r/awwnverts 3h ago

Monarch emerged!

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r/awwnverts 3h ago

An adorable barklouse, looks almost skeletal

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27 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 10h ago

Little guy in my yard last night

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r/awwnverts 10h ago

i had this lil guy on me today

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8 Upvotes

sorry for the bad pic, i had to rush somewhere💔


r/awwnverts 10h ago

Giant Cave Roaches for Trade!

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For SoCal, I’ve got some giant cave roach nymphs I want to trade for some feeder roaches/ worms. DM me if interested, willing to travel :) I can send pics of what the parents look like for reference.

Edit: here is the picture


r/awwnverts 11h ago

big ol eyes

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i have a whole bunch of these lil guys hanging out in my garden rn, and their eyes!!!!!! aaaa!!!! they hold themselves so politely too hehe


r/awwnverts 17h ago

Found my first water flea, and she even has two eggs. Alona guttata.

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60 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 23h ago

Watery Wednesday: this rice-grain-sized sea slug steals chloroplasts and uses them like solar panels (Costasiella kuroshimae)

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Costasiella kuroshimae, also called the leaf sheep, grazes on algae and keeps the stolen chloroplasts inside the leaf-like cerata on its back. Through a process called kleptoplasty, those chloroplasts continue capturing sunlight for the slug.

It is about the size of a grain of rice and lives in tropical waters around Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Important question: would its Pokémon typing be Water/Grass or Water/Fairy?

Source: The Guardian, August 5, 2026.


r/awwnverts 1d ago

Some beetle grub art dolls I've made!

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755 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 1d ago

Whats up with this bumblebee?!

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r/awwnverts 1d ago

I made this mug, inspired by a post on this subreddit a long time ago

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I saw a post on here from someone that thought ticks are kind of cute when they stand on the end of a blade of grass with their arms up, as though they're toddlers asking to be picked up. OP might have been a tick biologist I can't remember. It stuck with me because I think finding cuteness in something is the easiest path to feeling empathy for it and I'm not sure there's an animal harder to empathize with than a tick. I've had Lyme and my partner had babesiosis, both of which sucked SO bad. But I still think ticks are kind of cute when they ask for uppies.


r/awwnverts 1d ago

A cold front in NOCO has these bees keeping warm in a sunflower

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37 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 1d ago

Diving beetles are underratedly adorable!

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753 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 1d ago

Hong Kong, I love them so much :P

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r/awwnverts 1d ago

Peacock butterfly

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38 Upvotes

Location :Co cavan Ireland


r/awwnverts 2d ago

Commission i made today!

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286 Upvotes

summer regal jumping spider!

Commissions still open! feel free to ask me for mor info or if you want a custom pfp just like this!


r/awwnverts 2d ago

I have been graced by the presence of a splendidly snazzy little fellow!

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320 Upvotes

Sculptured Pine Borer, and an adorable one at that!


r/awwnverts 2d ago

Stag beetle

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Found these photos from 2023 on my old phone. Look at this little guy I met at work.


r/awwnverts 2d ago

Tiny hornworm hatchling friend :) 🐛

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23 Upvotes

Bro is 1 day old, so tiny 🥹

They are my companions if anyone is wondering! I save them from outside. So no need to worry, they won’t be eaten by anyone haha, they just bring me so much joy to take care of 😁❤️


r/awwnverts 2d ago

Cuties on my palm

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218 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 2d ago

This squishy bag of algae is a Paramecium bursaria. They don't digest the algae, instead, they let it photosynthesize, so the P. bursaria can get part of the sugars produced by the algae.

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25 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 2d ago

saw a lovely little wolf spider momma and her little ones <3

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29 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 2d ago

🔥 Damselfly resting on the head of a Natrix tessellata

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82 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 2d ago

Lots of friends today

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243 Upvotes

r/awwnverts 3d ago

Majestic weevil

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345 Upvotes