"YOUR HOUSE BELONGS TO THE BUGS!"

Bug blog 🐜 polyrhachis genus enjoyer 🐜 bug squishers DNI

[spiny-ant]

Hello!! Welcome to my bug blog!!

My name's Skela/Ghosty, my main blog is @hungry-skeleton and this is where I'll come to be very autistic about bugs. Mostly ants 🐜

My main interest is in ants but I also like beetles, termites, and mosquitoes!

I am in no way an expert in entomology I just have a very deep fascination and I wanna learn as much as I can!

Polyrhachis is the best ant genus no contest, my favorite is obviously the spiny ant (polyrhachis armata)

I firmly believe that all organisms have a right to exist. No bugs deserve to be wiped out no matter how much they bother you. It doesn't need to "contribute to the ecosystem" to deserve to live. Yes, I stan mosquitoes and ticks.

I like making stimboards for different ant species! Feel free to suggest ant species you'd like to see get a stimboard! I like to space my stimboards out so it may take a while to see yours get posted

All original posts will be tagged with #bugs and #insects if you don't wanna see my bug posts make sure those tags are blocked!!

Please feel free to tag me in ant related posts and send me fun facts!! I'm always in an ant mood!!

Previously ran the BADASS BUG BRACKET

The DNI on my main blog also applies to this one. I'm not gonna list it here but if I block you randomly then know there's a reason

Have a great day!!

[spiny-ant]

Saw the post about how bug blogs get insane amounts of harassment and am here to put something nice in your inbox instead, bugs were always a special interest for me that later went dormant, but then came back full force, the character in my url was visibly part bug and ended up reminding me how much I loved bugs, my undergrad psych thesis was about human and insect interactions (and I really struggled to find papers about that!! It seems to be understudied from what scraping I was able to do with the resources I had!) and, while I'm going into psych for therapy work, my perfect ideal dream job is a park ranger that works with bugs. They're at the core of everything and if we lose the bugs, humanity is going with them, ALL bugs need to be loved!! Like yeah okay there's the utility argument of "how does it benefit me", but if it doesn't? If it's like. a tick? a parasite? Yes, they serve an ecological niche but even if they didn't, what right does anyone have to determine whether or not a living creature deserves its life? Is its life not value enough, does it have to directly benefit you to be considered worthwhile? Obligatory "I acknowledge how deadly mosquitoes are" disclaimer while also saying that not all of them are capable of spreading disease and they also serve an important niche as a food source, the truth is always a little more complicated than just whether they're "good" or "bad"!! I'm just rambling here now but I Love Bugs and everyone should learn to at least become ambivalent about them, thank you

Yes!! Thank you!! I always encourage positive bug rants in my inbox. Thank you for loving bugs 🐝🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🪲🦗🪳🦟🪰🪱

[spiny-ant]

We really need to acknowledge the problem of bug centered blogs being regular victims of harassment. Can you imagine running a blog about horses and having to get comments and messages every day about how much their hatred and needless killing of horses is justified and that you're a psychotic vegan that hates people with phobias and wants humanity to die of disease. Every single day. We should not have to fucking put up with this, fix your hearts genuinely

[idontknowhowtousetags]

Absolutely and if I can add, the animal that most kills people is mosquitoes, and they continue to populate exesivelly because they breed like rabbits so all our attempts kill some + a bunch of other insects, then the mosquitoes take up more of that big space.

There could be much more reasonable and manageable numbers of mosquitoes and other actually dangerous & disease spreading bugs because other insects would keep them in check & occupy space they'd need to spread.

Like. No killing insects & spreading pesticides generally isn't 'disease control' because it brings space for the ones that spread so many of those bug related diseases.

[spiny-ant]

We really need to acknowledge the problem of bug centered blogs being regular victims of harassment. Can you imagine running a blog about horses and having to get comments and messages every day about how much their hatred and needless killing of horses is justified and that you're a psychotic vegan that hates people with phobias and wants humanity to die of disease. Every single day. We should not have to fucking put up with this, fix your hearts genuinely

[buggle-404]

The creature

[spiny-ant]

If you’re doing stimboards again, could you do one for parasites? Any parasite works, no pressure if you don’t want to !!

Lone Star tick!

⭐-⭐-⭐|⭐-🕷️-⭐|⭐-⭐-⭐

[apsciencebylyn]

Guy for whom two antennae aren't adequate to find the number of ladies required for all the love he has to give

(Argidae sawfly)

[great-and-small]

Yeah sorry wasp haters but y’all don’t know shit. Have you ever even seen the cuteness of Bembicini?

[spiny-ant]

does their exist any bug that drowns its prey? like a crocodile. do you know of any

I don't know any sorry 💔

[bryoinformatics]

weevil (Polydrusus formosus) attempts to fly off my hand and immediately eats shit

June 2025

[etcstims]

Clawing at you | source

[bugbraiin]

One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.

I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.

Get woke. Love bugs.

[mollybeenoel]

jumping spiders and their babies

[spiny-ant]

Hi!!!!!!! i am about bees like how you are about ants and i think that is so cool. lets love our little creatures :) ant s are wonderful. also big fan of ur no creature deserves to be eradicated stuff. everything should be allowed to exist :D !!

Ya!!! Bees are so cool too #ilovepollination 🐝🐝🐝🐝

[spiny-ant]

Hiii!!! I just wanna say you seem very fun!!! :)

Bugs are so underrated!!!! They scare me tbh but I admire them from afar!! There's so many unique species out there... Every bug is cool!!!

Could you share a fun bug fact please? No pressure though!

Thank you!!! There's always much to learn about bugs from a distance!

Leafcutter ants are one of the strongest animals on the planet relative to their size, they have been observed lifting objects up to 50× their own body weight! This would be like a person lifting a small car over their head

[spiny-ant]

This might not be fixable, but any thoughts on how to not kill a bug if it shows up in my bed? I love bugs and try to be as kind as possible and leave them be. I especially like the little spiders in my house but every once in a while I'll be laying in bed or sleeping and a bug will be on me or right next to me so I panic and instinctively squish it. I feel bad because those bugs weren't going to hurt me or anything. I just freak out when there's a bug in my bed

I'm really not the person to be asking unfortunately, unlearning a fear of bugs is something you have to do your own introspection on 💔 wish you luck though

[spiny-ant]

Genuine question what use do bedbugs in particular serve to the general ecosystem? I cant think of anything that eats them. (They're the only thing i want fully eradicated but if they help literally anything aside from terrorizing people I'd probably change my mind. Like how lots of things eat ticks and mosquitos pollinate)

Spiders, roaches, and centipedes as well as several other insect species feed on them frequently. Virtually all parasitic creatures are means of distributing nutrients, even if by a small margin.

Frankly, you really need to kill this idea that a living creature needs to serve a purpose to you to have the right to exist. If an organism's purpose is merely to survive (which is almost never true) that should be enough. This flagrant human-centric view on life needs to be stomped out. You have a right to rid your home of infestations, but deeming any creature deserving of eradication entirely is selfish and extremist beyond belief