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(source: squidpastry on iNaturalist)
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And I know it's true, that visions are seldom what they seem
Cicada Jason.
#something something in the dirt for a number of years only to emerge and scream#ignore that robin jason has wings its supposed to be a metaphor for the cicada nymph shell right before molting into the adult form#robin is like the larval form of gotham vigilantes in this essay i will-#jason todd#batfam#jason peter todd#red hood#utrh#robin jason todd#jason todd robin#batman#dc robin#robin jason#the red hood#under the red hood#my art#red hood jason todd#dc comics#dcu#dc universe#dc fanart#cicada#cicada art
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Learn to take care of your Liberi partner
#for people who dont know birds#Saria is preening Silence#preening is the action of removing the keratin shell around newly formed feathers when the bird molts#so you know!! yes i do put my bird knowledge on my blorbos. im insane#arknights#stalkiwiart#olivia silence#saria#sariasil#fanart
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idk if you're still doing requests, but I'm curious what a limebug calliope would look like to you
LIMEBLOODS.... heres the siblings : ) theyre both very cute and probably spoiled in my au. limebloods are historically difficult to fit into the caste system as depending on diet and genetics, its easy for them to invert to a totally different blood color. they're reflecting each others colors in their eyes here. also theyre from a planet that limebugs have recently reappeared on. thx for the rq!!!!
#technically both these guys r 16 and wouldve molted but this is cuter. understand???????? theyre like 13 here#i just want 2 draw more limebloods#these two would likely have more of a difference in their shell shape from karkat but i was focusing more on color and outfits here#homestuck#calliope#buggy trolls#bugstuck#im not sure if i want them to be like this or cherubs both r super cute.#also they dont have shiny hair#theyre supposed to have a halo-like white ring on their hair. idk its a limeblood thing.#calliborn
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This photo turned out looking a certain way that I like... wouldn't know how to describe it tho xD
🪲ID Guess: Cicada molt shell 🌿Date: 25/01/2025
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OFF With Humble Zacharies and A Molting Bad Batter
#off#off game#off zacharie#zacharie off#off the batter#bad batter#my art#fanart#Playing around with my Zach design again hehe#I feel like I'm getting *somewhat* satisfied with how I design Zacharie hehe#I'm still forever playing with him but for now this verison of him is really fun to sculp!!#I feel like I'm really giving him a solid his frog motif no matter the mask#As for The Batter piece: it's a concept of how I imagine he 'molts' into Bad Batter#With molting; nothing quite changes its simply the animal getting bigger and breaking free from its old shell#Batter as always been Badder; nothing truly changed. He's just bigger now/you can see him fully this way#I'm will forever workshopping but for now I really like how it turned out hehe
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Everybody please wish a “please put on some fucking pants” to my naked hermit crab
OnlyCrabs content below if you’re a freak like me




I put him in a little iso container with sand/ecoearth mix, reg food, healing foods, primed salt water, primed fresh water, thermometer/hydrometer (which won’t be very accurate because it’s sitting on wet sand but alas), and of course, a variety of shells.
Hopefully this vacation retreat will force him back into the societal norm of “no public nudity.”
#hermit crab#he has half of his ass in a shell and is now just sitting there#come on man#slowest episode of say yes to the dress ever#I think he’s waking up again as I just saw his antennaes moving#wish him luck#I def need to redo my tank because I fear the dried out sand is what might be causing the rebellion#I didn’t realize it was THIS dry until now#poor guy might just need to molt and had no way to do it with the dry sand#(unable to dig tunnels)#sigh#anyway I hope he chooses some pants and I will swear to him that I’ll fix the tank after finals
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Bobert: "Hey, if all you're going to do is leave me on the carpet, can I at least be for-real dead? Or maybe not a naked brain-puppet?"
The BEETLE: "Neither! You need to remain alive and bare-assed to go rob the great Paul Lessingham--the Statesman--the Politician's house!"
Bobert: "What?"
The BEETLE: "Paul Lessingham--the Statesman--the Politician. Doubtless you've heard of him, his greatness, and his em dashes."
Bobert: "No??"
The BEETLE: "YOU LIE, EVERYONE KNOWS HIM!!"
Bobert: "I don't know how to say this without being further Beetle'd, but not everyone is as into your crush within the governmental bureaucracy as you."
