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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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| blushing phantom butterfly

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Vintage Porcelain Covered With Hand-Painted Ants by La Philie

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a sad day for america

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Cicada shaped Knick knacks, how lovely✨

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eepy

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I find the most bizarre things looking up Bug Facts. Please appreciate BEETLE POWER.

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tears off my shirt that reads "there's no such thing as a bad insect" to reveal another shirt that reads "your disgust doesn't measure worth in the real world"

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a sad day for america

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when spiders put their little pedipalps together

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Drawings of female fig wasps done for my masters thesis a few years back - so tiny but such incredible animals!

Fig wasps pollinate the flowers within fig fruits, with the majority of the 800+ fig species being pollinated by a unique species of wasp. Female fig wasps are 1-2mm long and only live a few days but the furthest pollination distance found between two fig trees is over 160km (Ficus sycomorus and Ceratosolen arabicus in Namibia)! 🌸

(if you want to learn more about fig-fig wasp biology, my thesis film is on Figweb!)

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People who like mantises but aren't that into entomology are always "orchid mantises" this and "orchid mantises" that. Overrated. Can we talk about Toxodera integrifolia for a minute:

(Image links because as much as it pains me I've never seen one of these beauties irl: 1 2 3)

Like how are these things real. Girl what is that thorax shape. Why are you wearing eyeliner. And the colors? Absolutely fire. This is a 10/10 insect if you ask me.

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