i like big bugs and i cannot lie

the tumblr 4 all ur entomology needs

[ostdrossel]

A little timelapse of one of the Monarch cats having the munchies last night 🐛 This is the biggest one, and I think it is not far away from cocooning.

[cringecorp]

this morning there was a bigass ant queen in my bathroom and it started crawling up my space heater. i was worried it would burn itself so i rushed to unplug it, and while i was doing that it crawled INSIDE and didn't come back out. so if anyone is in the market for ant queens and space heaters, i have an incredible deal for you.

[ratcandy]

are u guys hearing this

(This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp - Sphex ichneumoneus - doing what its name implies, digging. But you may also notice, if you turn the sound on, that she’s making some incredible noises as she does so.)

[ratcandy]

Incredible onomatopoeia practice happening in my notes

[muse-meter]

That bug isn't digging, it's playing a kazoo

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[shit-nick-says]

this reminds me of the post about the person who started calling centipedes lovers and their partner was like “A LOVER. A LOVER HAS BEEN SPOTTED. ON THE DRESSER.”

[northerlyy]

Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa), male, taken July 4, 2026, in New Hampshire, US

An absolutely stunning pennant dragonfly perched on the tip of a stick, showing off his deep reds and blacks! This species is one of the most beautiful dragonflies I've ever seen in person, and I absolutely must stop to take a picture every time I pass one. Unlike most dragonflies I see where males are solid blue, both male and female calico pennants have a striking and intricate pattern—females are just yellow everywhere this guy is red!

[addicted2wasps]

Being an advocate for any Hymenopteran that isn't a honeybee is so exhausting. I saw someone post a picture of a queen Vespa crabro on Reddit, and to my dismay, I saw a comment stating to "kill every one because they kill honeybees which are vital to the ecosystem." I tried to politely educate them, but these situations often seem futile, as they retaliated with a very rude and ignorant comment. Someone else agreed with me, to which I replied and said that honeybees compete with native pollinators, and can spread diseases to native bees and wasps as well. I also defended wasps and native pollinators because they are more crucial to the ecosystem. For some reason that comment got downvoted. I just find it amazing how so many people are uneducated when it comes to nature in general, but especially towards wasps and other Hymenopterans. It's definitely an uphill battle, and quite discouraging. I couldn't just ignore that comment however, since it was totally misinformed, and I felt it was necessary to provide some education, even if it fell on deaf ears. It will be so refreshing to see the day where someone posts a photo of a wasp and the general consensus isn't to immediately eradicate it. I'm so tired.

[addicted2wasps]

WASP BLAST! I got bored, and crammed together every single wasp drawing I have done so far. A collage, if you will. Enjoy!

[deepfriedmarshmallow]

So cute! I love all the different shapes and colors :D

These 3 are my favorites (a hard choice indeed!)

Personal story under the cut

This reminds me of elementary school; one of my school's playgrounds had a plastic slide set that was infested with these fuzzy, black, flying ant-like bugs (I thought they were termites for some reason, but now Im pretty sure they were wasps).

I used to go to sit on the slide and pet them, they were very docile and "friendly"

I loved them, they were so soft and fuzzy 🥰

[deepfriedmarshmallow]

I changed my mind, this ones my favorite

I cant believe I almost missed her, look at that face 😭

[addicted2wasps]

Way ahead of you! 😜

[herpsandbirds]

a weevil spawned into my watercolour paints the other day. I have no idea where it came from, but I dried it and freed it. may i have miscellaneous small, brown weevils, or are we out of stock

Let me check in the back...

Spiny Weevil (Heilus freyreissi), family Curculionidae, Choco region of Ecuador

photograph by Javier Aznar González de Rueda

Filbert Weevil (Curculio occidentis), family Curculionidae, CA, USA

photograph by Ryan Kaldari

Nut Weevil (Curculio nucum), family Curculionidae, Lithuania

photograph by Lukas Jonaitis

Weevil (Cholus cinctus), family Curculionidae, Anton Valley, Panama

photograph by Charles J. Sharp

Banded Pine Weevil (Pissodes pini), family Curculionidae, found across western Europe

photograph by Stanislav Snäll 

[wizard-email]

girls need to be kept in a warm, humid environment to prevent dehydration

[wizardpotions]

My brother in christ do not fall into the same trap I did, those may be woodlice

[wizard-email]

girls

[strawberryswitchblader]

*storming into plato's academy holding woodlice* behold, a girl!

[wizard-email]

girl's night at the abandoned woodchip pile

[wizardarchetypes]

not to be a pedant but this sort of post annoys me so bad bc ☝️☝️ in fact it’s the reverse: fantasy series often reflect societal biases. there is nothing evolutionarily “menacing” about wasps in comparison to bees. bees have better PR because we like to eat the stuff they make. that’s literally it. “agur only destruction” as if wasps don’t fill many of the SAME ecological roles as bees. they’re pollinators! they CREATE!!

people just assign moral value to living beings based on their own feelings and aesthetic choices. something that’s very common in fiction and one of the fantasy genre’s most notable flaws.

[rosslynpaladin]

Sees a delicate artistic paper triumph of engineering, protectively enrobing a carefully cared for creche of infants: "MENACING EVIL!!"

GET YOUR DAMN CALVINISM OFF MY NATURAL WONDERS

[wizardarchetypes]

not to be a pedant but this sort of post annoys me so bad bc ☝️☝️ in fact it’s the reverse: fantasy series often reflect societal biases. there is nothing evolutionarily “menacing” about wasps in comparison to bees. bees have better PR because we like to eat the stuff they make. that’s literally it. “agur only destruction” as if wasps don’t fill many of the SAME ecological roles as bees. they’re pollinators! they CREATE!!

people just assign moral value to living beings based on their own feelings and aesthetic choices. something that’s very common in fiction and one of the fantasy genre’s most notable flaws.

[alittleminxy]

wasps are free pest control too, for the most part. the deadliest thing wasps operate on is "you chill, we chill" and its simple enough to let them do their thing, provided you can remain calm around them.

[small-witch-big-hat]

Last autumn I was eating lunch outside and a yellowjacket came by to investigate

I thought it would want some of my tuna, but instead it seemed fascinated by my stone bracelet

The memory of the wasp briefly hovering above my wrist, close enough that I could feel the downdraft from her wings, is still vivid and I hope it always will be

In the end she went on with her day and I went on with mine

But I will always be happy to recall the day when a passing yellowjacket had to pause and take a moment to admire my taste in jewelery.

[dimetrodone]

First known french fry based life form.

[basyacriptid]

its just one of those days

[aloha-from-angel]

My best interaction ever i love humans

[dyke-tranny-space]

this shit is actually some of the most entertaining things humans have done: having anonymous people pretend to be an oracle of knowledge that's also...human.

it's wholesome in a way :p

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Isopod

British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r

[howieduet]

No pills back then...I wonder if there was something else they compared these little critters to?

[ubercharge]

HORNET

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 2

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 3

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 4

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 5

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 6

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 7 - get collared idiot

[ubercharge]

HORNET VS BEE 8 - be very afraid, miss hornet

[myfootyrthroat]

So many takes on here that are basically just someone mad that someone else has made a rhetorically situated argument.

[myfootyrthroat]

If you want the city to stop spraying pesticides that hurt native insect populations, sometimes it's easier to convince suburbanites to "oppose toxic chemicals in the parks where their children play" than to convince them of the importance of native beetles. It still helps the beetles, and you can probably get it to happen faster.