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Chrysie 🐝🪲🦋
@chrysididae.bsky.social
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Fan of art & bugs. Bug art is even better
(Pfp + header is not a chrysid. But it is a cool bee)
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choodraws.bsky.social
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January 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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mutillidae.bsky.social


Re-sharing this image for #BlueMonday . This is NOT a jewel wasp ( #Chrysididae ), but rather a velvet-ant ( #Mutillidae ).

I know, right?

#BlueBugs
#Bluetillidae
#BlueVelvet (-ant) [RIP David Lynch]
Dorsal view of a pinned male velvet-ant on a grey background. The body is a brilliant metallic blue, with magenta tints on the all three body segments. The legs and antennae are darker, almost black in some places. The wings are extended away from the body and are smokey throughout. Scattered, erect, dark hairs are scattered across the body and legs. The abdomen has some additional pale setae, especially on the 2nd and 3rd segments.The body is punctate; the back end of the thorax is more heavily sculptured with a reticulate pattern. This specimen was collected in Australia and is the species Ephutomorpha corusca.
January 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
Here's a leaf-footed bug nymph with a sparkly blue booty. Maybe this is a means of confusing predators? Juveniles and adults can produce a defensive scent so it could be warning coloration too.
(Acanthocephala terminalis) Tennessee
#BlueBugs #BlueMonday
An insect with red eyes, a brown body and legs, and a wide, sparkly blue abdomen. The insect is standing on a leaf.
January 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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entobiologist.bsky.social
fairy wasp mother :> if your wish is to spend your childhood inside someone else's egg she can grant that
#sciart #invertebrates
stylized digital illustration of a yellow wasp with long, skinny appendages and red eyes. the wings are reduced to long stalks. she holds a star wand and wears a small crown. she is winking. text reads "fairy wasp mother" in light pink cursive that looks like a ribbon. background is pale yellow with a white doily.
January 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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jencross.bsky.social
Want to learn more about weird and wonderful wasps? This is the book for you! It's a great intro to these misunderstood insects and includes info about most wasp families alongside lots of photos and exceptional graphics. 60% off! Go get a copy! 🧪🌿🐙
wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · Jan 16
The @princetonupress.bsky.social Flash Sale list this month includes @bugeric.bsky.social's brilliant book "Wasps: The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect" at a 60% discount off the cover price. #Booksky

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Wasps
The ultimate visual journey into the beautiful and complex world of wasps
press.princeton.edu
January 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
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An illustration of a fire poppy, a vibrantly red-orange flower with lobed green leaves. In the illustration, one California dogface butterfly is flying by a flower and another is resting on a flower. Handwritten text is written above the poppy and butterfly, and the entire illustration is on a light blue background.
January 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
Happy new year! 2025 is the year of the snake, and I am planning on various new snake projects this year to celebrate my favorite (and my own) Chinese zodiac. To begin with, here’s a bunch of snaky caterpillars! 💚🐛
Various caterpillars with eyespots that mimicking snakes
January 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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vincentisvintage.bsky.social
“Perfect Blue” the Satoshi Kon masterpiece
March 7, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Waspy women
Two humanoid insect women in front of abstracted simple backgrounds. To the left is a woman with the face and wings of a beefly, a type of fuzzy insect with a long proboscis. She is wearing a loose floral print dress and sneakers. To the right is a woman with the face of a yellowjacket wasp, with sharp mandibles and black markings. She is in a straightforward pantsuit. A humanoid velvet ant woman. She has a fuzzy orange and black body and sharp mandibles, she is wearing punk style clothes and fishnets with black combat boots.
January 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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janwieringa.bsky.social
This parasitic wasp (that looks like an ant) has different venoms that work on different potential attackers. Each predator gets its fair share. www.sciencenews.org/article/velv...
Velvet ants have the Swiss Army knife of venoms
A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.
www.sciencenews.org
January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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munespice.bsky.social
giant malaysian leaf insect! 🍃
An illustration of a giant malaysian leaf insect climbing some twigs
January 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
my personal favorite comic of 2024
January 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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royalghostmarch.bsky.social
A type of damselfly known as beautiful demoiselle for this last year’s Salut coaster titled “Set Upon the Garden to Sigh and Sleep”. I love damselflies. They remind me of summer and being in rivers.
December 29, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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royalghostmarch.bsky.social
A painting titled “Born With a Name Unworthy of Love Songs” for a past group show, The Everything Hum. A giant forest scorpion in a bed of ixora flowers.
A framed painting of a giant forest scorpion in a bed of ixora flowers. In the scorpion’s claw is a moth.
November 27, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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evenlyevi.bsky.social
Goodnight 🌿 #art #illustration
A detailed illustration of outdoor foliage at night, consisting of wild plants, grass and a few small delicate flowers. The viewer is placed at ground level where you can see the details up close. The drawing is rendered in blue monochrome tones with a soft light appearing to be illuminating the foreground of the image. The bottom right corner of the image has the artist's username signed "@evenlyevi"
December 31, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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mahoukarp.com
Whale sharks 🦈🫧
#sharks
Illustration of some whale sharks. The colors used in this image are mainly blue gradients and pink. They are all smiling and swimming happily
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Go your own pace
December 29, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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kateaveryart.bsky.social
Little one I alllllmost finished today!
Small incomplete oil painting of a seascape with a cloudy sky, distant islands, and rocks and sand in the foreground.
December 30, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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creative-caro.com
My favourite art from 2024
A digital illustration of a fallen tree. The viewer stands kinda stands in the treetop. Some ghosts and a cat explore the tree. #art #illustration #digitalart #nature A digital illustration of a flower buquet. Summer meadow flowers. A digital illustration of a piglet skull surrounded by dried flowers.
December 28, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
Merry Crustmas ❤️🤍❤️🤍 red and white crustaceans are always a treat to the eyes!
December 23, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!
A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says "Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?" and the other says, "Yes: A ANTS." In panel 2, the first person says "Wait, no, that's-" The second says, "How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!" In panel 3, we're down in an ant nest. "Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies." There's a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, "The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next year’s workers." The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, "Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew." The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says "Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can't interfe-" "Stop." "But I haven't told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!"
December 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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chentomology.bsky.social
In Costa Rica I was deeply fascinated by those leaf cutter ants, they were so fun to watch & really abundant and successful! I have to make a sticker sheet design so they can line up on my tablet 💚 let me know if you like the idea as well!
December 9, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
beetle :)
An illustration of a cockchafer beetle on top of a gray-ish brown branch, covered with dark green lichen. It is a mostly orange-brown beetle with large feathery antennae and a black head/thorax. It is illustrated on a light pale orange background.
December 4, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
Winter in Northern California 🍄‍🟫🐌
An illustration of a yellow banana slug surrounded by small brown California Bonnet mushrooms (Mycena californiensis) and redwood leaf needles. It is illustrated against a neutral gray-blue background.
December 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM
chrysididae.bsky.social
beautiful!!!!
fossilforager.bsky.social Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · Dec 16
A lil cuckoo wasp!
An illustration of a small blue and green iridescent wasp with large cute dark eyes. It has dark colored semi-transparent wings at rest on its abdomen. It is illustrated on a blue background.
December 22, 2024 at 3:43 PM