#winter ant

[futurebird]

It's spring time in New York City!

It's spring time in New York City! Yesterday it felt as if the whole city had come alive. Tulips and daffodils bloom, the moss on the old stone wall caught droplets of morning due. On my way to the bus stop in the South Bronx I encountered a DeKay's brown snake on the sidewalk near the park, the cute little snake was sunning itself after a long winter underground.

Gently, I picked her up (I had a look at the tail and I think it is a female) and moved her to a nice warm rock away from foot traffic. This is the first snake I've ever seen in NYC and it's my favorite species!

I’ve wanted to have a Dekay’s brown snake a a pet forever— I think a terrarium with Storeria dekayi and carpenter ants would be amazing— but if she now lives in the park I can go see her there.  Even better. She eat snails, slugs and worms and lord knows we have those over by that wall. I suspect there is one of NYC’s many secret buried streams and brooks under the wall in the park. It’s so moist all of the time.   Some of the local teens on their way to school and stopped to admire the snake. They were a little scared at first "oh no she's got a snake!" but I was able to tell them a little about the snake and how they are harmless and a sign that our little local park is doing well ecologically. 

Later this same day I was walking down Park Ave. down on the upper east when out of the corner of my eye I spied an ant queen. I can always tell ant queens by the way they walk... or rather waddle. Looks like Prenolepis imparis, or the American winter ant. She was hustling along the side walk as if on her way to the Chanel store. Now she’s in one of my luxury ant condos— (but don’t tell her I’ve moved her out to the Bronx.)     

I fed her a drop of sugar water which she accepted, now she is in my ant drawer snug in her test tube. I will post updates about this queen, and if she makes it. Over on Mastodon I asked for help naming her and we decided to call her "Ethel." I've never kept this species before, so I'm reading about their needs.

Ethel is cute & round, settling in to her "Luxery ant condo" (It's a test tube.) She enjoyed a little sugar water, now she's in the darkness of the ant drawer. She looks very well-fed, so I think there is a good chance she will lay lots of eggs.

In four or five days I'll check on her again. Sometimes new queens just die. So, many don't like to name a queen until she has her first workers. But I'm cheering for this little urban ant.

[adragonsoulart-blog]

I was inspired by @tropicalsteppe 's Isopod puppy drawing drew a couple of my favorite arthropods all cute and with some artistic liberty with the anatomy :3 more info below

This First one is a queen winter ant! P. imparis! One of my favorite ants <3 I was waiting to upload this until I got around to doing one that was the worker of this species but I just don't have the time any time soon… The second one is a millipede, heavily based on N. americanus

[adragonsoulants]

(queued may 10th 24)

Lastly, the p. imparis bunch

All in all, they're doing well. Both of the 1 year old colonies have another batch of brood and quite a bit for cropulents and repleats!

The new catches both are doing well. No dead queens so far and both have brood piles.

[zoology-time]

American Winter Ant, (wingless nuptial female), Prenolepis imparis

[incorrectquotesmcu]

Kate: What did you get Yelena for her birthday?

Y/N: I got her a dog.

Kate: Really? Me too!

Sam: I also got her a dog!

Bucky: Looks like we had the same idea.

Y/N: Scott, please tell me you didn’t get Yelena a dog as well.

Scott: I got her a dog!

[cuts to Yelena surrounded by dogs]

Yelena: THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!

[avengerscompound]

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson My favorite looks in each show

[koffeebiscuits]

Team Cap 🧢🐱

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[florida3exclamationpoints]

Marvel + text posts

[sincerethoughtsblog]

she's everything he's just ken.

[anoant]

Assorted davekat shitposts/sketches from twitter

[marvelilovebucky]

A normal sleepover in the Avengers Tower🫶🏼

📌Credit to the artist (found it on Pinterest)

[crystal-bytes]

MARVEL CHARACTER EVOLUTION

MARGARET "PEGGY" CARTER

[literaryavenger]

Unleash your inner Avenger Masterlist

- On-going series -

Summary: This is how I see the MCU going if Reader was in it.

Warnings: MCU spoilers. Language. Mentions of death, fighting and use of firearms. My poor attempts at being funny. Each chapter will have its own warnings.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Part 2 | Part 3

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Ant-man

Captain America: Civil War | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Black Panther

[adragonsoulants]

Gave the P. Imparis a fresh roach and they dug right in despite being in a fridge! They don't call them winter ants for nothing. Gonna try gut loading the roaches and feeding them again in a week. One of them definitely could use more food in their stores.

[zoology-time]

American Winter Ant, (winged nuptial male), Prenolepis imparis

[incorrectquotesmcu]

Sam: The hospital said I’m fine.

Scott: No, you suffered a traumatic experience.

Sam: I barely remember it. I remember crashing into the wall and the ambulance ride to the hospital.

Bucky: That wasn’t an ambulance, I drove you.

Sam: Then what was that siren?

Bucky: That was Scott screaming.