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drbrianpet.bsky.social
This is a queen #butterfly
I took the picture three days ago in #Tucson

#insect #insectphotography 🪶
It likes these little purple flowers. You can see the proboscis jabbing into one.
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
margrim.bsky.social
So many completely unbecoming things about him. This ranks high up on that list.

Idk why idiots like Jack Proboscis or whatever think comparisons to Kirk are sensical.

People celebrate Kirk's death b/c he was a hateful asshole who deserved to get popped.
Rob Reiner was an actual human being.
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
yllekaj.bsky.social
The Orchard Swallowtail butterfly which was born from that egg ❤️🦋
a large, chunky, green and white caterpillar on my hand. It is as long as my index finger and about the circumference of the pinky finger. A large, green and white caterpillar, attached to a stick, ready to transform into a chrysalis. A newly transformed chrysalis on a stick. macro photo of a black butterfly with a drop of water on it's proboscis.
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
mybits.bsky.social
I guess Proboscis didn't check with Felon Don before making a fool of himself AGAIN.
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
grape2024.bsky.social
📰 Mosquitos use it to suck blood. Researchers used it to 3-D print

A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments around 20 micrometers wide, half the width of a fine human hair.
Mosquitos use it to suck blood. Researchers used it to 3-D print
A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments around 20 micrometers wide, half the width of a fine human hair.
www.sciencenews.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
tjalamont.bsky.social
Here is your Monday Moth. I think this pretty little insect is Portentomorpha xanthialis. They're found from the southern U.S. down into S. America; this one was in Colombia. #bugsky 🐙🌿
An orange moth with maroon mottling, seen from above on a green leaf. Its proboscis is out and touching the leaf.
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
conniemenefee.bsky.social
Pink zinnia with small skipper on the summit, proboscis has a bit of yellow pollen on it ... big, brown skipper eyes, too #Invert
Pink zinnia with most petals plucked off small skipper probing for nectar
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
dannastaaf.bsky.social
I spent years studying these baby squid who think they're baby elephants, and grow a proboscis accordingly. It later unzips to become adult tentacles. (Fig 3B from Vidal and Shea, photo credit: L. Ianniello.) But they're not the only ones with aspirations for the savannah...
Beautiful phot of a translucent baby squid called a rhynchoteuthion paralarva. The letter B is in the upper left, and in the lower right an arrow is pointing to the squid's proboscis, which is a single long elastic appendage admist the much shorter arms.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
obsydian.ink
Did u kno:
Dik-dik's have a proboscis.
That there is an exceptional antelope.

Now you know.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
ibarakihiusi.bsky.social
#茨木ちゃんAIイラスト
#AIイラスト
#武装シリーズ4

仮面ライダー剣のアンデッドから
モスアンデッドをモチーフに生成してみました(Prompt付き)

そのPromptを夜宵ちゃんに使ってみました

#うちの子
Kaijin Girl, 1 girl, (solo), Progenitor Moth antennae and wing hair ornament and large wings, Progenitor Moth sharp poison claw gauntlets and sharp claw leg armor and tail proboscis, clawed body armor, corrosive poison arrows, poison phosphorus powder reflective barrier, Progenitor tattoo, mesh shirt, poison moth combat suit and wing armor skirt, (full body)
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
ibarakihiusi.bsky.social
仮面ライダー剣からアンデッドの一部概要欄（手を加えて）を使って生成してみた
Kaijin Girl, 1 girl, (solo), Progenitor Moth antennae and wing hair ornament and large wings, Progenitor Moth sharp poison claw gauntlets and sharp claw leg armor and tail proboscis, clawed body armor, corrosive poison arrows, poison phosphorus powder reflective barrier, Progenitor tattoo, mesh shirt, poison moth combat suit and wing armor skirt, (full body) Kaijin Girl, 1 girl, (solo), Founder centipede antennae and sharp claws, shoulder and sharp claw gauntlets, Founder centipede sharp claws, legs and sharp claws, armor on waist and shoulders, large centipede, deadly poison liquid, small centipede tentacles, sickle pied chain, thorn-like body armor, Founder tattoo, mesh shirt, centipede combat suit and shorts, (full body) Kaijin Girl, 1 girl, (solo), Progenitor Trilobite right shield gauntlet and left sharp claw sword gauntlet with sharp horns, Progenitor Trilobite insect scale crustacean armor and sharp claw leg armor, Progenitor tattoo, mesh shirt, Trilobite battle suit and armored skirt, (full body) Kaijin Girl, 1 girl, (solo), Founder Zebra large ears, sharp claw gauntlets, sharp claw leg armor, Founder Zebra stripes, hard armor, and horseshoe-shaped boomerang, clone ability, Founder tattoo, mesh shirt, zebra combat suit and shorts, (full body)
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy
Probably one of the most 'alien-like' species, the ribbon worm spits a living, tree-like proboscis to hunt it prey.

