fish bucket

[22] (any pronouns) i make things [blog is infested with bugs] [COMMISSIONS OPEN! i will draw your 🫵 creature] photography account: @bucketbugs 🏕️ !camping! 🏕️

[ratbugs]

welcome to the bucket 🪣 !

! this is a bug safe blog ! bug squashers DNI !

[ratbugs]

i know ant colonies have a lot of different sizes,

these are both fire ants, is it likely they are the same species?

[clannfearrunt]

Crying and wailing over this adorable fucking robber fly that was at work today incredibly ridiculously cute animal. Sentient teddy bear. SO well behaved as I took it outside and took one million photos. Sending it a billion trillion kisses in its general direction I love you so much babyfly

[mollyvega]

My very first wasp! Specifically the European paper wasp (Polistes dominula). This beautiful beast is Philippa🐝

[ratbugs]

this guy. . .

bitin’ the fuck out of me

[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.)

[ratbugs]

why is it that every time you see a comment on a bug post saying some awful shit like ‘TORCH THEM BURN THEM WITH FIRE DROWN THEM’ it’s always an account with a bible verse in the bio. . . like damn i thought y’all were supposed to love your god’s creatures

[ratbugs]

i asked one of them and they said

like idk where that was in the bible but sure okay

[ratbugs]

to which i replied, no these wasps are not invasive actually. . . you fucking dumbass

and they shot back this really super awesome response (bro really just hit me with the ‘nuh-uh’)

rightttt righttt. . .

[ratbugs]

Not much of a question, but I went through your blog out of sheer curiosity because you had "bugs" in your username, and realized that you also love bugs just as much as i do.

There were a few posts of yours I especially liked, but holy crap, it feels so good to see someone point out the most basic of facts; that mosquitoes and wasps and several other bug species have become almost scapegoats in a way, and the amount of pure hatred they receive is unjustified and, quite frankly, really stupid.

The literal only reason why a wasp would sting you is because you're a giant ape that could kill them in a single blow, and if you, intentionally or not, scare them, then it shouldn't come as a surprise that they'd want you to leave them alone through whatever menas necessary. They sting people because wasps are SCARED of people.

Oh, and both wasps and mosquitoes do hella pollinating! A lot of bugs do, but I'm sure you already knew that! :)

So, uh, yeah. Thank you SO MUCH for understanding what I do, that bugs are animals and should be treated with the same respect as any other animal, and that not a single species deserves to be eradicated just because people are prejudiced and think they're "creepy" or "horrible monsters" or because they had a few bad experiences with some.

I'm happy to have found another arthropod ally! :)

YAY ARTHROPOD ALLY i’m glad you’re enjoying my blog 🐜 🐛 🐞

i will advocate for buggies -

ALL BUGGIES ‘till the day i die

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ratbugs]

why is it that every time you see a comment on a bug post saying some awful shit like ‘TORCH THEM BURN THEM WITH FIRE DROWN THEM’ it’s always an account with a bible verse in the bio. . . like damn i thought y’all were supposed to love your god’s creatures

[ratbugs]

i asked one of them and they said

like idk where that was in the bible but sure okay

[ratbugs]

why is it that every time you see a comment on a bug post saying some awful shit like ‘TORCH THEM BURN THEM WITH FIRE DROWN THEM’ it’s always an account with a bible verse in the bio. . . like damn i thought y’all were supposed to love your god’s creatures

[ratbugs]

‘for wasps’

hey so i’m shooting laser beams at you with my mind fuck you

they’re literally all chill like what are you even saying keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth

[ratbugs]

y’all ever think about how a lot of bug phobia comes less from actual traumatic/negative experiences with bugs

and more just the socially perpetuated idea that every experience with a bug is negative. . . .

[wayba3]

A teacher and his aquarium

[galacticsabc]

a series of really dumb doodles

[ly207]

yellow bugz :>

[ratbugs]

GUYS IT HAPPENED

FINALLY SAW A MANTIS IN REAL LIFE

this is everything i’ve ever dreamed of

[northerlyy]

CONGRATS!! A nice, healthy Stagmomantis carolina nymph!!! I'm always so excited every time a mantis blesses me with its presence. Hopefully there will be many more mantises in your future!

Here's a chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) nymph I saw the other day for you :)