#Cockroach Identification

[bwcabound]

German Cockroach Control: The Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Eliminating These Persistent Pests

When it comes to household pests, few are as relentless and frustrating as the German cockroach. These small but stubborn invaders are known for being incredibly hard to eliminate, often turning kitchens, bathrooms, and even entire businesses into pest war zones. I’ve seen firsthand how quickly they can take over—some infestations were so severe, I wasn’t sure we’d ever get them under control.…

[ichbineinkriechend]

little cutie :)

[ID: Four pictures of a small brown bug. It looks like some kind of cockroach. End ID]

[typhlonectes]

A Taxonomic Revision of the South American Trilobite Cockroaches of Parahormetica Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865 (Blattodea: Blaberidae), with Description of Parahormetica museunacional sp. nov. from the Atlantic Forest

Leonardo Polizeli & Ângelo Parise Pinto

Abstract

The taxonomically intricate genus of trilobite cockroaches,  Parahormetica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865, is revised based on a comparative morphological analysis. The goals of this study are to review the nomenclature, propose hypotheses about specific delimitation, and provide diagnoses to allow identification of the taxonomic units in the genus. Based on the revised status of Parahormetica, we transferred Parahormetica hylaeceps Miranda-Ribeiro, 1936, and Parahormetica punctata Saussure, 1873, to the genus Bionoblatta Rehn, 1940. Therefore, the genus includes now four species of giant cockroaches which are predominantly distributed on the Atlantic Forest: Parahormetica bilobata (Saussure, 1864), Parahormetica cicatricosa Saussure, 1869, Parahormetica monticollis (Burmeister, 1838), and Parahormetica museunacional sp. nov. (holotype male deposited in DZUP: Brazil, Paraná). Diagnoses, key, distribution maps, images of living, non-type, and type specimens are made available. Our results make clear that the status and limits among Brachycolini genera pending a full revision.

Read the paper here:

A Taxonomic Revision of the South American Trilobite Cockroaches of Parahormetica Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865 (Blattodea: Blaberidae), with Description of Parahormetica museunacional sp. nov. from the Atlantic Forest | Neotropical Entomology (springer.com)

[crevicedwelling]

Hello! I've been around A LOT of crickets in my life and this is the only time I've seen a white-eyed one. Have you seen anything like this before or is it just very rare?

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very rare! but known to science, where mutants like these have been bred for research.

white-eye mutations seem to be a simple recessive in crickets, cockroaches, and fruit flies although I’m not sure if they operate under the same mechanism (esp. the flies, there’s so many well-studied strains and I don’t know enough about them to say if there’s multiple different mutations resulting in white eyes).

I’m most familiar with white-eyed roaches, bred as hobby pets. apparently they’re much less reactive to light and visual stimulus than wildtype roaches.

in crickets, oddballs are most commonly noted in house crickets (Acheta domestica) bred for feeding to pets. there’s multiple posts on Arachnoboards about people who’ve found mutants in their feeders.

there’s also this cool red-eyed Acheta on BugGuide, also from feeder stock I think

the same species, as well as similar mutants of Gryllus bimaculatus, have been bred in the lab to study their physiology and behavior.

but your find was quite rare, and probably the coolest thing anyone’s sent me all year! I would love to see more photos of the little critter if you’ve got any.

[bogleech]

Insect identification posts on Facebook compel me to ask:

[coochiequeens]

In other words: men have fit over something not centering them.

By Emily Jane Davies 11 October 2024 

An LGB Alliance conference held in Westminster was thrown into chaos today after 'trans activists' reportedly released cockroaches, meal worms and crickets inside.

The charity says it 'promotes the rights of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men, as recognised by biological sex'.

When the group was made a charity in 2021, several furious trans rights groups appealed the decision. 

Today, the gay rights group held a conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in central London but videos on social media show bugs at the event.

Posts on X by those in attendance claim they saw seven young trans right activists dump two bags of the insects.

Videos show hundreds of the bugs crawling over the purple chairs at the hall. 

An LGB Alliance conference held in Westminster was thrown into chaos today after 'trans activists' reportedly released cockroaches, meal worms and crickets inside

Posts on X by those in attendance claim they saw seven young trans right activists dump two bags of the insects

Jamie Reed, a speaker at the event, posted: 'Two minutes before I was supposed to speak on the stage a TRA just dumped a bag, full of cockroaches and bugs all across the auditorium and ran out. 

