A digital drawing of an anthropomorphic bee. The bee has a dark grey head with two pointy mandibles, two big black eyes and two black antenna. The bee has three ocelli, round little simple eyes, sharp the top of its head. It has little white hairs all over its face and neck. It has six limbs and has two legs and four arms. The bee has orange coloured hands and feet with two dark grey claws on each hand and foot. It has orangey yellow and white hairs on its limbs. It wears a neon purple t shirt with long sleeves and dark navy blue trousers. The bee has dark coloured wings and a red abdomen with a black tip. There are orangey yellow hairs on the abdomen aswell.

Bee person based off the species Sphecodes monilicornis, the box headed blood bee.

I often see Sphecodes bees out at this time of year, it's a shame they're difficult to identify down to species though.

#bee #bugart #furryart #bug #art #artist

A photo of a drawing done with colouring pencils, ball point pens, markers and pencil. The drawing is of an anthropomorphic springtail, an animal which looks a lot like an insect. It wears a green overshirt, blue jeans and a green beanie. It holds a camera with one hand. It has four arms and two legs. Each limb has two clawed fingers. It is hairy and has two antenna and two black eyes. The springtail is light brown with patterns on its abdomen.

A traditonal art commission I did recently for @jaiiiiiii1.bsky.social :)

Thank you for commissioning me!!!

#art #bugart #springtail #artist #furryart #bug

Very cool #ant stuff for the weekend.

Original paper here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

There's so many artists, authors, entomologists, hobbyists, people who keep insects etc online that I would've never met in person.

I have met so many people online who love insects as much as I do and that's genuinely crazy to me because I have met barely anyone irl who does.
Usually I'd have to go to an event to meet others like that but online it's very easy to find people.

Bee image taken from the BWARS Andrena fulva page by the way.

I can understand if a species is pretty similar to a honey bee, but if its not? Please just double check before you make assumptions. And also, double check what inat suggests aswell..

the image is a meme. there is a photo of a bee with an orange head and thorax and a black head on a leaf on one side saying hey guys. on the other side there are two people pointing at the bee and shouting honey bee. the bee says not what I'm called in response

The amount of times I've had to correct observations of solitary bees on inaturalist that were identified as honey bees is insane.

Please, double check an ID before you suggest it.

#inaturalist #meme #entomology #bee #bug #insect

A photo of a small bee with a black head and thorax and orange abdomen hovering in front of some blue flowers.

Mason bee, genus Osmia, that visited my garden today :)

Most likely Osmia bicornis.

#bee #entomology #bugs #insect #masonbee #solitarybee

Female tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva, one of the most striking I’ve seen. Her abdomen was glowing. I’m guessing she had just emerged from the underground nest as she was sleepy.

Really nice mining bees that you've found :)

If you saw something like this posted before, ignore that old post. I'm really tired today and genuinely didn't notice I was putting the feathery bits onto the wrong leg pair.

A digital drawing of an anthropomorphic mosquito with long limbs and it is wearing shorts.

Wip drawing of a very colourful mosquito.. :D

Might sell the design once it's done.

#bug #bugart #furryart #artist #wip #art

A drawing of a bee fly done in black ball point pen. The fly is fluffy, has six thin legs, two wings which are dark at the top and transparent at the bottom, a long pointy mouthpart, two short antenna and two eyes. The drawing is done on lined paper and around the drawing there is a border done using a light green highlighter.

A photo of a bee fly resting on some dried grass on a sunny day. The bee fly is yellowish brown with two wings. The wings are dark at the top and transparent at the bottom. The bee fly has long pointy mouth part.

Quick drawing a of a bee fly I did + a bee fly, Bombylius major, that I saw today!

#bugs #insect #entomology #fly #beeflywatch #beefly #artist

Stunning Tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva. Our great thanks to Bill Coulson.

A photo of an insect resting on a wall. The insect is small and greyish brown with transparent wings folded over its back and long thin antenna.

My first alderfly of the year!!

No idea on the species.

#bug #insect #entomology #alderfly

A digital drawing of an anthropomorphic bee. He is dressed in a light green jacket and has a pair of blue jeans on him. He has a green cap on his head with red lines on it. The bee clutches a cigarette in his left arm. He has four arms in total but only two jacket sleeves so one pair of arms is hidden under the jacket. The bee has two grey claws on every arm and foot and wears no shoes. He has two big black eyes and two sharp big mandibles. He has a lot of white hair on his face. He has orange hairs on his back and yellow hairs on his chest and stomach. His exoskeleton is brown and he has yellow hairs on abdomen. He has four wings which are on his back.

