spider dumplings | original works

the happenings of mace and her arachnid associates. here i share my fondness for creeping critters, wildlife, and chickens.

[vintagewildlife]

Galápagos hawk hitching a ride on a giant tortoise By: Tui A. de Roy From: Wildlife of the Islands 1980

[jadafitch]

American Kestrel

Like most birds, a kestrel hovering above a field can see far more colors than a human can, including ultraviolet. As rodents move through the grass, they leave behind trails of urine, which glow ultraviolet. The freshest trails shine brightest. ~Kateri Kosek From The Forest Revealed, out in September. Preorder the book

[bugetopia]

2 second attention span

When the bumblebee jumper ditches the hunt to stalk another ant =_=

[mabelcreature]

animals with a lot of legs

[fernscare]

stonefly banner. I'm new to hand sewing, so this was a fun, messy experiment.

[dearparentheses]

Rebecca Manson

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Lettered Habrosyne, 2024 Porcelain, glaze, adhesive, canvas, hardware, and paint 158 x 94 x 8cm (5 feet tall!)

[victusinveritas]

[leafydoesart]

Some fanart of Knights of Guinevere because glitch keeps feeding us good content :3

[aresynh]

[tb-151]

OH THE PARRALELS

OH THAT HURTS NOW

[darwuzhere]

AND THE CONTRAST OF COLORS IN THE SCENES, OH MY GOD-

[abgcomics]

I've had the Knights of Guinevere pilot on my mind since Friday—especially that part where she killed that big humpty dumpty guy and there was blood everywhere ❤️

[bluebeesknees]

Redraw of my favourite screenshot from Knights of Guinevere!

[thesingingbullfrog]

[textless]

[the-upper-shelf]

Talonflame is where pokemon design peaked in my opinion.

[exhaled-spirals]

« Animals might see crisp detail at a distance, or nothing more than blurry blotches of light and shade. They might see perfectly well in what we’d call darkness, or go instantly blind in what we’d call brightness. They might see in what we’d deem slow motion or time-lapse. They might see in two directions at once, or in every direction at once. Their vision might get more or less sensitive over the span of a single day. Their Umwelt might change as they get older. Jakob’s colleague Nate Morehouse has shown that jumping spiders are born with their lifetime’s supply of light-detecting cells, which get bigger and more sensitive with age. “Things would get brighter and brighter,” Morehouse tells me. For a jumping spider, getting older “is like watching the sun rising." »

— Ed Yong, An Immense World

[idontdrivecrosscountry]

[thescienceturnip]

some butterflies avidly licking a pile of shit strangely resonates with my mood right now.