HMMMM........ i assign you a PANDA VELVET ANT, euspinolia militaris!!!
look at that face!!! those colors!!!!!!!!!!! that fuzz!!! velvet ants are actually a type of wasp, with only the males having wings-- the females are fully terrestrial, and spend most of their time trundling around on the ground being cute and fluffy.
despite being so little and fuzzy, female velvet ants also are notorious for having SERIOUSLY painful stings, however-- they’re often called cow-killers due to the intensity of the sting (though it’s worth noting their venom is not deadly unless you’re allergic). they have the largest stinger-to-body ratio, with their long thin stinger and flexible abdomen making it easy for them to sting whatever’s grabbing them. although it apparently takes some serious manhandling to get one to sting, it’s still really not recommended to touch them, just in case.
they’re still awfully cute, though, aren’t they???
vincedakota replied to your post “i am excellent and naming animals and you should ask me what your...”
i cant send asks and this is completely unrelated but if you want to crunch an hour or two. whats your opinion of Every Arba Breed
you asked for it get ready for some Unpopular Onions
american: have doofy faces but i like em a lot. tried to get into whites several years ago but breeders kept ghosting me :( not as rare as ppl think but nobody likes whites it’s only blues at shows.
american chinchilla: bruh why do we have like three whole chinchilla breeds i don’t like chins that much in general why do we need three whole breeds of just chinchilla
american fuzzy lop: all the worst parts of lionheads and holland lops in one little package
american sable: never seen one in real life but i want to touch
argente brun: don’t understand why the argentes aren’t more popular, look at ‘em. they’re cool as heck. give me one.
belgian hare: do you love suffering? get a hare
beveren: i think they’re ugly sorry. suddenly got rly popular and idk why. remind me of basset hounds but with blue eyes.
blanc de hotot: absolute showstoppers. the supermodel of rabbits. why can’t i have any someone please give me a hotot i will pay lots of money
britannia petite: genuinely make me uncomfortable to look at. the big eyes and tiny body...they are gremlins and i do not like them
californian: boring but a good meat rabbit. what can i say they have a niche and are good at it
cavies: are not rabbits and make bad noises
champagne d’argent: the only breed i ever seen enter fur shows here lol. i wanna work with them to make silvery every other breed :)
checkered giant: Big Angery. only breed i’ve consistently been told not to ask to pet.
cinnamon: really cool lookin rabbits but every feral in issaquah looks just like ‘em so either a cin breeder had an oopsie or they aren’t that rare
creme d’argent: i’ve only seen ONE irl and it was like buttered toast. i love them. someone please breed them.
dutch: the only rabbit allowed to be visibly VM (hotots are vm too but you can’t really tell.) really cute little meat bricks. the holstein of rabbits, in that when i think of a generic rabbit i think of a dutch.
dwarf hotot: more popular than their commercial sized cousins and honestly it’s a RIGHT SHAME.
english angora: that is a mop. apparently betty chu is driving people out of the breed cos hers are all too good :’) the one we have is bonkers and i don’t like him.
english lop: hardly should be able to call themselves lops. sure they got big ears (which i don’t like) but to me a lop should have a brick face and they don’t and it makes me sad.
english spot: suuuper attractive animals, esp the goldens. if i hated myself enough to get into a running breed i would go for english i think.
flemish giant: BIG. FRICKIN. EARS. my husband’s fav breed. he likes the red ones. i have three growing out in my yard rn and they’re so cute.
florida white: for some reason they are becoming really popular with homesteaders? but i have never seen one in real life. really just kind of boring but apparently good for meats.
french angora: i don’t like anything i have to groom
french lop: BIG. FLOPPY. EARS. BIG. POTATO. FACE. truly the epitome of a lop. can’t wait til i get mine.
giant angora: ah yes let’s make MORE wool to groom no thanks
giant chinchilla: this is a chin just Big. boring, next
harlequin: fan favourite of my fur clients. if you hate yourself, show these. ofc i’m a sucker for calico things so i have a bunch but do you see me putting them on a show table? no.
havana: very good little dudes. husband likes the black ones. i can only justify one or two itty bitty breeds so i don’t have any.
himalayan: the stupidest looking animal i have ever laid eyes on and i love them so much. they spark immense joy. also very very sweet if my two are anything to go by.
holland lop: oversaturated in both pet and show circles. there’s just so many. the holland rings take HOURS to get through at shows. they are very cute but so far in general their personalities leave something to be desired.
