live, laugh, larvae

@bisopod's crawly content stash [spiders tagged separately for arachnophobia blacklisting!]

[humblegrub]

may you receive the gifts you want and deserve this season

[crevicedwelling]

(Armadillo officinalis)

she is eating a cookie

[langernameohnebedeutung]

They're having fun! The bumblebees are having fun!

[langernameohnebedeutung]

🥺

[toadalchaos]

pulled out a roach to take some nice pictures of it and it ran up on my (very warm) laptop to molt instead. i got a timelapse!

[onenicebugperday]

An angel, peeling right before our eyes 🥺

[platycryptus]

an eastern red centipede (Scolopocryptops sexspinosus) watching over her little donut babies

(Florida, 3/30/22)

[humblegrub]

[yugimoto]

richards_inverts

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weevils just look they would burst into tears if you yelled at them

[onenicebugperday]

Groundselbush beetle larvae, Trirhabda bacharidis, Galerucinae, Chrysomelidae

Found primarily in the southern and eastern United States

Adult:

Photos 1-3 by wildcarrot, 4 by bertonemyia, 5 by firebugzy, 6 by melissa_duron, 7 by pawelp, 8-9 by iamashark, and 10 (adult) by jcs13

[ratzmatazz]

honestly special shoutout to people who are scared of bugs but trying to recognize their inherent value as living creatures

If you look at bugs and your thoughts are “oh my god you scare me so much but you didn’t actually do anything wrong but please go away” and you go get someone else in ur life (like me lol) to pick them up and away for you, I am giving you a nice bowl of soup and a kiss 

[onenicebugperday]

Vine sphinx moth caterpillar, Eumorpha vitis, Sphingidae

Found in the Americas

Adult:

Photos 1-5 by nanofishology and 6 by typophyllum

[onenicebugperday]

Flattened clown beetle, Hololepta aequalis, Histeridae

Found in the US and Canada, primarily in the east

Photos 1-9 by treegrow and 10 (for scale) by beetlehunter000

[onenicebugperday]

Elegant conehead katydid, Moncheca elegans, found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by maomorningyip, 2-3 by chloe_and_trevor, 4-5 by entomophilo, 6 by allison_strass, and 7-10 by amazonmegadiversity

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[onenicebugperday]

Spiny weevil, Prionomerus sp.?, Curculionidae

Photographed in Ecuador by Andreas Kay

Definitely worth watching the video of this little dude marching around and then flying away!

[doctorguilty]

Hey remember when I thought my two tailed scorpion was just really fat.... turns out scorpions have a long gestation period ... and she was with child....s

[nayohme]

Every bugs a lovebug when you love bugs