#real bugs

[bugthingsdaily]

Do you happen to have any weevils? All time funniest bug.

your wish is my command

[bugging-robot]

as an arachnophobe trying to participate in bug positivity and education to decrease my fears and increase my appreciation of the natural world: the only thing worse about the large spider* I saw in my bathroom is the fact that it disappeared.

Is it between the shower curtain and liner? Is it in the shelf? Is it in a different room? I don’t know but I am. afraid. and I need to go to sleep. and I will sleep, but. man I just started changing my antidepressant, so I was already coping with feeling anxiety for the first time in a while, but this is ridiculous.

*I understand that the spider is also scared, and we both wish we hadn’t seen the other. It’s either been camping out in the potted plant that’s been in the bathroom all winter (possible but unlikely) or it got in from an open door and can’t get back out. And brother. I’m too scared to CNR**. I mean, I’m a big proponent of that one, but the combined arachnophobia and the spider’s absence make that Really Difficult.

**CNR is short for “Catch ‘N’ Release”, which is short for “Catch And Release”.

anyway. photo under the cut.

Scrolling through various pictures of spiders trying to find an ID was really starting to wig me out, so I’m settling on saying it’s some sort of wolf spider. That is usually what we call every large spider we see around here, anyway—the finer details of “house spider” or “tunnel web spider” are lost when you see a spider big enough to raise a ruckus about. I swear the legspan made it two inches long even with it being a little scrunched. I typed this post out on my phone while lying in bed and I’ve kept my flashlight on the whole time. And tbh. I might leave it on. I’m scared.

[istilfuck]

Bug posting!!

I love spending time in my backyard just hanging out and looking for critters

[rambling-robot]

Interesting find! I was doing some planting and when I emptied out one of my pots, I found an “underground” nest! I poked at it (with garden gloves on) because at first I thought it was an old mantis sac, but was surprised when it fell away and revealed live larvae in combs! I’m mostly interested that it looks like a regular nest I’d find anywhere else.

It was pure luck that I dumped this out and wasn’t hurt. I didn’t even notice a yellow jacket presence at my back door. A few minutes after I started putting fresh dirt in the pot, a couple showed up and started buzzing around to look for the nest. My back porch gardening has been unfortunately cut short for today because I wasn’t going to wait for them to figure out it was me.

I hadn’t seen this before, I imagined an underground nest would be tunneled out like an ant colony. Figured I’d share!

[flecks-of-stardust]

[video description: A yellow and black Western yellow jacket wasp is perched on my bagel, stealing little bits and pieces of the sausage and egg while pattering around. The background audio is some random old white dude preaching about Jesus. end description]

a little thief (very cute) visited me today

[best-bug-tournament]

Best Bug Tournament Round 1, side A

Nameless Protagonist of Lost Tape #4 (Lost in Vivo) VS The Fly (Breaking Bad)

Who is Best Bug?

Lost Tape #4 protag

Breaking Bad fly

Show results

Voting ended onAug 22, 2023

[bugology]

by any chance are you aware of the longan lanternfly

Had to look them up to see if they had any relation to the invasive Spotted Lanternfly— it does say here that they are a new invasive species but there’s no like Big article that talks about these guys if it’s true (Mostly the Spotted Lanternfly comes up). Feel free to correct me !

Outside of discussion whether these guys are invasive or not they’ve got really pretty colors and a funny horn the wings remind me of the matrix

[excaive]

OOUGHHH SHE SIPPY!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🧡💙🧡💙 queen staying hydrated