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Insectember day 30: dorysthenes walkeri
Common name: longhorn beetle

On patrol

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized longhorn beetle with large mandibles flying on patrol. The beetle's strong, segmented body is made of shiny black chitin, and is boxy and long. Its long elytron are open for its transparent brown wings to flap under them. It has long segmented limbs and antenna, and large mandibles on the front of its head. It carries a wooden spear over its shoulder as it flies.
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Insectember day 29: eusceptis effusa
Common name: bird dropping moth

do you see it?

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized bird dropping moth facing away from the camera and conducting an implied orchestra. The maestro is mostly a creamy white with shiny black patterns on its arms and wings. It has big black eyes, long thing antenna, and neat fluff around its neck going down its back. Its folded wings are patterned with an eerie picture of a spiders face, as if in shadow with a gleam in its eyes. The moths four arms are posed in various motions, and one holds a maestro's baton.
September 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 28: plagiozopelma biseta
Common name: Long leg fly

Theatre bug 🎭

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized long-legged fly performing a scene of a live stage play, holding a script and props. The fly has a small, segmented body with two rounded wings and six thin limbs. It has large oval eyes on the side of its head, and long clubbed antenna. Its underbelly is a silvery white, while its eyes and back shine with iridescent rainbow colours. It has sparse hairs along its back, abdomen and limbs, and its wings are semi-transparent black. It wears a feathered beret and neck ruffle, and holds a paper script, a cicada molt's head, and a thorn dagger.
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 27: atractocerus brasiliensis
Common name: ship timber beetle

Nyoom!

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized ship timber beetle flying on its way to deliver mail. It has a long, sleek body of shiny dark-brown chitin and two tattered looking transparent wings. It's eyes are large and muted mauve, and it has a pointy mouthpart peeking out from under it. It wears a blue old fashion mailman hat, carries a blue mail bag and holds some paper scrolls under one of its arms. Its long abdomen curves in the motion of its flight as it seems to swoop in a downward curve.
September 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 26: pycnopalpa bicordata
Common name: dead leaf katydid

treat yoself

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized dead leaf katydid walking gracefully with a shopping bag held by each of its four arms. The katydid has a large, rounded body with mostly mottled brown hues, and its wings patterned like a dying green leaf fold over the sides. It has thin limbs that seem to be transparent near the ends, and thin antennae. It has a long face with oval eyes on the side and little mandibles on the end. It carries paper shopping bags with various logos and illegible writing on them.
September 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 25: Deltochilum carinatum
Common name: True dung beetle

little hands for little tinkering

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A digital ilustration of an anthropomorphized dung beetle sitting at a mushroom table tinkering with jewellery. The beetle has a boxy, segmented body that is mostly a shiny near-black brown. Its head is almost triangular and its eyes sit high up on it. It has feathered antennae coming out from the bottom. Its top pair of arms only have little claws instead of hands and claws like the rest of its limbs. It sits at an orange flat-topped mushroom with some sprawled tools and parts ontop of it, and peers through a monocle at a ring it holds in its little hand.
September 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 24: citharomantis falcata
Common name: 🤷

So fashion✨

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized praying mantis looking at the camera over its shoulder and holding a daisy in its first pair of arms. The mantis has a brown, triangular head with big eyes on either side and thin antenna sticking straight up. Its legs are mottly brown and thin, except for its top arms which have a thicker raptor-like shape. Its thorax and abdomen is light sap-green with leaf vein patterns on its folded wings. The end of its abdomen ends in two wide points and is mottled with some brown on the edge. It holds a white daisy delicately.
September 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 23: bolitotherus cornutus
Common name: forked fungus beetle

Square up🤺 🥊

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized forked fungus beetle standing ready in a wide-stanced fighting pose with yellow boxing gloves on its four pairs of fists. The beetle is mostly mottled brown and textured all over its bulky, segmented body. Its limbs start thick and taper thinner near its hands and feet, and it has short spines along its elytron and on the end of its snout. It has two forward facing horns coming up from its pronotum, with fluffy bits on the end.
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 22: conura ignoides
Common name: 🤷

