Bug Time 🪲🐜🐛

Reblog to support artists 🤙 "real bugs" is the non-HK content tag. Sideblog by @rambling-robot

[bugging-robot]

I just checked the fangamer page for hollow knight and THERE ARE SO MANY MORE PLUSHIES THAN I REMEMBER???? oh if only I had the money and the space for a collection

[crazysodomite]

my shy gagobear

[crabussy]

sometimes a bug lands in my drink and I say "bro is in my drink" which evolved into "there is a brother in my drink" but that feels vaguely assumptive so now I on occasion say "there is a sister in my drink" whenever a very confused fly decides to take a dip. you too can practice feminism in everyday life

[anime-villian-irl]

How did that evolve into there is a brother in my drink

[crabussy]

brother is a nicholasname for bro

[crabussy]

you are so special to me dude

[orcboxer]

there's a LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER in my drink

[oldmanontumbler]

Flies are:

Loud? ✅️ We all hear them coming

Incorrect? ✅️ For being in your drink

Buzzers? ✅️ They tend to do that.

Congrats, OP, there IS a Loud, Incorrect Buzzer- I mean, Brother- I mean, Sister. in your drink.

[mollyvega]

These two cicada sisters are Johanna and Rosemary

💙🩷

[pitchblackespresso]

His name was Pilby

[ieafy]

I can’t stop drawing mantises I fear

[zarla-s]

this came to me in a dream

[patreon]

[peachdoxie]

I love characters who are extremely hypercompetent and simultaneously massive losers

[haemosexuality]

hornet thinks that by refusing ascension and living with mortal bugs she is refusing the divinity her father represented but she doesn't realize that he too shed his larger form to be closer to the ground

[its-a-me-kaio]

She just has to receive 10 more of these before she makes the connection

[ieafy]

Mote and (younger) Rem, art inspired by Graveward (link here) 🪲 this fic moves me so much 🥺🫶

[creativecapybara]

Ahh big bee

[hornetposting]

still her baby

source

[letsblogwithmama]

concept: a centipede but make it a cool s

[letsblogwithmama]

lets be s with mama

[bugging-robot]

and while I’m here. who the hell decided to call it a “rabid” wolf spider. brother I am already scared. why is that thing barking and growling at me now.

[bugging-robot]

as an arachnophobe trying to participate in bug positivity and education to decrease my fears and increase my appreciation of the natural world: the only thing worse about the large spider* I saw in my bathroom is the fact that it disappeared.

Is it between the shower curtain and liner? Is it in the shelf? Is it in a different room? I don’t know but I am. afraid. and I need to go to sleep. and I will sleep, but. man I just started changing my antidepressant, so I was already coping with feeling anxiety for the first time in a while, but this is ridiculous.

*I understand that the spider is also scared, and we both wish we hadn’t seen the other. It’s either been camping out in the potted plant that’s been in the bathroom all winter (possible but unlikely) or it got in from an open door and can’t get back out. And brother. I’m too scared to CNR**. I mean, I’m a big proponent of that one, but the combined arachnophobia and the spider’s absence make that Really Difficult.

**CNR is short for “Catch ‘N’ Release”, which is short for “Catch And Release”.

anyway. photo under the cut.

Scrolling through various pictures of spiders trying to find an ID was really starting to wig me out, so I’m settling on saying it’s some sort of wolf spider. That is usually what we call every large spider we see around here, anyway—the finer details of “house spider” or “tunnel web spider” are lost when you see a spider big enough to raise a ruckus about. I swear the legspan made it two inches long even with it being a little scrunched. I typed this post out on my phone while lying in bed and I’ve kept my flashlight on the whole time. And tbh. I might leave it on. I’m scared.

[targetedknowledge]

[daily-dose-of-insects]

These are leaf cutter ants! They harvest leaves to take back to their nest. They don’t eat the leaves but instead feed it to a fungus they tend to and eat. These guys are farmers and the leaves are fertilizer. Such fascinating little creatures!

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Ropalidia saussurei!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Most other wasps that have green on them are not a true green, and instead only appear green due to what is called "structural color"— the micro-make up and surface of the scales reflect light to make it appear that color as opposed to true pigment, which is a chemical mix that results in the color. This is why so many green wasps (and birds for that matter) have a metallic sheen to them, as the angle the light hits at will also effect the perceived color.

There are only a handful of wasp species with true green pigment, the majority of which can only be found in Madagascar.

[waspdaily]

The turaco is the only bird that has true green pigment. Bonus bird fact to go with your wasp facts, all apart of a balance diet