#glowworm

[layaart]

cave creatures

[victoriadallonfan]

If you ever doubt how stupid I am, just know I am just now realizing the symbolism of Ashley’s “Mangled Wings” needing Victoria’s help to “Point Me At The Sky”, all while Ward keeps mentioning Swansong as Ashley ascending beyond her past.

I need to go back to reading the hungry hungry caterpillar I’m so dumb

[linseedling]

teasers for book 2

[revretch]

I saw. SO MANY BUG today. (Sorry in advance for bad phone camera quality and shaky hands)

Male March fly!!! (Thanks to @microecobus for the ID!)

Baby sawfly!

Tiny assassin bug!

Flat bug (actually what they're called) and a zebra jumping spider!

Better look at the jumping spider!

Male California glowworm (species of firefly where only the babies and wingless females glow)!

Aphids!

Spittlebug (hiding in the foam on the leaf)!

And last but not least, a huge male snakefly (females have long ovipositors)!!!! So cool to find this one, I've only seen one in person once before in my life!

That's not counting the crane flies, honeybees, ants, little round orange mite, various flies, brown marmorated stink bug (of course), tiger butterfly, boxelder bugs, and tons of little parasitoid wasps I saw pollinating. An excellent bug day for Rev!

[vintagewildlife]

Glowworm attacking a snail By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[littlefleamart]

(source)

[genopaint]

POISON TYPE - Luminestar

"This bug loves to sit in dark places and shine as brightly as it can. When smaller Pokemon are lured in by the light, Luminestar strikes and eats them! Seeing a swarm of them fly across the night sky looks just like a meteor shower!"

Glow worms were suggested by @cccshutdown! I actually never knew so much about this bug until making this. They're beetles and not worms? They're toxic? They're kinda beautiful in a way lol

Don't have much to say on this one. I like bioluminesence… Uh… Bugs… I decided to make it Poison Fairy cause bug seemed too obvious and I really wanted to lean into the space/star theme. Yeah.

[weirdanimal-tournament]

Round 1 Match 52

Glowworm: "They’re weird glowing beetles where the females resemble grubs and are difficult to distinguish from the larvae (that is, they’re larviform), while the males are much smaller winged beetles with giant feathery antennae. The larvae and females (but not males) glow in a similar manner to fireflies from a pair of green or yellow glowing spots on each body segment, and Phrixothrix sp. also have a head that glows bright red. They don’t seem to use their glowing abilities primarily for mating (males use their sensitive antennae to track down females by scent, and larvae glow the same as adults) and the reason they glow is unknown but presumed to be aposematism, weird part is they glow constantly and don’t seem able to turn the lights off. They’re specialist predators of large millipedes, the issue is that millipedes have toxic secretions that ooze from glands when threatened. Many predators that feed on toxic prey simply evolve immunity, but glowworms aren’t immune- instead they bite millipedes and inject them with a paralyzing venom that incapacitates millipedes so quickly they don’t have a chance to release much of their secretions. They then eat the millipedes by very carefully hollowing them out to eat the meat that isn’t contaminated by the toxins."

Sea Sheep: "one of v few non-single-celled moving critters that photosynthesizes"

[luchia-a]

Queen of the underworld

[maddilynmuse]

I played Gartic Phone with @dragonfuckerllc last night and OBSESSED with her take on drawing Glowworm. (Also 9S from Nier Automata is here)

[carldoonan]

This Wayward Li’l Worm says: “Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh… I didn’t do it??” 🎩🪱💡

[layaart]

I am so happy with how these glow in the dark glowworm stickers turned out!

[onenicebugperday]

@chequerootlurks submitted: I found a small, glowing friend last night. After pictures, they were released back where I found them.

[ Location: Chicago, IL - southwest burbs, private nature preserve.]

A glowing baby! Excellent find. Looks like a glowworm beetle larva in Phengodidae, though given the tags you added it seems like you knew that already :) I hope they live a great beetle life...

[terra-toma]

GlowWorm is a short comic made by me and @lipstickandchrome!

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Tomáš Malík