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parachim

inat's email game is wild

saturniidays

you know when you get the urge to rearrange your furniture? I love that tarantulas get that same urge.

paper-wounds

“If I Am Killed For Simply Living” — Althea Davis

onenicebugperday

South African bont tick, Amblyomma hebraeum, Ixodidae

Photos 1-3 (males) by ryanvanhuyssteen, spidamn8, and jaheymans. Photos 4-5 (females) by henk_v_h and jaheymans, and photo 6 (engorged female) by alexanderr

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etcstims

Playing on his wheel | source

bug-lovers-island

Little pan across the lep wall

kt--extinction

How to use internet properly

Use it to read about marine invertebrates

Use it to look at images of marine invertebrates

Use it to discuss marine invertebrates

hope this helps

relevant-wikipedia-articles

kaylmao

just molted for the first time ama

evil-sludge

U feelin' mushy? Easily susceptible to predation..?

kaylmao

ok no more questions

ly207

lil gal wanted to be a model so bad, she stood still for minutes even with my camera in her face

evilgirlbat

They're inventing new colors brethren

loctin

dystopianroach

instructions unclear: did not eat cockroach, fell asleep on finger instead

Alipes grandidieri

spiny-ant

My favorite thing about bugs is there will always be one you've never seen before

casperwyomingxer

It's a shame that when people think of biodiversity or conservation, they typically think of mammals instead of bugs. Invertebrates constitute most of the animal biomass in the world! There are more beetle species than fish, or reptiles, mammals and bird species combined! There are 2 times more insect species in UK than mammal species worldwide! While you can easily exhaust your UK common bird list in 1-2 years, it is difficult to do that for insects in 10 years! It is possible to discover a new species undiscovered by science in a relatively overstudied area just by looking at your local bugs!