#bug romance

[nevbisvevbis]

okay so i just remembered i have like a gigantic 50 ft tall caterpillar kaiju version of my sona, but like guys hear me out-

[biomic]

SHE GETS SO EMBARRASSED SHE STARTS THROWING A FIT

[futurebird]

How to woo a girl with many legs.

When pill millipedes (pillipedes) mate the male sings a little song to get the female to uncurl. (Their response to most things is to curl up. ) The sounds are called stridulations made by rubbing parts of the exoskeleton together. "cricricricricri"

Pill millipedes are large short millipedes that can curl up. They are different from "potato bugs" (isopods.) Isopods, like the kind we have in our back yards in North America are crustaceans. Pill millipedes are, well, millipedes, and related to long millipedes and centipedes.

Eight photos of various pill milipedes in different colors and patterns. Some are black, some light green with yellow stripes. They range in size from about the size of a pea to the size of a billiards ball. Some are shiny and some matte. A large one rests in a human hand.

Six more photos of pill millipedes, brown, speckled gray, blue, orange and more stripes. Some are curled up. Some are walking land pill-shaped.

(Photo source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312498514_The_Giant_Pill-Millipedes_order_Sphaerotheriida_-_An_annotated_species_catalogue_with_morphological_atlas_and_list_of_apomorphies_Arthropoda_Diplopoda) PS. They do not make good pets. No one knows how to breed them in captivity and there was some concern about the exotic pets trade driving them to extinction. So, until they can be captive bred do not consider buying one so they can stay abundant and diverse in the wild.

[dorindameddler]

This is unfortunate but romancing vector w a dude would be cute

[coughsyrupcreatures]

meekthecephalopod replied to your post: you’re the #1 bug on tumblr ;)

*gently touches paw to your mandible* *smiles*

*exhales a plume of silver sweets from my spiracles and acknowledges an effervescent flutter in my dorsal aorta*

*takes your little prince cheeks into my frontal ganglia for bug smooches*

[reinbowkittenz-blog]

spider

There’s this cyoot spider in my bathroom who’s been trying to get my attention for days.  Yesterday I noticed he was crawling all around my toothbrush while me and my roommate were doing our hairs.  The noise was immense.  Her shrieks and glottal, nauseous foaming combined with my shrill giggles.  But the silent spider went about his business of sinking all 8 of his legs into my well-worn bristles, wagging his abdomen as he went.  He explored every crevice, at several points disappearing almost completely into the complicated architecture of my electric brush attachment, only a leg or two dangling from the side of the tiny opening.  He paced round and round the brush with measured excitement, revisiting every step.

“I would not be able to watch this if it were my toothbrush,” my exasperated roommate admitted.

I felt honored.  Imagine how exciting it would be to find a huge bristle limbed object which could contain your own bristle limbed form.  Imagine the stale peppermint enveloping you like a bright chill.

Just now, as I was leaving the bathroom, he was sitting on the doorjamb, right at face level.  I felt that slight surprise when you see someone you know but are not sure what they think of you.  I think this is as close as you can get to kissing a spider.