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Creature party
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It's difficult to explain to people the difference between passively liking bugs vs being a Bug Person (autistic). Where you see a small rhinoceros beetle trundling across the path I see god
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Today I learned that I've apparently long been in a Florida Gardening Group on Facebook and also that nobody in it knows anything about nature. "I never heard this referred to as "native???" is the wildest response I think, literally wording it like they don't believe me that this organism is native to the one and only part of the world it has ever been known to exist in
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"intruder" what a word to use for an animal that was there first :0 Am I going to get banned from Florida Gardening Facebook
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here is a Scolopendra mutilans lapping up mango juice from a spoon
while giant centipedes are mostly predators that feed on insects and small vertebrates, they may occasionally enjoy a sweet fruit treat! several species have been seen eating fruit in the wild, and pet centipedes seem to enjoy it now and then.
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rehoused Cassie today! she’s been due for a substrate refresh and a better burrow for a while. I think she likes this new cork hollow—it’s super deep and she scooted* right in with a happy butt wiggle
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*shambled, rather. Cassandra isn’t a lady of speed unless pressured. she’s got 8 legs but averages about one step every 30 seconds.
photo from before the rehouse, excuse her “ew gross a human” pose
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Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis?, Lycidae
Photographed in Malaysia by nadjabaum
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orb weavers' sexual dimorphism is hilarious to me like.
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me and my big beautiful wife
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Crimson marsh glider, Trithemis aurora, Libellulidae
Photographed in Singapore by budak
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Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
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I just like the way that ants move. Here is one of my cone ants running over the sand of her new outworld.
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Groundselbush Beetle (Trirhabda bacharidis), larva, family Chrysomelidae, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
photograph by Efram Goldberg  
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giant red-headed centipede, handmade rug, 2023,
11" x 7"
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