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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized spotted snake fly landing onto an autumn leaf against an off-white background. The snakefly has an elongated neck, large mandibles, thin antenna and transparent wings with prominent veins. Its body is black with light blue areas on its chest and stomach and little accents of yellow. It lands gracefully onto an autumn leaf.

Insectember day 30: Raphidia notata
Common name: Spotted Snakefly✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized flightless steppe beetle sitting on a mushroom against an off-white background. The beetle is a glossy black, has a very round carapace and elytra, and long limbs. The forearms of its top pair of arms are bulkier and spikier for digging. It sits on a mushroom, slumped over slightly as if tired.

Insectember day 29: Lethrus apterus
Common name: Flightless steppe beetle✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized Atemeles strumosus beetle on an off-white background. The beetle is various shades of dark brown and pale orange. It sits by a burning twig as a campfire. It's upper arms wrap around its knees and it warms the hands of its lower arms by the flame. Its eyes are half lidded, giving it a drowsy expression.

Insectember day 28: Atemeles strumosus
Common name: Unknown✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized rainbow katydid sitting on a stick against an off-white background. The katydid faces the right hand side, one leg up and leaning onto the knee. It seems relaxed. Its body is brightly coloured and striped with saturated yellows, greens, blues, oranges and reds. Its transparent green wings hang either side of it.

Insectember day 27: Vestria sp.
Common name: Rainbow Katydid✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized puss moth on an off-white background. The moth stands with its back to the camera, its head turned to the side and one hand raised holding an orange crystal. The moths body is a greyish white and extremely fluffy. The white fluff on its back has symmetrical black spots, its fluffy white abdomen has black spotty patterns, and its white wings have wavey black lines.

Insectember day 26: Cerura vinula
Common name: Puss moth✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized eyed ladybug on an off-white background. The ladybug is midflight, with its elytra pulled back for its wings. Its two pairs of arms are beside its body, and its legs trail behind. It's elytra is a dusty red, and the black spots are surrounded by blotchy white. Its body is mainly black, with red marks along its side. It glides down in a downward slope.

Insectember day 25: Anatis ocellata
Common name: Eyed Ladybug✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized frit fly on an off-white background. The fly is a banana yellow, with black stripes along its back, abdomen, and head. It has large, black eyes and short clubbed antenna on the front of its face. It is midflight, holding a basket of polen with its bottom pair of arms and waving with its top arm.

Insectember day 24: Chlorops sp.
Common name: Frit fly✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized tiger beetle on an off-white background. The tiger beetle is a shiny black, the gleam shining blue in some spots and red in others. It has two pairs of legs and one pair of arms, like a centaur. It rears on its back legs and pulls its arm back ready to throw a spear.

Insectember day 23: Tricondyla aptera
Common name: Tiger beetle✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized rubyspot damselfly hanging off a branch against an off-white background. The damselfly is mainly a dusty red, with random stripes of white. It wears a blue capelet over its shoulders. The damselfly is hanging off the side of a pale branch, looking into the distance.

Insectember day 22: Hetaerina americana
Common name: Rubyspot damselfly✨️
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A digital drawing of two anthropomorphized thorn bugs sitting on mushroom seats against an off-white background. The bugs have a thorn shaped pronotum covering their entire back, neck and abdomen. The pronotum is mainly a greenish yellow colour, with accents of black, and a little bit of red and turquoise. They have bright red eyes and the body beneath the pronotum is a dark red. The pair sit on mushrooms growing on opposite ends of a bigger cream coloured mushroom, as if at a cafe table. They both hold leaf cups filled with a drop of tea. They seem to be gossiping, one with its arms motioning as it tells a story, and the other with a hand covering its mouth in surprise.

Insectember day 21: Umbonia crassicornis
Common name: Thorn bug✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized Platyrhopalopsis picteti beetle. This beetle has no common name. The beetle is dark red and glossy. Its antenna are large, plate like shapes. It stands with its bottom hands on its hips, one upper hand raised in beratement and another holding a twig cane.

Insectember day 20: Platyrhopalopsis picteti
Common name: Unknown✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized wasp mantidfly on an off-white background. The mantidfly has a black main body with a few symmetrical yellow stripes on its shoulders and neck. Its pointed head is red and yellow, with large, pale blue eyes and orange antenna. Its abdomen has thick red stripes and thin yellow stripes along it. Its arms are held close to its chest as if reserved. It has two pairs of legs, they hang below its body as it flies. Its buzzing red wings have spots of transparency along the edges and in the middle.

Insectember dat 19: Climaciella brunnea
Common name: Wasp mantidfly✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized spiky leaf beetle on an off white background. The beetle is an almost black shade of brown, with spots of pale yellow on the tips of its antenna, fingers and toes, and sporadic dots of the same yellow over its carapace. It's carapace has spikes all over it like a porcupine, all varying in size and placement. It's walking with a long stride, briefcase in hand and a large water droplet in the other.

Insectember day 18: Hispa atra
Common name: Spiky leaf beetle✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized sabre wasp on an off-white background. The sabre wasp has a black body and orange limbs with symmetrical white patterns. It's wings are a transparent orange. The wasp is lounging on a piece of wheat, looking relaxed. It holds a drop of nectar close to its mouth.

Insectember day 17: Rhyssa persuasoria
Common name: Sabre wasp✨️
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A digital drawing of a greater horntail sawfly on an off-white background. The sawfly has a black body with yellow-orange fore limbs and markings, and transparent-red wings. Its appearance mimics that of a wasp, except for its small black eyes, the yellow marking on its cheek that resembles a wasps eye, and a saw-like ovipositor below its stinger. The sawfly sits on the end of an upright branch and seems lost in thought.

