#scorpionfly

[thedawner]

Loose portrait of my scorpionfly char.

[hellsitegenetics]

Hi, hello, sorry to bother you! If you take requests and they are currently open, could you maybe identify any DNA strings in the song The Summoning by Sleep Token? 🤓 The frontman is a massive nerd and active lurker, and I feel like he'd get a kick out of something like this. Please and thank you 🙏

String identified:

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Closest match: Panorpa germanica genome assembly, chromosome: 1 Common name: German Scorpionfly

[thesingingbullfrog]

Scorpionfly

[michaelnordeman]

Common scorpionfly/vanlig skorpionslända. Sätraskogen nature reserve in Stockholm, Sweden (June 22, 2013).

[apsciencebylyn]

Only had time for a relatively short wander with @thespongelady99 today, and wanted to introduce her to Snootfly. We found Snootfly (my first sighting of the year). 🖤

Panorpa lugubris, the mourning scorpionfly. Late fall/winter friends here in Florida. I missed them.

[miyrumiyru]

Precious lives on three leaves 💚

[gwiezdnafuri]

Never drawing a scorpionfly ever again this was hell

[fictionalbugreviews]

ok ok ok one more from me. this time from my bf who loves fallout 4. he submits the Stingwing:

(based off the real life scorpionfly)

Stingwing (Fallout Series)

Dude. The realism on this goes crazy. I looked up Scorpionflies just to refresh myself on what they look like, and— yeah, I believe it.

I wish I could give a bigger score than 5/5, TBH.

RATING: 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

[dougdimmadodo]

Fast Fauna Facts #24 - Snow Scorpionfly (Boreus hyemalis)

Family: Snow Scorpionfly Family (Boreidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

Most scorpionfly species are winged and (in males) possess long, flexible tails resembling scorpion stingers, but in this rarely-spotted terrestrial scorpionfly native to cold regions of northern and western Europe neither are present. In place of their wings Snow Scorpionflies have developed powerful hindlimbs that allow them to jump impressive distances (earning them the alternative name of "snow fleas" in parts of their range,) and as adults of this species are active only for a brief period in their range's late autumn/fall and early winter they use this ability to move across snow and hard frozen ground in search of food (mainly rotting plant matter, as the scarcity of other insects during the winter makes the carnivorous diet seen in most scorpionflies impractical.) Female Snow Scorpionflies (which can be distinguished from males by the spike-like ovipositors/egg laying "tubes" that extend from their abdomens) lay their eggs among dense moss, with their larvae feeding on moss until they're large and old enough to burrow underground and undergo metamorphosis.

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[toothedgoose]

Panorpa sp. (Mecoptera: Panorpidae)

Scorpionfly

Mosca escorpión

3 of June 2024 — Pennsylvania, USA

The man, the myth, the legend! I love scorpionflies sooooo much! I’d been trying to get a picture of one for a while, and I was finally successful, even getting a video!

Despite their name, they are neither flies nor scorpions. What looks like the ‘stinger’ of the scorpionfly (and what gives them their name) is actually the male’s aedeagus (male reproductive organ of insects), and so the females do not have one. They are mostly scavengers, and members of Panorpa are known for stealing prey from spiderwebs to eat it themselves.

[thedawner]

Scorpionflies are now some of my favorite bugs.

[internetdruid]

🐌 :)

Panorpa communis

[firebugseverywhere]

Panorpa communis, male

[artcorvid]

BUG OF THE DAY: SCORPION FLY

suggested by lovely @sugarcoatedcricket

What bug should i draw next? I already have some Oak treehoppers in mind.

This was a bit of a very quick drawing and i didn`t have time to really perfect it, but i just HAD to put some time aside to draw these cool insects.

The wings were a bit of an experiment because i wanted to capture the cool stripes some of these guys have. I kinda like how this turned out but i will have to touch it up a bit if i ever turn it into a sticker

[queer-biological-science]

I think I have figured out why transphobic men think other men will pose as trans women to harm others.

In scorpionflies mating, the male will give the prey they have caught to the female, and she will decide if she wants to mate with him or not. 

Some lazy male flies mimic females for another male to come with their offering, only to realise too late that it is not a female, and the mimicking male steels the prey of the other to go off and give it to a female himself.

This is why men are so scared, they think trans women will steal their prey. 

[miyrumiyru]

He know how to remove it from a seed!

This scorpionfly is fresh as wild cherry 🖤

(M) 참밑들이 (Panorpa coreana)