bug is life

luv bugs. I post pictures I've taken, usually of insects or other arthropods. she/her

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damselfly enjoying a well deserved snack

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the short winged longhorn beetle, Molorchus umbellatarum

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tiny land caddisfly larva nibbling on me :3

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spiky caterpillar and camouflaged longhorn beetle

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I found two of my dream finds just a few minutes apart 💙

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tinyy rove beetles living on the underside of a mushroom.

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i really don’t understand why everytime i talk about the way i think of nature and how everything deserves life without needing to prove some inherent value - everyone acts like i’ve just presented them with a trolley problem.

no, i don’t think human life is inherently more valuable than the life of any other thing.

that doesn’t mean i’m tying up a human and a mosquito on train tracks and telling you to fucking decide which one gets to live, holy shit.

when i speak about these topics, why do people immediately want to come up with worse case scenarios. as if they want the reason to kill, to destroy.

most of life isn’t like that. so why do we focus so much on it?

our first instinct should be to protect all life around us, as much as we can. not to come up with every possible reason to get rid of it.

when i say i don’t value human life over other life, i don’t mean that people shouldn’t get vaccinated for diseases (like let’s be for fucking real).

i mean fuck off fred shouldn’t get to cut down a bunch of trees to have his ‘perfect view’.

i mean that an ant’s bite shouldn’t be a justifiable reason for that ant’s death.

i mean things like bug zappers shouldn’t be commonplace.

i mean that we shouldn’t value human comfort over another organism’s right to live.

i mean that this world is not the human’s world.

the earth belongs to all that lives on it and all which lives on it deserves that life as much as any other.

it’s not a fucking trolley problem.

if someone is really asking you to chose between the life of two things, maybe the question isn’t ’which one deserves it more’ - maybe the real question is why are you being asked to chose in the first place.

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[parchment-wasp-core]

I’m not saying Hymenoptera are emotionally complex but I am saying a hornet is better at communicating it's emotions than some mfs out there

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Graphosoma italicum, my favourite shield bugs 🩶❤️

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Was taking a picture of the big beetle... But noticed there's another little guy on the other side of the plantain... Weevil

[spiny-ant]

I love running a bug blog because I'm always getting reblogs from people named "cockroach-hugger" or "iloveparasiticwasps"

[black-occamy-arts-and-crafts]

Look at my leaf weevil!

I know, photos aren't that sharp, but still! A cute little bug 🐛💚

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behold, the ">:3"

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they're in luv

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Weevil compilation !!!!!

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the cutest shiniest little gal