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Was compelled to make this during a conversation about commonly disliked bugs

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One of my biggest pet peeves with people who don't know anything about insects is when they swear up and down they got bitten by an insect that doesn't or can't bite

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picture made in a haze

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Moth getting fed at the insectarium. They don't know how to feed themselves if it's not a whole flower.

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stupid idiot bug drawing

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[ID: an illustration of two yellow butterflies over a field of clovers. The border is a lacy pattern in orange, red, and blue. Text reads: "Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice), A common species in fields, pollinating clover, verbena, alfalfa, and coneflower. They congregate at muddy puddles to drink." End.]

4/12 pollinator posters - clouded sulphur and red clover!

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Sleeping wasp (Ammophila sp.) By: Clifford S. Crawford From: Biology of Desert Invertebrates 1981

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The third one looks cool

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I saw a post somewhere on here about people erroneously assigning human morals to parasites, specifically using cuckoo birds as an example (if any of you know the post, feel free to link it), and I thought I would weigh in myself as an invertebrate enthusiast.

[Image IDs: A collage of nine images with text overlayed saying "This is morally neutral". The top three images are of a wasp laying an egg into a caterpillar, a tick on human skin at different stages of feeding, and one of a parasitic caterpillar being carried by a host ant. The middle three, mostly obscured by the text, are of a snail infected by broodsac flatworms, a wasp parasitized by twisted-wing insects, and a bee parasitized by bee mites. Finally, the last three are of Glyptapanteles wasp larvae emerging from a caterpillar, a Tachinid fly laying eggs on another caterpillar, and a flea in an animal's fur /End IDs.]

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🤎 - weevil plushies!!

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A Kandi-core Crustacean

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apologies if this has been done before but