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Little guys

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A variety of Friend-Shaped Isopods. Look at 'em! So regal.

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Armadillidium Maculatum. Lovely stripey guys

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Porcellionides Pruinosus* cuddle pile. Most have a bad case of the zoomies, so getting them under the macro lens is hard. Still, they're quite beautiful!

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Chaos

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A miniscule hexapod appreciation post. All springtails. Ceratophysella species, Neanura Growae, more N. Growae, and one of a Hypogasturidae species (itty bittiest of them). All difficult to photograph, but especially the little blue ones as they are diminutive even by springtail standards.

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A handsome and patient Porcellio Scaber, his shy friends, and the adopted Dubia that was deemed unacceptable foodstuff by my picky gecko.

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Correlophilus Ciliatus being a gremlin. His Majesty has only cooperated with me once in his teeny life, pictured in my hair.

Yes, he has fake plants and real plants. The fake plants are necessary because I cannot keep the real ones alive enough to provide adequate cover for his incredibly dumb and anxious self.

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Lunch Buddies

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Armadillidium Vulgare being cute.

The degree of pattern variety you can find on these little guys is ridiculous. I love them so much! These are all from my first culture that is about 4 years old now. As adorable as ever!

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Neanura Growae, a species of Springtail.

Despite being teeny tiny little guys, they're quite photogenic!

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Porcellionides Pruinosus being rudely awakened.

They bounce between complete stillness and utter chaos. Beautiful critters.

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Armadillidium Maculatum at various stages of consuming Zucchini.

They're chill. Centered. Zen. Easy to photograph as they are almost always unbothered by my presence.

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Hiii! I'm doing a paper on the ties between bugs and neurodivergence and I'm trying to create a group of ND people who like bugs but also I don't know how to do that so I'm just sending this to a lot of people who are frequent bug posters! if you'd ever feel comfortable with me asking a few questions please let me know! Hope you're having a really good one!!!

Sure, ask away!

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Porcellio Scaber on a lotus seed pod.

They're as wonderfully difficult to photograph as they are pretty.