The BEETLE: "You insult the BEETLE's dreamy nemesis? You feign ignorance of his great statesman-politics? oh! oh! living-death eternity for Thief!! living-death eternity for One Thousand Years!!!!"
#I know it's still giving Dick Marsh far too much credit#but I really can't not picture Robert Holt's entire hell here and throughout the story as a sort of tortured prelude to becoming something#like the Beetle#not done with any kindness obviously; but a very shitty metamorphosis just the same#upon death I have to wonder if this poor bastard really gets to stay dead#or if he molts his bare-assed Bobert shell and scuttles out into a new horrid existence#it'd track#robert holt#the beetle#the beetle weekly
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Idk which one he chose, but Scupa already changed shells lol. I see his old shell vacated in the tank. I hope he picked one of the teal-ish ones (he loved teal shells growing up)
#marquilla#gurkle has yet to but he's been looking at them since i put them in. but ecuadorian crabs are more picky bc they modify the insides of their#shells and when they molt they kinda take on the inside of the shell? like they grow to fit in THAT shell better and better with each molt#so it's not surprising he hasnt found any quite yet to his taste but he might#there's 2 more shells on the way still so we'll see what they like#the party boys#im excited sgdgdgdg
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Floating Cicada Shell
I'm guessing the bark below it fell off.
Unidentified, superfamily Cicadoidea
24/03/23 - NSW, Dapto
#invertebrates#invertblr#Arthropods#Arthropoda#bugs tw#insects#insect#insecta#insectblr#insects tw#bugs#bugblr#bug#entomology#Cicadoidea#unidentified#cicadas#cicada shells#Auchenorrhyncha#molt#True Hoppers#hemiptera
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Daily Doodle Day 305




<- Day 304 | All Days | Day 306 ->
You will hold on tight to this relic of me, but look inside, I am long gone, and no more, and all that is left of me crumbles into dust in your hand.
#daily doodle#traditional art#daily doodles#onionart#doodles#doodle#sketch#sketches#beginner artist#🧅 art#cw bug mention#cw bugs#cw bug#tw bug mention#tw bug#tw bugs#bug art#cicada#cicadidae#cicadellidae#cicada shell#cicada swarm 2024#cicada season#cicada summer#cicada art#cicada molting#cicada posting#poetry#poem#original poem
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Guys idk what to say, my mom being in the icu for three weeks, the state of everything rn, and Zumi dying.... my birthday plans getting blown to smithereens, I am having an incredibly rough one.
I need a fucking break
#holy shit yall#sorry if you found out about zumi this way#shes had shell rot for a very long time which cant be cured really only slowed down and molted off but when i discovered it it was already#kindof extensive#ive kept it at bay pretty well but recently its been worse#just#fuck my life man
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minus the turtle foot necklace that i have somewhere, the deer horn, and couple other bug necklaces i have, this is my collection so far over time
this is not how i store them of course, just showing it all laid out here.
#animal death //#idk what else to tag this#ignore the dirt. ive had incense stored in this shelf recently#plus its like. old as shit#porcupine quills a horseshoe crab molt a turtle shell a woodchuck skull a beaver face pelt and a unicorn beetle
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Anyway baby transformers should look like metal sea urchins and infest crystals (gardening pest)
#Comrade speaks#Transformers thoughts#Spec mech#I guess#What if they do just come from the ground but its like thousands of them and everyone just doesnt consider them like.. sapient until they r#A certain age and molt and then they get taken care of or something#Mass production is scooping up a bunch of baby urchin cybertronians from the ground and shoving their sparks into mass produced shells befo#Molt 😔
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Can you imagine birthing yourself from one flesh prison to the next on the crusty wheel of a trash can?
(I also feel like this dude is several months late on molting, so no bitches?)
#cicada#cicada shell#bug#insect#winged insect#it doesn't look like it's super freshly molted but i imagine it takes some time to just sit there and get your bearings#hell. it might not even be the same guy. all i know is trash day was yesterday and that shell would not have survived on the wheel#so that's there as of 8pm last night through now
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4 months in and my hermit crabs are way more active. i think almost half have molted ans are brighter and more energetic. theyve started fighting over the hamster wheel LOL
#only 1 of the 15 i was given passed away#most have molted and/or changed shells#so that feels like a success#they also destroy ANY food i put in there now. which makes sense considering theyre on the damn wheel literally all day
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