A close up photo of an orange worm with hair and thorns.
An orange worm I saw in the garden, it's interesting how even insects that look plain and normal look so good on a macro photography.
#pentax #macrophotography #bugsky #nature
A bouquet of flowers with butterflies resting on them, all are species i observed in Tuscon, AZ
Love the April #repostyourart prompts! Here’s a digital piece I did for day 3: spring. I thought it’d be fitting with the #flowers and #butterflies! #sciart #entomology #insects #bugsky #art #nature #botany #plants
an orangey brown butterfly feeds on small white flowers.
Peacock butterfly on Blackthorn flowers. March 2026
#butterfly #peacockbutterfly #BugSky #nature #blossom #BloomScrolling #flowers #insects #sonyalpha #photography
A photo of the top of a wooded walking stick carved in the shape of an animal head with a live ladybug resting in its eye.
A close-up photo of a ladybug sitting on carved piece of wood.
The eye of this walking stick carved by my son Drew is alive!
#FlyDay #ECK
#photography #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts #bugSky
#VT365
A male Hairy-footed Flower Bee resting on a sunlit leaf seen from above. The splayed front legs show the hairs which gives its name to good effect.
A male Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes) taking a brief pause from his frenetic pursuit of females in the Taunton sun yesterday.
#bugsky
Long legged, red eyed fly atop yellow flower center, surrounded by white petal frills, against a natural, brown and green bokeh background.
Happy Fly-day. We made it!
Long-legged fly
on Oakleaf flea bane flower
Crew flint pen strand trails
Bonita Springs, FL 3-30-26
Wow. This was a loooong week. 😸
Hope y’all recuperate. 🤗
#FlyDay #eck #bugSky #native #florida #flowers #wildflowers #macro #photography #macroPhotography #nature #art
A black, orange, and white California sister butterfly on grass
An orange and black northern checkerspot butterfly on dry horse manure
A black, cream, and orange variable checkerspot butterfly on grass
Some butterflies from a hike today: California sister, northern checkerspot, variable checkerspot. #bugsky #butterflies
Large and very hairy bee on a purple flower with dark tail section, reddish-orange rump, yellow mid-section and yellowish-grey head and upper thorax
First gorgeous #BumbleBee of the season for me and a definite mood lifter! I think this one is an orange-rumped bumble bee (Bombus melanopygus) which is native to western North America. It is foraging on a garden pansy at the local garden store. #HopeBC #SignsOfSpring #BugSky 🌿
Morning Blue Dasher #Dragonfly in my #Philly #garden 🌞 #FlyDay #eastcoastkin #macro #photography #nature #insects #BugSky
A red and black spotted Seven-spotted Ladybird on a light purple snake's-head fritillary flower in the evening sun
A hoverfly on a yellow dandelion flower
A Speckled Wood, a dark brown butterfly with cream coloured spots, perched on the ground on a stony path
Seven-spotted Ladybird on a snake's-head fritillary, hoverfly on a dandelion and Speckled Wood at Lakeside Country Park today. #InsectThursday #Bugsky #UKWildlife
A relatively large piece of leaf that has been cut away from the rest of the leaf is being carried by a leafcutter ant worker (Atta cephalotes) along a thin twig from right to left. Another worker appears to be riding the leaf on the other end.
#insectthursday
Leafcutter #ant - Atta cephalotes
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 2-21-26) 🪲🪳🐜 #photography #macrophotography #animal #invertebrate #insect #ants #bug #bugsky #ento #zoo #cincyzoopic
a brown fluffy fly hovers over a small blue flower feeding through it's long proboscis.
Bee fly. March 2026
#beefly #BugSky #insects #nature #macro #sonyalpha #photography
Thank goodness tomorrow’s Fly-day!
Post original photos & art of live, self-propelled, flying creatures. 1 or more submissions welcome tagged:
#FlyDay #ECK
Welcome no matter location, nor skill level.
#photography #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts #bugSky #birds
Questions/comments? @grays.art
A seven spotted ladybird on a dried windblown oak leaf
Look who I just found, mooching about in the leaf litter 🌱🐞
#InsectThursday #BugSky #UKWildlife
I've heard of animals making their own medicine and using tools as being as smart as octopuses, but now this. Humbling. Well. Humans still are the only ones with fire. #Ants #Bugsky #Bugs
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A hoverfly seen from above on a sunlit leaf. The abdomen has a pair of triangular yellow marks at the top and 2 yellow bands beneath.
It’s always fun to see a new species, and this Melangyna cincta hoverfly was a first for me, alongside a wooded stream in Taunton today.
#bugsky
Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva).
There are plenty of Tawny Mining #Bees in my garden right now. This male one was resting on a primula flower when I saw it, and it allowed me to take a few pictures.
#solitarybees #bugsky #insects #pollinators #insectthursday
Maria Merian was born 379 ago today. An entomologist who founded the ecological approach to taxonomy, she traveled by herself to Surinam in 1599 to document the insect life there, then published her findings with her own lush illustrations.
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#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BugSky 🐛🌱
Small dark honeybee on a large white tulip
Honeybee, taking a brief moment to itself before getting back to work 🌱🐝
#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #bugsky #UKWildlife
A painting of a guinea paper wasp, viewed from above, on an grass green background.
Guinea Paper Wasp 071325 (II), 2025
11"x14", Gouache on Watercolor Paper
#sciart #artsky #illustration #invertefest #bugsky
A hairy ginger bumblebee on some magenta currant blossom
Good morning sky-folk, hope you enjoy the day as much as this common carder bee is enjoying the flowering ornamental currant.
Which is to say, a lot!
#InsectThursday #BugSky #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #UKWildlife
Hairy wasp perched on flower with yellow center, and many fine white petals— out of focus flower in the left foreground, against natural brown and green bokeh background.
Scoliid Wasp
on Oakleaf flea bane
Crew flint pen strand trails
Bonita Springs, FL 3-30-26
This wasp seems like it has a slightly injured eye, not uncommon.
#insectThursday #ColorADay #YellowThu #eck #bugSky #native #florida #flowers #wildflowers #macro #photography #macroPhotography #nature #art
A top-down, close-up photo of a pale green **planthopper** resting on a black mesh screen. The insect has wide, flat wings with a textured, mossy appearance and small red eyes.
I found another planthopper loitering on the window screens of @casabentbill.bsky.social tonight. I believe these are in the genus Flataloides.
#bugsky #insects #nature #costarica
A photo of an arthropod on a wall. It has eight legs like a spider and long, slender pincers.
A friendly neighbor psuedoscorpion wandered by my desk while I was working today. I relocated them to a more moist and dark area so they could hunt pests.
#bugsky
Blurry because this dude was teeny!
A brick wall on the exterior of a house. The central brick in the photo has a small hole in it - a small hole inhabited by a bee.
Closeup of the previous photo, showing a bee’s tiny little face and one antenna sticking out of the hole in the brick.
I like bees, but I kind of feel like maybe this isn’t good. :/ they’re using the weep holes under the door too.
I guess it’s better than termites 🤷♀️
🐝 #bees #insects #bugsky
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