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Dino squad remake/ au ideas
What dinosaur (preferably from the cretaceaus period I think it was) do you think Liam from Dino squad would be if he somehow ended up with the same DNA mishap as the others?
I think oviraptor for narrative purposes (think modern remake with accurate dinos) as oviraptors were mistaken to be egg thieves, when they were merely minding their own business, nesting and brooding
I think it'd be cool if In an episode , the group occasionally made jokes about the egg eating, and Liam got irritated over time because the jokes were inaccurate, and they weren't listening to him about this. In the episode, he could have some character growth where he learns to communicate better because the others are willing to work with him, and he establishes boundaries. I think it'd be nice.
the mutated animal(s) of the episode (in my remake au thingy, the animals revert back to their cretateous evolutionary ancestor) would be escaped from a zoo, and they'd use liams knowledge on certain animals to help them (in my mind, he has a hyperfixation on insects in general, but a special interest in weevils. Weevils need love too.)
liam and buzz begin to get along better due to their shared interest in insects
In my mind, my version of Liam has a phobia of being alone and/ or useless to his friends. He feels like he needs to be useful, or he panics and stresses internally. He also helps bees and his back garden is a haeven for insects (unless they're invasive or otherwise harmful)
For some reason, I'm irrationally irritated at the letter p being in orange when surrounded by parentheses ()
How can they be cringe when cute & tasty‽
i love how whenever something gets popular the underground tormented avant garde bloggers start becoming self conscious of liking it/finding it funny, and it eventually evolves into aggression towards it. doesnt matter what it is. unrelated but i saw someone call isopods cringe today
bugs need their own Tumblr i think
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This humans house smells like flowers!! 🌸🌼🌷 yum!
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Update: there are no flowers 😭 I feel so robbed
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Update: they put me in a plastic cup ☹️
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HELP NEEDED
my wife is mad at me :(
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Damn that's crazy. Have you tried talking to her.
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Dude youre a black widow spider I dont think you're qualified to give love advice
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Actually black widow females only eat the males in extremely stressful situations such as being kept in captivity, my wife and I live in a beautiful meadow and we're fine
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Then why is your blog full of vore
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Can't a man have a fetish
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Milking my beloved aphids! 💖💓💖💓💖💓
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dont you FUCKIGN dare
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*sees a mantis crawling overhead* Tsk... such a fool... *into the intercom* attack, mine simps
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Knowing OP is an ant mimic spider makes this a thousant times funnier
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why do you know so much about ants
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I tricked ants into raising me
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Isnt that a little exploitative?
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Ants love being exploited dont listen to the haters
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Youre a termite of course youd say that
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That's so fucking racist???
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lmao .You are both racist 🙄
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IS THAT A LARVA??? ON BUGBLR???
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Relax it's my little brother. who's currently tricking ants into raising him
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What have you MANIACS done to my post
I could be wrong but that might be a Bumelia Borer (Plinthocoelium suaveolens)!
Does anyone know the name of this bug?
Dad took this photo btw.
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, & Colombia.
Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus vindex), male, family Scarabaeidae, Pennsylvania, USA
a species of "true dung beetle".
photograph by Michael Reed
Spiky Leaf Beetle, Hispellinus sp., family Chrysomelidae, Keelung, Taiwan
photograph by Adeline Goh
Hummingbird moth time of year!
Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis)
July 11, 2023
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania
Moth Of The Day #112
Clouded Silver
Lomographa temerata
From the geometridae family. They have a wingspan of 22-30 mm. They tend to inhabit gardens, hedgerows, fens and woodland. They can be found in most of Europe.
“I could never be an entomologist. bugs creep me out” sucks to suck because I’m a real-life pokemon trainer. like look at these and tell me they’re not pokemon
like are you serious. have fun doing whatever you’re doing ill be at the arthropod zoo… also known as the motherfucking pokemon center
This was one of the tiniest dragonflies I have ever seen, and they were all over in the Masai Mara.
The closest species I have found is the Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens), but that doesn't seem quite right. The dragonflies I saw were darker and more metallic in tone, with gold-ish patches at the base of their wings. But I was still glad to learn about Wandering Gliders, because they are found all over the world and seem to migrate incredible distances, even crossing the Himalayas. Isn't that amazing? You can read about them here.
the paralyzed cicadas I picked up from a failed cicada killer nest are the perfect material to show off some cool features of insect anatomy! (although the wasp’s venom would keep them alive for her larvae to eat, I froze them to make sure they’re fully dead for dissection).
cicadas are powerful, fast fliers, and all of their thorax is taken up by a bulk of reddish, stringy flight muscles, which I’ll talk more about later. this cicada is a female, so her abdomen is full of white, elongated eggs that she will insert into tree bark with the bladed ovipositor at her rear.
the male cicada’s abdomen, however, is almost entirely empty, and that air-filled space is used as a resonator for his loud calls. the biggest structure visible there is a curved pair of muscles that deforms the tymbals, producing a click with every contraction.
here's a view of the complete muscle, and the tymbals themselves which look like overlapping plates on his belly. if you're curious what the white frosted appearance is, some Neotibicen have a coat of waxy powder or pruinescence; this male N. tibicen is particularly pruinose.
