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(Shimmies out of skin) every day is the same around here

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Please look at my cat’s baby photos I took

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HIII I’ve been busy sorry about that… UNRELATED this is my pookie and you guys should go check out their art… I love them you should go observe them like a zoo animal

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Sleepy boi

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I filled up my own insect house last weekend. There's already been a lot going on.

It's mostly for mason bees, or, at least they are the only ones who have moved in so far. A few other insects have crawled over it. :-)

Here, the left photo shows a pile of pollen, which is the food source the mason bees provide for their eggs, later larvae and grown bee. They build cell for cell, wall for wall, and in between they put their pollen and one single egg. They do this until the straw or whatever cavity they chose to use is full. Then they build one last wall, as seen in the right photo. When the baby bees are eventually grown up, they bite their way through the wall to break free.

Now you might wonder, how does the first bee break free if it's all the way in the back of the straw? The answer is pretty cool. Male bees hatch sooner than female ones. The mother bee knows which sex their egg has, since fertilized eggs are always female and unfertilized ones are male. They purposely fertilize the eggs they're planning to put in the back and lay the unfertilized ones in the front cells. That's quite awesome if you ask me.

Now a less funny info. There are parasites in the insect house as well.

Cacoxenus indagator is a species of fruit fly and a kleptoparasite, meaning that they lay their eggs in the nests of other insects. This one lays them in mason bee nest cells specifically. There, the fly matures and in the process feeds on the pollen that mother bee collected for its own child. In a lot of instances the bee starves to death. If it manages to survive, it is weakened and might die quicker.

I contemplated and wondered what I could do to prevent this. I thought maybe I should kill the flies. They're not quick to fly away and would be easy to smoosh. Then I thought a little more. I found that that would be against my own standards.

Parasites don't choose to be parasites, in fact I doubt that they make a lot of choices all together. They have their own place in the system called eco, and each individual has its right to be.

The fact that bees are dying in high numbers isn't a fly's fault. It wouldn't make sense to punish it for something that we did.

So, I think making an insect house taught me a good lesson. It's nice how things turn out sometimes. Also, the bees are fuzzy and have crawled up my fingers a few times heeheehee

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Wasps are wonderful little guys! There is much discourse about them on the internet but they’re crucial pollinators, and they get a horrible rep for the docile creatures that they actually are. They don’t often sting unprovoked- they just get provoked a little bit easier than bees. Which honestly I can relate to!! I have a group of wasps that follow me around every time I’m in my backyard because I refill the sugar water that they share with the bees and the hummingbirds by my house. Absolute sweeties! And they live in my grape vine which I would personally do if I was a bug. Give them some love too!!

You know the drill, reblog for wider poll range

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You know the drill, reblog for wider poll range

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skippers!!

skippers(hesperiidae)

they are so cute. just look at those eyes

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too few people are gushing over them

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HEY BUG PEOPLE OF TUMBLR I REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE ‼️

i just started working at a butterfly biosphere and today i encountered THIS funky little guy

it’s the most beautiful butterfly i’ve ever seen in my life i love him so much but i’ve got NO CLUE what he is!!! there were no signs!!!

if you know what this guy is PLEASE let me know!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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You’ll never guess what time it is guys…

IT'S THAT TIME OF WEEK

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Golden retriever puppy

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I love that bugs come out of eggs. Are you telling me your origin story is a circle? Magnificent.

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It’s true guys I was there

Animal crossing is always real @bugmuncherr

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Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum Canon 7D f/3.5 1/320 iso: 160 Celakovice-Jirina, Czech Republic 9/8/2013

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Okay guys I know I’ve been inactive today but hear me out… I made a human au for my ocs and it’s been consuming me

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[PHOTOS TAKEN: MARCH 20TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Three photos of a yellow, black, and blue eastern swallowtail butterfly feeding from and pollinating the freshly bloomed flowers of an apple tree /End IDs.]