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aw yeah antlion

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Agricultural pest? Destroyer of trees?? This silly little thing???

Look at this little menace to society cleaning herself like a kitty. Amazing

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just a baby!

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I'm sorry for my absence I'm just busy rn

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it you

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hearsey's owl moth (brahmaea hearseyi) | ofmoth_andflame on ig

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i wish i could tell animals what im trying to do so theyd be less resistant to things that are objectively beneficial to them and not think im trying to eat them. i would attempt to get a bug outside and go "I AM TRYING TO GET YOU OUT OF THIS WEIRD PLACE. STOP TRYING TO WRIGGLE OUT OF THE TALL STRUCTURE. IF YOU KEEP DOING THIS I MAY ACCIDENTALLY CRUSH YOUR ANTENNAE OR CUT YOU IN HALF WITH THE EDGE OF IT AND ACTUALLY HURT YOU. STAY STILL SO I CAN HELP YOU." and they would go "ah yes i understand. thank you kind giant. i will now stand still for the remainder of my extraction as to prevent accidental harm from being imposed upon me" and i would pick up the bug gently and take it outside and it would scuttle off to its little bug family in the dirt and life would be beautoful

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Joker moth

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Hi! I’ve recontextualized a lot of these thoughts in a one thousand or so word thinkpiece here;

If anybody is interested at my thoughts more in depth and with some evidence to back my claims.

I think one of the absolute most frustrating things for me personally about the current climate crisis / late stage capitalism hell is that ontop of people just outright denying it and acting like the rising temperatures are normal- there’s been like. A VERY noticeable decline in the amount of insects yearly. As someone who goes out of my way to see bugs, every single year for the past decade there has been a sharp decline in bugs. What used to be fun filled summer months running around, catching grasshoppers and petting caterpillars… there’s nothing. I’ve seen one grasshopper this year. I’ve not seen a single caterpillar! It’s currently the ant nuptial flight season in my area and I’ve seen 0 winged ants. They used to all but infest my home during flight season

I remember as a kid, I used to excitedly find ladybug larvae, and I’d relocate them to plants covered in aphids. But I’ve seen one ladybug in the past 5 years, and 0 larvae. I’ve not even seen any aphids. It’s so tangible, it’s so noticeable to me as someone who considered this my absolute favourite season to do my favourite activity in. And I know if the bugs are dying off, other things that eat those bugs are to.

And the absolute worst part? When I tell people about this, the average reaction is ‘good!’. A lot of people will express joy over there being less bugs in the world. Most will express how they’re glad they’ve been experiencing less mosquitos and I want to just grab by the shoulders and shake them and yell TONS OF BUGS JUST DISAPPEARING SHARPLY OVER THE YEARS IS NOT A GOOD THING !!

Anyways. Fellow entomology nerds, have any of you also noticed a drastic decrease in bugs you’re finding yearly or is my area just in a bug deficit.

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The Insects of Hawai'i - BBC Earth

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Working on a couple stickers for Armageddon!

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My teeny tiny Dorcus Paralellus, his name is paimon

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This is what bug haters look like

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Giant isopod

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Beetle study <3 🪲

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