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I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿
Joy and whimsy detected! This snower (snail shower) is joyful and whimsical! 🐌🚿
[VIDEO TAKEN: APRIL 13TH, 2026 | Video ID: A video of a brown longhorn beetle standing on a human hand, momentarily cleaning one of its forelegs before slowly returning to a more restful position, mouthparts still moving /End ID.]
Take a look at these African peach moths (Egybolis vaillantina). The shades of blue on their wings are so striking against the bright hues and dark edgings. Living art, right?
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Fairy Wasps: these wasps are the world's smallest insects, and some species can measure as little as 0.13mm long, which is roughly the size of a single human ovum
Mymaridae is a diverse family of wasps that contains more than 1,400 known species, and they're often described as fairy wasps (or "fairy flies") because they are so incredibly tiny. In fact, these are some of the smallest multicellular animals ever described, with most fairy wasps measuring less than 1mm long.
Above: a species of fairy wasp, Lymaenon aureus, depicted on a lime
One species of fairy wasp, Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, is regarded as the world's smallest known insect, measuring as little as 0.139mm (139 microns) long, which is roughly the size of a single human egg.
Above: Anagrus fairy wasp
As this article explains:
Fairyflies are not actual flies at all, but chalcid wasps; they get their name because of their fairy-like wings, and for being tiny and "invisible" like the mythical fairies. Fairyflies have the smallest known adult form of any insect: wingless and blind males of the species Dicopomorpha echmepterygis have a body length of just 0.139 mm, about the average width of a human hair. The fairyfly family Mymaridae consists of many species, including Tinkerbella nana and Kikiki huna, the smallest known flying insect species with a body length of 0.16 mm.
Above: the photo at the top shows a fairy wasp of the genus Anagrus, while the photo on the bottom shows another species from genus Polynema
Most fairy wasps have fully-functional wings that are lined with long, feathery bristles:
Fairyfly wings are not only small, but their structure is comb-like and made of several bristles instead of a planar sheet. Their very small size means that the air around them is more viscous than it would be for larger insects. At such small scale, the ratio of inertia to viscosity, the Reynolds number, is so low that any movement provided to an air packet quickly dampens out. It also means that a single wing bristle drags along with it a boundary layer of a comparable size. Thus, if the bristles are sufficiently close, the comb-like wing can act as a paddle to generate the requisite aerodynamic forces, while reducing the overall mass of the wing.
Above: a fairy wasp depicted beneath a push-pin
All of the wasps in this family are parasitoids, and they lay their own eggs within the eggs of other insects. They often parasitize the eggs of booklice, aphids, scale insects, thrips, water beetles, and other tiny arthropods. The female fairy wasp inserts her ovipositor into the host egg, depositing her own offspring within, and the process is then repeated many more times as she parasitizes as many eggs as possible.
Above: this composite image shows male and female fairy wasps of the genus Polynema standing on a pinhead
This seems like a good time to point out that fairy wasps do not parasitize mammalian ova, nor do they parasitize the eggs of any other vertebrates, and they are completely harmless to humans. In fact, they're actually beneficial, since they often parasitize agricultural pests.
Above: a fairy wasp trapped in a tiny guttation drop produced by a fungus
I posted some information about fairy bees a few weeks ago, so I figured that I should share these little fairy wasps, too.
Above: a Mymar fairy wasp with an aphid standing nearby
Sources & More Info:
Current Biology: Fairyflies
Annual Review of Entomology: Small is Beautiful: Features of the Smallest Insects and Limits to Miniaturization (PDF)
Journal of Hymenoptera Research: A New Genus and Species of Fairyfly, Tinkerbella nana, with Comments on its Sister Genus Kikiki, and Discussion on Small Size Limits in Arthropods (PDF)
iNaturalist: Fairy Wasps
Um 🥺not my usual post but do you like my worms 🥺🥺🥺
there was a point in time where i found tiny depressed looking weevils under just about every oak leaf i flipped, but this Coeliodes was probably my favorite. no longer in the classic scrunched up seed pose that i tended to find them in but also not really alarmed by my presence, just gazing at nothing in particular. contemplative, even
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I found a grasshopper crawling up the wall in the backyard. one of their back legs was missing and the other was damaged beyond use. I carefully picked them up and put them in a bowl to which I added some grass for them to eat. I wish I could have cared for them longer, but I don't have a terrarium for them to live in, so I decided to release them back into the garden (in a spot with a lot of grass to eat and camouflage themselves in)
I took a video of them eating.
bonus: a brightly-colored and healthy grasshopper i saw the other day
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Seems to have lost a few legs but is mostly ok
I’m the world’s worse advocate for wasps. Everytime I see people repeating bees=nice good pollinators wasps=bad stinging meanies, I face a deep internal struggle trying to explain how they are important to the environment without explaining wasp facts that freak them out in ways they never even thought
“Bees might be cuter and make honey, but wasps are VERY important too, some of them are necessary as pollinators themselves! Hey anyways you wanna hear some fucked up things about figs?”
“You hate wasps? Well think of a bug that you hate more then wasps. There’s probably a parasitoid wasp that lays their eggs inside them and their babies to devour them alive from the inside, reducing that insect species’ population!”
“Your least favourite bug is parasitoid wasps now? Well you are gonna be THRILLED and CONFLICTED about the existence of hyperparasitic wasps.”
[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: OCTOBER 11TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and four photos of a grey, orange and black Phidippus jumping spider. The video consists of two clips, one of the spider on a green hydrangea leaf, mostly still, and the other of it crawling across a human hand. In the photos it is, once again, on a large green hydrangea leaf /End IDs.]
A beautiful Phidippus jumping spider :]
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