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Something Ill always recommend to people trying to get more comfortable with insects (if they can handle it, not everyone can) is to just… watch them. Video or RL. Doesn’t really matter. Don’t interact- no need to touch or manipulate, just watch them.

One thing that I’ve noticed gets a lot of people hung up on bugs is this idea of foreignness- they aren’t mammalian in design, and for many in personality too. Bugs are weird with their extra legs, alien design and almost unanimal-like… but they aren’t. If you watch an ant build its nest you’ll see it carefully choose wear each grain of sand goes. A beetle walking will look and chose what twigs to crawl on. A spider seeing your shadow will turn to look at you.

People are surprised by that. They’re surprised that if you just watch a bug be a bug… its behavior is understandable. Its not as weird.

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If you want to search for this I recommend something like “Macrophotography” since that tends to shy away from some of the more clickbait-y or “horror of insects” type stuff. Though be aware it is focused on close-ups often

Stuff like this you could do in a yard. But even this captures something some people just seem to not? get? with insects. You can watch this beetle and watch it stumble over some grass and lose footing and all its really trying to do is walk

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the convergent evolution of praying mantises and mantidflies is also really interesting. theyre from entirely different groups of insects (for reference, cockroaches and termites are mantids closest living relatives) but independently evolved almost identical raptorial limbs, as well as a fairly similar elongated thorax, and necks with a significant degree of rotation (which most insects dont have).