my bug side blog

I love bugs! so I made a side blog, my main is @the-mike-est-of-michaels

[misguidedtreestump]

Color study of a little beetle

[herpsandbirds]

Flea Beetle (Alagoasa sp.), family Chrysomelidae, Brazil

photograph by Ramy Maalouf

[pngblog]

[hoofpeet]

Beetle study <3 🪲

[whatmeaningfullessthings]

A perfect newborn leafcutter ant was recently born at a zoo but nobody cared because it wasn't a piece of shit hippo

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 723

via

[lyrebirdgore]

Leopard Slugs !!!!

For @plebbypebblepleb !!!!

They belong to the family Limacidae - also known as the keelback slugs, which are a taxonomic family of air breathing land slugs that are medium to large in size

It is also known as the Limax Maximus - which translates to “biggest slug” - which is ironic because, while it is a larger keeled slug, the largest is Limax Cinereoniger - the ash-black-slug

The mating of Leopard slugs is quite strange, they start with courting - circling each other under moonlight - before climbing a flower or tree, then lowering themselves down from a branch or petal on a strand of mucus and intertwine with each other - it is noted this is only ever in a counterclockwise pattern - and press *overly-sized* (sources words) penises from the sides of their heads and inject sperm, after which they climb the strand of mucus, eating it as they crawl away

The reason they turn counterclockwise to mate in that their specific form of hermaphrodite is akin to that of gynandromorphism - the form of hermaphrodites in which rhetoric gender is split down the middle - a Leopards penis nearly always is on its right side

The can store sperm for months, up to years and feed off it whilst retaining enough to fertilize the eggs

A Leopard slugs penis can be 60 to 90 cm in length ( 24 to 35 in )

The Leopard slug is spread throughout the world but is considered to be native to Europe and Mediterranean countries of Africa

It is capable of associative learning - specifically classical training

The shell of the Leopard slug is internal, beneath the shield. The shell is white-ish in color, oblong-oval and thin in shape, convex above and concave beneath, with membranous margin

Leopard slugs can grow to be 10 to 20 cm ( 4 - 8 in ) in length, live for 2.5 to 3 years and take at least 2 years to reach sexual maturity

[lyrebirdgore]

Leopard Slugs !!!!

For @plebbypebblepleb !!!!

They belong to the family Limacidae - also known as the keelback slugs, which are a taxonomic family of air breathing land slugs that are medium to large in size

It is also known as the Limax Maximus - which translates to “biggest slug” - which is ironic because, while it is a larger keeled slug, the largest is Limax Cinereoniger - the ash-black-slug

The mating of Leopard slugs is quite strange, they start with courting - circling each other under moonlight - before climbing a flower or tree, then lowering themselves down from a branch or petal on a strand of mucus and intertwine with each other - it is noted this is only ever in a counterclockwise pattern - and press *overly-sized* (sources words) penises from the sides of their heads and inject sperm, after which they climb the strand of mucus, eating it as they crawl away

The reason they turn counterclockwise to mate in that their specific form of hermaphrodite is akin to that of gynandromorphism - the form of hermaphrodites in which rhetoric gender is split down the middle - a Leopards penis nearly always is on its right side

The can store sperm for months, up to years and feed off it whilst retaining enough to fertilize the eggs

A Leopard slugs penis can be 60 to 90 cm in length ( 24 to 35 in )

The Leopard slug is spread throughout the world but is considered to be native to Europe and Mediterranean countries of Africa

It is capable of associative learning - specifically classical training

The shell of the Leopard slug is internal, beneath the shield. The shell is white-ish in color, oblong-oval and thin in shape, convex above and concave beneath, with membranous margin

Leopard slugs can grow to be 10 to 20 cm ( 4 - 8 in ) in length, live for 2.5 to 3 years and take at least 2 years to reach sexual maturity

[lyrebirdgore]

Leopard Slugs !!!!

For @plebbypebblepleb !!!!

They belong to the family Limacidae - also known as the keelback slugs, which are a taxonomic family of air breathing land slugs that are medium to large in size

It is also known as the Limax Maximus - which translates to “biggest slug” - which is ironic because, while it is a larger keeled slug, the largest is Limax Cinereoniger - the ash-black-slug

The mating of Leopard slugs is quite strange, they start with courting - circling each other under moonlight - before climbing a flower or tree, then lowering themselves down from a branch or petal on a strand of mucus and intertwine with each other - it is noted this is only ever in a counterclockwise pattern - and press *overly-sized* (sources words) penises from the sides of their heads and inject sperm, after which they climb the strand of mucus, eating it as they crawl away

The reason they turn counterclockwise to mate in that their specific form of hermaphrodite is akin to that of gynandromorphism - the form of hermaphrodites in which rhetoric gender is split down the middle - a Leopards penis nearly always is on its right side

The can store sperm for months, up to years and feed off it whilst retaining enough to fertilize the eggs

A Leopard slugs penis can be 60 to 90 cm in length ( 24 to 35 in )

The Leopard slug is spread throughout the world but is considered to be native to Europe and Mediterranean countries of Africa

It is capable of associative learning - specifically classical training

The shell of the Leopard slug is internal, beneath the shield. The shell is white-ish in color, oblong-oval and thin in shape, convex above and concave beneath, with membranous margin

Leopard slugs can grow to be 10 to 20 cm ( 4 - 8 in ) in length, live for 2.5 to 3 years and take at least 2 years to reach sexual maturity

[boyfrienby]

you guys Need to start seeing bugs as animals im not even joking anymore. the second u start seeing them as tiny animals the more your world opens up and the more you accept different types of life Into that world. youll begin accepting that even life you cant understand is still worth living. and itll legitimately make you a better person. fuck

[averagemorrowindenjoyer]

no.