[📹 trivia_sensei4k]
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2000554441699709380
December 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy
Endangered proboscis monkeys honk through their oversized noses.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2000475505158652159
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
radius-bee.bsky.social
Proboscis reassignment surgery
December 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
leier-coyol.bsky.social
A hummingbird moth keychain.
This little guy will be available soon in my shop. It's also one of my fave insect related pieces I've done, so I'll submit it too to the #invertefest book entries :D

#SciArt #felting #art
A picture of the front view of a needle felted hummingbird moth keyring, it's being hold by a tube with some rope around it, the background is beige colored The back view of that same moth. It's proboscis is coiled so it doesn't get stuck, I wanted it to be really long, but yeah that would have been a problem lol The antennae and feetsies of the moth were done with pipe cleaners
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
sputnstuff.bsky.social
proboscis i see? 👀
December 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
acrosanti.bsky.social
Some quick Alder doodles, practicing head shapes, messing with how he looks "ignited".

Also... tongue. Just cuz.

#silksong #silksongspoilers #cloverdancers #greenprince #silksongoc #art #furryart #insect #bug
Sketch page of Alder, mostly busts, but with a fullbody sketch of himk in a dynamic pose with embers flying from his body, fire visible from within him. He WILL turn into a mobile furnace and he WILL set you on fire if he needs to be defensive. Or at least be so hot to the touch that touching any part of his metal body would give you awful burns. Probably a holdover of his original Citadel directive, whatever that was. There is also a sketch of him extending a fine, long tongue in the upper left, like a party horn. It's probably similar to a butterfly/moth proboscis.
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
aceattorney.bot
What? Edgey’s got a proboscis on his kneeǃ?
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Finished bug character design commission for Seth on discord.
:)
Thank you for commissioning me!!

🪲

#artcommission #bugart #art #smallartist #furryart #characterdesign #illustration
A few drawings of an anthropomorphic bee fly. The insect stands on its hind legs like a human and is yellow. It is covered in fluffy hairs and has a light coloured under side. It has light red eyes, a grey stripe marking running across them and a long proboscis mouthpart that looks like a needle. It had grey hands and feet and its arms and legs are a light brown. It has short black antenna. It has two wings and the top half of each of them is darker. It has a black back and top of its abdomen is also black. There is a drawing in the top right corner of it in white and red jacket with a green shirt and blue jeans shorts. It has red and white shoes with tied shoe laces and a yellow smiley face button pin on its jacket. The other image show its head from different perspectives, its back and what it looks like not clothed for reference. There is a tiny doodle of it in the bottom left corner as an actual bee fly and in the bottom right corner, there is a colour pallete of all the characters colours.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
rihilism.bsky.social
#SilentSunday
Closeup photograph of a Western honey bee clinging to the side of a large cluster of bright pink stonecrop flowers with out of focus flowers in the foreground and background. The bee is vertical and is facing right in profile with its proboscis inserted in the small flower directly in front of it. This bee species has a black and brown striped abdomen, a dark brown thorax with fine gold hairs and black hairs, a black head covered in fine black hairs and gold hairs with large, dark compound eyes, mandibles and two antennae, six, black, segmented legs, and two transparent wings with amber veining.
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
linneansociety.bsky.social
It's #WorldMonkeyDay today! Despite being only a few short branches away from us on the tree of life, more than half of all primate species (monkeys included!) face extinction. By studying and protecting the natural world, we secure a brighter future not just for the monkeys, but ourselves as well.
A collage of monkey photographs, including snow monkeys, colobus monkeys, tamarins, capuchins, marmosets, vervets, proboscis monkeys, howler monkeys, mandrills, and so forth. Text reads, "Monkey day!"
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
caydentdawg.bsky.social
REGIONAL BUG

- Boskito
- Pipetien
- Mostoculex (Bug/Poison)

I'm really proud of this line (since I redesigned them within the last year) and their names!
Boskito = proboscis/mosquito/-ito(small)
Pipetien = pipette/pipiens (species name)
Mostoculex = mosquito/toxic/culex (scientific name)
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
carmineheretic.bsky.social
Not gonna resort to tylenol, tho. No siree! Not while theres PBR 6.5% AKA Kerosine Light.

I mean, what if some hostile alien shoves its proboscis down my throat and lays a bajillion eggs? You want those aliens to also have super powers? No! Fetal alcohol syndrome for'em, to defend the home planet.
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
riannejar.bsky.social
Moths sipping a moose's tears [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🦋🐄💦

"relatives of butterflies have been known to use their long proboscis to sip the tears of everything from birds to reptiles to even domestic animals."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/phot...

#Moth #Moose #animal #tears
Moths Seen Drinking Moose Tears for the First Time Ever
Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs show only the second observation outside of that area
www.scientificamerican.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM