#and I'm the bug

[sailoreuterpe]

I wish that I had the energy and time to do the BB questions. It's been a long week. I miss creating. I miss interacting with people.

[unsung-idiot]

always watching 👁️🦋

[ducktracy]

sharing a very sage bit of advice from The Simpsons' own John Swartzwelder that i've been trying to hamper down in my writing and drawing alike. let your inner crappy little elf do his worst

[coleopterabyte]

Part of the reason I'm so adamant about encouraging people to get comfortable with bugs, my own interests aside, is because we cannot have a bright, solarpunk future without them.

A green future is not a bugless future. It is, in fact, a fairly bugful future. If you care about ecological stability, then you need to start with bugs, because they're the most at risk with our current use of pesticides.

[laconic-void]

Saying "mosquitoes are annoying" after one bites me but shaking my head the whole time so the attractive single ecologists in my area know I understand their value in the ecosystem and that we would slowly die if they went extinct

[satanicdollx]

they should invent friends that do not live so fucking far

[keymintt]

carpenter bee study

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[dazzelmethat]

Cricket Cat concept. Do you see it? Do you see my vision? I don't think they'd purr or meow, just chirp with their wings.

[lovertm]

pins by dustonmyboots

[hellsitegenetics]

Hey are you willing to BLAST Kat Bolstad’s page on the AUT website? She’s the researcher who voiced over the colossal squid video and it’s making me so mad that people’s hatred of generative AI is so strong that they’re trying to crowd out an incredible cephalopod researcher who frankly speaks with a similar cadence to David Attenborough (those documentary skills!!!) especially during a time where we need to encourage women in STEM. This is the real damage generative AI is doing.

https://academics.aut.ac.nz/kathrin.bolstad

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Closest match: Arctia caja genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Garden Tiger Moth

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[raticalshoez]

They're like a packet of fruit snack gummies

[kedreeva]

In absolutely heartbreaking news, I checked on Bug and her kids this afternoon around 3pm before I left to sell some quail, and when I went to bring them in around 6:30pm, Bumblebee (the light one), was just... gone. Not a trace. I pulled Mantis from under Bug where she was covering it up, and reached back under and.... no Bumblebee.

I spent two hours out in the rain, digging around in the grass inside and outside of the pen, and found nothing. I called and called and called, and got no response. I lifted Wendy and Heather both up to see if maybe he'd somehow gotten under them, and he was not there; I DID find a scalped chick under Heather, so I removed Earl from the pen, in case this is his fault. But, I didn't even find a body, so my suspicion is that Bumblebee got out of the pen somehow, and got got by something else, or lost so badly he couldn't get back.

I know that there's nothing I could have done, outside of live out there with them 24/7 to ensure nothing ever goes wrong, but it sucks that I was not able to at least know WHAT went wrong.

So, they're inside for the night, and since it's evening and the last 10 eggs of the season are hatching, I took an EV baby from Aurora and Stella, and put her under Bug. I am hoping that, given an overnight to get used to hearing and feeling her, and the fact that they're on Bug's nest, Bug will accept her as a "late hatch" baby. So far so good... often if they're going to reject a baby, they'll do it as soon as they feel something weird under them. So I have hopes. Not high ones, but hopes.

I will probably post photos from the last few days over the next few days, so don't be surprised if you see Bumblebee. I am gonna miss my little buddy.

[lilybug-02]

Sam is catastrophizing.

Bug Fact: Their ears may be on their legs, but katydids hear a lot like humans do! Scientists have found fluid-filled vesicles resembling and functioning like eardrums.

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[dilfslayer1080p]

benrey should look like this more

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing is this katydid plush!