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sarah!! | she/they | 19 | entomology major

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I just. I get really emotional about mirror spiders and their reflective scales.

they look like itty bitty bejeweled hatpins and I can’t. cope. i want one to dangle on my earlobe like an earring and whisper its tiny spider secrets into my ear. i would laugh at all of its jokes, and walk slowly and with my neck held very straight, so as not to disturb it during spider naptime.

[saturniidays]

hey wanna hear more cursed facts about wasps. they have a sex determination called haplodiploidy. 

you know how most of the time humans are determined to be male or female if they have a xy chromosomes or xx chromosomes? well wasps don’t do that cause they are freaks. the males are haploid and the females are diploid. 

basically that means that female wasps have the wasp equivalent of an xx chromosome and the males have the wasp equivalent of an x chromosome. a single one. 

if mama wasp fertilizes an egg, the egg will hatch into a female. if the mama does not fertilize the egg, it will become a male. 

this means that male wasps are all fatherless clones of their mother 

[girldog]

GIRLS!!!!!! gather roung. we are looking at this pillbug

[onenicebugperday]

Candycane mite, Erythracarus pyrrholeucus, Erythracaridae

Photographed in the web of a Phidippus audax spider in Oregon by Thomas Shahan // Instagram

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FUCK YEAH!!

[sosuperawesome]

SuperMesange on Instagram / Etsy

[animalids]

Cup moth caterpillar (Limacodidae)

Photo by itchydogimages

[vaspider]

you can’t fool me, that’s half of a peeled grape

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HIM?????

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im also thimking about...

her <3<3 she is so pretty

Arctornis crocoptera

by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr

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her <3 she eats lichens :p 

her name is Hypoprepia fucosa! aka painted lichen moth

Photo:  Robert Webster / xpda.com / CC-BY-SA-4.0

[humblegrub]

follow the artist on Instagram!

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thinking about them….. cerynia maria… they’re in love <3

thank you @ itchydogimages on Flickr or @ sinobug on twt ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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thinking about...

easter egg weevils.... genus pachyrynchus... loev em

Photo by Ann Cabras

Photo from California Academy of Sciences

paper on these silly guys

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thinking about...

dasyurus..... quolls... marsupial “cat” native to Australia.......

Tiger Quoll Photo: Sean McClean, 2005

Eastern Quoll Lithograph by John Gould