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The Horseshoe Bat Fly Phthiridium biarticulatum is not extinct in the UK. Last recorded in 1959, it appears to be doing well on Lesser Horseshoe Bats in South West England. New paper out with Thomas Foxley, Emma Stone and @orlyrazgour.bsky.social. #bats #Diptera

Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds

Lucilia sericata #entomology #diptera #fly #art #bugart

I don’t get very excited by ladybirds, all a little too similar. But this one caught me eye scuttling up the kitchen window as a bit too big for the ‘usual’ black ones. Rhyzobius forestieri, an Australian species first recorded in UK in 2014, and first record for me today! #Coleoptera #Coccinellidae

A little isopod with a party hat :) #bugart #art #isopod

A very quick drawing of a notch horned cleg, Haematopota pluvialis. #insect #art #bugart #diptera #furryart

I now have an acggoods store open!! I currently have some bug pin designs up for sale but I will add more things later! Acggoods ships to multiple countries so I can now finally sell stuff to people who are outside of the UK :) extraterrestrialbird.acggoods.com?from=share

I did a drawing of Apis mellifera :) #art #bugart #entomology #bee #hymenoptera

Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.

#LiteratureNotice Grebennikov et al. Deep-soil sampling in Chile reveals a new elateroid beetle family, Badmaateridae fam. nov. (Coleoptera) doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #elateroidbeetle

This Adonis blue butterfly, Lysandra bellargus, adopt is now available on my kofi for £30! It comes with an extra drawing :) ko-fi.com/s/087f310d31 #bugart #butterfly #furryart #adoptable #bug

I am drawing something. #butterfly #lepidoptera #bugart #art #furryart

A quick psuedoscorpion drawing based off the species Neobisium carcinoides. #bug #arachnid #bugart #art

A quick psuedoscorpion drawing based off the species Neobisium carcinoides. #bug #arachnid #bugart #art

I bought this on Saturday whilst at an entomology fair. It's from 1953 and it is now out of print. #entomology #insects #bugs #bees #hymenoptera

Here is everything I got from the event on Saturday! #entomology

I went to the AES annual exhibition yesterday. It's an entomology fair that takes place every year in London and I love going there. :) #entomology #insects #bugs

I found one of my sketchbooks from 2024 and this is one of the pages from it. #bugart #hymenoptera #insect #entomology #art

Quick drawing of a rabbit botfly. #bugart #diptera

I have finished the Dipluran adopt!! It is now available on my kofi for £25 and comes with an extra piece of art :) ko-fi.com/s/243d64c748 #bug #bugart #furryart #adoptable #adopt #art

Mot a moth, but Bombardier Beetle near moth trap this morning. Quite a good record for VC32.

I like Diplurans :) #wip #bugfurry #furryart #art

This is probably my thinnest bug book that I own. It was published in 1954 and is now out of print. The staples holding the book together are rusty and the cover is stained. #entomology #zoology #diplura #bugs

This bee fly adopt is now up on my kofi shop for a starting price of £10! Once bought, you will get the image below without the writing over it and an extra piece of art. ko-fi.com/s/80e97788a2 Any support is appreciated! :) #insect #bug #bugart #art #adoptable #adopt #furryart

A gynandromorph of the mining bee Andrena flavipes, female half on the left with pollen brushes and short antenna, male half on the right with no pollen brushes and long antenna. From a water trap sample earlier this month.

This tiny Cryptophilus beetle and many of its friends were absolutely covered with mites at the blacklighting sheet this weekend. I see hitchhiking mites frequently, but never at this density!

Here is an up to date photo of my bug book shelves :) #entomology #insects #bugs

Some anthro bug drawings from 2024 I found the other day. I've improved with drawing stylised anatomy for sure lol. Might redraw some of these designs one day. Maybe. #art #insectart #bugart #furryart #oc #smallartist

Bluesky signed me out of both of my accounts on my phone. It's so annoying :(

I finished the drawing! #art #bugart #furryart #mosquito #worldmosquitoday #digitalart

Still working on it #bugart #furryart #art #mosquito #wip

Wip, drawing a London underground mosquito, Culex pipiens f. molestus, for world mosquito day today. #bugart #art #furryart #mosquito #wip

A drawing I did yesterday based off the species Nomada flava. #art #bugart #furryart #bug #bee

Here's a fictional bug that I drew today! I posted this drawing on my other account, as it related to the stuff I post there, but it is also bug art so I'm quoting this post so it shows up on this account aswell :) #art #bugart

A traditonal art commission I did recently for @jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social :) Thank you for commissioning me!!! #art #bugart #springtail #artist #furryart #bug

I'm hunting for a "cryptid", but with tiny feet. I've launched a website about the creature. Are you a naturalist, #entomology , #arachnid or general invertebrate enthusiast around #swansea and #wales? Do you have a free weekend day in the UK? I'd love for you to come along. More on the website 🧪

…speaking of carabid excellence, would you take a look at this Notiophilus? How cupreous, how aenescent!

Here's a dragonfly that I saw today in the London natural history museum's garden. I think that this is Sympetrum sanguineum, the ruddy darter. #entomology #insect #bug #dragonfly #odonata

I do an annual survey of several Reens and Ditches in South Wales, a small job I’ve kept on since retirement. Both Dytiscus dimidiatus and Hydaticus transversalis had been missing for several years until this year when they made an appearance once more. #Coleoptera #Dytiscidae

Drawings based on specimens I collected during my costa rica trip! Featuring Ropalomeridae, Richardiidae, and Tabanidae #flyschool2026 #art #entomology

A drawing of a Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, that I did today. :) #art #bugart #furryart #beetle #digitalart

Yesterday, I managed to buy three old Polish books. One is about insects specifically whilst the other two are about invertabrates in general. I'm really happy to have bought them! #entomology #insect #bug

Buh #bug

I finally got to see my first ever huntsman spider yesterday! The green huntsman spider, Micrommata virescens. :) #bug #spider #arachnid #spiders

Now that's a fancy bug!

I'm currently on holiday in Poland. Here's a scarce swallowtail, Iphiclides podalirius, that I saw today! #bug #lepidoptera #insect #entomology #butterfly

A couple of weeks ago, I found this old lady moth, Mormo maura, flying around before it decided to land near me to rest. #mothweek #moth #lepidoptera #insect #bug #entomology