#maybeetle

[beautifulfartgalaxy]

female cockchafer sketchhh

i started a more technical one but that's for later. enjoy the fur on this lady for now :)

[nature-scares-me]

May starts tomorrow, so here's a maybeetle for the occasion.

they are my favorite beetles

so dumb, so beautiful, so clumsy

[maureen2musings]

Maybeetle

the.lost.woods

[elbdot]

CLUMCHAFER | Fairy / Bug This oversized beetle just wants a hug and greets strangers in the woods by charging straight at them to embrace them with WIDE OPEN ARMS - causing them to flee in terror, intimidated by the SHEER SIZE of this strange antlered beetle. Clumchafer didn't mean to scare anybody, it just wanted to say hi!!! With a hug. And then take you into the woods to introduce you to all its friends. It's just overly social like that.

European May Beetles (aka C*ckchafers - don't laugh) are my favorite native bugs so I've ALWAYS wanted to create a Pokemon based on it :D They have such beautiful antenna that look like antlers, BIG GOOGLY EYES and they are the clumsiest bugs I've ever seen in my life. They are terrible flyers and keep landing on their back, unable to get up on their own. You wouldn't believe how many of these guys I end up picking up at night in May when they buzz around, crawling over the streets like tiny idiots. Gotta save them from themselves with how easily they get killed by a car or a cat who finds them on their back.

So I based Clumchafers personality on just how goofy and clumsy Maybeetles are. Not to mention Maybeetles fly with their arms spread wide as if they want to embrace you in a hug. So that's why Clumchafer wants to do exactly that: Hug complete strangers it meets in the woods. BETTER RUN FOR IT :'D

With those infos out of the way THE FAM IS FINALLY COMPLETE!!!

I'll probably change formats for the next two fakemon lines, I might reupload Engerubs complete line in one post for consistency... Thanks to my Patrons for supporting my livelihood!

[blatterpussbunnyfromhell]

Omg so today I noticed that Roach wears North African tattoos??? Like, traditional amazigh tatts?? AND ONE OF THEM MEANS BEETLE (actually it symbolizes perpetual movement and flight, but it represents a maybeetle).

It kinda gives a different perspective on the character, now, imo.

I've seen people theorizing about Roach's name, some saying that he got it from white colonisers as an insult and he just rolled with it, but... I have a different theory.

Maybe his name was actually Izinzer, Ahedfer or Arzuz, all of which have the same meaning in different North African dialects. And because as every non-native english speaker knows, white native english speakers struggle to pronounce any name that doesn't english, Roach thought he'd just translate it from tamazight so they could actually pronounce it, not knowing that it had a more negative connotation in english.

Thoughts?

[naamah-beherit]

It's July. No maybeetles buzzed about this year. There are hardly any bats and butterflies. The forest in the evening smells of heat like it used to at midday 30 years ago, when the dappled sunlight danced under the trees.

I miss the kind of summer I experienced when I was a child. I grieve what I know I'll never have again.

[dreamingcurrent]

Some abno EGO sketches

Names and ocs under the cut

(From left to right. OC name - EGO)

Josefina - Ñembosarai, Jack - Maybeetle King, Ponyboy - The Lonesome Road

Jack - Regret, Peril - Joyous Melody, Peril - Feather of Honor

Josefina - Green Stem, Vey - Lamp, Montag - Gaze

Jack and Vey are from @friendlypimento

Montag is from @sealed-valkyria

[official-torfmoor]

German: Ah, yes, Melolontha melolontha, the beetle that hatches in may. I shall call it Maybeetle.

English: Ugh! That beetle makes me so HORNY, I can't stop JACKING OFF my PENIS! In fact I am MASTURBATING so hard, it ABRADES THE SKIN on my DICK!

[pokemon-picked-pride-flags]

[Id: Two aromantic flags colourpicked from official art of Decidueye from the pokemon series. The first flag has the art over it, whilst the second is just the plain colourpicked flag. End id]

Requested by: @maybeetle

[crvptozoologist]

recently got a tattoo of a maybeetle but i totally forgot until now that they're also called cockchafers. distraught

[beautifulfartgalaxy]

finally finished my slightly more technical cockchafer (Melontha melontha) drawing in between dissertation work :') hope you enjoy :D

kind of inspired from the illsutrations of this little bug book (from 1951):

"an insect book for the pocket" one of the cutest guide book names ever

[creatureenthusiast]

wwhy the fuck are maybeetles called cockchafers. someone fucked that bug and did NOT have a good time!

[nature-scares-me]

[e-p-h-e-m-e-r-a-d-e-a-t-h]

Came across this gorgeous beetle last night, it's called a Cockchafer and it's part of the scarab family 🐞I ended up having another one stuck in my hair after finding this lil guy, he was covered in cobwebs so gave him a Lil clean and untangled his legs. I have never seen one before! #cockchafer #maybeetle #beetle #insects

[beanbowl]

Beetle baby may beetle is done #polymerclay #sculpey #beetles #bugs #maybeetle #junebug #scarabbeetle #multimedia #sculpture #cute #wallart #artist

[dame-nostalgique]

Wild Rose and a Maybeetle 🌹

My picture & an illustration from 1918. It warms my heart to see that nature endures and still makes us excited over the same little details 🦋