Gonna square up with the previous leg-day wasp💪

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A digital illustration of a Conura igneoides wasp, walking confidently to the left while pulling its top left arm into a stretch lock with its top right arm. Its body is light yellow and stocky, with some black stripes on its back, first leg joint, antennae, and down its abdomen. It has a rounded triangular head with big oval eyes and two jointed antennae. Its thorax starts wide at the top and tapers down into a thin waist that connects the upside down teardrop shaped abdomen. Most of its limbs are thin, except for its legs which has extra bulky femurs.
September 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 21: brachymeria ovata
Common name: 🤷

It prioritizes leg day I think

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized Brachymeria ovata wasp walking confidently to the right, stretching its top pair of arms out infront of it. It has a stocky body made of shiny black chitin covered lightly in light fuzz. The ends of its limbs and its wing joint is pale yellow. It has a triangular head with large round eyes and short antenna, its thorax is stocky at the top and tapers into a thin waist and rounded abdomen. Its legs have bulbous femurs and thin tibias. Its transparent wings are folded neatly behind its back.
September 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM Everybody can reply
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#Insectember day 20, and 21-22 as a combo since they're both wasps! The first one is Sphinx ligustri, a type of moth, and the other two are Conura sp. and Brachymeria sp., two wasps. I lost some steam working on the second one :'3 But now I'm caught up finally! #insectember2025
September 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 20: sphinx ligustri
Common name: Privet hawk moth

(Did you know I love hawk moths so much)

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A digital illustration of an anthropomorphized privet hawk moth looking at a map with the light of a handheld lantern, looking a bit confused. The moth is covered in muted brown, neat looking fluff, has thin long limbs, big round eyes, thin antenna and long pointed wings. It has a stripe of pale cream running from its forehead down to its wing joints. It has black and pink stripes on the top of its abdomen, and dark brown and cream stripe markings along the ends of its wings. It holds a lantern and scratches its head with its top set of arms, and holds a map with its bottom set of arms.
September 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 19: aegithus monochrous
Common name: pleasing fungus beetle

A magician never reveals its secrets🤫

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized pleasing fungus beetle magician showing off a trick with its back turned to the camera. The beetle's round elytron is semitransparent, and its body underneath can be seen through it. It is a shiny orange colour on its head and back, and its limbs and body underneath are black. It wears a black top hat with a red ribbon at the base, and holds a couple cards and a magician wand. You can just see through its transparent elytron that it is hiding a card behind its back.
September 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 18: sabethes
Common name: canopy mosquito

And it was a fairy🧚✨

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized canopy mosquito dancing gracefully. It toes on one leg and lifts the other, while its four arms swoop in a gentle motion on either side of it. Its head is lifted proudly and its wings splayed either side. The mosquitos body and wings are decorated with delicate shining scales, reflecting mostly bright blue and pink shades, with some spots of rainbow. Its limbs are delicately thin, and the forearms of its bottom pair are feathered with elongated scales.
September 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM Everybody can reply
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#insectember 15 and 16! Time to play Catch Up :'3 Been moving the last couple days so I'm a couple days behind... I drew Papilio agenor before the move, and then drew Ceratocanthus sp. today after finishing a big commission, and still have 2 more to do tomorrow! Ah! #insectember2025
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 17: diaphora mendica
Common name: muslin moth

immaculate floof✨

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A drawing of an anthropomorphized muslin moth wizard holding a wooden staff, wearing a large wizard hat, and stroking its beard-floof. The moth is impossibly fluffy, its fluff stands out in all directions. The floof of its head and neck is a dark brown, the floof below that is bright orange, and the rest is a creamy colour. Its wings folded behind it is a pale brown with a couple dark dots in the middle. It has big round eyes and long feathered antenna.
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 16: ceratocanthus sp.
Common name: pill scarab beetle

Friend rolled down the hill 😵‍💫

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A illustration of two anthropomorphized pill scarab beetles, one tucked neatly into a ball and the other one stopping it from rolling away. The rolled up beetle is iridescent, shining green and light purple. Its legs round thorax and carapace tuck in to create the top of a ball, and its large flat head and legs slot together to form the bottom of the ball. The other beetle is untucked and shines with coppery tones. It holds its friend still before it rolls further down the slope. They both have speech bubbles to indicate their communication, the coppery beetles speech bubble has a question mark, and the green beetles speech bubble has a disorientated emoticon, with swirls for eyes.
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 15: papilio agenor
Common name: Great mormon butterfly

