predominantly bugs, more than incidentally inverts @blattodean - Tumblr Blog

Hi im blattodean! My main is @itsoverfeeling where I'm more fandom centric. Some things:

blattodean.collection: my posts, mostly photos I've taken

arthropod posts will be tagged with taxonomy order (ex. #lepidoptera or #blattodea) with a few exceptions

non-arthropod inverts will be tagged as invertebrates

Worm situation in Maine has me absolutely gobsmacked. Some kind of polychaete worm, maybe a king ragworm, never seen any polychaetes this big in person, all in all saw five 8-10 inch worms after just a couple minutes on the beach. The colors were even more stunning irl!

They look wiiiiild in motion too:

#invertebrates #photo.collection

floridensis

visited a home with a telephone pole beetle (Micromalthus debilis) infestation today. i was able to collect an unbelievable number of adults, which will be sent to various insect collections. i dont really have words for how mind boggling this is

Telephone-pole beetle - Wikipedia

bowelfly

oh lol this person apparently commented on my own telephone beelte photo on inat a few days ago and i just saw it

#WOW!#coleoptera #photo.collection

ilovecoelacanths

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

sarahmackattack

Hell yeah

#invertebrates #text.collection

chimericmacandcheese

fruit fly needlefelt sculpture made for a professor, nickel for scale

It has a pipecleaner skeleton, allowing it to stand on its own and have a mild degree of posability

The wings were very challenging, as I wanted them to look transparent but couldn’t achieve that look with roving. At the very least it looks like a fly, I suppose…

#diptera #art.collection

textless

#lepidoptera #photo.collection

jupiterswasphouse

[PHOTOS TAKEN: APRIL 12TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Two photos of a brown american nursery web spider on the white plastic siding of a house /End IDs.]

#araneae #photo.collection

iridescent-wildlife

Huron Skipper (Atalopedes huron). Family Hesperiidae, order Lepidoptera.

Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. August 2025.

#lepidoptera #photo.collection

taylornprice

california butterflies!

#lepidoptera #art.collection

iridescent-wildlife

Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus). Family Hesperiidae, order Lepidoptera.

Salt Plains NWR, Oklahoma, USA. April 2026.

#lepidoptera #photo.collection

tried to get a picture of this pretty snail but by the time i got my dog comfortable, its face was out of sight. so heres a look at its silly little tail instead

#blattodean.collection #photo.collection #invertebrates #snails #gastropods #undescribed #bugblr