee #xenoglossastrenua #cucurbitaceae #traditionalart #sciartseptember

An ink and marker drawing of a squash bee (Xenoglossa strenua) for the prompt, "niche."
The bee is facing right and has a pronounced nasal region of its face; I don't know specific anatomical names for bee facial structures (I would guess it is the labrum...)
It basically looks like a hairy bee with a big nose.
There are squash/gourd flowers, tendrils, and gourd shapes incorporated throughout the art: flowers are mostly on the hind legs+ thorax, and the plant tendrils are mostly background features.
Color scheme is primarily greens, yellows, orange, and tan.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 9

Dunno, but happy you like it!

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks for the love on the alligator art yesterday.
Starting tomorrow, gonna work on some of this September's prompts; hoping to return to my roots (bees) a little.
For now, another piece from the 2022 collection (6 of 30.)

Prompt: soft
#rosymaplemoth #dryocamparubicunda #sciart #traditionalart

An ink drawing done with ballpoint pen and markers featuring a rosy maple moth sitting on a pale-brown maple twig.
The moth is perched on the twig, facing the viewer, with its typical pink and yellow coloration, and a fluffy composition. The antennae appear very feathery.
The background is mostly white with 3-4 grey maple leaves with red leaf venation.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · Sep 6

Day 5 of #SciArtSeptember: Corridor
Ocelots are one animal that uses wildlife corridors in Texas to get around. This one is giant and destroying every road in its path like a cat with a roll of toilet paper though. #Art

Digital painting of a giant ocelot walking down a highway at night. Lights from a town up ahead lighten its determined face and yellow eyes. Smaller roads are wrapped around its body like swirling ribbon.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 6

Still debating on if I want to try and do some prompts for this year's SciArtSeptember...
While I continue to flounder with indecisiveness, here's one from the 2022 prompts (5 of 30.)

Prompt: mirrored
#americanalligator #alligatormississippiensis #sciart #traditionalart

An ink drawing done with ballpoint pen and markers featuring an American alligator waiting at the water's surface, mostly the gator's head; its reflection in the water.
Both contour lines and stippling were utilized for the drawing.
Chartreuse and grey-greens are the main colors, with hints of copper-brown to further tie in the implied swamp habitat surrounding the gator. There is vague dark blue lineart to emphasis the gator.

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Quil @quilbug.bsky.social · Sep 5

Insectember day 5: Rosalia Batesi
Common name: Black-spotted blue longicorn

A distinguished gentlebug!

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

An illustration of an anthropomorphized black-spotted blue longicorn beetle greeting someone gleefully, waving and raising it's top hat. The beetles segmented body is a bright cobalt blue with some sea-green faded on its abdomen and back of its thorax. It has contrasting black spots on its elytron, faded around its limb joins, and on its face. Its antenna are longer than its body and between each blue segment is a black puff. Its top pair of arms are raised, one holding its top hat up from its head and the other waving. Its one bottom arm rests a hand on its hip, and the other holds onto a fancy cane.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks, homie! I'll be on the lookout for goodies. 👀
They are in a little 6"x4" watercolor pad that someone gifted me awhile back... a nice, not-stressful size to work with given the lack of time I have had.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you, Lee!!!!

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 2

Psyduck definitely deserves to chill. Thank you, DJ!!

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Sep 2

Level 32 👉 Level 33
Something quick for my birthday so it starts off nice.

#watercolor #ballpointpen #pokemon #psyduck #golduck

A watercolor and ballpoint pen artwork of the Pokémon Psyduck floating on its back in water that gradients from red to yellowish-green to turquoise. Psyduck is relaxing, as it should be.

A watercolor and ballpoint pen artwork of the Pokémon Golduck sitting on a shoreline, pondering life, I guess. There are wavy shapes/contours incorporated into feathers. Water is blueish-purple and appears as small waves, the rest of the background is supposed to be very vague yellow and orange sandy shore.

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Aug 29

I usually vibe more with the darker vocaloid tracks, but this is really cute. 🥺
Also, beautiful art!

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David Guthrie Music @davidguthriemusic.bsky.social · Aug 28

✨ NEW ORIGINAL SONG ✨

💙 Moe♡Moe Kyun! 🩷 ft. Hatsune Miku 🎀
my first ever Vocaloid and hyperpop song! it's a bop 💃

tuned by the amazing @chinjireta.bsky.social 🐹
adorable art by @chiro.fish 🐟
incredible MV by @riguruma.bsky.social 💖

FULL SONG AND MV ⏬ Please RT 🙏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7e...

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TABLE @crbrnww.bsky.social · Jul 8

lemon shark 🍋🦈
#art #artmoots #lemonshark #shark #artsky

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TABLE @crbrnww.bsky.social · Jun 26

ghost shark 🦈
#ghostshark #art #artmoots #shark #artsky

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · Aug 25

Piggies, a study -2025

Digital drawing of a boar skull and two boars

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · Aug 24

worm or snake-like fantasy creature with rainbow feathered body, black feathered wings, and black feathered head with large fish-like eyes

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD @lindzeamays.bsky.social · Aug 21

Never in distress.

Don't let their daintiness fool you. Damselflies are voracious predators just like their Odonate relatives, dragonflies. Mosquitoes beware!

✨Prints available on my website!
✨Always human-made. No AI.

LindZeamays.com

🐡🎨🪳🪲🌱

Digital painting of a Damselfly face looking defiantly at the viewer. Another damselfly flies beside the words "Damsel in Defiance"

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Aug 16

If I have to think about this song and its music video all the time, well...
You're welcome.

Jacob Collier & AURORA - A Rock Somewhere X The Seed (Greenpeace)

YouTube video by Jacob Collier

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Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Aug 15

Every day, outside smells like someone ran piss through a humidifier.

Bee @boaceae.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yo! No need to apologize, I'm so glad you like it!! I thought about drawing Juniper as Axel again for the throwback, but that would've been nuts haha.

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