Quil

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✨️ Quil | They/Them | Adult ✨️ 🐛Digital Artist 🦋Dabbling in bug photography 🪲Commissions: Closed till out of artblock 🐌 VGen: vgen.co/quilbug 🦗 Carrd: 🐝Bug Species:

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Quil@quilbug· 16d

Good shape 🪲ID Guess: Lantana Treehopper #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A side view photo of a lantana leafhopper sitting near the edge of a green leaf. The leafhopper is a pale caramel colour with short light hairs on its chitin, making it look sparkly. It has three short legs and transparent wings neatly folded against its sides. Its head is flat, extending upward in a helmet-like segment that tapers into a flat black and red horn.

Quil@quilbug· 17d

All day I dodged under this guys web, then the neighbourhood cat walked through the web and broke it 😔 🪲ID Guess: Australian Garden Orb Weaver #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A top view photo of an australian garden orb weaver hanging onto its broken web. The spider has a bright orange and caramel coloured body with fuzz and sensory hairs all over. Its abdomen is chestnut shaped with some patterns ontop. The bottom of its web has been broken, it stands on the bottom in-tact strands of its web, looking down.

Quil@quilbug· 18d

Panicked and went stick mode when it saw me, then chilled during the paparazi 🪲ID Guess: Stick Mantis #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A sideview photo of a brown stick mantis trying to camouflage itself as a stick amonge green branches as leaves. The mantis has a long, segmented body with sharp edges and lines. It has lanky legs that look like twigs coming off its branchy body, and a triangular face that is horizontally long. All its limbs hold onto its perch, except one of its arms, which is stuck out to the side, following the line of its body to make it look longer and more stick like, Its long head is turned to the side too for this stick-like silhouette.

A closeup photo of the same stick mantis' head and torso when it is not trying to look like a stick. Its head faces forward and its forelegs relax. Its dotted pupil staring at the camera still gives it a suspicious look though.

Quil@quilbug· 18d

Pretty blue eyes with yellow eyeliner :D 🪲ID Guess: Bottle Cicada #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A side view photo of a bright green bottle cicada on a leaf that matches its shade of green exactly. It has a large, segmented abdomen, transparent wings with yellow at the joints and legs that start off chunky before tapering into thinner joints. Its oblong eyes are a muted blue with a little black pupil, and there is a bright yellow marking behind its eye that looks like eyeliner.

Quil@quilbug· 19d

My good friend The Fly Who Points 👉 🪲ID Guess: Steganopsis melanogaster #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A side view photo of a little hunch backed fly sitting on the edge of a very saturated sap-green leaf. The fly's stout little body has a hunch between its abdomen and thorax, spindly legs, and short antennae. Its abdomen is black, its thorax caramel coloured, its eyes red and its wings a transparent brown. It lifts its right foreleg up, as if pointing forward.

Quil@quilbug· 19d

precious beloved wonderful amazing gorgeous 🪲ID Guess: Australian Garden Orb Weaver #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spider

A front view photo of an australian garden orb weaver spider tucked up all cozy on a dark green leaf. It has pulled its two front legs close to its head, and its two back legs almost tuck under its big chestnut shaped abdomen. It has a very fuzzy, beige body with many sensory hairs sticking out of its legs. It has four tiny beads for eyes that peer out with an almost worried expression.

Quil@quilbug· 20d

Many little aliens <3 🪲ID Guess: Giant Grasshopper (Juvenile) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A side view photo of a baby giant grasshopper perched on the tip of a green leaf. The grasshopper has a little green, segmented body, little speckles of lighter green and black, oblong brown eyes and straight antennae.

Another side view photo of the same species of baby giant grasshopper, sitting in the middle of a muted-green leaf. This one has darker black speckles and markings on its legs.

A three quarter front view of another baby grasshopper of the same species, hidden under the shade of a curled leaf. Its flat head that tapers into a down turned beak is better seen, and its little antennae make a V shape.

Another sideview photo of the same baby grasshopper species, this one is peaking out from a curled green leaf. The lighting in this photo makes its oblong brown eyes extra shiny.

Quil@quilbug· 21d

How cool is this? The structure around it is described as a trellis of hairs! You can see the last molt still there at the end in the second photo :O 🪲ID Guess: Lichen moth pupa (Genus Cyana) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A side view photo of a lichen moth pupa encased in a cage-like trellis of hairs it had constructed around itself. The pupa is a little orange-brown bean, its abdomen segments and wings can be faintly seen. Around it is a second structure made of interlacing hairs like a criss cross mesh.

A closeup photo of the same lichen moth pupa inside its trellis of hairs, this time focusing on one point of the trellis where its scrunched up and discarded caterpillar skin still lays.

Quil@quilbug· 22d

My father pointed out that these guys look more like a fish than a bug and now I cant unsee it 🪲ID Guess: Flatid Planthoppers (Flatinae) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A side view photo of a flatinae leaf hopper sitting on a redish-brown plant stem. The leaf hopper is a flat rectangular shape that tapers into its beak-like head. It is a saturated sap green colour, and its eyes are small with a smaller pupil dotted in the middle, giving it a shocked expression.