Drew a guy based off a male tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva.

#bugs #bee #insect #bugart #furryart #art #artist

A gorgeous female Andrena haemorrhoa bee seen in Tamworth, #Staffs 10/04/26 #solitarybee #bee #Andrena

A drawing of an anthropomorphic moth character. The moth has grey fur on its body, grey hands and a light yellowish head. It has red fingers and red antenna and big yellow eyes. It has red feet and big black wings with yellowish white patterns on them. The moth is waving.

Finished art commission for sleepy moth over on Discord!
Thanks for commissioning me to draw your character :)

#art #artist #bugart #furryart #bug #moth #commission

A digital drawing of an insect person. They have a long neck and long head. They have two big black eyes and sharp mandibles and two long thread like antenna. They wear a black spiked collar around their neck and have a black t shirt. Their transparent wings rest against their back. They have green trousers on with a military camo pattern and band patches, PIG and KMFDM, sewn onto them. They have black boots with spikes on the back of the boots. They have a long abdomen and a sharp pointy ovipositor. Two of their arms are visible and tucked into the pockets of their trousers. The other two arms are hidden under the t shirt. Their arms are a brownish orange colour and on their left arm, they were a chain bracelet.

Finally got the motivation to draw again so have this snake fly person, based off the species Atlantoraphidia maculicollis.

#bug #insect #bugart #art #artist #furryart

Truly the most fly fly to have ever flyed

A photo showing 5 bee pins. Two of the pins have orange bees and the rest have these brown bees. All of the drawings have grey backgrounds.

I have a batch of tawny mining bee pins that I made a whole ago and I'm selling them on my Ko-fi!
ko-fi.com/s/d9b12d4128
I didn't really like how the background colour turned out so I'm selling these as one batch so they don't go to waste!

Shipping is UK only (sorry!)

#bugs #art #insect #artist

Seems to be a good year for Andrena scotica by me, seen in my #Staffs garden 31/03/26 #bee #solitarybee #Andrena

Visit Bird's Shop! I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

Just promoting myself here again, but feel free to check out my Ko-fi shop! I sell pins and art and blank character bases!!

Physical products can only be shipped within the UK as of now.

Any support is appreciated :)

ko-fi.com/extraterrest...

#bugs #insects #art #kofi #smallartist #bugart

I mean you could always have more then one sona and just use which ever one you feel most comfortable with whenever you want to, if you don't want to swap fully.

A photo of a light brown moth. The moth is resting on a brick wall. The moth has green, dark brown and pink patches on its wings.

An angle shades moth, Phlogophora meticulosa, that I took a photo of several years ago.

This species is pretty common in the UK and can be seen pretty much all year round.

#bugs #moths #insect #entomology #lepidoptera

Andrena cineraria poised and ready for action. #spring

Thank you!! :)

A traditional drawing of an anthropomorphic bee. The bee has long black antenna, green eyes on either side of its head, six limbs and is wearing a red bandana around its neck with white spots on it. The bee has hairy limbs, each limb having cream hairs with gold highlights. It has brown feet and hands with two claws each. Each claw has a black tip. Its limbs are half grey, half cream coloured. The bee has an orange back and cream front. It has three round simple eyes known as ocelli on its head. It has blue wings folded over its back. The bee has four arms and two legs. Left side has the arms held downwards and right side has the arms lifted up as if waving.

Another traditional bug drawing! Eucera longicornis, the European longhorn bee. I love solitary bees so much, they're so fascinating.
:D
#bee #art #smallartist #furryart #insect #bugart #traditonalart

A traditional art drawing of an anthropomorphic bumble bee. The bee is wearing a purple jacket and in one hand, holds a purple top hat. The bee has an orange back and it's underside is grey black. It has blue eyes and has its four wings spread out behind it. In one hand, it holds a walking cane. The bee has three ocelli on its head, simple round eyes. It has four arms and two legs and all limbs are hairy. It has two claws on each hand and foot. The bee is very hairy and fluffy.

A traditional art request done for someone on discord today!!
Bombus dahlbomii :)

#art #furryart #bugart #insect