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Amy Kierstead, The Eye of the Forest

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This is the best type of being stuck, they're not moving till the morning for sure! @shiningsilverarmor

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“Swiss Knife Beetle” ✚ Victorinox Coleoptera

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Inside the Abandoned Crooked House

[morttodea]

damn, they might as well crumple in a pile of themselves right now! That was adorable as hell!

[morttodea]

What it presents is simple, almost plain. A pot, well worn and clearly speaking of age- a dulled design sits at the bottom and around the outside of it, once clearly a prettier object than it was now. Perhaps the item was to be of use in the future... or perhaps just a unspoken reply to recent actions. // Valtiel out here with the Strange gifts

Upon receiving the pot the demon stood there, head lowered in such a way to capture its shape with the very dim light they have for their proto eyes. They trilled an insect-like chirp curiously before batting the worn gift, if it was empty or filled, it didn't matter, it's going into their offering pile!

cue barbor rubbing their face against it enthusiastically, scenting it and making sure none of their fogmates steal it! @lobselvith

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##LOBSELVITH: IND. SEL. PRIV. Valtiel from Silent Hill 3, developed with headcanons built from canon since 2016. RESURRECTED 2026. This blog will contain body horror, blood, gore, and general horror you would find within the Silent Hill universe. DUE TO THIS, BLOG IS 18+ ONLY. As praised by Jackalope

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[bogleech]

hello Mr Bogleech!

I am painting an American Cockroach, but I'm having such a hard time getting a good look at their mouths :/

Even SEM pics are a little hard to decipher.

what are the most important bits of the cockroach mouth?

Thank you! 🪳❤

@revretch has studied this the most and has the most reference files for insect mouths!

[revretch]

Here's an exploded view of a grasshopper mouth (they're fairly close relatives):

On top is the labrum, which is like the top of a beak. (Ignore the face plate (clypeus) above it, it's not important.)

On the bottom is the labium, which is the bottom of the mouth.

To the sides are the maxillae, which are kind of like cheeks, if your cheeks could open like a sideways beak. (Singular is maxilla.)

Finally, there are the mandibles, which are like big incisors that flip out when it's time to eat or bite something. Most of the time, they're tucked away under the labrum and the maxillae.

(Bonus: The hypopharynx inside the labium is basically a tongue! It even has a salivary gland at the base.)

In addition to the antennae, roaches have four palps, which are like little antennae on the mouth for tasting food. There's one on each maxilla, and two on the labium--maxillary and labial palps, respectively.

Now, here's a render I did of Sophodra's mouthparts flared open (mantises are even closer relatives of roaches than grasshoppers are):

You can see that the labium is split into two halves, called the prementa. Additionally, each prementum has two little fingers at the end, the glossa (inner) and paraglossa (outer), for four little fingers in total.

The maxillae also have their own fingers at the ends, called the galea (on top) and the lacinia (bottom). Overall, these eight fingers act like lips, letting the insect manipulate food better.

Sadly, I don't have many good gifs of roach mouthparts working, so here's a look at them in motion on a mantis (the mandibles have black tips, the insides of the maxillae are red):

A better look at the mandibles:

A better look at the maxillae:

And now for the best gifs of roach mouthparts I have!

Sorry :( Hopefully that gives you a good enough idea!

[bogleech]

wanted to reblog this again because so many artists still don't know how insect mouths work, and even if you're going for cartoon simplification, you might realize there are other fun ways to do it besides the common tusk-mandible look.

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