#look I found a wasp

[variouswaspcarcasses]

[bitchfitch]

the good thing about mentioning a character once and then never again for several years is that i can get away with calling this thing the same person as some fairy twink, even though the only similarities are the color pallete and face markings. and if I hadn't said that, none of y'all would be any wiser about it.

[spotaus]

Old sketches of some characters! (Outdated Catacomb!Grillby, Ichor, Shotput, abd Roman!)

[transgenderfivepebbles]

several pebbles dragons, ft. me making the rot consume

[ID: Three sprites of Five Pebbles as a Flight Rising dragon. He is a Fae with a magenta body and orange wings. The first one is normal, and in the second and third, blue patterns are added to resemble the Rot overtaking him. /end ID]

[averagegtenjoyer]

There is nothing more normal than spending hours upon hours analyzing every single ant-man trailer that comes out searching for any tiny piece of g/t you can find. Nothing more normal i swear.

[krak-house]

You know. I've been reading a lot of fics lately where Stede goes out of his way to learn to deal with Eds hair properly and there's this post going around about people never writing mixed characters correctly and I've been remembering how my mother never learned to deal with my hair properly bc i was the only one who inherited the thick curls from my dad's side and how my sisters used to bully me mercilessly bc my hair was different from theirs and

Idk where I'm going w this but i just. Something something readjusting expectations and learning to adapt to different hair types and bodies and needs of others as an expression of love something something growing up mixed with family that's read differently from you by outsiders fucks up your perception of self etc etc

[mehrunnez]

"like" is such an easy word to say but try saying the other one and it feels like t. oh my god what a good gif holy shit nevermind the post look at the gif

[autistic-shaiapouf]

The autism is WINNING as I ID my bugs tonight

[starstruckpurpledragon]

So what I thought was just a thick patch of dust on my dresser that I'd somehow missed cleaning it off the other week was actually... scuff marks from the guy's moving it out of their way and then back while doing the baseboards.

Pretty bad scuff marks too.

I've rubbed in the repair stain that worked so nicely on my floors and it looks fine now though I'll know for sure if the stain took in the morning when it's dried, since i had to use filler on a couple of small (but deep) scratches on the top that were made from use over time - those wouldn't take the stain but the filler did. These weren't deep, however, so I'm not worried. And, since it was at the bottom of the dresser, I buffed a few more scratches on the floor that I noticed while I had the stained rag out.

i really need to just go through and mop all the floors now to get the settling dust off them. But I swear every time I go into the guest room there's a wasp in there still. Today, go in there, wasp. I lured it into the guest bathroom by accident (I was aiming for the hallway light, but the bathroom lights were apparently more attractive). Anyway. Guess I'll be saving that room for last.

[ninas-gf]

my unwavering love for all creatures big and small vs. my absolute, inexplicable, irrational fear of any insect

[crevicedwelling]

the paralyzed cicadas I picked up from a failed cicada killer nest are the perfect material to show off some cool features of insect anatomy! (although the wasp’s venom would keep them alive for her larvae to eat, I froze them to make sure they’re fully dead for dissection).

cicadas are powerful, fast fliers, and all of their thorax is taken up by a bulk of reddish, stringy flight muscles, which I’ll talk more about later. this cicada is a female, so her abdomen is full of white, elongated eggs that she will insert into tree bark with the bladed ovipositor at her rear.

the male cicada’s abdomen, however, is almost entirely empty, and that air-filled space is used as a resonator for his loud calls. the biggest structure visible there is a curved pair of muscles that deforms the tymbals, producing a click with every contraction.

here's a view of the complete muscle, and the tymbals themselves which look like overlapping plates on his belly. if you're curious what the white frosted appearance is, some Neotibicen have a coat of waxy powder or pruinescence; this male N. tibicen is particularly pruinose.

onto the flight muscles:

powered flight is a pretty complex mechanism in any organism, and is never so simple as just flapping wings up and down, but most insects power their flight in a really unintuitive way (at least for us vertebrates): they contract muscles in their thorax that aren’t even attached to the wings!

