#< new tag for insects

[palossssssand]

After several weeks of painstaking work, my weevil costume is done!!! I made it for a parade where our uni’s entomology club participated in, which was a lot of fun! The colors are based on Eupholus magnificus.

The build is made put of cardboard and masking tape. I covered the top stripe, eyes, and underside of the head with mesh, so visibility and breathability is pretty fantastic. The antennae are adjustable too! The head is attached to the thorax with a velcro strip.

The extra arms are attached with fishing line and velcro to the top gloves. Definitely a challenge to figure out, one of the arms unfortunately snapped off during parading :(

Overall, I’m incredibly pleased with how the costume turned out, it’s been a while since having a cool project to work on!

#my art #weevil #beetle #entomology #curculionidae #costumes #costume design #ITS FINALLY DONE #crazy payoff on this thing #the only thing I regret is not lining the inside of the gloves with tape or paint. its just raw cardboard :( #anthro #bugs #insects #might make him an oc teehee. would be silly #don’t worry I was able to repair the arm good as new #can I technically tag this as fursuit !!??? yeah why not #fursuit #bug furry

[crabussy]

are you a moth enjoyer?

YES. very much so I love those freaky beasts

as a kiwi I'm biased but one of my favourites has to be the pūriri moth!! they're endemic to Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa, and they're gorgeous and the greenest things ever

the larvae live for roughly 6 years before metamorphosing, and spend most of their time burrowing in trees such as the pūriri tree. I got to see a mature pūriri tree when I visited the bird sanctuary island tiritiri matangi in december and it had so many pockmarks from pūriri moth grubs!! super cool to see [: love these beasts

#aotearoa #new zealand #moth #bug #insect #moths #ask tag #bug tw #insect tw

[daily-grian]

mosquito grian go eeeEeEeEEEee

Yeah sure why not, this is what we're doing now i guess

#mcyt #grian #hermitcraft #grian fanart #daily-grian #mod owl #ask #Anonymous #ask to tag #insects // #bugs // #mosquitos // #new game: how many animals can i turn into grian by slapping his hair/glasses/sweater onto them

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

"Those webs show up everywhere near the church. Its almost like they're growing from underneath the floorboards or from the walls themselves."

#tmc insecta apostate au #Yep. so silly #trypophobia #shmorps art #uh. w. what else do I tag #Anyway uh surprise! new au! ahahah! /VLH #uh. silly webs. “webs”. #huh? What about the moth and insect wings stuck in them? Don't worry about it.

[riboku]

ZAZIE THE BEAST // TRIGUN

You really don't know anything, do you? ...Interesting. This could be amusing. I'll tell you the unknown history of this planet...And of the things that have taken place here.

#trigun #zazie the beast #trigunedit #zazie #edits #gfx #insect cw #body horror #while i'm happy stampede gave us new zazie content #the lack of manga zazie content in the tag now is depressing lmao

[wizardryig]

saw this big ol water bug tonight

he was holding onto this piece of paper for dear life

#ive never actually seen one before :0 #bugs #insect #insects #bug #bug photography #bugblr #entomology #wizphotography #<- going to be my new photography tag in the future

[pythonessess]

hi!! i'm

🌻 penelope/misty/ness

💐 20

🌺 she/fae plz!

🌨 (my goofy abt tag is #nesscore also)

byf/dni: no proshippers, rpf enjoyers + the usual criteria (i.e. no terfs, zionists, etc.)

side blogs + others:

🌿 @pinkcanvas (aes/art insp blog)

🌊 @mistycreature (inactive stim blog)

🦢 twt: same name, bluesky: pythoness

^^ pictures of me

#new pinned post :} #just ask if you want me to tag anything ! #the things i currently tag are #flashing cw; eyestrain cw; gore cw; blood cw; guns cw #<- these only apply to this blog too not my sideblogs #i try not to post anything else that needs tagging but just hmu if theres an issue #oh and i also tag insects/bugs as 'bugs' + food as 'food' - those are the only tags that dont have a cw in them

[describe-things]

[ID: A close up photo of a green cucumber spider, with a green-brown head-body, and a lighter green round abdomen and legs with thin black spines. It is perched on something dark, with text below it in dialogue that reads, "I'm sorry for scaring you but I didn't know being seen would cost me my life". End ID.]

