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I am so.... on the fence about these argh

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don't forget "is this a bedbug?!?!" *posts a photo of a morpho butterfly*

the wildest thing for how common it is on invertebrate ID groups are people who have positively no idea what an isopod is. Like people posting "HELP!!! WHAT are THESE!?!?" and it's a woodlouse or a roly poly. I have never in my life been in any place where some sort of isopod isn't under every single stone or brick or piece of wood on the ground. I'll bet you can find one on any walk in any environment barring the hottest possible sand dunes or solid frozen ice. How does one live more than a couple years on this planet without encountering these creatures.

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are you craving bug science related zines? I always am. here's a whole swarm of FREE mini zines!!!

see them here!!

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i meant to put this on my personal but i'll let it stand

world's coolest baby hands you a blunt

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world's coolest baby hands you a blunt

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just a few geophilomorph centipedes today

found nearly anywhere with soil (their name means earth-lovers), these are the most successful and species-rich order of centipedes.

you’re unlikely to see any unless you dig, and this bunch was sifted out of old soil and put in a container for release. while geophilomorphs are caring mothers that guard their many babies, these juveniles and adults wouldn’t likely be associated so closely or touching one another naturally—but given that I only inspected three small pots, can coexist at very high densities!

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a wizard offers you a hit. wyd

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bugreddits are great

i love bug-related subreddits so much actually

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At long last, I’ve finished references for all the major characters in Slug City! This story has been a personal project ongoing for a little over 3 years, so it’s nice to see all these characters together in color. The setting takes place in a sci-fi like world inhabited by soft invertebrate people.

Main Characters: -Gingull: Main protagonist whose face was mutilated by a horrific accident. -Alfin: Gingull’s sibling -King: Gingull and Alfin’s father -Moberry: A mysterious figure who was once the city’s advisor and now runs a secret underground hideaway town -Smooks: A painter and an architect who helped design slug city’s buildings and vehicles -Dr. Walworth: A doctor who worked closely with the city planners who resigned in disgust at Maika’s actions -Delta: A soldier who saved Gingull from a potentially fatal accident. Seeking refuge from the city’s military in secret -Oster: A teenager living with Moberry and the other ex-city officials -Eidwinn: An elderly plant shop owner -Maika: The city’s leader who is no longer concerned with his citizen’s wellfare and instead turned to unethical doings to fulfill his malicious curiosity

I had a lot of fun designing these characters, please tell me who your favorite is! More info about each of them can be found on toyhouse.

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this made me wonder how many truly poisonous (you will get sick if you bite it, venomous is you get sick if it bites/stings you) bugs there are. there are some millipedes that exude cyanide and monarch butterflies, among others, are infamously toxic but I'm not sure either are enough to pose a threat to your average adult human. most everything else i can think of is venomous rather than poisonous but I'm not a bug scientist

generally it's pretty hard for a bug to seriously endanger you unless you happen to have an anaphalactic reaction to it or it transmits some more dangerous disease or parasite to you but neither of those are really the bug's fault are they.

You have to careful about masturbating to your imagination cause god doesn’t know about imagination so he will assume you are jacking off to whatever is around you like dust, a dead bug, birds nest. And if you jerk off to a poisonous bug (or if god assumes you have) then you do go to hell

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Item: metal bee with deep sea creature eyes and a fancy mustache 🐝

Located: behind many twisting corridors in the twisty Lanes of Brighton lies this here fine fellow

🐝

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im bugs?

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love a fastidious arthropod

preening Scolopendra dehaani “Highland Cherry Red” baby

when they’re your primary means of sensing the world, it pays to keep your antennae clean! centipedes almost always clean both at a time, first one, then the other. it’s charming to see those deadly forcipules used to gently hook down an antenna

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in the grand scheme of the universe beyond our strange little collection of water and carbon what fucking use are any of us. Ticks have as much worth as all of us

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Frog-legged Beetle (Sagra buqueti), family Chrysomelidae, SE Asia

photograph by @tania0378

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when you have a whole set of eyes only for looking respectfully...

Male small mayfly, Baetinae, Baetidae

Male small mayflies in the family Baetidae differ from females in that they have seven eyes rather than five - 3 simple eyes, 2 compound eyes,and 2 turbinate eyes on top of the head. These upward-facing eyes are thought to be used for spotting females during aerial mating.

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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look at this photo my partner took of the fattest slug i've ever seen

good for them

(i'd credit but neither of us have much of a social media presence nowadays)