...bug time 😏

Sage's safe space for bugs and herps! 'Bug' is a broad term here. Say NO to taxonomy, say YES to snails, crabs, and other invertebrates! Similarly, a lot of tags here are technically incorrect (tortoises under #turtles, wasps under #bees, etc) for organizational and blacklisting effectiveness. I'll use accurate tags alongside them to the best of my knowledge, but they will be there! Hope that doesn't... BUG you! Heyoooooo boom woosh kapow Might post about other "scary" animals that may be less main blog safe. We stan shark conservation in this house! Engage safely, and enjoy your stay! Header by my friend [link: Roark]; avatar by me.

[hazerl]

The first half of my Mutillidae mini print set! Dasymutilla sackenii, Dasymutilla klugii (a number one on the Schmidt sting pain index!), and Hoplomutilla spinosa, all digitally illustrated and printed at 3.5" by 2.5". Stay tuned for the second half!

[bowelfly]

bug monk (bonk)

[girl070187580445803647]

[etcstims]

little snakes sips | source

[byrdiboo]

@otiksimr hydrate

[blackwatersinkingship]

When I finish this whale shark lamp all 4 of you are gonna be So I'm pressed

[blackwatersinkingship]

She glows now, just so you know, and she's full of string deliciöusee string

[god-sent-gender-bent]

Are you gonna show us the lamp? 👀

[blackwatersinkingship]

Good news! Whäle shark lämp 🥰

[hollyevolving]

A lot more than 4 of us are impressed

[herpsandbirds]

Red Velvet Ant aka "Cow Killer" (Dasymutilla occidentalis), female, family Mutillidae, Dallas, TX, USA

B - male; T - female

This is actually not an ant at all, but is actually a species of wasp. The females are wingless, and thus resemble large furry ants.

(Yes yes i know that ants are wasps taxonomically, but lets just let me talk to normal people for once and just consider ants to be members of Formicidae separate from "wasps"... you know what normal people mean when they say wasp and ant you fucking jamokes!)

They have an extremely painful sting!

photograph by Anissa Camp

[cnestus]

Tetraopes femoratus

[itsapmseymour]

Well. Wasn’t expecting the darker theory. Anything funnier like the Ruto one?

I do, but once I tell you, you’re gonna hate me lmao.

Alright so Goron’s

Here’s their model in Ocarina of Time

And here’s their model in Majora’s Mask

So the one big noticeable difference is the lip colors, they got redder

I always wondered why of all things, was that the feature that got the most drastic of a change.

Then it hit me,

The Gorons in Majora’s Mask are currently in a wintery zone, and idk about you, but my lips certainly get redder when trying to warm itself up.

But that seems silly since the Goron are like, rock people, or least part rock people.

So this leads to one cursed thought…the fleshiest or most human part of the Gorons’ are their lips. 👄

[herpsandbirds]

This is easily one of the CRAZIEST videos I've ever gotten. I was rafting down a river when a Yellow Jacket came, landed on my bright pink waterproof phone pouch, and started drinking from the water droplets that had gathered there.

The most amazing part is how the water droplet magnifies the Hornet's mouth parts, so you get to see them up-close!!!! It was FASCINATING to witness!

Here's some of my favorite still shots from that video:

What do you think? 🥰

[trisarahtops-sketches]

A falling star... 💫🕷️⭐

"There’s a spider in your bedroom. Her name is Astrid. She heard you say you had never seen a falling star before so she took one of the glow-in-the-dark stickers off your ceiling so that you can finally see one, even if it’s not exactly what you meant."

-@storyweavingspider

[storyweavingspider]

THIS IS ADORABLE I LOVE IT SO MUCH

[totally-cis-offical]

Wait that explains everything so so much

[rainbow-demoness]

And since we don't face direct punishment for missing positive social cues like we do for negative ones, our coping skills and compensatory hypervigilance don't develop the same way. So we go through a world of never recognising positive signals, sometimes spotting negative signals, and knowing for sure there's more negative signals we're still missing, because those keep blowing up in our face.

Kind of fucked tbh.

[totally-cis-offical]

Wait that explains everything so so much

[rainbow-demoness]

And since we don't face direct punishment for missing positive social cues like we do for negative ones, our coping skills and compensatory hypervigilance don't develop the same way. So we go through a world of never recognising positive signals, sometimes spotting negative signals, and knowing for sure there's more negative signals we're still missing, because those keep blowing up in our face.

Kind of fucked tbh.

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[weaselle]

There is a very good chance that is two ladies, unless it so happens that you are already knowledgeable about spiders. Male spiders are often so much smaller than the females that it doesn't even look like they are the same species.

Pictures of spiders below the cut

These are pics of fully grown males and females of the same species next to each other

a lot of times, if a spider is big enough for you to notice, especially if it's a sit-in-the-web kind of spider, it's probably a lady.

Bonus Spider! About a year ago in Thailand, a new species of spider was discovered, and it was a species that the males and females were essentially the same size, but exhibited obvious sexual dimorphism in coloration. They look like this

The species was named Damarchus Inazuma after the One Piece character that can change between male and female because one of the first individuals of this species that was found and described was a bilateral gynandromorph -- half male half female.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ahedderick]

He is all about safety.

[strangegutz]

Little Menaces - Bug Tea Party - Star

OOAK handmade art doll

[witnessings]

happy last day of pride to the gay snails who hug and kiss for hours without mating

[brick3621]

[sugarsylvie]

Eevee finally accepts the cone!