'Please take note: I will not be silenced. You can try everything to intimidate me into silence. It will not work. As I was to take the stage at the @AllianceLGB conference a TRA dumped bags of live bugs.

'We went through two layers of security, including metal detectors.'

Another post read: 'Trans activists have just disrupted the annual Conference being held by LGB Alliance by releasing insects in the main hall. 

'These nasty individuals who seek to disrupt a peaceful conference of lesbian and gay people show themselves up to be the real bigots.'

MailOnline approached the LGB Alliance for more information.

A Met Police spokesperson told MailOnline: 'Police were called at 16:24hrs on Friday, 11 October to a report of a protest at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Broad Sanctuary.

'Four protesters were reported to have released a number of insects inside the venue.

'They were detained by security and escorted from the premises by appropriate adults.

'Police have their details and an investigation into the circumstances remains ongoing.'

The gay rights group has a controversial past, clashing with trans rights charities.

In July last year, the transgender charity Mermaids today its case to have LGB Alliance stripped of its charitable status in what is believed to have been the first case of its kind in the UK.

The attempt by the trans group was branded 'profoundly homophobic' at the tribunal and Mermaid's case was thrown out.

Mermaids launched the legal action arguing that the LGB Alliance should be stripped of its charitable status, alleging the organisation is merely a front for transphobia and political campaigning to prevent changes on gender self-identification in the law. 

The two charities fundamentally disagree on issues of trans rights, with the LGB Alliance taking the view that people cannot change their biological sex while Mermaids argue they can.

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✦ Name(s): Vixko, Jake, Pine, Midnight, Lore, Avilak ✦ Pronouns: it/its, thxy/thxm/thxirs/thxmself, shx/hxr/hxrs/hxrself, hy/hym/hys/himself, x/xs/xself, xi/xir/xirs/xirself, et/ets/etself, vae/vaer/vaers/vaerself, dae/daem/daer/daers/daemself, howl/howls/howlself, 🍂/🍂s/🍂self, 🪚/🪚s/🪚self, 🔪/🔪s/🔪self, 🪓/🪓s/🪓self, 🍖/🍖s/🍖self, 🦴/🦴s/🦴self ✦ Species: werecoyote/shapeshifter ✦ Age: same as body ✦ Role(s): host, ASPD holder, belief holder, luximist, stress manager, disability manager, medic, nummica, protector, advocate, communicator, nummica, manager ✦ Labels: aroace, intergender, two-spirit, xenine, aporine, kenochoric, daroric, coytinction, monachoric, daroric, wilderic, florauna, macarshric ✦ Xenos: wilderness, night, death, decay ✦ Likes: being outside at night, exploring places, feeling accomplished ✦ Dislikes: people who act like they want to be helped but don't cooperate ✦ Music taste: grunge, industrial metal, pop punk, nu metal ✦ Aesthetic(s): dark naturalism, trashcore, emo, olderbrothercore ✦ Objectum attraction(s): vehicles, plants, weapons ✦ Kins: zombies, cockroaches, fallen angels, pine trees ✦ Color palette: muted green, dark brown, dark tan, medium gray, dark gray ✦ Personality traits: distrusting, resourceful, clever, organized, thorough, articulate ✦ Interests: dystopian fiction, plant identification, marine biology ✦ Hobbies: wilderness survival, sculpting, woodworking ✦ Emoji proxy: 🍂🪚 ✦ Details:

Vixko is a werecoyote who can also transform into a human with coyote ears and a tail. It handles everyday things for the system - both routine ones and navigating situations that have recently caused them stress. Thxy have higher resistance to stress due to thxir ASPD (which thxy hold for the system), and it holds onto the belief that it can survive anything. Vixko dresses in a 1990s grunge style with green, brown, tan, and other muted naturalistic colors, as well as post-apocalyptic accessories (e.g. tactical bags). It is laid back but not a doormat, and it loves spending time in nature. While it cares a lot about the people who are close to it (and its own system), shx is distrustful of most people and holds trauma that affects these issues.

