blorbo from my bugs

i'm the bug mutual

[grumpy-beetle]

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Hey I’m your local Irish hobby entomologist!

I keep insects in my room, my walls, and my clothes. They whisper secrets in my ear at night.

Current species in my care:

Isopods:

Powder orange isopods (Porcellionides pruinosus)

Millipedes:

Spirostreptida sp. Rosey Legs - "Romeo", "Lady Rose"

Treptogonostreptus intricatus - Matt black

Other:

Phalacrognathus muelleri (Rainbow stag beetle)

Gargoyle gecko - "Pebble"

I post pictures of my bugs and them growing up, as well as reblog art and photographs!

If you’d like a bug ID please send an ask/submission with general location!

Feel free to send questions or show off your bugs too!

My art blog: @brella-boi​

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Gorgeous pink Leodice harassii.

Photo by Nathan Jackson

[crazysodomite]

eww 💢💢 yucky 💢💢

[grumpy-beetle]

Hi! This is actually super rare!! Both of these goobers are essentially showing the equivalent of what albinism is for us but in insects!

When insects have an abnormal amount of red pigment instead they get this pinky look, called erythrism.

This case is actually documented the most in orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, crickets)

Unfortunately it makes them easy to spot by predators so their mortality rate is quite high. But what a cool mutation!

[aplpaca]

big fan of when animals creche. Love to see so many fucking babies in one place

[aplpaca]

So a creche in ecology is a group of animals that take care of their offspring as a group. Grouping together like this can help with protection against predators, finding food, enduring the weather, and gives the parents time to "rest", as sometimes the parents will alternate who's being the primary watchers while others get to hunt by themselves for a bit, like a baby animal daycare.

But ye lions do this once cubs each a certain age. A decent amount of birds do it (for example: flamingos and a lot of penguin, duck, and goose species). Gharials (a type of South Asian crocodilian) form creches with hundreds of babies from multiple nests (they lay under 100 eggs each and sometimes as few as 20). Feral hogs tend to form groups of mothers and young like this, and I saw 3 sows and like 15+ tiny babies the other day and they were so cute

But ye that's how you get pictures like these

[tumorhead]

Rattlesnakes will creche!! In some species mature adult females will hang out together (they're friends!) in shared dens and even birth their clutches together. Then one will babysit while the others go get food. Adult females have been seeing caring for their young like shooing young back into the den when a predator approaches. You can watch LIVE rattlesnake den mothers and all their babies on Project Rattlecam!!!!

[grumpy-beetle]

Isopods also creche, it's very charming to watch everyone looking after the babies

[platycryptus]

A giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus) uses her extremely long ovipositor to drill into a dead maple tree. Megarhyssa includes species with the longest ovipositors of any insect (up to 11 cm in M. macrurus and up to 14 cm in its cousin M. atrata), which also technically gives them the longest total length of any hymenopteran insect. The ovipositor is used to pierce deep into dead or dying trees to lay eggs on the larvae of a large wood-boring sawfly (Tremex columba).

Her ovipositor acts not only as a drill but as a sensory organ, and is highly sensitive to vibrations in the wood made by the sawfly larvae. Note how the translucent membranes of her abdomen stretch as she applies pressure by curling the base of the ovipositor, then retract when she withdraws to search for a different spot.

(Massachusetts, July 2025)

[brella-boi]

Pre-Order Store open for Ancient Arthropods!

If you missed the main campaign, or wanted to see the finished artwork first before committing, now's your chance! Open until April 10th you can get the pins AND you always wanted!

Link is in my pinned post!

Here's all the finished artwork ✨

[brella-boi]

Mecynorrhina Beetles

Mecynorrhina Beetles are giant flowers beetles very common in the beetle rearing community, and highly popular. A good portion of them have been bred for the colours, and subfamilies mixed together to create different variants - M. Ugandesis and Torquota are the biggest example of it where hybrids are named M. Torquota Ugandesis.

They come in a VAST array of colours from pure blacks, to reds, oranges, blues and purples, and even blended colours together to create beautiful patterns. I would call them the pigeons of the insect hobby.

Contrary to popular belief, Goliath beetles are not from the Mecynorrhina family, and instead come from their own genetic line that cannot be crossbred.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Know your insect antennae!

[maidthings]

we need more terrestrial molluscs. Snails and slugs are obviously a great starting point but we could definitely do more

[bogleech]

I want:

-land scallop that eats like a venus fly trap

-flower mimic nudibranch

-tiny spider size octopus

[grumpy-beetle]

I think slime molds should be a type of cool mollusc

[happy-amoeba]

OH. OH, so YOU'RE the reason Cellular Slime Molds form into those pseudo-slugs, you gave them F.U.C.A.-ing body image issues!

[grumpy-beetle]

its the right tragectory for evolution! my slug molds WILL spread and become a major species of mollusc whether you like it or not

[astralnomicalspace]

hello tumblr first post on this account

last night I got possessed and simply HAD to draw some crappy beetles so here ya go :)

and there will more stills life drawings of random bs

[bowelflies]

Tetraphalerus bruchi (Coleoptera: Ommatidae)

[myriapoda-1306]

If you have a bad day and love bugs I strongly recommend looking up Pachypodistes (genus of moths)!

Trust me. You NEED to see these guys. You won't regret it.

[greythegryphon]

You were not kidding

[thatoneabsolutegoober]

@identifying-bugs-in-posts

[identifying-bugs-in-posts]

This specific moth is a Pachypodistes angulata, common name is Pink Snout Moth, very angular lil guys, i love them all very dearly.

[official-olm-posts]

thank you professor ibip

[cathartidae]

WAUCE BLAST

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)

[polychaete-of-the-day]

The polychaete for today is this shiny, deep-sea Peinaleopolynoe orphanae, part of a group called Elvis worms.

Photo from study by Hatch AS, Liew H, Hourdez S, Rouse GW

[maidthings]

we need more terrestrial molluscs. Snails and slugs are obviously a great starting point but we could definitely do more

[bogleech]

I want:

-land scallop that eats like a venus fly trap

-flower mimic nudibranch

-tiny spider size octopus

[grumpy-beetle]

I think slime molds should be a type of cool mollusc

[mcromwell]

YEAH PSEUDOSCORPION

[homeplanets]