jersey wooly: i hear they’re little demons but other than that i don’t know much about em
lilac: it’s a rabbit, but purple! never seen one in person.
lionhead: literally every byb pet rabbit is mixed with a lionhead. my first rabbit was a lionhead and he’s evil so there’s that.
mini lop: my first breeding rabbits were mini lops and they have a special place in my heart. but i went with french over minis cos Big Chungus.
mini rex: take a rex and make it small and able to produce peanuts. 5/10 not enough fur
mini satin: i have only ever handled one and it was enough for me! awful awful little creatures but very nice fur.
netherland dwarf: disgOSTINgly cute but oversaturated and also dwarfs. sorry.
new zealand: yep that’s a rabbit
palomino: it’s a rabbit but YELLOW. apparently the breed joel salatin breeds but his are all vm-y and he THROWS AWAY THE FURS i hate it. idk they’re cute i guess.
polish: it’s small alright
rex: supermodel of rabbits but wow is showing them the worst. rex people think they’re better than everyone else and it’s very tiring. so good for touching though. pelts sell for good prices.
rhinelander: very good 10/10 if they weren’t hard to find i’d consider them as well if i were gonna go for a runner
satin: considered getting into them but decided not to. the white ones look like they peed on themselves :(
satin angora: we have one and i have no complaints except that it makes wool
silver: someone apparently breeds them around here and it’s neat that chestnut is a colour they come in considering every other silver breed is like NO AGOUTI ONLY SELF
silver fox: this is the rabbit literally every homesteader has now and i don’t get it. they’re pretty and big but what a waste of good pelts by raising them for meat only. anyway they only come in one official colour (with the three general self colours in COD) so i find them boring otherwise. i can’t tell ours apart at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
silver martin: never seen one in person but they’re pretty. silver fox ppl hate them cos they “don’t even have a real silvering gene. they’re just chinchilla otters.”
standard chinchilla: WHY DO WE HAVE THREE OF THESE
tan: smaller than anticipated, but very pretty. why don’t more breeds have this colour. what even IS this colour. is it related to otter? IS it otter just without white? i’m intrigued
thrianta: photos really do not do that colour justice. kinda boring cos they only come in red but boy is it RED.
velveteen lop: technically still in COD but my opinion is the same as english lop. i don’t like their faces or the ears, sorry.
vincedakota replied to your post “mantids live very short lives and im thinking the next bug im going to...”
my extremely roach biased recc is hissers!! while madagascar hissers (gromphadorhina portentosa) are the standard (and very common), other neat species include widehorn hissers (g. oblongonota) and halloween hissers (elliptorhina javanica)! theyre big bugs with an excellent personality + prescence and can live up to five years. a prof of mine once described mantids as "carnivorous cockroaches", so theyll probably scratch your itch!
OK I LEFT THEM OUT OF THAT POST BUT THEYRE ACTUALLY LIKE, #1 ON MY LIST RN. i love hissers so much ....theyre adorable. only reason i havent gotten them yet is just bc i want a bunch of them and want to make sure i have a settled living situation with a landlord whos okay with it before i do.
top five cecil and carlos moments... thinkin about Them
1. is it even a list if we don’t mention “i do know two things”? 2. carlos riding the high of escaping from the condos and losing himself in his point and then remembering it and coming back to “and i thought- well, i think it was time for us to make a home together” 3. also from condos but “i l-” “i l-” “what was that?” “no, you go” “no, YOU go”4. there’s a newer three-parter where part of the plot is carlos developing this green goop that lets you take food out of a fridge without opening the door and this information is conveyed via cecil being extremely distressed by the fact that green stains clash with his very intentionally thought out kitchen color schemes5. whenever i joke about night vale’s incredibly complex emojis it’s because i am so endeared by this moment from orange grove
vincedakota replied to your post “why does tumblr give me san francisco vacation ads i was just there...”
honestly its a lot better when ur not Moving House... its one of the cities we goin to on our roadtrip. you Know we're gonna pull a touristy move and hang out on the dock and go to alcatraz (which is... a state or national park now? theres a lot of cool ass birds there)
no you misunderstand all of california was ass and i would have this opinion despite moving cos the roads SUCK, gas is too expensive, and there’s nothing to look at but joshua trees
the mountains are nice tho. california city was a wild ass ride. fresno had a lot of agriculture which was kinda neat.
like i do wanna go back and do the west coast road trip again (minus animals) because there’s things i’d like to see (read: redwoods) but also i will never not hate california lmao