✦ Role performance:

In addition to being a new host for the system during a stressful situation, Vixko also helps the system manage their disabilities and their symptoms, both physical and mental. While it is does not feel physical disability symptoms more strongly than most headmates, it helps them with physical exercises, pain management, and soforth. Et is protective of the system (as well as maybe a few people they are very close to), and good at navigating situations diplomatically and communicating the system's needs. It can occasionally act aggressive and intimidating, but it has very good control over this behavior. It is also good at budgeting the system's money and managing their schedule.

✦ Identity:

As the host of a bodily intersex and two-spirit system, Vixko feels a disconnect from binary Western gender. Due to neurodivergence, it has some difficulty understanding gender altogether, but as the system collectively identifies as two-spirit, x does too. It relates to the concepts of non-humanity, dystopia, moodiness, nature, and darkness moreso than masculinity or femininity, so it identifies with certain xenogenders and neogenders that relate to these themes, including kenochoric, coytinction, and daroric.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[centipedve]

the way we present ourselves online we found has made some people we've interacted with in passing believe we are one of those bug autism guys which could not be further from the truth like we think centipedes are cool as shit and we think maggots are cute and we think cockroaches and interesting and thats as far as it goes we dunno anything about bugs and the way we live life is that if anything is vaguely ant shaped we have to kill it and we are really bad at bug identification so most things look like ants. we shoulda called ourselves smthn like fishvy cuz in our day to day life we find comfort in fishies and we like learning about fishies and we'll beat the shit out of someone for disrespecting fishies and a large part of our inner identity is fishies and we have beef with 0 fishies and it makes sense for our natural habitat aka beach aka fishies. we're still no expert on fishies but we can hold a conversation with someone else who likes fishies about fishies

[inks-books]

The Day My Mother Was Attacked by a Crocodile (comedy)

I remember that day very clearly. It has been burned into my memory forever. As I look back, I'm not sure how she survived. I remember watching as my mother - my very own beloved mother - was nearly taken from me by a supposedly 'friendly' ghost. 

It was around mid afternoon and my mother and I were in the living room watching TV. The Crocodile Hunter was on, and they were trying to transport a white crocodile to the Australian Zoo.

I was laying on the couch next to the window and my mother was at the computer desk next to the entertainment center, and both of us had our eyes glued to the television. My cats wondered aimlessly about the house, and my neurotic black and white dog was hidden up under the computer desk.

The Crocodile Hunter had caught himself another crock - but it was no ordinary crock. This here was a white crocodile. The thing was lashing about and biting people as best it could. And why shouldn't it? Some one bursts into your house and says "Whokay time ta move ya!" and a whole bunch of burly sweaty men come in, sit on you and tie you up? I'd be cranky too. It's kind of like how people think sharks are the bad guys. I'm sorry but if a hairy man in a speedo came into my house and started playing around, I'd attack him too.

Anywho, so as they were transporting the crocodile to the Australian Zoo, you could hear Steve Irwin's voice commenting on the whole ordeal.

"We named this feller 'ere Caspur, cause 'e's a whi' crocadel. An' 'e's the furst won the Australian Zoo 'as eva' 'ad! Though I'm not quite sure 'ow friendly 'e is - CRICKEY!!! 'e almost got me that time!"

As Caspur - er Casper - lunged around trying to bite all those around him, my mother and I stared transfixed at the screen. We watched as the men bravely risked their lives to save this poor defenseless animal. (Well, you know, defenseless besides the giant razor sharp teeth and whip like tail and massive size. Other than that he's totally defenseless... Armor like skin and really cranky mood excluded.) One slip and the crock could kill them for sure. Watching every move the crocodile made, we held our breath in anticipation, but neither of us could have seen the real danger that loomed ever closer in its conquest of death.

The something went horribly, horribly wrong. Many things happened at once though. First, as Steve Irwin was narrating, his camera man, Wes, was getting a little to close the danger.

"Oh! You betta' woch it Wes! That crock is out for ya-!" BAM!

The crocodile lunged for the camera just as something grabbed my foot.

The mind is a weird thing. Especially an ADHD mind. It's not that we can't focus on one thing at a time, it's that our brain thinks a lot faster than most people and we can think of lots of things in the same span of time that normal people can only think of one thing. The first thing that popped into my head was the story my friend told me one time about a book she had read. In this book, a man was forced to stay in a place that he described as a place where you would expect room service to be brought to you by six foot tall cockroaches. 

