more bugs and monsters and eyes and teeth

reblogs and other non-original content. my art & photos are at @bowelfly

[jetix]

‘やるんか？やるんかっ!?’ (You gonna fight? You gonna fight!?) Needle felt art by Chachakinana, 2025

[hollowedskin]

NEEDLE FELTING?????

[blorengerhymes]

monster party

[karmada]

Finally, the whole reason I started feverently drawing Redwall fanart. My precious lad, Blaggut, from The Bellmaker.

I had read this book originally so long ago (around the time it came out), so rereading it was like remembering an old friend. What I did NOT remember was how utterly wonderful Blaggut was.

[taylornprice]

miner's lettuce

[maxcollins]

[guilhernunes]

Elephant shrew having ramen

[franciscolemos]

Sketching robots

[polito0]

I need to save everything I can before Friday! (264/800$) pls boost

✏️I can draw for you, check out examples here!!

DMs open

☕This is MY KOFI, anything helps even a single coffee!!

(1USD=1400ARS)

I'm moving out and It'll cost around 1 Million ARS, idk if you know anything about Argentinian economy but shit's absolutely fucked rn :')

I really appreciate donations but I also want to take some commissions so please HMU if you are interested

[cypressure]

The Shallows (Borealopelta) (2023), linocut, edition of 15

buy a print in this edition! (link has changed)

[clawmarks]

The royal natural history - Richard Lydekker - 1893 - via Internet Archive

[vintage-tigre]

[platycryptus]

A giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus) uses her extremely long ovipositor to drill into a dead maple tree. Megarhyssa includes species with the longest ovipositors of any insect (up to 11 cm in M. macrurus and up to 14 cm in its cousin M. atrata), which also technically gives them the longest total length of any hymenopteran insect. The ovipositor is used to pierce deep into dead or dying trees to lay eggs on the larvae of a large wood-boring sawfly (Tremex columba).

Her ovipositor acts not only as a drill but as a sensory organ, and is highly sensitive to vibrations in the wood made by the sawfly larvae. Note how the translucent membranes of her abdomen stretch as she applies pressure by curling the base of the ovipositor, then retract when she withdraws to search for a different spot.

(Massachusetts, July 2025)

[idlelizard]

jovial jug

[spookygibberish]

Day 7 - Hyperparasite

Wiffsps are tiny, herbivorous insects that feed on sap by penetrating phloem vessels with their small, beaklike mouthparts. This particular species is an inquiline parasite of Goldnestling Stemfly galls. Eggs laid on the surface of the gall hatch into larvae which burrow into its interior, inducing the formation of a secondary gall chamber which expands to crush the original Stemfly larvae inside, creating a much roomier, hollow space in which the wiffsp larvae may grow and pupate before emerging to disperse.

[87sukiyaki]

[nuclearloop]

You Must Shed it

[sparrowlucero]

by request, more of these little enchanted tea kettle adoptables (available on my kofi!) (patreon) (linktree)