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Hello! Entomologist and crustacean biologist from Florida, USA! Also art and game development. AuDHD. has anyone seen my phone

A neelid is a light orange spotted springtail with a very round body, no eyes, and a small, downward pointing head. They live in leaf litter

Part of an article in Florida Trend: "Other AI projects are in progress at the Florida Museum. One tries to quantify levels of coloration within a specimen to learn more about prey-predator dynamics. Another leverages generative AI to help fill gaps in incomplete fossil records, reconstructing fragmented artifacts within a level of certainty. In the future, Porto says he'd love to see what data he could scrape from the museum's collection of 16,000-plus 3D scans of vertebrate skeletons." not how fossils work

Birgus coconut crab is dark red and orange, gripping a tree

Radroach from the Fallout series is a dusty brown cockroach about the size of a cat

The same brown spider climbing up my hand

The same spider in my hand

grey colored fairy shrimp in shallow water

short video with 15 seconds of cheerful music from Pokemon 3 The Movie set to various internet memes of people dancing

map in RPG maker MV showing a fort surrounded by water

person standing along the Tour de France route in a luigi costume

chalkboard sign reads "crepe & burger" with an arrow pointing left

Fort des Rousses is a fort in eastern France

Mr Gutsy from the Fallout series is a floating green robot with a spherical body, three metal arms ending in various tools, and three rounded cameras functioning as eyes. It looks vaguely like an octopus with eye stalks

Oak tree branch totally covered in Pleopeltis ferns

Squiggly trails in dirt on a wall made by snails

big pile of branches and leaves

screenshot from skyrim of a character standing about a meter away from a wooden gate. subtitles read "I was briefly in the employ of an orc warrior once. I had to quit because he refused to bathe. Disgusting."

stick figure raking outside while thinking of the Nails Hair Hips Heels tumblr barbie movie thirst trap edit

The Morrowind item "Telvanni Bug Musk" fortifies personality 40 points for 60 seconds and costs 100 gold

low poly island with three brown cubes representing buildings

80 pixel art portraits of colorful cartoon dinosaur people

NPC named Lovek from the game Starfield is a fair skinned man with a beard, long blond hair, and face paint

short video of an original MIDI percussion track with a recording of a low poly RPG scene on an island

28 pixel art portraits of various fantasy creatures. many of them are bugs or snakes, but there is also a wiwaxia and a larvacean in there

mspaint drawing of an imaginary creature resembling a jellyfish, with a dark purple top and blue underside, two flippers, a dorsal fin, and eggs held within a curled tail

netch from The Elder Scrolls is a floating jellyfish-like creature with a leathery body

Black Polydamas swallowtail caterpillar getting ready to pupate on the door frame

Little wet blob of mud on the ground dropped by a mud wasp

Two dark maroon colored polydamas swallowtail caterpillars eating the same leaf. Their tiny stemmata eyes are visible in clusters near their mouths

Dead polydamas caterpillar on a log is totally untouched by predators

Polydamas caterpillar is velvety and black in color with orange tubercles

A brown colored lizard person wearing a cropped green shirt and grey swimsuit, mimicking the woman on the Grand Theft Auto 6 cover. Their torso is very flat and elongated like an actual lizard, and they are holding the Colovian Fur Helm and Meridia's Beacon from the Elder Scrolls games. A speech bubble reads "Like this?"

Grey colored adult antlion hiding against a stalk of grass

Insignia of House Redoran from The Elder Scrolls depicts a scarab beetle with eight legs on a dark red piece of cloth

comic depicting characters from The Elder Scrolls interacting. A brown lizard person, an ice monster, and a person in heavy armor are looking at a dead dragon. The armored person says "I call dibs on the gold." A masked man in long robes appears and tells the lizard person "Impressive work. But, I'll be taking this dragon's soul now." The lizard says "That's fine." The person in armor is taking a purple handbag from the dragon and calls over "Did you say something?" and the lizard says "Oh, sorry, there's a guy with a mask talking to my brain or something." This is the character Miraak from Skyrim / Elder Scrolls 5, who communicates with the player telepathically. The armored character thinks this is Dagoth Ur, another telepathic mask guy, but from Morrowind / Elder Scrolls 3, and says "Oh, yeah. I know that guy." He then shouts over "Buzz off Nosferatu, we're busy." Miraak looks offended and shouts "EXCUSE ME?"

four flat color pixel art portraits of colorful lizard or dinosaur people

metal clown horn

"FlyBase News: Like many research communities, the FlyBase community has begun using AI tools."

greyish brown anole in my hand looking upset

four simple flat color pixel art portraits depicting multicolored lizard or dinosaur characters

four plastic ladybug wind up toys made by TOMY: two are red, one is yellow, and one is green

garden shears on the ground

Webspinner insect on my hand is long bodied and dark brown with no wings

Another photo of the same cream colored butterfly against a dark background

Cream colored butterfly with light brown spots

drawing of an original ladybug character talking to the character Caine from The Amazing Digital Circus. The ladybug asks "I don't have to be sick all the time anymore? Or answer the phone?" and Caine replies "Well, duh. That's not fun." as Amazing Digital Circus takes place inside a computer. The ladybug then silently looks at the viewer.

two simple flat color drawings of a yellow ladybug with red antennae and black spots next to a crusty jpeg of the actual toy

several simple pixel art character portraits depicting multicolored dinosaur people

Two monarch butterflies chasing each other across a blue sky

A live oak tree does not have a single main trunk, but lots of smaller trunks moving horizontally away from the base

a big wad of dark maroon colored polydamas caterpillars all eating together

Dark maroon colored caterpillar on woolly pipevine plant

cobalt blue glass bottles shaped like violins. they never contained anything and are purely decorative.

drawing of Robot Jones from the titular cartoon network show smiling and looking upward at male and female symbols and a question mark. text says "There are many ways for boys and girls to act which are okay, but which way is best for me?"

Herend porcelain red hermit crab emerging from a realistic conch shell with pastel colors and gold details

Herend porcelain green caterpillar on a leaf, with little gold stemmata

Herend porcelain queen bee is black and gold with a little crown

Herend porcelain tarantula with red legs and red fish scale pattern

Herend porcelain land snail with a red, gold, black and blue shell and red fish scales on its body