Lazarus's Earth-boring Scarab Beetle (Eucanthus lazarus) under the microscope! #NativeSpecies #Coleoptera #InverteFest2025 #Insect #Arthropod #Cute #Tiny #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
CUTE LITTLE BEETLE WITH A LITTLE HORN AND BIG EYES! #InverteFest2025 #Insect #Invert #Arthropod #Coleoptera #Cute #Tiny #Mississippi
Here in the southeast, fall is spring 2.0. Flowers bloom again, everything is colorful, wildlife everywhere, pollinators buzzing. It stays warm. Confusing to outsiders. #NativePlants #NativeSpecies #Aster #Bees #Flies #Pollinators #InverteFest2025 #Mississippi
Goofy little hemipteran on some goldenrod. Not sure what species they are. But they're probably a treehopper or leafhopper of some sort. #InverteFest2025 #NativeSpecies #Hemiptera #TrueBug #Insects #Cute #Solidago #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
CW: Live insect being eaten
Carolina mantis is adorable while eating. Look at that football shaped face. This native species primarily feeds on moths, hence why I feed him that.
#Mantis #InverteFest2025 #Invert #Insect #Eating #Pet #Bug #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Beetles singing The Beatles
Beetles and bug fashion
A sign about pineland hibiscus and ants
A sign about monarch tagging
Bugfest 2025 was a huge success. Day 2 was great! They had a bug fashion show and beetles singing. And of course lots and lots of scientists, universities, and vendors. Great event that puts our town on the map. Every state needs this. #InverteFest2025
FANCY DUNG BEETLE!!! Bolbocerosoma farctum. I love these little guys so much, they're unbelievably cute. Watch the video for proof. THEY SQUEAK TOO. #Beetle #Beeble #Cute #Insect #InverteFest2025 #Coleoptera #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
HOLY SHIT A WEEVIL!!! An elephant weevil (Curculio proboscideus). First proper snouty boi I've seen. #Beetles #Weevil #Coleoptera #InverteFest2025 #Invert #Bug #Insect #Cute #Snoot #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Big fat female Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) on an oak tree! Very quick bug. #Mantis #Mantodea #InverteFest2025 #Insect #Invert #Cute #Cool #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
A badass hanging thief (Diogmites sp.) hanging from a plant while feeding on a leaf footed bug. Little monkey bug. Top of the insect food chain, above dragonflies. #RobberFly #InverteFest2025 #Awesome #NatureIsLit #NativeSpecies #Predator #Diptera #Goofy #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Adorable red headed meadow katydid (Orchelimum erythrocephalum) singing in some native amaranth grass. #Cute #NativeSpecies #InverteFest2025 #Katydid #Orthoptera #Bugs #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Oops, all female cicadas! Megatibicen grossa, Neotibicen pruinosus, and Neotibicen davisi! #InverteFest2025 #Cicadas #Cute #Bugs #Insects #TrueBugs #Hemiptera #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Ink doodle of a red crab riding on a pink sea jelly's bell- a thing that really happens!
R is for… Red Crab catching a ride on a sea jelly 💚
It’s an invertebrate twofer for #Invertefest
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#Art #Ink #Nature #MarineLife #invertefest2025
#InverteFest2025
I'm the cicada fanatic of Bluesky.
I've been using #InverteFest2025 for all my bugs. I really hope @franzanth.bsky.social isn't mad I've been using it off-season too. I can't keep the movement limited to a few select days.
I hit the jackpot tonight. 7 cicadas! 5 Megatibicen grossa nymphs, a Neotibicen lyricen adult, and a mystery species adult. #InverteFest2025 #Cicadas #Insects #Bugs #Hemiptera #TrueBugs #Cute #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Two Megatibicen grossa cicadas
Found TWO El Fatto Fartos (Megatibicen grossa) tonight. My record is SEVEN at my grandma's, but this is the record here. #Cicadas #Cute #Insects #Bugs #Hemiptera #TrueBug #InverteFest2025 #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
This one definitely deserves to be tagged in #InverteFest2025
VERY loud swamp cicada (Neotibicen tibicen) with extra dark eyes. #Cicadas #InverteFest2025 #Scream #Hemipteran #TrueBug #Cute #Bug #Insects #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Caught some cicada nymphs tonight. Two Neotibicen lyricen. Little nuggets. One is starting to moult as I type this, and I give them a good misting of water so they stay wet during the process. It usually helps them moult better. #InverteFest2025
Found what I thought was a horned passalus beetle but turns out to be a triceratops beetle (Phileurus sp.)! Somehow still makes squeaky noises though. Very cute and huge. iNat has nothing on establishment means. #Beetle #Coleoptera #Phileurus #InverteFest2025 #Insects #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
I found a wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) last night! Such a cute yet ferocious beast of an insect. #AssassinBug #TrueBug #Hemiptera #InverteFest2025 #Inverts #Insects #Cute #Predator #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Badass fly from the front
Badass fly from the side
Badass fly from the side
Badass fly from the bottom
Badass as hell looking hornet fly (a type of hover fly) in the genus Spilomyia I found last night! #InverteFest2025 #NativeSpecies #Diptera #Flies #Insects #Inverts #Mimicry #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna #Badass #NotAWasp #NatureIsLitAF
GUYS LOOK WHO I JUST FOUND!!! They stayed perfectly still so I had no need to record video. Straight to iNaturalist! www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Platycotis #Treehopper #Hemiptera #TrueBug #InverteFest2025 #Insects #Cute #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
I heard a loud THUD hit my window and went to go see what it was. To my amazement, it was one of my bucket list bugs, a horned passalus beetle! Very large and intelligent but clumsy bugs. #Odontotaenius #Beetles #InverteFest2025 #Inverts #Cute #Insects #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
Top view of the roach
Side view of the roach
Front view of the roach
Underside view of the roach
Parcoblatta virginica, our most common native species of cockroach, are out in full force. Commonly found covering outside walls. Great species to keep as a pet too. #Parcoblatta #Roach #Inverts #Insects #InverteFest2025 #NativeSpecies #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
A close up photograph of a handsome leopard slug, its brown body bespeckled with black spots. Its antennae are outstretched as the slug turns to the right of the image. The tail of a second slug is visible under the leaf litter among the dirt and detritus.
A nice morning find for #Invertefest - Leopard slug (two even!)
#Invertefest2025
I just learned about #invertefest, so here’s some of my #insects pictures (I have no idea what they are)!
#invertefest2025
Two out of countless species that call bristle thistle their home. #Cirsium #Thistle #NativeSpecies #Wildlife #Spiders #StinkBug #Insects #Flowers #InverteFest2025 #Mississippi #USfauna #MSfauna
EL FATTO FARTO sketch
Drew EL FATTO FARTO for @franzanth.bsky.social's #InverteFest2025. I'm probably too late to be added to the book. #InsertAnInvert #BugArt #Cicada #ElFattoFarto #MegatibicenGrossa #PencilArt