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D. Allan Drummond

@dadrummond.art

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Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · Oct 19

Huntress, my solid bronze mantis. She’s articulated…look closely and you can see the neodymium magnets at her neck and shoulders (coxae) 🔬

Bronze metal praying mantis looking left, shot from the waist up, her left foreleg extended to show her raptorial claw.

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Sarah Smith - Nature Artwork @doedryadart.bsky.social · 1h

Gotta love these tiny guys! Awesome sculpt.
These are two I found, compared to notebook paper and a quarter.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 2h

Oh how I want that for you! Sending quantum vibrations 🖤

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🤞🏻🪲🤞🏻

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Jesse Louis-Rosenberg @nervousjesse.bsky.social · 3h

We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea

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Meet the Flummoxagon

We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…

n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 3h

Well done mate 👊🏻❤️

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 5h

Thanks — it’s yours 🖤

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 5h

Amazing!

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Andreas Haider @saltsweetsugar.bsky.social · 5h

There is a such a lovely one in a chanterelle :)

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 8h

Happy #Invertober day 8!

Bee-killer robber fly (mallophora fautrix)

#SciArt #Invertober2025

A black and gold insect that looks like a bee but is actually a species of fly that mimics bees. It is crawling through thick green grass.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 17h

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

Large fuzzy black and white jumping spider with bright green chelicerae, on grumpy salticid posture (legs tight around him like cat loaf), on the tip of a stick peering at you

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 7h

Loved and shared!

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I had to look that up, worth it

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 8h

Loving the burst of pseudoscorpion posts! Gave this grabby guy some bristles and a bit more attitude 😈 (remember in reality they’re like sesame seeds with attitude) #arachtober

A gray resin sculpture of a pseudoscorpion, sitting in my open hand against a white background.

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 1d

My latest for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social concerns these li’l cuties that live in our homes and ride around on other bugs.

The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House

YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 9h

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Habronattus alachua lass with the Head Tilt ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Light grey fuzzy jumping spider with reddish-brown stripes down her face across her big eyes, on a blade of dry grass tilting her head to peer at you

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 1d

A good day to remember John Gurdon’s school report from his biology master at Eton

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Joachim Frank @joachim123.bsky.social · 2d

I'm excited to report that a species has been named after my son Ze Frank, "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science communication, which have inspired curiosity, wonder, and deeper public engagement with the natural world"

The certificate by Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, issued in Voncina, 2025, spells out that a newly described species of chiton has been formally named Craspedochiton zefranki. This is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science communication, which have inspired curiosity, wonder, and deeper public engagement with the natural world.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 1d

Wonderful...he's the best, and he's on Bluesky! Congratulations @zefrank.bsky.social !

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoy my art, I have shops at inprnt and threadless, including many images appropriate for the Halloween season!

and both are having BIG SALES right now!

inprnt (high quality art prints): 30% off

and threadless: cheap tees and up to 35% off other merch!

Links below & in bio!

Drawing in white against a black background of a beetle, drawn symmetrically with legs outstretched. Its back shell is filled with an abstract, doodled design that suggests human bones and sports a grinning human skull near the top.

Drawing of an angelic figure with large wings that take up most of the image and extend beyond the boundary of the drawing. The wings form layers of blue, pink, white, pink, blue to echo the design of the trans flag. The angel is a skeleton with a bird-like skull and one glowing pink eye and one glowing blue eye. They are holding a sword to their chest with the tip of the sword pointing toward the ground. Their feet are extended downward in such a way as to make it look as though they were floating. They are wearing a crown of pink and blue flowers on their head.

Black tshirt with an illustration of a white rabbit at top of image weeping blood tears and a red rabbit at bottom with skeleton exposed weeping blue tears. There is an anatomically correct heart with a pin stabbed through it in the middle of the image and the rabbits and their tears form a loose circle around the heart.

Black tshirt with illustration of a creature with tentacles for legs, luna moth wings and feelers, a bird skull-like head, antlers, hoofed hands, fur-covered body and glowing red eyes.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 3d

😇 perfect

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 3d

So lovely. In that vein, this captures my feeling. 💔 youtu.be/_34gUVqLkAo?...

TES V Skyrim Soundtrack - The Streets of Whiterun

YouTube video by Aramil

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 3d

Essentially all that damage was there while she lived, and is there in the first photo — I found it amazing that she could still fly. While she crawled flowers a bit more than usual, she flew quite a bit on those broken wings. Just an extremely powerful animal.