This thought reminded me of the time I was sitting in my room at my desk doing homework, and I felt something tickle my foot. I wiggled my toes trying to get away from what was tickling me, but no matter where I placed my foot, I could still feel the tickling sensation. So finally, irritated, I looked under my desk to see what was tickling my barefoot, and there, crawling across my toes, was an enormous flying roach. Needless to say, I was less than calm about it. My poor desk never recovered. I think they found the leg of it somewhere out in the back yard, but it was so deformed, they couldn't give a positive identification to it.

All this passed through my mind in a matter of milliseconds and that, paired with the knowledge that something had just grabbed my foot and the snarling of Casper the not-so-friendly-white-crocodile, made me realize that a giant, six foot tall cockroach had some how snuck into my house, grabbed my foot, and was preparing to kill us all and eat us. I knew that if we were to survive this ambush, I must warn my mother immediately for neither of us were fond of cockroaches, and she, especially, was terrified of them.

So, I warned her the best way I knew how to. I declared there was a roach in the room very loudly, although I'm not entirely sure I got the entire statement out of my mouth.

Okay... Let's face it... I panicked. 

When I screamed "RAAAAHHHH!!!!!" in fear of being devoured by giant man eating cockroaches, the white crocodile on the television lunged for and bit the camera at precisely the same time. My mother, who had been just as absorbed in the program as I had been was caught in between two things of horror: Casper the white and highly unfriendly crocodile, and a giant six foot tall cockroach that was trying to eat her child.

How did my mother react? Did she scream? Did she run away?

Nope.

She jumped up, fell back down into the chair, jumped up again whilst trying to lift her feet up so that the crocodile couldn't get her, and only managed to lift her feet above the computer monitor before dancing in her chair like a legless person trying to stomp on a herd of mice.

Apparently, though, the combined tactics of mine and my mother's worked, for the not only did it make Casper lurch back unexpectedly, it made the roach think that its dinner had some kind of mad cow disease. I mean, really, would YOU want to eat something that all of a sudden started raving like a lunatic?

My cat, who had some how miraculously survived not being eaten by a six foot tall cockroach, scampered away in five different directions at once from all the commotion, and my dog, who had began barking wildly in all the confusion continued to tell any monsters or six foot tall cockroach armies that they were not welcome to terrorize his humans.

After apologizing to my mother profusely, the men on the television recaptured Casper (thanks to her ingenious distraction) and carried him off to be taken to the zoo. It was only once the crocodile was safely taken away that my mother dared to return her feet to the floor ever so cautiously.

Though she never screamed, my mother, she and I both knew this was a day that would burn in our memories forever. For we would never forget the day that we barely escaped the clutches of a six foot tall cockroach and Casper, the unfriendly white crocodile that lives in the TV.

[wumblr]

saw a post recently where someone was talking about cybersecurity training at work and questioning the advice to regard http links (as opposed to https) as phishing, and questioning the logic that encryption is even relevant to that case (correct, it's not). and this got me thinking about the state of encryption in general

you know encryption is not in isolation a viable security measure, right? if you hand encrypted data over to a malicious actor who handles the encryption and has the decryption keys you have done absolutely nothing to protect it (this is the point they were making in the post)

this is obviously true and yet it underpins everything from cryptocurrency to bank cards. i said it while i was working at the credit card factory but the switch to EMV chips did nothing but duplicate the data the card carries. it does no good if your physical card is stolen or if the card number is compromised, and the primary method of security in those cases is reissuing the card. the only thing encryption did in that scenario was make card skimmers more complicated, it certainly has not eliminated card skimming or data breaches and it was plainly obvious that it was never going to. but europay mastercard and visa wanted standarization with their names on it and the positive PR from having done something, so it doesn't matter what the truth is

encrypting a public ledger does nothing when its users can be trivially identified by network associations and identification provided at point of sale, which has been for years a requirement for any cryptocurrency exchange. there are ways to attempt to launder it to conceal parts of the relational network or buy it on a black market, but they are also ineffective and unreliable even when used properly, which is a steep learning curve. it would be far more secure to not distribute the ledger to the public! but that is definitionally the foundation of the field. (to split hairs even further, this doesn't mean distributed ledgers are useless, just that they are not appropriate for secure data. this is all a bit beside the point when the entire community has for over a decade been coopted by the most conservative cockroaches you can imagine, and i would not say distributed ledgers have utility sufficient to bother reclaiming it from them)

encrypting communications over protonmail or telegram does nothing except perhaps delay the inevitable when both of them have a demonstrated history of bowing (unwillingly, if i recall!) to government subpoena. neither of these things matter very much when every manufacturer builds in backdoor access for the state. the only viable method of security for communications is not putting them online, and even that is not a complete strategy

