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Woah , my garage dog has arrived ,

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In the bathroom.

Straight up “toasting it”

And by “it” I mean. My pelonis

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Most popular archivists according to fanon? What do you call them?

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Tma is my comfort show cause I just know that no matter how bad my day has been Jon’s has been worse

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[OC] 2x2 Mini Painting: Stew time

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Beetles

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I've been laying down the lines again

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Critter of Today is Acorn Weevil

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was it casual when you pulled me out of a fear domain that stripped me of my identity and took me in?

was it casual that I joined a cult to worship you as a prophet for saving us?

was it casual when I fell into another universe and you were the first person I looked for?

was it casual when you agreed to look after my son, no questions asked?

was it casual when I continued to see you as a saviour, even after knowing you as a person?

was it casual? was it casual??????

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I've been obsessed with this wasp all weekend.

She's a velvet ant. A wingless wasp who hunts on the ground and lives in a little hole. Look she has eyelashes!

Like most velvet ants, only the males have wings. But in Myrmilloides grandiceps they are vestigial. Somehow this is also cute:

I wonder if they use the wings for anything? Maybe to make noise during mating? Why do the males still have little wings, why aren't they wingless like the females?

If they are similar to other wasps I might guess that the males stake out good nest locations to attract mates, so not having wings might make it possible for them to dig?

Why do they have such wide mandibles? In ants these kinds of mandibles help ants to hunt millipedes. So, perhaps they have similar prey?

There is so little information on these wonderful creatures.

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James Ensor, Peculiar Insects (1888) drypoint, 11.9 x 15.9 cm., Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels.

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Mammoth scoliid wasp, Megascolia maculata, Scoliidae

Like other scoliids, this species is a parasitoid of scarab beetle grubs. Found throughout Europe

Photographed by Matthieu Berroneau

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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Part of Pratt Institute Libraries Special Collections Terms and copyright © E.A. Séguy 1929

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Asfaltovenator vialidadi ponders the topic of today’s hunting lesson in Early Jurassic Argentina

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@cuttlefishcuddles submitted: Ladybug in Texas. Thought she might be a twice-stabbed ladybug, but there seems to be quite a few look-alikes.

Yes there's a weird amount of black ladybugs with two red spots in Texas! So I wouldn't be able to say which one this is. but I can say it's cute :)

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Acorn weevil (Curculio sp.) pestered by a winged ant

Photographed in France by Bernard DuPont

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@pesceterra submitted: ID may be impossible, but maybe you have a general idea?

Smaller than a grain of rice, like half a grain of rice. I don't know if that's its natural color or not? Chicago area, but it's no big deal if you don't recognize it

I can tell you it's a beetle and that's about it! And since you tagged it beetle, obviously you knew that. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!