[canonisdead]

I acknowledge they are part of the animal kingdom and I hate them and they hate me too.

I will never set the bug outside, bug comes inside my home, bug must die, they have a short lifespan anyway.

No one likes unwanted visitors. Why the heck do you think we call them 'bugs' because they bug us.

[bogleech]

This is a dumb and sad attitude and I'm tired of seeing it over and over in my notes just because I've reblogged positive posts like this one.

They aren't intruders or unwanted visitors in your home, they have no idea what your home is. How on earth could they? It's a mass of foreign materials in their path, the size of a continent to them, and an unnatural one built by unfathomable giants.

They don't hate you, and almost none of them DO anything that can "bug" you. There are tens of thousands of groups of them and the groups that might harm you can be counted on one hand.

In my decades of existence I have never killed anything but ticks, fleas, mosquitoes in the process of biting me, a single bedbug at a doctor's office, a German cockroach infestation (the only really problematic roaches) and a couple ant colonies, in particular the ant colony that got into the insects I keep as pets and ate a hunch of them. I know I'd also have to kill lice and dry wood termites in my home but I haven't met them yet.

And that's it. Almost nothing else messes with people or people things, unless you're a gardener, but if I were a gardener a much longer list would also be allies in fighting the "pests" or pollinators my plants need.

Nothing happens if you leave all the other ones alone. They aren't going to climb into your bed and suck your blood if they're a cricket or a beetle. A lacewing or a crane fly isnt interested in your food. Nothing "must die" just because you aesthetically dislike how it looks or moves in your presence, which is stupid anyway, because they're all either beautiful or adorable or just rad and awesome looking. And outside RARE clinical phobia, the hatred of a natural organism is always a choice. Why would you choose to hate anything at all for no practical reason? Most people who believe they're phobic of spiders or insects or reptiles really aren't; they just hopped onto a bandwagon at some point that they didn't question. As soon as they do begin to question it the fear begins to fade.

You should want to like everything in nature because everything in nature is at the very least like a fun little character just trying to get by, and never did anything to anybody.

(I also can't help noticing that if anything 'cute' has a 'short lifespan,' people usually use that as the very reason they're kinder to it. Imagine living only one year and people decide to make that even shorter or more miserable for you)

[boyfrienby]

you guys Need to start seeing bugs as animals im not even joking anymore. the second u start seeing them as tiny animals the more your world opens up and the more you accept different types of life Into that world. youll begin accepting that even life you cant understand is still worth living. and itll legitimately make you a better person. fuck

[averagemorrowindenjoyer]

no.

[canonisdead]

I acknowledge they are part of the animal kingdom and I hate them and they hate me too.

I will never set the bug outside, bug comes inside my home, bug must die, they have a short lifespan anyway.

No one likes unwanted visitors. Why the heck do you think we call them 'bugs' because they bug us.

[bogleech]

This is a dumb and sad attitude and I'm tired of seeing it over and over in my notes just because I've reblogged positive posts like this one.

They aren't intruders or unwanted visitors in your home, they have no idea what your home is. How on earth could they? It's a mass of foreign materials in their path, the size of a continent to them, and an unnatural one built by unfathomable giants.

They don't hate you, and almost none of them DO anything that can "bug" you. There are tens of thousands of groups of them and the groups that might harm you can be counted on one hand.

In my decades of existence I have never killed anything but ticks, fleas, mosquitoes in the process of biting me, a single bedbug at a doctor's office, a German cockroach infestation (the only really problematic roaches) and a couple ant colonies, in particular the ant colony that got into the insects I keep as pets and ate a hunch of them. I know I'd also have to kill lice and dry wood termites in my home but I haven't met them yet.

And that's it. Almost nothing else messes with people or people things, unless you're a gardener, but if I were a gardener a much longer list would also be allies in fighting the "pests" or pollinators my plants need.

Nothing happens if you leave all the other ones alone. They aren't going to climb into your bed and suck your blood if they're a cricket or a beetle. A lacewing or a crane fly isnt interested in your food. Nothing "must die" just because you aesthetically dislike how it looks or moves in your presence, which is stupid anyway, because they're all either beautiful or adorable or just rad and awesome looking. And outside RARE clinical phobia, the hatred of a natural organism is always a choice. Why would you choose to hate anything at all for no practical reason? Most people who believe they're phobic of spiders or insects or reptiles really aren't; they just hopped onto a bandwagon at some point that they didn't question. As soon as they do begin to question it the fear begins to fade.

You should want to like everything in nature because everything in nature is at the very least like a fun little character just trying to get by, and never did anything to anybody.

(I also can't help noticing that if anything 'cute' has a 'short lifespan,' people usually use that as the very reason they're kinder to it. Imagine living only one year and people decide to make that even shorter or more miserable for you)

[voidboxshop]

NEW PLUSHIES!!! - This time BUG Themed!

These are just SOME of the new plushies I've made and are available for sale!! Slugs, Moths, Spiders, Caterpillars, Bees, Ladybug, Scorpion, Dragonfly and so so many more!! You can find them at voidbox.com !!!

I really love how they all turned out and I hope you love them too!!

[finneeegan]

Wizard

[weevilsdaily]

awesome weevil charms by @fossil.forager on instagram! go check them out!

[firebugseverywhere]

Polygonia c-album

What a weird fucking name is that?

[ehrenenglish]

Invertober day 5: Citrus Root Weevil

Back to insects again!

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Bugs in jars