Another side view photo of a different leafhopper of the same species, sitting on the underside of a green plant stem. This leafhopper has dull white speckles all over its green body.

Quil@quilbug· Jul 4

Hehe I like the genus name of these fellas 🪲ID Guess: Genus Salsa #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spider

A topview photo of an orange salsa orb weaver spider on a ginko leaf. The spider is a bright, saturated range with lighter orange hairs and bold geometric patterns on its abdomen. It has four little eyes squished close together on the front of its head, and two more eyes at the sides. It has long legs that taper at the ends mottled with bold orange shades.

A front view photo of the same spider, showing off its big chelicerae and little pedipalps.

Quil@quilbug· Jul 2

It looks like uuuuhhh, two uuh... yeah. 🪲ID Guess: Treehopper (Lubra spinicornis) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

A photo of a little brown leafhopper sitting on the sap green stem of a plant against a saturated dark green background. The leafhopper has a teardrop shaped body, the bottom of the teardrop being its flat little head that tappers into the tail end with its wings neatly folded to its sides. The top of the leafhoppers head elongates into two prongs, with a hairy, knobbly ball on each end.

A sideview of the same kind of leafhopper as the last one, this one's head knobs are larger and hairier. In this photo, the leafhoppers little brown eyes and transparent wings can be better seen.

Quil@quilbug· Jul 1

Got a whole spot-lit stage and everything 🪲ID Guess: White Garland House Hopper #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spider

A photograph of a little white garland house hopper peering up past the camera, lit by a spot of sunlight, while standing on a dying leaf surrounded by dark green. The spider has a squareish head with its pedipalps pulled close over its red chelicerae. Its four visible eyes are in a row at the top of its head. Its little body and short legs are a dirty yellow colour, and seem almost semi-transparent. It angles its head up toward where its looking.

Quil@quilbug· Jun 30

Spooood bellyyyyy 🪲ID Guess: Australasian Garden Orb-Weaver #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #spider

A photo of an australian garden orb weaver spider taken of its underside as it sits waiting on its web. The spider is plump and fuzzy, with a large diamond shaped abdomen, segmented thorax underside, and long fuzzy legs that taper into dainty points. The spider is coloured saturated shades of cream, caramel, and soft yellow.

Quil@quilbug· Jun 28

so many segments :O 🪲ID Guess: Robber Fly (Dolopus simulans) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #robberfly

A close sideview photo of a robber fly, focusing on the many segments of its thorax. Its thorax has a round shape, and the side seems pretty flat. It has small segments that interlock in a seemingly sporadic manner. The robber fly is mostly light grey, with some darker grey on the top largest segment of its thorax and some yellow on its long abdomen segments. It has white fluff all over its head, big oval eyes, red legs and transparent folded wings.

Quil@quilbug· Jun 28

Local silly plays dead after willingly flying into a person (Gonna get back to posting the photos from last season) 🪲ID Guess: True Weevil (Hypolixus mastersii) #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts #weevil

A sideview photo of a long weevil on a speckled green leaf. The weevil has a long, pill shaped body, stubby legs that seem to be unsteady, big oval eyes and a long black snout where two antennae potrude from. Its body is a patchwork of splotchy redish browns, off whites and darker patches.

A photo of that same weevil, now flat on its back pretending to be dead. In this photo you can see its segmented black underbelly, which is covered sparsely in fine brown hairs. The first joints of its thick, stubby legs come out of the middle of the weevils body, and seem circular like a ball joint.

Quil@quilbug· Jun 17

Wisper communication - continued 🎨 #worldofwispers #bugpeople worldofwispers.straw.page

A field-guide styled page illustrating and elaborating on wisper communication. The text ontop of thr page reads, "Communication continued. Observed: Host insect's communication behaviour. Illustrated in the middle of the page are three scenes of wispers displaying their biological communication methods. A cricket wisper (teleogryllus commodus) squats low to the ground and chirps with its wings. A moth wisper (rhimphalea sceletalis) kneels and points its abdomen up, exposing its pheromone emitting hair pencils. An ant wisper interacts with a regular ant of its species (leptomyrmex) by touching antennae.
The bottom text reads, "Hypothesis: Wispers retain host's biological communication methods, but uses it mainly with its own bio-species. Telepathic communication may be used otherwise.

Quil@quilbug· May 31

Drawing a million bugs in magma to fight this horribly persistent artblock WOO✨ Green doodles by me, blue and purple by @boysensyrup.bsky.social and red by @pogglins.bsky.social 💚💚💚

A screenshot of doodles done on magma, this shot showing roughly doodles bugs. There is a pear shaped weevil drawn in green by quil and labelled "webil", a little silly shaped weevil drawn by byrup and labelled "thing", and a neat weevil attempt drawn by pogglins.

A screenshot of doodles done on magma, this shot showing more roughly doodled bugs including a damsel fly, potato ladybug, roach, moth, fly, and snake mantis. Between these are doodles of byrup, quil and pogglins personas in chibi situations.

A screenshot of doodles done on magma, this shot showing three anole lizards, all looking very judgemental with their squinty eyes. Byrups handrwriting on the side asks "quil draw an anole".

