#bug babbles

[littlewigglers]

Okay I’ve never asked on tumblr but I just found your page and I’m OBSESSED!!! I want to get/make a Vivarium/bioterrarium for millipedes and isopods and I can’t WAIT!! Please please if you have any advice at all, I’d love to hear it! Where to get supplies, the buggies themselves, how to handle them, what do you do if they get sick, how much space to they need for how many there are, etc? Your buggy babies are so cute!!

First off thank you! I love all my little guys as well <3

I ramble kinda a lot so I'll put this under a read more.

For advice I'm still very much a novice when it comes to keeping but I'll tell you what I can!

For tanks I got my glass ones second hand or ones made my the store I buy used to buy my millipedes from, you'd be surprised how cheap you can get a nice big one! For Acrylic THESE are the ones I've had the best luck with not warping BUT they sometimes have kinda blurry parts on the plastic, but still I'd say good for the price if you can't afford glass. I tape up some of the ventilation holes to keep more moisture in.

For soil that ISN'T bought from a specialist stores(Sometimes I can't afford it) I use Peat free compost, paired with leaves and rot wood I buy off ebay stores that sell bug/reptile products, I mix them together with some water and leave them in a tub for 1 week to soften up the leaves. Some people go out and get their own leaves and wood but I'm not really in an area to do that so I can't give advice on that. It's important to keep it moist BUT NOT WET!

Heat mat! You want one to put on the SIDE of the tank and not under it, just one would be enough. I have a timer plug for mine so they're on a few hours a day on and off all day. If you REALLY wanna spoil them then I've seen a few people use reptile headlamps.

For moss and plants I again just buy it off ebay in sheets and give it a cheap over to make sure there are no hitchhikers on it before I put it in the tank. It needs watered and looked after for a while for it to take to the tank. Carpet moss is mostly for looks while sphagnum moss is used to keep moisture in areas and should be water/sprayed often. I have a little fern plant in my tank rn they seem to leave alone. I know a lot of people use fake plants as well for decor!

You should make a point to put a little temp and humidity monitor in your set-ups as well. The special reptile ones can be expensive so I just but the little ones you put in rooms and have had no issues with them.

Don't forget to give them hides! Cork wood/bark or coconut shells are nice and cheap. You can also use man made items just make sure they can handle the moisture and aren't made of anything toxic to your new friends. Also give them little sticks and things to climb up on. Just make sure the lid is secured so they can't escape.

For food I just use kitchen scraps like carrot peel, cucumber, apples and melon, give them a cuttlefish bone and some dried tiny shrimps in small amounts once a week or so, but you can also use fish flacks instead. But remember! Leaf litter and rot wood is meant to be their main diet for most species.

For the millipedes I would recommend Ivory millipedes as a good starter one, they're lovely in colour and are often up top, hardy as well, and usually you can get them captive bred which I've had much higher survival rates with vs wild caught. For each species you'll have to look up their needs yourself though, there isn't a 100% catch all set up for all species. Woodlice/isopods I'd suggest dairy cows as they're lovely and also very easy to get a hold of. I will say species of Armadillidium(roly poly/pill bugs) are my fave and I'm very biased and want 500 of them.

For handling just be gentle! I wear gloves in a lot of my videos but that because I've incredibly sensitive skin and can't stand soil under my nails. The worse they can do to you is them staining your skin(not all species), or give you a little nibble. Make sure if you're handling to wash your hands off BUT be careful what hand soaps you use! Wash hands after as well some can be toxic to bugs from what I've heard.

For tank size hmm that's hard, usually you want soil as deep as their body but that can be hard, 10-15cm is what I aim for my BIG boys and 7-10cm for my others, deeper is better but sometimes you'll also just never see them again! You'll want a tank at least a few times longer than your pets body or at least big enough for them to filly stretch out in if you get really big millipedes like giants and a 120cm tank is just kinda unrealistic haha.

I do not have a lot of advice for if they get sick sadly, it's kinda of hard to tell honestly and usually when you can it's too late. I would just say don't beat yourself up too much if some pass away sometimes bugs just do that especially if you don't know their history.

Where to get them depends on where you're from and what you want. A ton of reptile/specialist stores will have wild caught which isn't great but they will have the largest range of species and usually also sell all the stuff you need to tank care of them. Ebay is where I've gotten most of my captive bred and I just message people if I've questions about their bugs there.

I think that's everything I can think of,

Again I'm a big novice when it comes to bugs, @onenicebugperday and @crevicedwelling likely know way more than me, though idk if they're open to questions but they likely already have a lot of info on their blogs.

[buuggerz]

✨PJO X SOUL EATER AU

Okay so i’ve had this idea in my brain for a while-

Jason and Nico being a Weapon and Meister duo, where they where forced to team up due to circumstances-

and turn out to get along really well,

a kinda Rivals>Friends>lovers type situation,,

I also have thoughts on other pairs, like Percy and Annabeth, Leo and Piper, The stolls and katie!

idk maybe i’ll draw some more of them- but it you have questions about them and the au plz ask!!

[bugmomwrites]

Watching trigun stampede for the first time as a reward for finishing a lab report worth 15% of my grade and I pause my tv on the map of the seven cities.

