#rabbit botfly

[cuddledot]

Thank you for folks that came to see the premiere! If you haven't yet, the video link is still up as always!

But yeah been planning to release these guys eventually, it was my first attempt on making rock. You guys are gonna see alot of fictional bands here for the sake of Planet Dirth/Mewniverse. Thanks, Splatoon and OK KO for worldbuilding ideas and cartoony zanniness

Anywho, meet 4BITZ! A rising star indie band with a knack of rock and chiptune beats, that's becoming a popular listen for teens and young adults.

More info about then will come, teehee!

[the-vengeful-homunculus]

rabbit botfly <3

[sweetmeaty]

More recent bits

[st4rstudent]

Bug Mac

squash it

[apsciencebylyn]

Day 21 of my 2024 favorites: a stunning (and very large) Tunneling Teddy Bear, rabbit botfly (Cuterebra buccata)

Lots of flies have a bit of a macabre life cycle and botflies certainly fall in that category, but this is a truly magnificent creature all the same. 🖤

[aegann]

rabbit botfly girl from today's art stream!

Cuterebra buccata

[bogleech]

I’ve never seen studies of it but I wonder just how much bot flies benefit local predators. Lots of parasites drive predator/prey relationships.  For instance, I cite this all the time but parasitic worms cause fish to swim so much slower and nearer to the surface that they account for a SIGNIFICANT portion of the diet of almost all seabirds, as in without those worms the birds would definitely plummet in population. Those are parasites that WANT to get eaten, because the bird is their next host, and bot flies don’t do anything like that, but as a bot gets ready to emerge it starts to cause some discomfort and little jolts of pain. In small animals like rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks this causes visibly unusual behavior where they jump around, roll around and even “cartwheel” in the open and are so distracted you can sometimes just walk up and catch them, which is how a lot of rodents with bots end up taken to the humane society by people who have no idea what’s happening. That has to account for a TON of small animals caught by birds of prey, and since the larvae are in the process of emerging already, a fair number of them probably escape getting eaten with their host. I wonder if that’s all just incidental or if there’s a benefit to it. Other organisms benefit a lot when birds can carry and disperse them, but bot flies already mature into something that can fly. Whether or not it benefits the parasite it has to be pretty important for hawks and owls and things.

Rabbit botflies are so cute too!

[spindle-and-nima]

Parasite anon, feel like I may have been misinterpreted a bit.

I do care about wildlife, I'm not arguing that cottontails are worthy sacrifices to outdoor cats or anything. My question is in the context of wildlife rehab almost always being framed as a conservation effort. If cottontail populations are stable, then what is saving individuals doing for conservation?

It's also in that conservation context that I'm bringing up parasites and decomposers. I wasn't referring to ticks, ticks have an obvious practical reason to be removed (disease vectors), I was actually mostly thinking of botflies and similar internal parasites.

I'm not even arguing that parasites are worth more than rabbits or that everything is a practical matter of what does the objectively most good. I would personally remove the maggots you mentioned as an example if I were in your place, but that's a matter of empathy (rabbits suffering makes me feel more bad then killing maggots), not conservation.

I guess another way to phrase my question is “is saving individual animals with stable populations like cottontails a matter of conservation, or is it a matter of preventing suffering?”. 

I think both are valid, to be clear, but when I look up “what is the purpose of wildlife rehab” and half of them are talking about saving endangered birds and the other half are talking about saving raccoons and squirrels and both are framed as equally important matters of conservation I can’t help but feel a little confused.

Look think of wildlife rehabilitation something under the umbrella term of wildlife conservation

Conservation means basically trying to save something. Wildlife conservation is trying to save endangered species from extinction and existing species from becoming endangered.

Rehabilitation is the practice of providing medical care, temporary housing, and specialized care to injured, sick, orphaned, or displaced animals with the goal of releasing them back into their natural habitat. It's a process focused on restoring their health and skills to enable them to survive independently in the wild. 

Does that help? We want to protect existing ecology and prevent animals from vanishing off the face of the earth. Both terms apply

[kitttenteeth]

Hi nice ppl in my phone I hope every1 is okay &sweet ! Depressed vampy today;; if every1 could keep my brownbunnie in their thoughts It would mean a lot. She caught a botfly in her arm &i am optimistic she will b okay hopefully But it is. pretty terrible overall I feel so guilty &sad n helpless.I found an emergency clinic that takes rabbits so i’m gna take her there 2get it removed as soon as I can it’sd just hard since she Is a wild bunny …. Augh.i hope she will b okay & I hope i can afford howevr much botfly removal costs Lol

[bug-kid-benny]

folks im going 2 be square w/ you all this blog is going to be filled with like 500 metric tons of garbage penned daily by yours truly starting RIGHT NOW just a heads up as I am feeling particularly chipper towards the idea of using this webbed site as a brain dump of sorts . spitting tamarind seeds into the void yaknow see what sprouts ha HOWEVERRRR! I will be reblogging stuff & uploading my artz though hopefully ill get something going there. i should probably start tagging my junk posts as something Oh well ill think about it CHEERS

rabbit botfly 4 ur troubules. only saw one in person once but theyre one of my favorites.