A screenshot of doodles done on magma, this shot showing quils first doodle of their insect persona on their hands and knees, looking back with tears in their eyes and letting out a pathetic "weh". It is implied that this bug is suffering from artblock.

Quil@quilbug· May 2

Continuing to fight artblock with @boysensyrup.bsky.social sketchies 🎨 #anthroart #persona

A sketch of quilbugs anthro insect persona lifting byrup the anthro skink up into the air by the back of his sweater. Quil is very much smaller than their skink friend, and struggles to keep them both airborne. Byrup hangs his arms and tail comfortably and looks up to quil while sticking out his tongue.

A sketch of Byrup the skink, drawn with the size and essence of a regular skink, being held between a human's thumb and index finger. He looks cheekily up to his captor.

Quil@quilbug· May 1

Buggo for the soul 🎨 #bugart #bugsky

Three sketchy drawings of bugs, featuring a bright green giant grasshopper, a type of splotchy brown weevil, and a flower feeding march fly with a fluffy body and brightly coloured eyes, surrounded by little colourful stars, hearts and symbols.

Quil@quilbug· Apr 30

fighting artblock with a sketchi of one of my desk plants and meeeee 🎨 #persona #bugart #anthroart

A textured coloured sketch of a young pathos plant stretching its leaves upward. Sitting on the plants curving stem sits quilbug's little green insect persona, very much the same sap green as the plant. Quil crouches with one leg perched on the thicker part of the stem, the other leg dangling down. They steady themself with their hands, and their balance is kept with their outstretched, transparent wings.

Quil@quilbug· Apr 1

thing for @cesar-umbrage.bsky.social >:DDDD 🎨 #bugart #bugpeople

A coloured drawing of Crouton, Cesar Umbrage's spiny spider oc, striking a fun pose. They are an anthro spider with a black body and pops of fluorescent yellow-green on their stomach plates, pedipalps, head spines, feet pads and abdomen.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 23

me when i gET u 🎨 #bugart #persona #emperor

A neat sketch of Emperor the insect monster pinning down an anthro frog against the ground with a front leg and reaching down toward him with a claw. The frog tries to squirm his legs out of Emperors grip but his foot is pinned down by a second claw, he stretches out his hand in an atempt to block Emperor as it leans down with its mouthparts flared open. Emperors four legs and two arms are long and slender and have hairs that flare at the ends near the clawed hands. It has long antennae, mantis-like mouthparts and big blank eyes.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 21

Its impressed! A feisty ally then :D

A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the insect monster who has byrup the blue tailed skink sitting on its shoulder, placing cesars spiny orbweaver on its other shoulder by a web line.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 20

Waow

A quick sketch of quilbugs anthro insect persona sitting on the floor and sipping on a small jelly cup with their proboscis as if it were a bowl of popcorn.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 20

maybe a delicious snack

A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the insect monster holding cesars spiny orbweaver sona up in a claw above its open mouthparts while byrup the blue tailed skink sits on its shoulder,. In cropped bluesky comment speech bubbles Byrup shouts, "Food for the emperor!" while Cesare pleads, "I'm sorry for yelling please don't eat me Emperor".

Quil@quilbug· Mar 20

Another one!

A rough sketch of Emperor the insect monster with byrup the blue tailed skink on its shoulder, looking at cesars spiny orbweaver sona on its arm, who points at byrup and yells "IT LOVES YOU WHAT THE HECK". The speech bubble is cesars cropped bluesky comment.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 20

Emperor on ceiling what will it do 🎨 #bugart #persona #emperor

A clean sketch of Emperor the insect monster crawling down toward the ground from being up on the ceiling. Its four legs and two arms are long and slender and have hairs that flare at the ends near the clawed hands. It has long antennae, mantis-like mouthparts and big blank eyes. Its back legs are planted on the ceiling, its front legs curl down lower and its back is arched as it twists itself around.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 19

Some Emperor sketchies to practice :D Obligatory crouch pose and some maybe-expressions? Just for my artist brain I tried showing expression in its eyes, but I'll probably draw mostly blank faces for it :p 🎨 #bugart #persona #emperor

A rough sketch of Emperor the insect monster, crouched and looking straight at the viewer. Its four legs and two arms are long and slender and have hairs that flare at the ends near the clawed hands. It has long antennae, mantis-like mouthparts and big blank eyes. It tilts its head slighty as if considering what is in front of it.

Three sketches of Emperor the insect monster with different expressions. In the first sketch Emperor faces forward with its eyes in the usual shape, its antennae relaxed over its shoulders and head tilted slightly in an endeared expression. In the second sketch Emperors eyes are wider, its antennae stand alert and its crest hairs poof out in a surprised expression. In the last sketch emperors eyes are narrower, its antennae flat against its head and its crest hairs smoothed in an annoyed expression.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 18

Lucky you! It decided on symbiosis :D

A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the giant insect monster putting byrups blue tailed skink sona on its shoulder and patting him with its antenna, seemingly pleased.

Quil@quilbug· Mar 18

Smol... food or friend?