“Oh wow there’s so many cities!”

“I wonder what the small ones s”-

I KNOW that doesn’t say Sage’s “pass” either- it looks nothing like the first A, AND there’s a tittle, or dot on top of what would be the letter “i”.

Bonus: Theres another one named “Fool’s Piss” right next to it:

[spencerssoup]

ive spent so much of my life wishing to be pretty, but lately its the thing i fear. i used to want to be painted, beauty shining through every brushstroke, but now? i never want to be stuck, frozen in time, presereved in that manner. like some dorian gray-esque nighmare, i will grow old and rotten and sinful, and my portrait will stay the same. please dont paint me. if you do, paint my soul. an atropy-ridden body, skeletal in nature. freakish, terrible to lay eyes upon. paint me ugly. paint me true.

[heyimbug]

You can buy Palisade peaches!

BUT WATCH OUT

[spookiibuggii]

OKAY i’m finally done posting for now

i posted some art that i haven’t before on here because i’ve grown to like some of my older ones... i hope me spamming so much of my old art wasn’t a total nuisance

but for now my art should return back to normal, and hopefully i can regain my following i had before!

...thankfully this means i removed all the bots that i had (not sure how many i did, but i can guarantee you i had a handful)

[beetle-gutss]

LIVE AGAIN! Working on a VTUBER commission https://www.twitch.tv/beetlegutss

[realbugmom]

Hey this is embarrassing to ask off-anon but I’m so curious — are you actually a bug mom? 👀 if so, what kinda bugs do you have? I’ve recently (partially) gotten over my fear of the lil guys and now I think they’re so interesting!!

HI OMG I love your stories

Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to have any pet bugs (a real shame, I always did like spiders)

But the nickname kinda has a couple origins

1. My mom’s nickname for me growing up was Miabug, I still use it when I play video games and it needs a name entered.

2. I went through a bug phase around 5-6 years old, I loved all things creepy crawly, and used to pick them off the ground to show kids at recess (which in hindsight is probably why I did t have a lot of people to hang out with LMAO)

3. Some of my earliest OCs are bug like aliens, kinda based off of the Invader Zim universe. Someone pointed out they looked like cool insects and I ran with it.

4. Third grade me wanted to be a firefly for Halloween, and to date that’s still one of my mom’s favorite costumes I’ve done. My gram made a translucent pillow thing attatched to a belt and we put an LED light in it. I wore aviator goggles, sparkly purple wings and a headband with pipe cleaner antennae.

On the way to the Halloween party, I heard Owl City’s “Fireflies” on the radio for the very first time. In costume, and my mom was just as excited. Whenever it came on the radio after that we’d turn it up. 2009 was a simpler time.

5. My club penguin username was some variation of my name with firefly in it

6. I feel like a lot of my writing process is just firing off ideas, and brainstorming until I find something to latch onto. Like a lightbulb moment of a firefly, or a bee constantly farting around from one point to the next (I can’t stick with one project at a time even if my life depended on it)

7. My grandmother used to be called “Bee”, and she was always as busy as one. She always seemed to have her shit together, and still have the energy to keep a positive attitude. Even now, my family still associates bees, and the color yellow with her.

WOW this got long I’m sorry. If you made it this far, I hope my convoluted ramblings make at least a little sense. Thank you for sending in an ask! 🐝

[sandflakedraws]

You've been isekai'd to the fictional world of what you last played, read or watched (whatever was the most recent option)…what was it, would you survive and what would you do in it?

last fictional world i dabbled in was Tears of the Kingdom and thankfully i survive because most npcs are indestructible

as for what i would do ... probably be menaced by bees. maybe open a second branch of the dye shop?? (full dyes when) or ..

wait NO waIT NO WAiT i take it back

I AM OPENING UP A HEADPIECE SHOP!!!!!!!!

botw and totk are fun but the negative fashion points given by most headgear is just. such a travesty. I am going to be the change I want to see in that world and offer alternatives for people who don't want to wear a fantasy traffic cone on their head.

this did remind me that i've actually been sitting on some art i gotta finish with this exact concept in mind

(^ part 1/? drawing)

[littlewigglers]

Made a very important sticker.

[buuggerz]

Here y’all i made them kiss!,, see all alright and not dead!

[bugmomwrites]

Torn rn do I work on chapter 2 of Strangeness and charm or do I flesh out another idea I brainstormed with my friend?

[spencerssoup]

yall im jumping for joy rn- I just found out my family's new streaming service plan includes CBS so i can watch cm- ALL OF IT OMG. before I was stuck recording, and it was only 10-15, but now i can watch it anytime :D

[heyimbug]

I’ve been making little custom clay frogs and giving them out to friends. They’re so cute and I adore making them. Several people have told me I should sell them but idk. I think it just wouldn’t be as much fun then.

[spookiibuggii]

Can we use your art as pfp or icons with credit? I wanna know if it okay lol

Oh yeah, definitely! Go right ahead! :DD Thank you sm for asking!!

[beetle-gutss]

HELLO!

Obligatory first post. Blog layout is a wip!! And very barren AFKJHAS

Will fill with some art SOON

In the meantime my stuff is primarily over on instagram @ _beetleguts_