Insectember day 16: Urocerus gigas
Common name: Greater horntail sawfly✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized Grape fruit piercer moth on an off-white background. the moth has a bright lime green body and fore wing, and a bright yellow hind wing. the fore wing has white patches and the hind wing has a black rim with white patches. The moth perches on a seed bud. it's droopy eyes and upturned, clubbed snout gives it a worried expression.

Insectember day 15: Eudocima hypermnestra
Common name: Grape fruit piercer moth✨️
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized scorpion-fly on an off-white background. The scorpion fly is orange with gradients of yellow and red and has black patches on its head and shoulders. Its wings are a transparent orange with patches of black. It twirls around in a dance, it's arms swaying gracefully around it.

Insectember day 14: Panorpa japonica
Common name: Scorpion-flies✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized calligraphy beetle on an off-white background. The beetle has a striking black and white shell, the black making symmetrical patterns along its elytra. It's limbs and antenna are orange. The beetle is sitting at a mushroom table, on a stubby pencil as a chair, writing with a down-feather quill on a scroll. A beeswax candle sits on the end of the mushroom table.

Insectember day 13: Calligrapha amator
Common name: Calligraphy beetle✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized dobsonfly on an off-white background. The dobsonfly is various shades of dark and light brown, with long transparent wings, long antenna, and long mandibles. It is perched on the end pole of a rickety looking dock made of twigs and bark. Its body, wings and arms flow with the arc of it pulling back a fishing rod. The catch, a tadpole, is flung upward.

Insectember day 12: Corydalus texanus
Common name: Dobsonflies✨
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A digital drawing of two anthropomorphized woodpecker flies on an off-white background. The woodpecker flies are a shiny, dirty gold colour with pale red eyes and transparent, iridescent wings. They are both walking vertically up a tree, the shopping bags they're holding weighs downward with gravity. One fly is struggling to carry three shopping bags, showing strain in its squeezed shut eyes. It walks backward, pulling the bags up while flapping its wings to assist with the load.

Insectember day 11: Medetera
Common name: Woodpecker fly✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized lappet moth and a lappet moth larva on an off-white background. The lappet moth is various shades of brown with pale red and pale orange streaks on its wings and neck fluff. It sits on the ground playing a lightly coloured acoustic guitar. The lappet moth larva is darker shades of brown and red with stripes and dots of yellow and orange. It has hairs spiking out all over its body. The larva sits between the moth's legs and holds an electric guitar shaped like an autumn leaf.

Insectember day 10: Kunugia divaricata
Common name: Lappet Moth✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized tasmanian redspot dragonfly on an off-white background. The dragonfly is various shades of blue-grey, desaturated red with white markings and blue eyes. it has a wry, white mustache and hair tied back into a thin ponytail. It is perched on a stripped branch, leaning its weight on one leg. One arm is up to shield its eyes as it peers into the distance. It has straps over its chest and leg with pockets and pouches. A bag it holds seems to contain paper scrolls.

Insectember day 9: Archipetalia auriculata
Common name: Tasmanian Redspot dragonfly✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized hangingfly on an off-white background. The hangingfly's body is various shades of cream and caramel. It has long limbs positioned awkwardly as if shy, one of its arms is half up in a wave. It wears a little white bow tie.

Insectember day 7: Bittacus italicus
Common name: Hangingfly✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized pale orange moth and its larvae children. The moth walks while carrying a paper shopping bag, a sleeping larvae, and holding the hand of another larvae walking beside it. The larvae are brighter orange and have little clubbed hairs all over their bodies, they each hold a blue comfort item.

Insectember day 6: Chlorogomphus papilio
Common name: [not found]✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized asian emerald dragonfly on an off-white background. The body of the dragonfly is dark blue and grey with a couple pale yellow stripes along its thorax and abdomen. It is midflight holding a large strawberry with three arms beneath it. The last arm holds a map up to its head, it looks at the map with concentration. The strawberry has a blue bow and a gift tag attached to the stem.

Insectember day 5: Chlorogomphus papilio
Common name: Asian Emerald Dragonfly✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized rusty tussock moth on an off-white background. The back of the moth faces the viewer, displaying its rusty patterned wings and fluffy upper body. It holds a newspaper in one hand and a steaming mug in another.

Insectember day 4: Orgia antiqua
Common name: Rusty Tussock Moth✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized owlfly on an off-white background. The owlfly has a dark grey, fluffy body with accents of sulphur-yellow on its forearms and legs. Its wings folded behind its back are transparent at the tips and the same sulphur-yellow near the base. the owlfly sits on a branch with its leg up and resting its head on its hand, looking bored.

Insectember day 3: Libelloides coccajus
Common name: Owly sulphur✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized smooth spider beetle on an off-white background. The spider beetle is various shades of pale red and orange. Its shell is orb-like, shiny and coppery. It stands hunched and looks to the side mischievously, making a thinking gesture with its hand to its chin.

Insectember day 2: gibbium psylloides
Common name: Hump beetle/ Smooth spider beetle✨
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A digital drawing of an anthropomorphized spoon winged lacewing insect on an off-white background. The lacewing is various pastel shades of yellow, blue, green and with red eyes. Its body and wings have intricate stripes and dots of grey and black. Its peeks at the camera from under its blue sun hat, kneeling on an achillea flower and picking pollen into a small basket.

Insectember day 1: Nemoptera sp.
Common name: Spoon-winged lace wing✨
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