onto the flight muscles:
powered flight is a pretty complex mechanism in any organism, and is never so simple as just flapping wings up and down, but most insects power their flight in a really unintuitive way (at least for us vertebrates): they contract muscles in their thorax that aren’t even attached to the wings!
this method of flight is called indirect flight, in contrast to the direct flight of the dragonflies and mayflies where each of four wings is directly attached to a muscle and can flap on its own.
instead, most insects have a longitudinal (image 1 above, d below) pair and a vertical (2, c) pair of muscles that deform the shape of abdomen, pulling the upper segment of the thorax (notum) up and down, and this moves the wings which are attached to the notum. useful indirect flight gif from wikipedia found here
even if compressed manually, the dead cicadas "flap" their wings due to the motion of the notum:
insect flight is a lot more complicated than this simplified look at them, but I think these cicadas offer a pretty good look at how most insects get around essentially by squishing themselves internally!
I'd love to hear more about what makes the wings of the stylops so unique! Wings are always fascinating to me
Almost all insects with wings normally have four of them, except that in beetles, the front wings became the shields we call Elytra:
And in the true flies (diptera), the HIND wings became little vibrating knobs we call halteres, which are organic gyroscopes for collecting information about air pressure, direction and elevation, easiest to see on larger flies like this crane fly:
So, the male Strepsiptera is actually the only insect other than flies to have evolved halteres, but the Strepsiptera's halteres are evolved from the FRONT wings:
Their hind wings are odd enough too; simple "fans" unlike the intricately veined wings of other insects, but still not as unusual as forewing halteres. It's thought to be convergent evolution, and that they may have once been elytra like the beetles have. A connection to beetles is also suggested by the fact that a few beetle groups have larvae very similar to those of the strepsipterans, which look like this:
Lovably nasty larvae! They jump, and they're all spiny, and they actually use an acid secretion to melt their way into their first host.
There's one other insect group that incidentally evolved elytra shields, earwigs!
But earwigs can't be ancestral to either beetles or strepsiptera, because earwigs don't go through a larval stage, which the big evolutionary divide for insects; all the insects with larvae are thought to have just one common ancestor, splitting off from the other insects fairly early.
The Common Green Lacewing: these tiny insects pupate within loosely-woven cocoons that measure just 3-6mm (about 1/8 to 1/4 inch) in diameter
The lacewing will spend about 5 days maturing within its cacoon, before it cuts an opening in the top and emerges as a fully-developed adult.
The larvae of the green lacewing (family Chrysopidae) are also known as "aphid lions," due to their skill/appetite when it comes to hunting aphids. They're widely used in agricultural contexts to help eradicate pests, because they are voracious predators that also commonly prey upon caterpillars, leafhoppers, planthoppers, thrips, spiders, mites, and insect eggs.
As it nears the end of its larval stage, a lacewing will spin a small cacoon out of silk and then tuck itself inside, allowing the pupal phase to begin; its tiny green body is often partially visible through the thin, loosely-woven walls of the cacoon.
These breathtaking photos of a lacewing climbing out of its cacoon were taken by a Danish photographer named Frederik Leck Fischer.
When a lacewing first emerges from a cacoon, its wings are still compactly folded down against its body; the wings then gradually begin to expand until they have reached their full size, which usually takes about an hour or two.
Fischer's photographs provide an excellent account of this entire process.
Here are just a few other images of the common green lacewing:
Sources & More Info
University of California's Integrated Pest Management Program: The Green Lacewing
Texas A&M's Field Guide to the Insects of Texas: Green Lacewings
Washington State University: Lacewings
Tennessee State University: Fact Sheet on the Green Lacewing (PDF download)
Pacific Pests & Pathogens: Green Lacewings/Biocontrol
Image ID: a close-up picture of a spider. It’s looking up at the person taking the photo with its head tilted. It’s mostly mottled brown with two iridescent green patches on the front of its head. It has 4 round eyes, with the center pair being larger than the outer two. You can kind of see a silhouette of a person in the reflection of its eyes. It has little tufts of hair all of its body, with two larger tufts on either side of its head. Frankly, it’s adorable. /End ID
Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)
March 27, 2023
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Get this wack ass moth off my window and in my house. I’m naming it Two.
Yes, I know the window is dirty, shut up. I live in the south give me a break.
[Start ID. A close-up photo of one titular Provence Hairstreak perched on a rock. It is a butterfly only a couple centimeters long, with one of its big black eyes visible and lined in white, thin clubbed antennae striped black-and-white, and large, generally brown wings, with black spots amid a patch of orange on the forewing. Its most notable feature, though, is the ludicrously fluffy appearance of its front half: long setae the color of verdigris almost completely take over its head, thorax and abdomen, and the green hairs extend to its femurs and half of the hindwings. The white speckles dotting the green wings contribute to an overall fairy-like appearance. End ID.]
Provence Hairstreak (Tomares ballus), family Lycaenidae, found in northern Africa and SW Europe
photograph by @yaylalperen
I saw somebody be wrong on the internet and I didn’t respond (don’t want to get involved) and I’m being SO brave about it
