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[onenicebugperday]

Serpent silk moth, Loxolomia serpentina, Saturniidae

Found in Brazil

Photos 1-3 by ronaldperet, 4-5 by carlosvidigal, 6-7 by pedroalvaro

[thisisallthehattersfault]

Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.

[burins]

horrid little cat saved me from my devil's nap by putting her paw directly into my mouth

[burins]

pov your sleep paralysis demon is very cute

[burins]

oh this is not even CLOSE to the angriest chickpea looks. at any given moment she has the face of someone about to knife you for bread in the sewer. this is just how her face is! a selection of miss piss for your perusal:

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

@kitty-thekitten

[marinella-ela]

[marinella-ela]

[marinella-ela]

[valtsv]

my favorite personal dragon headcanon is that like birds they also can't see glass, but it just isn't an issue for them

[valtsv]

totally unbothered

[kickair8p]

So from the dragon's point of view, every once in a while, glitter magically showers down around them with a pleasant tinkling noise.

[z-nogyrop]

truly cannot overstate how important it is for everyone to do research into local insect species and just try to notice them when you go outside. there are beautiful metallic blue mud dauber wasps where i live and they’re common in the summer but i just never noticed them until this past year. there are so many dragonflies at the local park. in one walk this june i found ebony jewelwing damselflies and an enormous stinkbug and an emerald-coloured tiger beetle and there is honest to god so much beauty in the insect world if you are willing to look for it

[catchymemes]

[caesarsaladinn]

albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric

[caesarsaladinn]

wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on

[aplpaca]

muppetness of said offspring

[upswings]

must we finish fic??? is it not enough to write unconnected 300 word snippets with no beginning or end, forever, until we die?

[ampervadasz]

[memewhore]

[mutant-distraction]

Weevil photographed by @frankcanon_image_in

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[crevicedwelling]

finally got around to renovating the Cynortoides quadrispinosa. after the roundup, turns out I have over 70!

they’re a lovely armored harvestman from Jamaica, now introduced in South Florida where they appear to replace the native Libitiodes (formerly Vonones), a visually very similar genus with two species found from Ohio south to about where Cynortoides start.

they are peaceful animals, spending most of their time tucked into crevices with as many friends nearby as possible. also surprisingly sturdy, and can’t drop their legs like other harvestmen, having gone the beetle route of having a tough shelly body and equally sturdy limbs.

[crevicedwelling]

care for these arachnids is very simple. adults and large juveniles feed on dead insects (~70 can strip a Blaptica dubia hollow in a night) but need them opened first since their delicate mouthparts can’t cut hard chitin. they also thrive on fish flakes but I prefer offering fresh meat.

the hatchlings don’t seem to partake in the big feasts, so I suspect they’re hunters of springtails based on how I can never maintain a nice population of those in a breeding Cynortoides tub.

unlike other armored harvesters, C. quadrispinosa don’t guard their eggs but bury them in rotten wood, bark crevices, or gritty soil. when well-fed, all life stages can live together peacefully with minimal cannibalism, and egg to adult only takes about five months. curiously, I’ve only ever seen one dead individual, and given that a shell as hard as theirs won’t break down fast & there aren’t any in the substrate, I’m assuming they have a adult lifespan of several years or more.

also did I mention they fluoresce under UV?

[ebugsdotjpeg]

Bugs should immanetize the eschatron

[ebugsdotjpeg]

A. that was the intended effect B. this is hand-drawn you’re looking at 5k strokes of a pen babe happy holidays