#woodworms

[entelodante]

Want to get more into woodworms and how they work. So have a little anatomy diagram of a standard fella. 

Firstly they are a big ass mollusk that lives on land, usually getting their start by burrowing into trees or dirt during their aquatic larval phase. Once in there they start building their tube and settling into their new sedentary life. This will be their home forever and they maintain it accordingly. 

Diet varies from worm to worm, most are omnivorous and will eat whatever they can reach though. Some will have mutualistic relationships with the trees they infest or mimic flowers and fruit to lure prey. Others still have become infested themselves with algae and now rely more on photosynthesis. These guys are just weird, a very ancient group.

They also still rely on water to breathe, so they usually have their tube flooded up and circulated via muscular undulation. It’s a complex balance that leaves them very sensitive to pollutants. 

Have more crazy ones I want to draw, but needed to get a basic body plan down. They get strange though. 

[aningefulloffeels]

Red wood ant! Spotted when admiring the handiwork of what appears to be woodworms of some kind.

[transbaphomet]

[archaicbarcelona-blog]

One salvaged freezer door and frame delivered today! Thank you, Mohammed, for taking the time to deliver in the midst of #ramadan, and thank you for your unsurpassed professionalism. The only folks not pleased with you at this moment are the #carcoma, the #woodworms, the #termites. For they are peering out of the tunnels they've carved in grandma's Louis XIII, watching as the freezing cold doom closing in on them. Just a few days more until the great carcoma smackdown commences. #letsdancetermites #santcugat #mercantic #archaicshop #congleadoresdecarcoma (at Archaic)

[trustmeitsparadiseblog]

Honestly not the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth. 🙈🐛🌴 #tamilok #woodworms #bonappetit

[s3bstan]

one of my favourite things is when someone reminds me the episode where one of my favourite things happens when I forget which it is so I am going to rewatch 4x04 of Merlin tonight

[systemamoebae]

My grandparents once suffered from a strange infestation of woodworms. They ate into the books but only ate the blank paper, avoiding the ink, so the books would open and just the little clusters of letters would fall out.

Alef

[cosmicloners]

sound installation based on live sounds of woodworms by zimoun