[e-melanorhynchus]

Is it alright to request for the drawing of PM characters: Carmen, Ayin, and Benjamin? If it's too much, is it okay to request for Carmen please? She did end up surprising everyone with how she showed up recently.

I thank you in advance if you end up accepting this request. I hope you have a great day!

HELLO! so i decided to tackle this first because theres no clean way to say i have No idea how to draw her as a creature. because she already is a creature to me. so.

the giant red chest marking is inspired by a luzon bleeding-heart dove and the hair is similar to a rabbit botfly... In all reality its so hard to design a creature design for her because her whole existence hinges on her being human; its really, *really* hard to capture what she means for the narrative with my current design skills, at least. lol. I KNOW THAT SOUNDS REALLY SERIOUS when me designing creatures is very for fun and playing or whatever. but its just a giant roadblock for me.. so i hope you take this and enjoy it

[thelaithlyworm]

Now I've fallen into a thought rabbit hole about the biological and ecological implications for all of the DMBJ Snakes.

All of the larger snakes would've hopefully needed to eat every few years to grow and shedding their skin would be a pain. Are they eating enough people or have insanely slow metabolism to last for decades or even centuries between grave robbers breaking in. Also hope that they come out and sun occasionally and don't have low vitamin D levels.

Not even of thinking how the ecosystems and the organisms around the tombs would be screwed beyond belief if those snakes decided to leave the tomb for greener pastures. How would regular non grave robber people react to several completely new species of snakes?

Would a black market exotic pet trade around the tomb snakes silently sprout up? How would a zoo begin to house the snakes if they have a human-like intelligence and communicate across species? How would the new antivenin change the pharmaceutical industries since Black Hair Snake venom could be used as an immunosuppressant.

Would a few people would be into the whole parasitism thing (for science and research *cough cough*) and allow the more parasitic species to spawn in them like the scientists that let a botfly larva live in them? How would the normal cobras and pythons in the wild react to this new competition? Herpetologists and Taxonomists would have the headache of their lifetime and for future generations trying to classify them.

Meanwhile some poor person is suddenly the new fascination of an Albino Candle Dragon that gives them annoyingly real hallucinations and doesn't want to eat them every couple of days. Might have an idea to use them as a therapy animal.

Would a few people would be into the whole parasitism thing (for science and research *cough cough*)

Ah! On my list of I Can't Prove This About DMBJ Canon But I Totally Think It Happened... I think there was something like this happening around Gutongjing back when Fo-ye was working there.

One of the characteristics of snake mines is unusual longevity in the surrounding area. Gutongjing has a legend about some soldiers who drank water from a lake close by and got Super Stronk -- close enough.

We see what Wu Xie first calls a "bug plate" when he's investigating the Yinchuan mine, and while he's mistaken as to what bug was in there, he does mention that critters that nested in rock were sometimes used for medicinal purposes.

While investigating Gutongjing, Li Cu et al. find snake eggs packaged into Hazard containers for export in large quantities. The ability to decipher snake pheromones is rare, so I don't think it was for that.

The thirst for immortality, especially and specifically among people of power and wealth, is one of the big drivers of the setting. Whether we set Fo-ye's activities at Gutongjing in the 40s (drama) or 80s (novel), he would still have been in IT's pocket, doing his best with all the strings attached to him.

Conclusion:

Fo-ye got funding for Gutongjing because his backers thought the Black-Hair Snakes might improve their longevity.

[gh0stbreath]

botflies scare the shit out of me but rabbit botflies are so pretty <3

[the-apocalypse-is-cancelled]

Everyone, I have a mission from God. (It's to draw the cutest fly in the world (rabbit botfly) (cuterebra buccata) as a pet as big as a cat

[bogleech]

You're not a deer so don't worry! And deer almost all have them, but usually pretty much oblivious to it. Botflies don't cause serious damage as they don't actually eat tissue, they just attach or embed in order to feed on nutritious surrounding fluids.

How epic to throw your babies into the body of an incomprehensibly vaster monstrosity, too. This evolves just because that's the safest possible place from rival insects! Mostly wasps. Almost every insect has its own parasitic wasp, but good luck getting anybodys babies in the throat of a giant monster, wasps!!! Silly!

Like imagine if, just to avoid hawks, rabbits raised their babies in godzillas ass. That's the logic driving parasite parents.

Deer nose botfly, Cephenemyia stimulator, Oestridae

As the name suggests, the larvae of this species are obligate parasites of cervids (deer). Larvae hatch in the adult female fly’s uterus; she then flies near the host animal and flings them into or near the animal’s nostrils. The larvae migrate down to the base of the host’s throat where they attach, feed, and mature. Mature larvae are ejected out the nose or mouth and pupate in soil.

FYI - DO NOT google more images of this species unless you want to see very graphic, gory photos of the insides of dead deer noses with larvae attached.

Photo 1 by gillessanmartin, 2 by waldgeist, 3-4 by brothernorbert, 5-6 by adlerauge, 7-8 by jltasset, and 9-10 by daknuett

[aegann]

I really need money this month so I'm selling these two ladies (wasp scorpionfly and rabbit botfly, respectively) each for $40USD OBO.

DM me to claim!! Reblogs are appreciated!