#invertefest

[cuttledreams-bugs]

Bug time!! Got this done just in time for this summer's Invertefest~

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InverteFest: a trio of giant insects by #Lego artist Sean Kenney!

🆔:

Ladybug = Scarce Seven-Spot Ladybird (with bonus aphids)

Caterpillar = Monarch Butterfly (larva)

Dragonfly = Roseate Skimmer

Photographed at a 2019 exhibit at Liberty Science Center.

[adragonsoulart-blog]

"Spineless Angel"

A new print I've been working on and got done just in time for inveretfest!

I've got Prints and Patches available As well as a "Making of" Video

More info below!

Inspired by the beautiful wings of these often disregarded earwigs. I took it a little bit further and added a touch of cosmic horror with subtle eye-like markings on their wings, paying homage to the pop-culture idea of the "biblical accurate angel". The overall silhouette in the pinned specimen pose loosely resembled a cross, another contributor to the name! It's up to you to decide what the name means, should it be taken at face value? Is it cowardly? Has it overcome it's fearful nature and spread it's wings to show its confidence?

Carved on unmounted Battleship grey linoleum! About 8in x 8.3in

[tinylongwing]

Corals, sea-level rise, and consequences. This illustration accompanies Kate Horowitz' lovely speculative fiction piece, The Ribbon Cutting, in the first-ever Invertefest Anthology! I'm so delighted to be a part of this project. Check out everyone's work at the link!

[apsciencebylyn]

Any artists who like creating creatures and need inspiration from time to time, please feel free to peruse my bugs! I would be delighted.

For the record, encyrtid wasps are perfect creatures, and you may not have heard of them, because they're tiny, and wasps. But LOOK 🖤

Encyrtids are important biocontrol agents, pretty much always tiny (biggest one I've found is a few millimeters long), and the most ridiculous, goofy, gorgeous, harmless things. I will get people to love them.

[lycomorpha]

Good morning friends - lime hawkmoth, this is not a drill, I repeat, lime hawkmoth!

It's InverteFest week and look at this chonky jet-plane-looking pal that dropped by the moth trap! Here it is in the classic tail-up "you woke me TF up when??" pose. Sorry little buddy. Wouldn't fly off, so we coaxed it on to a tree & I'm hanging around so that it doesn't get picked off by a bird (although it's reasonably well hidden, but I worry... I have coffee and mini-eggs though, so it's all good.)

Moth trapping is a way to record and release local insects, no moths are hurt and they all get released afterwards (I try to put them somewhere well hidden though because of hungry birbs.)

[tine5]

Invertefest day 6 - Arthropleura, the giant millipede

[aubrietarose]

"I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade..." AKA my "Draw a were-octopus without it looking like an Illithid or Cthulu" challenge". I think I... mostly succeeded? Weretober 2025 - Red Octopus