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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Issid planthopper being the nugget-iest nugget creature, very serious
Small brown planthopper peering sternly at you, kinda looking like a tiny sheep
September 20, 2026 at 2:58 AM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Perfect creatures do exist 🥹
Exortus species planthopper. Nugget 🩶
Small compact planthopper on a dry pine needle, camouflaged in brown and gray. Just a pure nugget
April 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
the perfect specimen planthopper plushies, designed by me, coming this year 🌿
A photo of a green planthopper plushie with red eyes looking to the side A photo of a green planthopper plushie with large red eyes looking towards the camera
January 27, 2024 at 9:19 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Baby Scolops (silly planthopper with a snoot) 🥹
Silly little brown planthopper with a long snoot, standing nearly vertical on a dry pine needle
May 8, 2026 at 1:57 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Planthopper keychain plushies are now available in my shop! Bring a soft little bug friend on your adventures.

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art
A stack of 3 green planthopper plushies with large bright red eyes and big pupils. They have two leaf-like wings on the side of their bodies and round stubby legs. They are posed on a rock with a pebbled background. A singular green planthopper plush on a rock. Three planthopper plushies in a row posed on a rock. From this angle, you can see they all have a green beaded chain attachment on their back.
October 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
fossilforager.bsky.social
Presenting you with ✨bugs✨
An illustration featuring 10 species of insects alternating in a pattern against a light blue background. From top row to bottom, there is an oak treehopper, a planthopper, a 17-year cicada, a candy-striped leafhopper, a green leafhopper, a superb dog-day cicada, a rhododendron leafhopper, a froghopper, a pink planthopper, and a thorn treehopper.
November 22, 2024 at 11:26 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Q: Why are Bugs so silly?

A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body

*loud booing*

Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
Pinkish red planthopper with large wings like a maple seed, and a pointy triangular snoot topped with wavy white lines
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Exortus sp. planthopper. Nugget. 🤎
#InverteFest
Small brown camouflaged nugget-y planthopper, perched on a blade of grass
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ascalaphid.com
a couple guys
a cool dictyopharid planthopper and a nerdy weevil saying hi
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Convergent evolution invertebrate tailfeathers

(Planthopper nymph 🤍)
Pale tan planthopper nymph on rotted wood, just a little sub-shaped creature with a ridiculous thick tail of waxy fibers longer than its body
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Things Found Under Palmetto Fronds Today:
Otiocerus stollii (derbid planthopper)
Apache degeeri (derbid planthopper)
Sisyra sp (tiny lacewing)
Little An't Man (Synemosyna formica jumping spider)
Dark orange fan-winged planthopper, colored roughly like a peach, with a little pointy snoot Red veiny winged planthopper, shaped roughly like a maple seed, with a pointy snoot Tiny shiny iridescent brown lacewing with long black and tan antennae Slender red jumping spider boy with big immature palps, which hits big black eyes are peering over at you. He's waving one leg like antennae
December 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
just restocked lots of tiny bug pins!! 🔗 to my shop below or in my bio 💕
A photo showing 6 different tiny insect pins displayed in a geode. The image shows an oak treehopper, a pink planthopper, a candy striped leafhopper, a thorn treehopper, a green planthopper, and a periodical cicada!
December 28, 2024 at 9:21 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
I don't even know what to say about this guy, just drink him in 💚
(some planthopper nymph. I love him)
Pale green planthopper nymph, standing nearly upright with an extremely long snoot like a chainsaw, with orange eyes and false pupils peering
June 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Tiny bird 👀
(Paramysidia mississippiensis, little derbid planthopper 🤍)
Ghostly white planthopper facing you, large bird-like wings spread wide, tiny white eyes peering. Creature is chilling on a palmetto frond
September 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Bunny 🤍

Mula resonans planthopper
Ghostly white planthopper with large wings raised like the ears of a bunny, they're mostly transparent but with a few brown bands and bordered with white and pink
August 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Shellenius (ballii?), a magnificent derbid planthopper seen this cold morning under a palmetto frond ❤️
Slender derbid planthopper with wings and booty raised in the air; the nose is pointed, the wings are veined like leaves, and the colors are red and yellow and pink. Very autumn.
December 23, 2024 at 4:36 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
I designed some new tiny bug pins!!! 🐛💕
A photo collage of 6 tiny bug pins I’ve designed - 4 of them are new designs! From top to bottom, left to right, we have an oak treehopper, a pink planthopper, a candy-striped leafhopper, a thorn treehopper, a green planthopper, and a periodical cicada!
October 22, 2024 at 8:29 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Bunny Booty
(Mula resonans planthopper, from behind 🤍)
Rear view of a pale ghostly white planthopper with large translucent wings raised like the ears of a bunny
September 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Various Land Shramps from a short wander yesterday morning.
In order of appearance: Tiny leafhopper, Patara vanduzei (derbid planthopper), Psyllidae (jumping plant lice), and Otiocerus (derbid planthopper)
Bright little leafhopper, white base, with orange stripes and dark reddish blots Dark purple planthopper with thick antennae like tusks Weird dark green bug like a miniscule cicada Larger dark purple planthopper with veiny wings partially bordered with yellow and a "cake knife" head
January 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
nicwilson.bsky.social
Wow! 10K followers. Not quite sure how that happened. And what a lovely community is congregating here. This planthopper and I would like to say thanks folks! ☺️
A green planthopper that looks just like a leaf with veins.
November 17, 2024 at 10:16 AM
ascalaphid.com
Free character idea: dictyopharid planthopper greaser guy where their goofy head thing is styled like a pompadour
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Shellenius ballii, derbid planthopper ❤️
Slender derbid planthopper with wings and booty raised in the air; the nose is pointed, the wings are veined like leaves, and the colors are red and yellow and pink. Chilling on a palmetto frond
August 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
ashwilliebee.bsky.social
Orange spotted planthopper 🍂🌿✨
October 18, 2024 at 4:14 PM
apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Missing him (tiny sheep with the normal number of legs and wings)

(Issid planthopper)
Silly nugget of a speckly gray planthopper with stripy eyes, facing you and looking like a sheep as it grazes on the "grass" of a fuzzy leaf
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 AM
fossilforager.bsky.social
made a handful of planthoppers 🌿
A photo of me holding 4 handmade painted planthopper figurines. They are bright green insects with large leaflike wings and reddish-pink eyes.
May 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM