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apantesis
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amazing work, you keep raising the bar on what is possible!
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Day 30 of my 2024 favorites: BLUE
I'd been aware of Sphodros abboti (one of our local mygalomorph species) for a few years, and that the males looked like this, but seeing one for myself was a bucket list event. This boy absolutely did not disappoint 💙
#InverteFest #AmericasAss
Lean black mygalomorph spider lad with giant chelicerae, and that iconic deep purple-ish blue abdomen Closer shot of his blie booty. One of a kind ass. America's ass, even
December 31, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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Day 21 of my 2024 favorites: a stunning (and very large) Tunneling Teddy Bear, rabbit botfly (Cuterebra buccata)
Lots of flies have a bit of a macabre life cycle and botflies certainly fall in that category, but this is a truly magnificent creature all the same. 🖤
Face of a chonky fly; white below, reddish brown uppers. Eyes sort of a blue-gray, with a red marking in each like an exclamation point written in blood. Two dark structures on her back behind her wing attachment point loom like the ears of a cat. Side view. She's very soft-looking. Her legs gave some red as well as the eye marking. Her chonky abdomen is white, speckled with glitter-like iridescent spots showing blue from this angle Close view of one of her eyes and that red exclamation point. The dot is shaped like a drop of blood Top view as I found her, on an oak shoot. Reddish brown uppers, and dark wings swept back.
December 22, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Day 16 of my 2024 favorites: Velvet ant mimic ant lions!
I'd seen one of the velvet ant mimicking larvae a few years ago but none since, until this silly creature showed up above ground one afternoon. ❤️ The adults are Very Long. They're delightful.
Red-orange ant lion larvae with a black and white striped booty which makes it look like a velvet ant in the sand. The face features those signature long fearsome mandibles Closer shot of the creature in the sand, mandibles at the ready for snacks Graceful grey ant lion adult with mottled wings and an extremely long and thin booty, nearly twice the length of its wings.
December 17, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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Day 6 of my 2024 favorites: Grapholita moth!
It's just a very pretty tiny moth species, and the dried fern made a nice setting. One of my favorite shots of the year. 🤎
Small quietly iridescent bluish grey moth, with 4 gold stripes across its wings, which are folded. Each wing has a border at the bottom edge like tiger stripes. At rest on the coiled leaves of a dried fern
December 7, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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what a neat idea! reposted!
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
apantesis.bsky.social
your collection is so wonderful! i hope you flip through that book with do much pride (maybe after a well-deserved nap)
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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ethereal!
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM