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20 y/o 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️they/she/he 🪲Bug Enjoyer!🎧occasional artist and photographer🪄🎨

Maybe a Colony of 28,000 ants. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
people who miss the days when I was releasing a ton of stuff and going kinda wild are gonna enjoy the next few years
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
mazzarotting.bsky.social
@habitica.com happy #HabiticaAprilFools 😋
April 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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valentinolasso.bsky.social
Lunar New Year🐍🌕✨Year of the Wood Snake🌿
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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celineloup.bsky.social
Watercolor
January 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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entomologirl.bsky.social
I cannot think about the world today. Instead, behold these beautiful insects from the Montreal Insectarium, sorted by color.
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 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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creamey.bsky.social
critter
January 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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luxomancer.bsky.social
For today's #BestOfLux2024 and #invertefest offering I present the joy that are #Mantidflies. These awesome #Insects were frequent visitors to the bug light this year. More details in the #AltText.

Taken with a #Fujifilm X-S10 and #Laowa 65mm #Macro.

#Macrophotography
#Neuroptera
#invert
A photo of the brown and tan Four-spotted Mantidfly, DIcromantispa interrupta, on a white background from above. This photo shows how slender the raptorial arms, head, and neck of the insect is, and how the lacy wings cover the abodmen which curves towards the bottom of the frame. A photo of the front of a brown and tan Four-spotted Mantidfly from the front showing the raptorial arms and head in greater detail. The raptorial arms are held tightly folded under the head which is dominated by the two large bronze metallic iridescent eyes. A photo of a Four-spotted Mantidfly, Dicromantispa interrupta, on a white background, from the side. The Mantid fly is shades of tan and brown. The raptorial claws, which are very mantid-like are dark brown and held tightly under the insect's triangular head which features large round metallic bronze iridescent eyes and slender antennae. The insect's neck is slender and tubular and leads to square shaped thorax from which the slender tan legs are attached. the insect's wings are long and lacy, covering the tan abdomen. This is a photo of neck, head, and raptorial arms of a brown, tan, and yellow Beautiful Mantidfly, Leptomantispa pulchella as it snacks on what I believe is a leafhoopper. The mantidfly's raptorial arms are brown with lighter tan areas, the eyes are an iridescent metallic bronze color, the slender antennae are dark brown
December 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Want to learn to draw bugs for #InverteFest?

I curate "Bug Pics for Art Refs"—a collection of photos that show invertebrates from angles that are hard to find elsewhere online, hand-picked to specifically help people who draw bugs *like me*. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

My latest addition:
close up of a red dragonfly, 3/4 angle, focusing on the face and thorax close up of a red dragonfly, from the bottom, showing how the legs are attached to the body and the mouth area close up of the dragonfly's wings clearly showing venation pattern two dragonfly legs detached from the body against white background for clarity
December 25, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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joansgarden.bsky.social
I haven't done any stained glass for a few years now, mostly because it's hard to sell and I have all I want around the house. These are 2 sconces I made that I still enjoy looking at whenever I'm in their room. #invert 🐡
A wrap around stained glass sconce with a narrow base and wider top, in shades of green and featuring a blue and purple beetle. A wrap around stained glass sconce with a narrow base and wider top, in shades of green and featuring a snail with a blue/green body and spiralling shell in shades of yellow/brown/green.
December 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InsertAnInvert2024
Motion - Flyer

Winged insects make up nearly all of insect species that live today, up to 99.9% of the one million species known today.

Though not as powerful or famous as dragonflies, owlflies too are predators that use their wings to catch other flying insects. 🎨 🐡
An ornate lineart of an owlfly, an insect that looks slender like a dragonfly but has beautiful wings like butterflies. Illustrated with heavily floral patterned wings and a silhouette of a sun in the background.
December 16, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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circadiancrunch.bsky.social
I gotta make dinner and probably.... bake cookies.

But real fast, #sundayfishsketch and actually on theme for fishmas, a red shiner.

