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real butterfly | Learning lepidopteran raiser | aspiring entomologist | 🧡 @cekrophia.bsky.social 🧡 | they/them 🏳️‍⚧️, 20 (NSFW DNI)

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jmbecologist.bsky.social
“Despite reports of catastrophic insect declines, their global status remains unclear due to … a massive lack of data”

Poorly evidenced reports of huge losses do insects a disservice & do not help with planning appropriate action
www.ceh.ac.uk/press/some-i...
‘Some insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%?’
Little is known about how 99% of insect species globally are faring and a new approach is needed to better monitor species and protect them, according to a study led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hyd...
www.ceh.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
OK, let me join #ArtAdventCalendar, late, even if I might not catch up entirely!

Gonna go for a #SciArt zine illustrations theme.

1. Kentish glory moth.

No longer found in Kent, or indeed most other places in the UK. Now scarce and found only in Scotland, if I recall correctly.
Watercolour and pencil llustration of a big fluffy Kentish glory moth, or Endromis versicolora if you want the Latin. It's perched on bark, with its large white and red-brown speckled wings folded. It has a very fluffy body and black antennas and she looks majestic.
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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toothandbranch.bsky.social
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Digital painting by me, of a giant monster based on a fire eel, framed by swaying sea foliage in murky greenish water. The creature's jaws are open, revealing a secondary set of pharyngeal jaws toward the back of its throat. Red dorsal and yellow ventral frills, matching the colours of its markings, run down the length of its body. Character belongs to @winterwisteria.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
(repost) 🎇 NORTHERN SCORPION 🦂

#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart
A formline design illustration of a northern scorpion lit up by UV light, sitting on a pile of stones.
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
pterouras.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

-Pink-spotted swallowtail
-West Indian manatee
-Florida buck moth
-Eastern reticulated beetle
-Pigeon horntail
jelbugle.bsky.social j-e-l 🎄🪇🎄 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 14d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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suzannek23.bsky.social
MIGISHI Kotaro
Butterflies Flying above Clouds
1934
oil on canvas
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

三岸好太郎
《雲の上を飛ぶ蝶》
1934 昭和9年
油彩・キャンバス
東京国立近代美術館
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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aekur.xyz
the rgb gaming butterfly
Reference of Show
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
ittle critters playing dead! 🐛🪲💀

I’ve been sick after a period of intense work but on the other hand I was able to slow down and draw something fun & relaxing… hope you folks enjoy it too!
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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phazonharbinger.bsky.social
Orthomeria pandora "Laguna" hatchling. Very unusually behaved phasmids, they react just at the mere sight of you and run around very fast, quite erractic for stick insects. #wildlife #nature #macro #photography #stickinsect #stickbug #phasmid #insect
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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vigiscar.bsky.social
Illustration of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) 🐞
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #beetle #harlequinbeetle #harlequin
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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lazaroillustration.bsky.social
Lets continue with the drawing course plates 🪲

#insects #sciart #dragonfly #art
Illustration of a dragonfly
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
pterouras.bsky.social
Breaking my silence to share this summer fishfly I stumbled across :D I LOVE megalopterans and I’ve always wanted to see one in-person; it’s been dead for weeks in this spiderweb but I’m happy regardless
A large winged insect hanging from a spiderweb next to a window. The body is mostly varying shades of grey all over. The wings are exceptionally long with a pleated texture to them; one wing is hanging down perpendicular to the other wings and is damaged. The same insect with a finger for size comparison. Its wing is a little over twice the length of a fingernail. An angular view of the same insect. Its face is somewhat visible, revealing shiny grey damselfly-like eyes on the sides of the head, and an angular, boxy head shape.
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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athruwinter.bsky.social
Traditional Art of a Yutyrannus

#dinosaur #paleoart
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
*Niche critter profile*
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
pterouras.bsky.social
Deciding on a taxon to specialize in for future entomological study is so difficult because I evidently am most interested in lepidoptera but there’s already so many entomologists that study that order and I feel a certain need to be able to help expand knowledge of lesser understood taxa
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 31, 💀death’s head hawk moth💀

#invertober2025
symmetrical color block art of a death's head hawk moth . it is drawn in simplified colors and patterns on an orange background, with a black frame with cartoony bones and skulls and a moth at the keystone. death's head is written at the center bottom
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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chentomology.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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pterouras.bsky.social
I’m really happy this is a site where insect content farms don’t exist and everyone either posts their own photos or credits the photographers. It’s very refreshing
August 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 28, pearly green lacewing

#invertober2025
color block art of a pearly green lacewing on a swirling background vaguely resembling plants. it is sitting on green swirls backed with purples and pinks
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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cekrophia.bsky.social
Dunno who in my following here plays fortnite, but I'm willing to draw art for this guy (either gift or the needed vbucks) since I spent all my vbucks on flysbee ough
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 25, house centipede!! i think they are so cutes so heres a face focus

#invertober2025
head focus icon of a house centipede. it has cartoonish hay expression to its eyes, and a few hearts floating near its face
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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dragonymango.bsky.social
i love you whip spider...
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 23, pink sand dunes tiger beetle🐯

#invertober2025
color block art of a pink sand dunes tiger beetle on a sandy pink background. it is stanced with its abdomen raised, mandibles bared, and antennae curled
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday!
This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart
A brown butterfly or moth-like insect with an eyes pot on its wing sitting on a yellow flower like cone.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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martynwarren.bsky.social
At an AES event several years ago, a customer kindly pointed out that some of my earlier drawings had somewhat incorrect colouring, as back then I was drawing from my specimens and hadn't even considered that they might be faded. Well, I'm now pleased to share my updated cecropia silkmoth...
My new cecropia silkmoth, with a much more red body and wing details. My original drawing, which looks slightly more brown / orange as it was based on a slightly faded specimen.
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM