#type: bugs

[fialovart]

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[hellsitegenetics]

Hey are you willing to BLAST Kat Bolstad’s page on the AUT website? She’s the researcher who voiced over the colossal squid video and it’s making me so mad that people’s hatred of generative AI is so strong that they’re trying to crowd out an incredible cephalopod researcher who frankly speaks with a similar cadence to David Attenborough (those documentary skills!!!) especially during a time where we need to encourage women in STEM. This is the real damage generative AI is doing.

https://academics.aut.ac.nz/kathrin.bolstad

String identified: Acat at ta AT a a caat , gatg t t a ac ca cg ca (, ct a t at). t at AT, at t t ata ata t (ta ttt, agt, .C.) a t ga Aa t, A. a caat t t aa T aa Tgaa, t ata ttt at & Atc ac (A), t t a Aa ac ttt (A), c ttt caga, a t t Ataa . at' a ac c a t ca a , a -a . a a gat c a a ca , a c a a a -ta t. a a atcat cta a t t t Atactc.

Closest match: Arctia caja genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Garden Tiger Moth

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[pngblog]

[southoftheswamp]

Handmade bead embroidery spiders from South of the Swamp 🕷️

[daydreamodyssey]

*helps a bug outside so people don't kill it*

*flash forward and I'm convicted of a crime I didn't commit*

*no lawyer touches the case for me*

*everyone hears a buzz and turns around*

*the bug is wearing a tiny suit with a tiny suitcase and becomes my defense attorney*

[onenicebugperday]

Scolopendrid centipede (no common English name), Edentistoma octosulcatum, Scolopendridae

Found in Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by sparkn, 2 by vinceadam2017, 3-4 by dirkm, 5 by neymark, 6 by nickvolpe, and 7 by vojtablaze

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing are these cotton ball bugs!

[sea-spines]

isopod<3

|| prints! ||

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Fragility of Life, oil painting by Mariusz Lewandowski

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t' t tat at cat c a at t a. ' atc t t ct ta-a-- ctt tat a ' a at tg, a t t tg atc a t t ac tg t c a t t a g a a tat aagg t gt t a g t ' T??? T??????? a t a - t

Closest match: Callimorpha dominula genome assembly, chromosome: 17 Common name: Scarlet Tiger Moth

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it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever

[kiiingsnake]

you should post your millipede

HOW DID YUO FIND OUT ABOUT MY MILLIPEDE

anyways here it is

[cuckooclouds]

Was compelled to make this during a conversation about commonly disliked bugs

[pc-98s]

bee

[apple-leaf-skeletonizer]

My head is filled with a swarm of bees but I quite enjoy this.

This is what’s in my head instead of a brain, btw.