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[dark-creatures]

[ink-the-artist]

Woolly Aphids

[ink-the-artist]

Woolly Aphids

[jetix]

Papercraft beetles, 2025-07-22

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

[thecheatinghomunculus]

from today's entry:

[thebluepeninsula]

moths from r/austin this week

[onenicebugperday]

Thorny click beetle, Pachyderes apicalis, Elateridae

Found in Malaysia and Indonesia

Photos 1-2 by budak, 3 by nakarb, and 4 (for scale) by klearad

[chewedcorn]

Actual review

[dogboygoro]

i know i dont post here very often but i got my wisdom teeth out yesterday and ive been very paranoid abt getting dry socket or that im not gonna be able to keep the extraction sites clean so if any1 could share their stories of what they did that would make me happy

[hawkpartys]

Genus Podabrus

[aaaaaarchive]

[nemi-n1ghtshade]

she's got places to be

[itsjustminormending]

She took a midnight train going anywhere

[ashadowfaerie]

@onenicebugperday what kind of moth is this?

[onenicebugperday]

It's a windmill butterfly in the genus Byasa!

[hawkpartys]

Brachycybe rosea

[bogleech]

The latest “bug hysteria” gripping the U.S. is a sudden surge in awareness and fear of the “kissing bugs” so let me set some things straight about them:

The first image here shows a variety of assassin bugs. These can hurt if they bite you, but aren’t interested in biting you. They’re beneficial predators of other insects.

The second image shows the different species of actual kissing bugs, an unusual small group of assassin bugs that switched over in their evolution from preying on other insects to sucking mammalian blood.

No other assassin bugs can drink blood or spread disease.

Around 50% of kissing bugs in the U.S. do carry the dangerous protozoan that causes Chagas disease.

They do not infest homes the way bedbugs do, and are not difficult to get rid of.

They are spreading due to climate change.

They WERE NOT fucking “brought here by immigrants,” a xenophobic lie I’ve now heard hundreds of times. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN NATIVE TO BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.

Also, this cutie with the “saw” on its back is one of the largest and most common North American assassin bugs, commonly called a wheel bug. I keep seeing people who panicked and smashed one of these poor things immediately thinking it must be one of these terrifying immigrant kissing bugs of death.

To me the kissing bugs and the other assassin bugs look as different as cats from dogs and a wheel bug is especially unlike anything else. The “wheel” is completely unique to it.

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

[categorized-art-collection]

Timm Ulrichs, “Wolf im Schafspelz – Schaf im Wolfspelz: Ein Verwandlungskunststück (Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing - Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: A conversation piece)” (2005/10): Ulrichs demonstrates a sharp wit with this smart arrangement of objects. Here he presents a literal translation of the Biblical idiom of the “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and pits across its opposite, the inverted metaphor “sheep in wolf’s clothing.” It’s interesting to witness how simply changing the exterior of each stuffed animal seems to change the physiology and the expressiveness of the animal. In this case, the skeletal interior seems to preserve the animal’s inner “essence,” since the sheep in wolf’s clothing looks like a docile wolf, while the wolf in sheep’s clothing looks like a predator sheep.

[selavy]

[nocturnal-stims]

Millipede under UV light. Many species of arthropods fluoresce, or glow, under ultraviolet light due to due to fluorescent compounds in their exoskeletons. At least one millipede genus, motyxia, is actually bioluminescent, meaning it can produce light on its own.

🐛 b.seahphotography on IG

[herpsandbirds]

Pink Ladybeetle Spider (Paraplectana thorntoni), family Aranaeidae, South Africa

photograph by Martie Rheeder