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Yay bugs! • My own, original posts are tagged “bagt post“ • Introduction Main (main has some links in the description if you're interested about me or want a link to any of my other blogs)

[bugsaregoodtoo]

Alright so I haven’t been posting much and I haven’t been making my own content for a bit now really so I thought I’d let you all know why.

Currently I only own isopods as pet bugs as around this time last year I finally got done escaping an abusive situation and I moved permanently to a new place near my university which meant a lot happened and essentially I am now living in a city rather than in country side and unfortunately there are few resources for caring for bugs here, no garden, very little in terms of greenery and I’m not sure it would be safe to eat what is there since dogs pollution pesticides etc and the only non horrible chain pet shop closed at the beginning of the pandemic. Online shipping is very expensive here especially right now so I can’t care for most bugs though I do plan on more isopods, millipedes and the likes and larger mantids but at the moment the ones I’m after aren’t about, don’t worry though I’m ok and now finally completely safe and in a stable home with a perfect partner 5 lizards and a bunch of tiny crab cows that eat everything! I will continue to post of course when I find bug content but I am on tumblr less than usual as I’ve been busy with the new flat but I’m not dead basically yay!

[sosuperawesome]

Felted Moths

Artisan Fibre on Etsy

[typhlonectes]

How To Turn Your Yard Into an Ecological Oasis 

Replacing grass with even a few plants native to your region can save insects and the ecosystems that depend on them. 

For years, Toni Genberg assumed a healthy garden was a healthy habitat. That’s how she approached the landscaping around her home in northern Virginia. On trips to the local gardening center, she would privilege aesthetics, buying whatever looked pretty, “which was typically ornamental or invasive plants,” she says. Then, in 2014, Genberg attended a talk by Doug Tallamy, a professor of entomology at the University of Delaware. “I learned I was actually starving our wildlife,” she says.

The problem, Tallamy explained, is with the picky diets of plant-eating insects. Most of these bugs—roughly 90%—eat and reproduce on only certain native plant species, specifically those with whom they share an evolutionary history. Without these carefully tuned adaptations of specific plants, insect populations suffer. And because bugs themselves are a key food source for birds, rodents, amphibians, and other critters, that dependence on natives—and the consequences of not having them—works its way up the food chain. Over time, landscapes that consist mainly of invasive or nonnative plants could become dead zones…

Read more: https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/how-turn-your-yard-ecological-oasis

[sinobug]

Nawab Butterfly “Dragonhead” Caterpillar (Polyura sp., Charaxinae, Nymphalidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese caterpillars on my Flickr site HERE…..

[mothbuddies]

Swallowtail Caterpillars

[mothbuddies]

Asiatic Isopod on yt

[mothbuddies]

Tactical veterinarian on yt

[mothbuddies]

Asiatic Isopod on yt

[sinobug]

GREEN Click on and scroll through individual images for IDs in captions. by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese insects and spiders on my Flickr site HERE……

[jetix]

外国産・国産カブトムシ

[platycryptus]

These are all pics of the same spider, a large female shamrock orbweaver (Araneus trifolium) that lives in a local field.

Back in August, her abdomen was pale yellow to blend in with the foliage. Now that the weather has cooled and the leaves she builds her web among are dying, she’s changed color and become reddish brown with white spots.

[onenicebugperday]

Neon cuckoo bee, Thyreus nitidulus, Apidae, found in Australia and north into New Guinea and Indonesia

Like all cuckoo bees, the neon cuckoo bee is a kleptoparasite - females lay their eggs in the partially completed brood cells of other bees. The larva will then hatch, eat the larder provided by the host bee, and eventually emerge as an adult bee. As seen in several of the photos above, bees will often use their mandibles to clamp onto foliage to rest.

Photo 1 by Daniel, 2-3 by jeannie_bartram, 4 by laz, 5-7 by reiner, 8 by aussiebee, and 9 by bdriscoll

[mossworm]

when dragonfly does the butt thing 

[trebhum]

Hello gay people and transgenders have u ever wondered what kind of bug u are? Well wonder no longer! Take my quiz :-)

[thewriterkb]

Letters and Numbers Found on the Wings of Various Moths and Butterflies.

[babyanimalgifs]

Dragon Tail Butterflies 

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[monsteravariegata]

I’m at my happiest when I get to hold beetles :’)