They're really beautiful little fish, so maybe I'll come back to this sketch and do them some justice later~
A digital sketch with color of a Red Shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis). A North American Minnow.
December 16, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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wizard
lanternfly wizard. very powerful.
December 13, 2024 at 4:48 PM
mazzarotting.bsky.social
ingles fruit cup has me fucked up rn. One raspberry. One strawberry. Tricking me with good fruit only in the first THIRD of the cup smh. End this nonsense
Ingles fruit cup with majority honeydew and cantaloupe
December 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
There is a project on iNaturalist cataloging first known photos of live specimens. I've got a couple that might qualify so I submitted two observations today. Here is one, a fantastic little longhorn beetle found in the Amazon rainforest.
(Stenolis dulcissima) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador
A beetle with silvery elytra with black and yellow stripes at the end, a yellow pronotum, and black eyes, and very long antennea. The beetle is standing on a slender leaf.
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 PM
mazzarotting.bsky.social
New pfp! Its me with ants exploding out of my head obviously 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 #art
A blue pink and yellow cartoon illustration of a white individual with wavy pink/purple hair, glasses, and piercings. They have sparkles and glitter all over their face. Their hair gets cut off close to the top and a giant pink and blue ant is emerging out of their head with a few little ants in the background.
December 6, 2024 at 5:02 AM
mazzarotting.bsky.social
Hello Science / STEM Bluesky! I have a quick 10 minute survey i'd love for folks in STEM to participate in. It's for a undergrad medical anthropology course and the results will not be published. Thanks! 🧪🌿🦠 🤖 #SciComm #STEM #Science

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sickness and Disability in STEM
This is an Ethnographic survey I am conducting for my undergraduate Medical Anthropology class. These results are anonymous and will not be published. All questions are optional. Email Mazzy.carroll@g...
docs.google.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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zenoosbugzz.bsky.social
silly caterpillar

#caterpillar #japaneseemperorcaterpillar #insect #art
The front half of a caterpillar, outlined in pink and purple and drawn with sharp lines. It is green with 3 light triangles on its face, 1 touching the edge on each side, and one in the middle. There are two legs sticking out from under the head, and 3 more along the rest of the body. It has two small oval shaped eyes. There are 3 spikes on each side of its head. It has two long horns on top of its head, each one has small spikes going up it. The horns end in two spikes. Towards the right side of the body there are small yellow and orange circles.
December 5, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization.

Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
crab anatomy diagram that covers the basics of the crab anatomy and names of various body parts diagram that shows the various different shapes of crab claws and how the shapes relate to their lifestyles diagram showing the various segments of crab legs and how the different leg shapes relate to their lifestyles diagram showing all the complicated limbs that sprout out from a crab's face
May 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
All I want for #Crustmas is YOU

#SciArt #SciSketch #QuickBugSketch
spider crab, a crab with long limbs, holding a sea lily like offering a flower
December 2, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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valentinolasso.bsky.social
Amphibians from Xochimilco🌿✨
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#animalart
December 2, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
Anyway, if you like #SciArt zines about finding comfort in lichens & tide-pools, here you go: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/8...

Baked today with fresh inky drinky & snorty laughter 😁
A colour pencil drawing of a heart shaped filled with a patchwork of different lichen patterns and textures in greens, browns and greys. Around it the words 'lichen is always here for you' are written in squiggly ink handwriting. The lichen textures depicted vary, some are warty, others leafy, some have fruiting bodies like little matchsticks all over them, while others are like tiny jam tarts. Lichens are great like that. If only I could coat my house in them.
December 2, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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litoria.bsky.social
A first for BlueSky and maybe the internet: a live photo of the parasitic isopod Renocila loriae. Attached to an unfortunate Blackstripe Cardinalfish. Kindly identified on iNaturalist by Ernest Williams who co-described the species. Photographed by my partner Lyn on a dive near Padang Bai in Bali.
parasitic isopod on the back of a small yellow & black fish
December 2, 2024 at 10:28 AM
mazzarotting.bsky.social
My dorms heating system being broken when it's 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside is despicable actually. Any tips on keeping warm at night are super duper appreciated especially nose and fingers🤧
November 30, 2024 at 5:38 AM
mazzarotting.bsky.social
Thinking about togetherness lately #art

Words by Andrea Gibson
A edited color pencil drawing of 5 creatures, each win a different shape and color, dance around a giant picture of a pumpkin. The text above reads "if we have nothing but each other, we have so much" a quote by Andrea Gibson
November 30, 2024 at 5:33 AM