BUG ENTHUSIAST

Hi, I'm Siobhan! And this is a Bug/Nature blog. If you are terrified of bugs, maybe don't follow me, (unless you want some DIY exposure therapy)...

[great-and-small]

Yeah sorry wasp haters but y’all don’t know shit. Have you ever even seen the cuteness of Bembicini?

[michaelnordeman]

Spruce shortwing beetle/Molorchus minor/kortvingad granbock. Värmland, Sweden (30 May 2026).

[chadly018]

antssss

[wasp-apologist]

found you through tumblr recommended blog function can i say your url is really based

thanks its what i am

[wasp-with-a-computer]

[bowelfly]

hands you some bugs

[spiribia]

the charm of the great chain of things is that you'll see reptile keeper circles recommending isopods as a cleanup crew in your enclosures and then you'll go look into isopods and there is a whole separate community where their main event is the isopods themselves and pet isopod care and they recommend also keeping springtails as a cleanup crew for the isopods and you look into springtails and there is a whole separate community where their main event is the springtails and they're posting photos of springtails and going They're soooooo cuuuute

[hapalopus]

I had to go look at r/springtail after reading this, and I'm so glad I did

[3000s]

[thriron]

[mlleclaudine]

Photo by Carmen Chase

[addicted2wasps]

Encyrtidae? So cute! Love the dark metallic blue body and teal eyes combo!

[maykitz]

>see bird creeping up and down a tree trunk >look it up >common treecreeper

can't make this shit up

[tatzelwurming]

just had to put down a rabid butterfly

[wasp-apologist]

I just wanted to say I have an Eastern Yellowjacket tattoo on my upper arm. I love my eusocial native species ☺️

wow we basically match!

[bedupolker]

I'm scared of bugs/spiders but working on ways to overcome that fear! = cool!

I'm scared of bugs/spiders, I don't think that will change and would prefer to keep my space, but i appreciate their role in nature and think theyre an important piece in the puzzle of life = cool!

ARGH MY EYES!!! KILL IT W FIRE!!!!!! = one thousand years in the dungeon

[great-and-small]

One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”

Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.

[hung-at-sunrise]

🧪🐛

she is sipping chemicals

[detriterate-deactivated20250920]

Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata)

From Koaw Nature on YouTube.

[things-that-are-not-true]

every wasp nest on the planet just got activated