A close up view of a dill seed head, with a reddish-orange ladybug centre stage. The dill seeds are still green and plump.
Another one for #invertifest we have a major crop of dill in the garden and an equally major crop of ladybugs. Dill can often have big aphid issues, they love the seed heads at this stage. We emphatically do NOT have an aphid problem here.
Tattered, worn, drinking and swaying in the hell strip. I feel you, Wildness.
#InvertiFest #Invertebrates #Butterflies #NativePlants #Gardening #Rewilding #Conservation #StingsandWings
Bumblebee on small purple flower (unknown variety)
Bumblebee on pink flower (unknown variety)
Bumblebee on vibrant reddish-pink flower (unknown variety)
Been on pink flower (unknown variety)
Took a trip to the coast and reignited my love for photography. I want to start posting more so people can see the things I'm proud of. #invertifest #pacificnorthwest #oxtakespics
Wait, is it #InverteFest or #InvertiFest
I’m so confused
A long-legged fly with a long body and wings, perched on light blue fabric. There are some black stripes as the end of its wings. Blurred out water and grasses in the distance on the left
Both of the inverts I saw today were too speedy for me to catch a pic, so here’s a crane fly from a few days ago 🪰 #InvertiFest #PNW
A small white butterfly standing on one of several pink-and-peach flowers. The butterfly's wings are open. It has a little dark spot on each front wing.
A little white butterfly from the other day for #InvertiFest!
Approximately 10-12 tiny green aphids on green stems among greenery and delicate pink flowers
Today’s #InvertiFest friends are the aphids on a Pacific Bleeding Heart 🐞
A black and yellow honeybee on a vibrant purple flower. A second bloom is just below and the background is blurred green grasses
Western Honeybee on camas 🐝 #InvertiFest #PNW
A cluster of thin, lavender petals forms a Texas thistle flower. Two orange blister beetles are resting on the flower. They are roughly rectangular with rounded ends. One has two parallel black stripes along either side of its back.
An orange beetle with long, curving antennae sits on a milkweed seed pod. It has sparse black dots on its back.
A cactus coreid beetle resting on a prickly pear pad. It has a roundish black body with a pointed tail. The antennae are black with three segments shaped like rice grains and tipped with thin red segments, one on each side.
Here’s a few insects I logged on @inaturalist.bsky.social as part of the #CityNatureChallenge
#invertifest
A golden spider with a crabbish shape on a cluster of white flowers
(Goldenrod?) crab spider on Saskatoon blossom 🕷️ #InvertiFest #PNW
A brownish-red ladybug with grey-brown markings rather than spots. It is astride a Douglas fir needle on a textured black metal surface
A brownish-red ladybug with grey-brown markings rather than spots. It is astride a Douglas fir needle on a textured black metal surface
iNaturalist identified as Painted Ladybird, with a supporting ID 🐞 #InvertiFest #PNW
An almost black lump of a slug with its eye stalks retracted, still on the forest floor
Close up of an almost black lump of a slug with its eye stalks retracted, still on the forest floor
Pacific banana slug 🐌 #InvertiFest #PNW
Acrylic painting of a paper wasp beating its wings.
Lol I've tried to make this post a few times. Sorry if you've seen my paper wasp already today. I just want to be part of the #invertifest! Paper Wasp, Acrylic on Canvas 16"x20" from earlier this year. #acrylicpainting #art #wasp
A small black and white jumping spider on a variegated brown painted surface
Jumping spider on book drop at the library 🕷️ 📚 🕷️ #inverts #invertifest
Saw some pretty bugs in my feed seeing #invertifest trending. I figure I post the red spotted purple in found. Are these common to see in Memphis?
Phaneroptera nana: like me, its ancestors were not from here (North America). Unlike me, it can pose upside down grasping a vertical wall. #invertifest
Jersey tiger moth in my garden for #invertifest. Big jump in biodiversity out there this year, mainly ahem "benign neglect", need to work out how to keep it like that now I've got time to garden
Wasp, head deep in a ripe fig, a second one in the background.
Wasp, collecting or eating from a ripe fig. A second one blurry in the background.
#invertifest from the archives, wasps enjoying a ripe fig.
Stylized Orange crab holding a cigarette and falling apart at the joints. The shell is cracked and the blood is bright candy blue and very stylized, almost gummy. This image is inspired by a real image of a crab holding a cigarette
Wow, I can actually participate in #invertifest with an older commission of mine. I can't remember the species I referenced, I don't think it was a blue crab?
The machine embroidery software preview of eight different kawaii faces on a simple little crab plushie.
Dangit you people, I have a dog plush design to finish, quit distracting me with #invertefest stuff. Now I gotta try a stitchout of a crab.
(also I think I have been typing it #invertifest, whoops)
A fossil impression of an early cretaceous scorpion
A smol cute fossil impression of Palurina Or the early Jurassic
A drawing including those two previous fossils as well as some prehistoric fish
A photo of a fossil fish eating another fish and the first fish's mouth is so big like comically big like Tex Avery character eating a tall sandwich big these are not invertebrates I'm sorry
My entry for #invertifest is a visit to the Oishi Fossils Gallery, plus some chordates SORRY
Here are a few I saw this year
#invertifest
