AnimalsRS

I like bugs and pretty things

[dorothylarouge]

[unfortunatebassist]

[h4h4n0tfunny]

[brutalistcatcafe]

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

[bogleech]

A rednote user ( http://xhslink.com/a/hGMGjJtnHQB ) keeps these big tree crickets as pets, they make silk with their mouths to join leaves together, they will try to do it anywhere and they are so cute I'm mad we don't have them here

[madame-helen]

[comrade-crow]

whats the difference between Long Island and Staten Island

[averyterrible]

they are two completely different islands.  long island is the big long island sticking out of New York.  Staten Island is the tiny island in New York City between the west coast of Long Island and the mainland

[skelenabones]

long island is where you go to experience total ego destruction over a period of decades. staten island is where you go to get stabbed by a clown

[iguanamouth]

you seen that caterpillar that creates a cocoon that looks like a snake?

ahh i actually havent ! at first i thought you were actually talking about a CATERPILLAR that looks like a snake, and said cocoon on accident (specifically the caterpillar of the hemeroplanes triptolemus, or snake-mimic hawk moth)

but it TURNS OUT theres a species of butterfly that takes it way further, to the point where all the other caterpillars are like “is this really fuckin necessary”

its the chrysalis of the daring-owl butterfly ! a species thats found in trinidad and spends a good portion of its young adult life trying to convince other things that its not actually completely helpless

LOOK at the detail thats gone into this though- i cant even imagine the journey  this look mustve taken, with lightly less-snakelike chrysalises being eaten over time again and again until youve got something with definable eyes and scales

apparently if disturbed theyll also rock violently back and forth, furthering the idea that this is a very dangerous pitviper with the tiniest body imaginable

the adult butterflies are much less exciting but honestly they dont need to be with a history like that a+ bug

(photos from x x x x )

[platycryptus]

It’s The Roaching Hour

[celestialmacros]

A Common Paper Wasp (Polistes exclamans) drinks rainwater from the edge of a leaf.

August 16, 2017

Southeastern Pennsylvania

Thanks to @perpetuallytransient for correcting my ID.  (I had guessed Northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus))  Corrections are always welcome!

[end0skeletal]

The Japanese emperor or great purple emperor (Sasakia charonda), is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, northern Taiwan and northern Vietnam. The caterpillar of the species (above) feed on hackberries.  (x x x)

[wapiti3]

Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology 

by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin.

Publication info [London :Published for the editors by R. H. Porter],1879-1915 BHL Collections: Smithsonian Libraries

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[casctiel]

SHUT THE FUCK UP

[psyducked]

how do you even notice that

[saccharinesylph]

LMAO

[heckadai]

the longshot is a popular choice, to say the least

[boobiemom]

IT’S NERF

OR NOTHING

[chasekip]

let them dance

[stars-and-bites]

Let them dance for mantine

[theothin]

this isn’t even the best part of this scene

she was telling them team skull members are banned from mantine surfing, because they keep trying to dance while surfing and falling off

not because they’re part of a group of pokemon thieves or anything, just because they’re that bad at surfing and people are tired of having to rescue them

[elysianpigeon]

correct me if i’m wrong but

[paper-mario-wiki]

im calling out everyone who says “this cleared my skin and watered my crops” when responding to images they like

i know you dont have crops

and i know you dont have skin

stop lying for a “joke”, this is a serious website for people to make posts on their blogs about their life experiences, not about making a ruckus and acting like fools

[jellhound]

im so sorry

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[babyanimalgifs]

one of my favorite videos on the internet ever

[fuckyeahconceptart]