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Church of Whale Fall

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Maybe it's because they don't look as unique as pond skaters, but I feel like everyone sleeps on whirligig beetles. You have a creature that spends its whole adult life zooming around on water and ganging up to devour any prey that falls in like a bunch of tiny, metallic motorboats mashed up with our cultural image of piranhas. Pond skaters are predatory too but I think a bunch of little whirling zipping killer boat-beetles are a very different aesthetic that's overdue for any kind of use in art and fiction.

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Hedorah

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Part 2

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**Edit** It's FINISHED! :) An Ichneumonid genus of each subfamily!

Idiogramma (Tryphoninae)

Diplazon (Diplazontinae)

Amblyjoppa (Ichneumoninae)

Campoplex (Campopleginae)

Therion (Anomaloninae)

Euceros (Eucerotinae)

Theronia (Pimplinae)

Metopius (Metopiinae)

Opheltes (Ctenopelmatinae)

Odontocolon (Xoridinae)

Coleocentrus (Acaenitinae)

Orthocentrus (Orthocentrinae)

Echthrus (Cryptinae)

Chriodes (Nesomesochorinae)

Melanodolius (Sisyrostolinae)

Oxytorus (Oxytorinae)

Banchus (Banchinae)

Hyperacmus (Cylloceriinae)

Megarhyssa (Rhyssinae)

Podoschistus (Poemeniinae)

Hybrizon (Hybrizontinae)

Arotrephes (Phygadeuontinae)

Lycorina (Lycorininae)

Lepidura (Mesochorinae)

Enicospilus (Ophioninae)

Probles (Tersilochinae)

Diacritus (Diacritinae)

Collyria (Collyriinae)

Labena (Labeninae)

Brachycyrtus (Brachycyrtinae)

Alomya (Alomyinae)

Tatogaster (Tatogastrinae)

Ateleute (Ateleutinae)

Microleptes (Microleptinae)

Pedunculus (Pedunculinae)

Clasis (Claseinae)

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THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!

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Fossil of dragonfly larva or I don’t know.

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Bart's Revenge

(rerun, I still have a cold)

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My Halloween costume this year ! I was a Xenomarge

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I’m literally always saying this

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~Season's Greason's~

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Nikodem J. Malec