TGIF

I now have some cutie crawlies of my very own! My leading lady is a greenbottle blue tarantula and her name is Friday, but you can call her Fries :) The family also includes isopods, millipdes, and some more tarantulas! fishblr: hella-free-space plantblr: pots-and-plants

[bunjywunjy]

What happens if tarantula no longger need the frog?

great news! that just straight-up doesn't happen.

tarantulas can live for well over a decade, and female tarantulas can expect to breed multiple times before they finally kick it! and since there's always the expectation of there going to be a new clutch of eggs in the nest every year, there's no benefit in getting rid of the frogs that will keep those eggs safe.

a female columbian lesserblack tarantula will treasure and protect her frogs until the day she dies, and then those frogs will go into the care of whichever of her daughters inherits her burrow! it's an eternal cycle. a cycle of frog.

[bunjywunjy]

[chameleocoonj]

🍂 need for pedes 🍂

[jetix]

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[glumshoe]

scientific illustration

[red-mercer]

This checks out, even has a properly fused head/thorax

[glumshoe]

yeah, that’s the daddy

[milsae]

사마귀

[pvkes]

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[hella-free-space]

This is specific to Texas, but no matter what state youre in, go register and vote!

[gomalemo]

Silkmoth Cat🐈

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEeDxHJV0O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[thank-goodness-its-friday]

I would die for silkmoth cat

[gawki]

Coffee and Grub

[kikicolors]

finally finished them all! RIP my hand

[onenicebugperday]

Western sheep moth, Hemileuca eglanterina, Saturniidae

Found in the western United States and Canada

Photo 1 by thomasbarbin, 2 by christophereliot, 3-4 by kueda, 5 by isaac_krone, 6 by valhikes, 7 by chad_w, 8 by willowwollf, and 9 by dloarie

[draconym]

Did you boop the isopods? They're too adorable not to.

Most isopods do not enjoy being booped, I have found. :C

Thankfully I have devised a method of making isopods at home that do not mind being booped. They do not curl up into a ball, however.

[bluethepenguin]

Yes  I would like 10 plz.

[draconym]

Soon! Next week I’m going to work on figuring out the logistics of selling online. Right now I have nine pillbugs to be painted and I will soon have beetles ...

[thank-goodness-its-friday]

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[draconym]

Did you boop the isopods? They're too adorable not to.

Most isopods do not enjoy being booped, I have found. :C

Thankfully I have devised a method of making isopods at home that do not mind being booped. They do not curl up into a ball, however.

[thank-goodness-its-friday]

Hype about possibly being able to purchase one of these in the future 😍😍😍

[onenicebugperday]

It’s really amazing how many people feel the need to comment on a wasp-positive post to say some version of “actually they will sting unprovoked because it happened to me and that’s why I hate them and think they should die.”

I assure you, there was a reason they stung you. Just because you don’t understand the reason doesn’t mean there wasn’t one. Also, please, stop projecting human emotions onto bugs. They don’t sting because they’re hateful. A bug cannot be malicious. Bugs are wild animals and they’ll do whatever it takes to survive and to protect themselves or their nest. You wouldn’t call a bear evil for defending its cubs, why is a wasp any different?

And finally, saying that all wasps should die or are useless to the environment just because you had a bad experience frankly is an alarmingly black and white way of thinking and I hope anyone who thinks this way makes an effort to learn some perspective and empathy.

[snapsicle]

i love the sheer amount of bugs that, when in adult form, just don’t eat. like some species of moths, they just get really fat as larvae and when they become fully grown they don’t have a mouth or a digestive system and pretty much just exist to go and mate and then straight up die. like

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