Theres so many regional variants of these guys :D

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized great mormon butterfly walking and putting a flowy red scarf around its neck. The butterfly has a black body with fluff around its thorax, big round eyes, thin limbs and a plated abdomen coloured orange on the top. Its large wings are patterned with black, orange and silvery white. The forewings are pointed, mostly silver with dark black veins. The hindwings are round and scalopped at the edges, one scallop extending into a tail at the bottom. It is patterned with more black than silver, with some red at the joints.
September 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 14: Epomis
Common name: Epomis beetle

Woe to the frog this beetle tracks

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized epomis beetle on the hunt, crouched down to inspect tracks left by its common prey; a frog. The beetle has a long, pill shaped body curving down into a pointed head. Its head, thorax and carapace and its elytron are a beautiful iridescent blue-green. Its limbs, antennae and the edges of its elytron are coloured bright orange. It has big round eyes and little mouth parts. As it crouches down its antennae reach toward the frog tracks, and its holds a hand above to inspect the inside. In one hand it holds a barbed short-spear.
September 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM Everybody can reply
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Insectember day 13: camarotus germar
Common name: Weevil

The cuteness is overwhelming💛🩷

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized weevil baking bread. The weevil is small and round with black chitin covered in parts with a vibrant type of pink and yellow moss. It wears a little blue bandanna on its head with a matching apron and oven mitts, all decorated with lace, white dots and a yellow flower pattern. It holds a freshly baked bread in a tin with its top pair of hands and a wooden spoon in a bottom hand.
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#Insectember continues! Days 12 and 13, Dysodius lunatus and Camarotus germar! #insectember2025 #anthroinsect #buganthro
Humanized Dysodius lunatus, a type of assassin bug, dressed in a black, brown, and white maid dress with green trim. Their hair covers their eyes, and they have a smug smile. Humanized Camarotus germar, a type of weevil, sitting in the shade of some bushes and reading a book. They have a pink and yellow afro, and are wearing a similarly colored shirt, and torn jeans.
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Insectember day 12: dysodius lunatus
Common name: Neotropical flat bug

It looks like a soldier too gentle for the war

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized neotropical flat bug sitting on a branch with its back facing the viewer, and peering over its shoulder. The flatbug has a intricately textured shell with various symmetrical raised and concave patterns, scalloped edges and a few chips and scratches. It is mostly shades of dark brown with some areas of reddish browns. Its head looks helmet like with a protruding forehead area and small black eyes. Its segmented arms steady itself on the branch, and its legs dangle down.
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Insectember day 11: istocheta aldrichi
Common name: Winsome fly

got them dino arms and a nefarious plan

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized winsome fly flying still. It has a small segmented body covered sporadically in dark hairs, large red eyes, and a protruding proboscis that looks like a large nose. Its body is light brown stripped with darker brown and yellow. It holds its top two arms up like dinosaur arms, and its bottom two pose beside it as it flies.
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Insectember day 10: popillia japonica
Common name: Japanese beetle

see the fabulous

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized japanese beetle posing fabulously with a leaf umbrella. The beetle has a thick, stout, segmented body that glistens in shiny iridescence. Its head, limbs, carapace and elytron shimmer with greens, yellows and blues. Its underside and the first segment of its limbs are covered in fluffy white hairs.
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Insectember day 9: reduvius personatus
Common name: Masked hunter

Stinky baby

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An illustration of an anthropomorphized masked hunter bug picking up its child who is covered in dust, it has its second pair of hands on its hips. The bug has a mostly shiny black, segmented and lanky body. The joints and random fine hairs are orange, and its wings are folded flat over its abdomen. It has a tube-like mouth part tucked under its head, big compound eyes and long antenna covered in short orange hairs. The babies body is mostly indistinguishable as it is covered in dust, a behaviour the masked hunter nymphs use for camouflage. Little stink lines come off of the baby, and dust particles fall off of it.
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