[downwithpeople]

x-files roundup

war of the coprophages: GOOD. cockroaches gross me out. the best visual gag in the ep is the sailor in the gas station who's buying chocolate bars and pantyhose.

syzygy: BAD. this is a soft bad tho. it's a spoof on the craft if you're about that. it's got mulder and scully just being endlessly bitchy to each other in a way that seems extremely well-considered. it's got some good gory kills. it does ultimately feel like chris carter doing a bad job at writing a darin morgan episode and it suffers because we just had a damn good darin morgan episode. it's a little too mean-spirited to be funny and mulder's cop crush comes across as a credulous jerk. that one teen gay as fuck for walking away from two blonde goth girls.

grotesque: GOOD. doesn't really feel like an x-files ep but not in a bad way. mulder tries on a will graham suit for an episode and though he doesn't make the purchase it fits him quite well. the lighting, the directing, mulder's sudden serial killer identification powers, it feels like a dry run for millennium but it all works quite well, especially with kurtwood smith stopping by to say hello.

piper maru: GOOD. the x-files mythos is almost by necessity derivative, which makes the black oil one of the best things about the mythology. it's weird, creepy and different. it's great to have scully going back to her roots and it does make me yearn for the alternate timeline where it was her father who was the lynchpin of the secret history instead of mulder's. meanwhile we get some genuine globetrotting action with mulder and the triumphant return of everyone's favourite sopping wet assassin, krychek.

[fettesans]

Top, Ceroplast, anatomical bust with Verminaio, 1699-1700, by Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, Ceroplasty, wood and glass case, Height of the wooden work without pinnacles and feet: 41 cm; height of pinnacles: 13.5 cm; height of feet: 6.5 cm; largest side of trapezoidal base: 60 cm; smallest side: 38 cm; depth: 25 cm. Via.

Zumbo had a particular predilection for the figurative depiction of the human body in decay. Witness the waxwork of the Anatomical Bust with Vermin, in which the appearance is emotionally disconcerting both in anatomy and in the rendering of details. The body, corrupted by decomposition, emerges in a disgusting scenario in which animals rage against putrescent flesh, set inside a wooden case with three trapezoidal openings. The young man's face suggests a violent death, given the multiple wounds in several places: in the face, skull and neck. The eye sockets are turned upwards and describe the ultimate search for a different beyond, free of suffering and finally safe. The identification of the young man is not certain, but sources suggest that during his French sojourn he met the 'General of the galleys'(3) , for whom he executed an anatomical head. This Anatomical Bust with Vermin probably dates back to that time and could identify the young man as a convict who had a rope or chain around his neck during his stay, a punishment for his conviction, as the gash in his throat suggests. The work is not lacking in symbolism and meaning: the rat represents anguish, disgust and degradation, just as the cockroach represents darkness, depression and death. The moth on the other hand, in the Christian imagination, is an emblem of resurrection and salvation precisely because of its path. Therefore, Zumbo tried to 'represent both good and evil, darkness and light, the rottenness of the flesh and decay and the Christian dream of resurrection'(4) . In conclusion, the background of the shrine is painted in broad brushstrokes without suggesting a specific description.

Bottom, Adrian Piper, Out of the Corner, 1990, Seventeen-channel video installation with sound, 26:00 min., with seventeen monitors, sixteen pedestals, table, twenty-three chairs, and sixty-four gelatin silver prints. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Peter Harris. Via. Via.

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In South Korea some women have sworn off heterosexual relationships altogether. In 2019 a fringe “4B” movement emerged there. It involves women abstaining not just from marriage and childbirth, but also dating and sex with men. They believe a life with a man is a life without freedom. “I’m not even fighting the patriarchy—I’ve decided to walk out of it,” says Kim Jina, a 4B practitioner.

