drawingbirbsnbugs

Arts & crafts of @weirdmustard, 37, him/them

[thatsoup]

Developing new spiders here

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

Yes, cute.

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Oh, so there IS a "Random in category" Extension for MediaWiki. Do you ever search for something online for days and are absolutely sure it doesn't exist but when you look again months later, it has always existed? Yea i'm gonna implement it on the wiki.

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

NooooOOOOoo it doesn't do what I want it to do. No new Random-feature. You gotta deal with the old one.

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

Oh, so there IS a "Random in category" Extension for MediaWiki. Do you ever search for something online for days and are absolutely sure it doesn't exist but when you look again months later, it has always existed? Yea i'm gonna implement it on the wiki.

[lauraciello]

I made a pride flag out of free bug stock photos.

Feel free to use it! 🌈🌈🌈🌈

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

I finally understand aphids. They now take up about 30% of my brain's total memory capacity.

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Foxes just snuck into the wiki!

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Very metallic blue fly with violet shimmering wings. They are quite common but always that high up on the wall that I can't snap a good pic. I love them.

[drizzledrawings]

☆tiger☆

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

Biger!

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is the yellow ichneumon (Xanthopimpla punctata)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Agent Lemondrop reporting for duty to save your cereal! As a parasitoid of various stem destroying caterpillars that target big time commercial crops like sugarcane and grains, this wasp is happy to help out at any farm. In fact, a 2025 study has discovered that they've recently been branching out to parasitizing pests of banana plants as well.

[waspdaily]

I don't know how to describe it but there's a certain smugness to this yellow thang

[inaturalist-unofficial]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

Folks, I'm very excited. I took in this little thing, actually not that little, because it hung in a very bad place for its health. And now someone determined that it might be Calliteara pudibunda, one of the cutest things I've ever seen and have never witnessed live yet. I hope it gets through and hatches! Very very excited!

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

I was worried but it is still alive, it has shed its skin and pupated!

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Hope the little home helps it stay stable and safe. Didnt have anything else.

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

Folks, I'm very excited. I took in this little thing, actually not that little, because it hung in a very bad place for its health. And now someone determined that it might be Calliteara pudibunda, one of the cutest things I've ever seen and have never witnessed live yet. I hope it gets through and hatches! Very very excited!

[drawingbirbsnbugs]

I was worried but it is still alive, it has shed its skin and pupated!

[flapplepie-3427]

There should be like jury duty but for weird art. The government every so often should pick one random person and give them half a million quid provided they make something thought provoking with it. You cannot opt-out unless you can justify giving the deal to someone who appears to want it less than you.

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Celonites abbreviatus!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

What is the difference between a bee and a wasp? Well, to put it in the simplest way— bees are complete nectarivores and get protein by processing pollen and nectar in multiple ways while wasps are only nectarivores as adults and get all their protein needs out of the way as larvae by consuming bug meat. So here comes the exception; despite being more related to yellowjackets and paper wasps than they are to bees, members of the group referred to as "pollen wasps" feed their larvae a diet sourced entirely from plant pollen and nectar, just like bees. Though while bees are known for processing it and making it more of a "bread", these wasps do it more stew style.

They also sleep very similarly to scoliid wasp (which they are only distantly related to) by curling up tightly around sticks or grass

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