Entomologize

A mix of insect-related art, photography, and facts from around the web! Side blog Entomologize-nonbug.

[misidentifying-animals-in-posts]

best animal names: unnecessarily judgemental edition

[mossworm]

D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)

[radishforest]

Velvet worm mug, 2025

[bedupolker]

Never not a good time to post old watercolor bug doodles

[herpsandbirds]

Sloth Moths (Parasa schausi complex), family Limacodidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Casey Owen

[fernscare]

ended up with a discarded painting on a 3 ft x 3 ft canvas, and painted it over with some late summer plants and bugs

[kolibri-herz]

Update on the bug scarf: 50% done 🎉

[quilbug-draws]

Insectember day 17: diaphora mendica Common name: muslin moth

immaculate floof✨

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[humblegrub]

meet the ghosts and ghouls of the graveyard terrarium

[gummi-stims]

Stained glass cicada lamp by cady_the_creator on tiktok!

[ninanofun]

After several months of work, I finished this embroidery project yesterday. It's my second ever attempt at embroidery and I'm really, really happy with the result.

Also, a few weeks ago, my partner and I did a little photoshoot at a nearby park with the previous iteration (which is identical except for the golden circle).

[madeleinefjall]

Knitted a moth sweater ✨ bought the pattern for it here!

[herpsandbirds]

Purple-crested Slug (Adoneta spinuloides), caterpillar of a moth in the family Limacodidae, NH, USA

photographs by Brent Haglund

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Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata)

From Koaw Nature on YouTube.

[niqvassieart]

Little silkworms spinning. I have been looking after some for a friend who is raising peace-silk for a project, will meet them again as moths in a week or so!

[bedupolker]

Happy Pollinator week to the Baltic Isopod, the first underwater pollinator discovered by science! Lab studies imply that their activities help pollinate seagrass and macroalgea. Is there anything isopods can't do?

[platycryptus]

Black-tipped darner (Aeshna tuberculifera)

The genus Aeshna, or mosaic darners, contains many similar-looking species found in temperate and boreal regions across the Northern Hemisphere. If you live in the northern US or Canada, many of the large, fast dragonflies seen flying in swarms in late summer and fall belong to this genus.

A. tuberculifera is one of the largest Aeshna in North America, and in my opinion might be the coolest looking- just look at the turquoise on his thorax stripes!

(Massachusetts, 7/31/25)