Another factor is that anger towards women is being stoked online. Mr Kim, the chef, follows Bae In-gyu, an influencer on YouTube who leads “New Men on Solidarity”, a men’s-rights group. Mr Bae claims that “feminism is a mental illness.” In South Korea, a popular online slur among men is kimchinyeo or “kimchi bitch”, a term that implies young Korean women are materialistic, controlling and willing to live parasitically off men. In Japan tsui-femi, which is short for “Twitter feminists”, has become a derogatory term.

Similar to incels (or involuntary celibates) in the West, a group of Japanese men known as jakusha-dansei or “weak men” have emerged. “When it comes to dating, women overwhelmingly have decision-making power,” says Horike Takeshi, a 25-year-old Japanese man who has never had a girlfriend. He identifies as a “weak man” because of his low income and lack of sex appeal to women.

The Economist, from Meet the incels and anti-feminists of Asia - They threaten to make the region’s demographic decline even worse, June 27, 2024.

[identifying-insects-in-posts]

Found this guy at 2am in my bathroom in central ohio. Looked to be about 1.5-2 inches long but I wasn't wearing my glasses. Photos taken after catching and releasing. Who is he, and do i need to get my apartment fumigated lol

At first glance, it looks like a female Oriental Cockroach (Blatta Orientalis).

Especially as we're getting into spring (peak roach season). They tend to prefer cooler, humid areas (though are not exclusively found in them) and are about 1"–1.25" long. They're a pretty common pest, especially in the US, so I'd definitely recommend taking a look at some pest identification guides about them. They can have a pretty bad smell, so I'd at least check!

Here's a link to get you started.

(Photos under the cut)

[mostlymantis]

Invertebrate Catalogue

(Current to 2/18/2024)

If there is no picture, I plan to update with a picture. Pictures are of my actual pets. These are my pets and are NOT FOR SALE. I do however, periodically have offspring of some of my pets available for sale. Bolded species are species I have a breeding group of.

This list is non-exhaustive, as I have some random leftover feeder insects and random isopods in some of my cultures as well.

My current sale availability, Terms of Service and In Search Of/Trade list is here

I am an amateur/hobby entomologist and invertebrate breeder, I do not have any university degrees in biology, my information may be wrong and should be taken with a grain of salt. I am dedicated to providing my animals with more than adequate care, and hope that I am doing so. However, I do not know everything and am still learning to care for some of these animals, especially those that are not commonly kept in captivity. If you find a grievous error in my care or identification, please send me an ask or message.

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INSECTS

Mantidae (Praying Mantises):

Sphodromantis kersteni “Giant African"

Phyllocrania paradoxa "Ghost"

Hierodula Majuscula "Giant Australian"

Hierodula membranacea "Giant Asian"

Popa spurca "African Stick"

Creobroter apicalis "Yunnan Flower"

Blattodea (Cockroaches):

Gyna Lurida "Porcelain"

Blaptica dubia

Panchlora nivea “Green Banana”

Shelfordella lateralis - “Red Runner”

Other Insects:

Several Different Unidentified Springtail species

Alphitobius diaperinus “Buffalo Beetle”

Allomyrina dichotoma "Kabutomushi"

ARACHNIDS

Phiddipus Audax "Bold Jumping Spider"

Hapalopus sp. Columbia "Pumpkin Patch Tarantula"

Caribena Versicolor "Antilles Pinktoe Tarantula"

OTHER ARTHROPODS

Isopoda:

Porcellio Sp. aff laevis “Dairy Cow”

Porcellio scaber “Lemonade”

Cubaris sp. “Panda King”

Armadillo Officianalis "Sicily"

Armadillidium Vulgare "Japanese Magic Potion"

Porcellionides pruinosus “Party Mix”

[palin-tropos]

thought: ulixes likes weird and ‘gross’ bugs like cockroaches and centipedes… yes or no 👀

people who like weird and gross bugs usually enjoy them for a number of reasons: rebellion against social mores, empathy towards or identification with creatures that are treated with disgust, or just not being easily influenced by arbitrary attitudes. I can see any of these fitting ulixes, so, sure, he can be fascinated by weird bugs

although with the shrike thing going on he might have the urge to collect bugs and pin them to a board for display