this method of flight is called indirect flight, in contrast to the direct flight of the dragonflies and mayflies where each of four wings is directly attached to a muscle and can flap on its own.

instead, most insects have a longitudinal (image 1 above, d below) pair and a vertical (2, c) pair of muscles that deform the shape of abdomen, pulling the upper segment of the thorax (notum) up and down, and this moves the wings which are attached to the notum. useful indirect flight gif from wikipedia found here

even if compressed manually, the dead cicadas "flap" their wings due to the motion of the notum:

insect flight is a lot more complicated than this simplified look at them, but I think these cicadas offer a pretty good look at how most insects get around essentially by squishing themselves internally!

[mrfoox]

Me? Hauling ass out of bed bc i realize my cats are probably playing with a bumblebee in my bedroom at 4 am?

It's more likely than you think

[brennanamuffin]

Bug Horror Movie season is back, so I drew a meme to cover the offending camera screen

[constellama]

The Magnus Archives Dashboard Simulator

🕷️ arachnophobia-incarnate Follow

Oh my god oomfies you’ll never believe what I just found

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📚 jonathan-sims Follow

HELP THERES A DOG ON MY DESK???

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🫖 poet-tea Follow

HELP I JUST LET MY DOG INTO MY BOSS’S OFFICE??

📚 jonathan-sims Follow

LITERALLY WHO ARE YOU

🛶 timtimothy Follow

LMAOOOOO

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🪱 residentwormgirl Follow

I think there’s a wasp’s nest in my attic. I’m gonna go check it out.

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Do you hear that

🪱 residentwormgirl Follow

This is kind of a bop actually

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op? op are you ok

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🎭 reliable-down-to-earth-nerd Follow

going on a date tomorrow! 😀

🛶 timtimothy Follow

haha what.

🛶 timtimothy Follow

can you repeat that op

🛶 timtimothy Follow

op?

🛶 timtimothy Follow

op can you repeat that

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I love my job. Everything just goes according to plan exactly how I want it to.

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Hi

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hey sorry for this but you wouldn’t happen to have seen a lead pipe lying around would you?

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🤡 notmyvoicebox Follow

does anyone have any skin? For no reason whatsoever of course. Like if you just have it lying around. Out of use.

🌀 funhousemirrorman Follow

why do you need skin

🤡 notmyvoicebox Follow

wouldn’t you like to know, door boy

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is there wifi down here

⚰️ wakelyupwhenimdead Follow

no

🐺 detective-daisy Follow

HELLO?? HELLO CAN YOU HEAR ME??

📚 jonathan-sims Follow

I CAN! I CAN HEAR YOU

🐺 detective-daisy Follow

Oh. You.

📚 jonathan-sims Follow

What. What does that mean

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👓 reliable-down-to-earth-nerd Follow

I can sense a promotion coming soon I’m so excited !!!

👓 reliable-down-to-earth-nerd Follow

are you SERIOUS

🛶 timtimothy Follow

I’m going to kill that old man with my bare hands HOW DARE HE DO THIS TO YOU QUEEN

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👤 averagescarehater Follow

WHYYY IS THE SKY LOOKING AT MEEEE

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my bad

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[apsciencebydan]

Any artists who like creating creatures and need inspiration from time to time, please feel free to peruse my bugs! I would be delighted.

For the record, encyrtid wasps are perfect creatures, and you may not have heard of them, because they're tiny, and wasps. But LOOK 🖤

Encyrtids are important biocontrol agents, pretty much always tiny (biggest one I've found is a few millimeters long), and the most ridiculous, goofy, gorgeous, harmless things. I will get people to love them.

[z-nogyrop]

truly cannot overstate how important it is for everyone to do research into local insect species and just try to notice them when you go outside. there are beautiful metallic blue mud dauber wasps where i live and they’re common in the summer but i just never noticed them until this past year. there are so many dragonflies at the local park. in one walk this june i found ebony jewelwing damselflies and an enormous stinkbug and an emerald-coloured tiger beetle and there is honest to god so much beauty in the insect world if you are willing to look for it