Latest posts tagged with #Invertfest on Bluesky
It would be cool to mark bug art to participate in #InvertFest. I have been really attached to the ostracods in my jars so I decided to look up what their actual anatomy is. What I can see is a little folded bean with antenna and diggy little mole feet. Can't be that bad. Right?
Image of Animal Day Awareness Calendar for April 2026, There is a URL link for a web page view for easy text to speech. This is an ongoing project of digital sketches featuring a wide variety of animals using the Animal Day Awareness Calendar as a prompt and guide. It's a way for me to take time to explore their anatomy and deepen an understanding of different fauna while also highlighting conservation efforts. ► * days that fall on different days from year to year ► Days highlighted in green, yellow, purple are highly recommended to participate
Animal Awareness Days for April and 2026! 🌦️🌸🐝
This month has #PortfolioDay 14th and #InvertFest 24-30 !
Highly recommended to post for!
As always, Mark your calendars! Plan accordingly.
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#AnimaCal
lol this is awesome, we should find a way to include transformers into #invertfest while not infringing on the pure invertness.
But surely robots count as having exoskeletons
final art.
I'm thinking about submiting this one for the next #InvertFest art book. Should I send the PNG file or a high-res sketchbook photo like this one?
#sketchbook #sciart
sketchbook page photo with a pencil sketch of the Brazilian treehopper, a strange insect with a complex globular formation on its thorax, like a strange horn with three tips and bulbs alongside it
Cigarrinha Brasileira.
The Brazilian treehopper I did last year. Pencil sketch.
#sciart #invertfest #sketch
The face of a plush millipede, seen top down. It's back is made from a gray marbled minky fabric, and its legs are dusty rose. It has large shiny black eyes and charcoal gray antennae.
A view of a three-foot long millipede plush with marbled fabric on the back, looking soft and cute and also perhaps alarmingly large.
The underside of a plush millipede, the belly a pale off-pink, the many, many, MANY legs a dusty rose pink.
The millipede's face from the side, showing the off-pink underside, one large, cute black eye, curved charcoal antennae, and some of the Legslegslegs.
Just about out of days for #invertfest but that's okay, I'm just about out of invertebrate plushes. Obviously I need to make more! This is Legslegslegs the millipede. Three feet and 72 legs. :D
Two small plushes of Mort and Antos (a rat and a mouse) from the Hades video game.
More #invertfest fun, here's Antos! Also Mort, but rats are definitely vertebrates. Lol.
A small (only slightly bigger than life-sized) hermit crab plush, currently out of its shell, made from rust-orange minky fabric.
The crab from previous, tucked into the open end of a large spiral shell, made from a light peach minky fabric. The shell has been loosely coiled up but not actually sewn together yet.
The same spiral shell, sans crab. The interior pocket is lined with white.
Another picture of the crab tucked into its shell-pillow home, now completed. The shell is about a foot across while the crab is roughly four inches long.
A hermit crab that tucks into a pocket on a shell-shaped pillow. One of my favorite plushes ever! #invertfest
Group of butterflies drinking from damp spot on trail. A different species of butterfly is perched on a rock at upper right
A dead butterfly is being scavenged by 4-5 large ants.
Left, Swallowtails drinking from damp spot on trail w/ admiral (?) nearby. Right -Circle of life- ants and fritillary (?). N. Colorado. More of a botanist and birder; spp. ID is my best guess.
#invertfest
An array of slug-shaped pieces of faux fur fabric, each with googly eyes glued to the front end.
Wooly slugs! Also called wiggle worms. If you pet them just right, they'll curl and wiggle under your hand like they're alive. I used to sell these at the local farmer's/craft market.
Slugs are invertebrates, even the fuzzy ones. :D #invertfest
Absolutely awesome! Found your stuff from #invertfest as reposted by @franzanth.bsky.social .
Had to snag the awesome butterfly moth and nudibranch, they're beautiful!
Just hopping on to say, wow, love your work for #invertfest! Took a look at your store and looks like the larger isopod media is gone from your store, I'll keep an eye out for more! ♥️
A gray octopus pluch, with a very round head, topped with a darker gray mane. She has shiny black eyes and is wearing a pink bow tie.
I wanted to make something new for #invertfest but uh... *gestures at rest of blog*
So I'm gonna recap some favorite past invertebrate plushes instead. Starting with this very dapper Octopus, based on Octavia from MLP. Oct-tavia. Can't resist a silly pun.
Image showing one adult Planthopper and four nymphs all closely gathered in a leaf
The full image of those Planthoppers shows how closely they were gathered together.
Interestingly though, Siphanta acuta females are not known to display parental care behaviours as other #Hemipteta can. So I’m not sure what was happening here.
#ausinverts #wildoz #invertfest
Art of my cat moth!
#invertfest
Quick doodle for my #invertfest collab. Not a final design, just a concept for "intelligent space spiders descended from modern diving spiders."
european garden spider
I found this European Garden Spider living in a parking lot. I couldn't resist coming back at night with my camera.
#macromonday #inverts #spiders #spider #bugs #invertfest #arachnid #macro #bugsky
Funnel weaver spider, family Agelenidae, a light brown spider with dark brown stripes on its body and bands on its legs, in the opening of the tunnel of its flat web. October 18 2025 photo, in Carlsbad Highlands Ecological Reserve, by me.
#GlxPics #Arachtober #spiders #arachnids #inverts #InvertFest #spiderid @anned13.bsky.social Funnel web spider, Carlsbad Ecological Reserve. Any genus and/or species thoughts?
Angled down view of a lime-green insect on a grained wood surface, facing left. It resembles a walking stick - long, spindly legs and a slim body.
I was installing some refurbished bead-board on the porch ceiling today when this little greenie stopped by to inspect my work. Said he was a foreman but I didn’t see any clipboard or blueprints so… #inverts #InvertFest #insects 🌿
A dung beetle hard at work.
Southeast Texas, September 2025
#Photography #Insects #Beetles #NaturePhotography #TexasStateParks #Wildlife #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Bugs #InvertFest
Breakfast! #InvertFest
This cover goes so hard actually???
#Bugsky #Invertfest
A bright green damsel fly sits on a thorny bramble branch. It has large black eyes, a short emerald green body, clear see through wings and a long, thin body also emerald green.
As its still #invertfest heres an Emerald Damselfly I saw on my walk today.
Large brown moth in my hand. Found in Atlanta, GA
Me out here saving moths at #DragonCon 🤎
Can anyone ID?
#TeamMoth #mothsmatter #InvertFest
@dadrummond.bsky.social #invertfest
Exquisite. #invertfest
Can I tag this as #invertfest ? Should I have?
More guys for #invertfest
Bumble but was so funny and it was the best photo I got of the bees on that plant that day lol
A large brown moth perched on a balcony railing on one of the vertical bars, which is painted blue. The paint is beginning to peel away. The bars of the rail all have square cross sections. The moth's wings are large, brown, and have a dark false eye spot near the top corner of its upper wings. Its wings stick straight out of its back rather than being folded flat on its back. Its body is like a short, thick, and fuzzy cigar. Its six legs are also fuzzy, an it sports two plumose antennae on its head above its two round, black compound eyes
A big, chonky Callosomia moth of some type, I think it is probably a Tulip Tree Silkmoth. Those wings are quite big. And check out those big plumose antennae!
#moth #insect #invert #invertfest