#The OP of the other post deleted it so can't edit it into the origianl #so here's a new version accessible from the start #bugs #insects #spiders #arachnids #spider photos #arachnid photos #ask to tag #poetry

[warningsine]

A Queen Mary University experiment saw bumblebees learn to solve problems and pass their knowledge onto others.

It is the first time scientists have seen this behaviour in insects.

Researchers say this reveals evidence of a kind of bee "culture".

The experiment saw a sugar water reward placed in a box. Bees needed to solve a two-step puzzle to get to it.

"This is an extremely difficult task for bees," said Dr Alice Bridges, who worked on the research.

First, bees had to push a blue lever that was blocking a red lever. Then they could push the red lever to get to the sugar water.

A puzzle like this is too complex for a bee to solve on its own. So scientists trained some bees by offering separate rewards for the first and second steps.

These trained bees were then paired with bees who had never seen the puzzle, and the reward for the first step was removed.

Some of the untrained bees were able to learn both steps of the puzzle by watching the trained bees, without ever receiving a reward for the first step.

The behaviour the bees taught each other was more complicated than something they could have come up with themselves.

Researchers say this could be evidence of a kind of "cumulative culture" in the animal kingdom - the idea of gradually accumulating knowledge and skills over generations.

"Imagine that you dropped some children on a deserted island," said Professor Lars Chittka, who also worked on the research.

"They might, with a bit of luck, survive. But they would never know how to read or to write. Because this requires learning from previous generations.

"This kind of cumulative acquisition of knowledge was thought to be unique to the human species.

"This challenges the traditional view that only humans can socially learn complex behaviour," he said.

The study was published in the Nature journal. Another recent study, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, saw chimpanzees learn to solve a three-step puzzle through social learning.

#bees #bumblebees #insects #news tag

[vinilsoup]

Found this dead wasp at my neighbors house. It's called sunflower wasp, an agressive paper wasp species. Her cats probably killed it, it had it's stinger out. It's going to my bug collection, a perfect specimen

#bugs #insects #wasps #entymology #to my new followers: i love insects and post specimens time to time but it's always tagged as bug and insects

[androideql]

do u have an opinion on . yakumond re: bugs my mind is in factions, warring . edmond brave, yakumo baby. BUT yakumo farm boy. edmond city kid. yakumo destroying farm pests with his bare hands? out of habit? it's on SIGHT?? but nothing scares vice captain, right? so what if yakumond just turns my trope upside down and NEITHER of them are scared of bugs. what then. what do i do

I spent a while thinking how to reply to this ask. And. OK. Bear with me.

I honestly don't see either of them being afraid of bugs. I can see them not liking them, with Edmond being a more indiscriminate "bugs have no place in this house and should be squashed" compared to Yakumo's "will remorselessly kill pests but not harmless insects."

That being said... I kinda like the idea of Edmond having a very specific weakness to just one (1) bug and being utterly fucking embarrassed about it, and Yakumo (being the anxious baby he is) somewhat mirroring Edmond's response to it despite usually remaining very calm. They can be a disaster together. They've got that potential.

In fact, I liked the idea enough that I have this deleted short scene from a fic that I'm working on and that I will be releasing it into the wild now. Mind you, it's a draft so it's way more functional that it is polished.

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“Sir Edmond, why don’t you go to sleep right away? It's already very late.”

Edmond looked up from the blank paper. At the lack of a desk, a small wooden crate he'd found here in the hayloft would work just fine. Until he saw that he'd finished writing the letter, he was not going to be able to calm his nerves enough to sleep. It didn't matter that it could be done the next morning. Why leave it for later if it could be done now?

“I’ll be finished in a few more paragraphs, don't worry,” he said, dipping the pen in the inkwell. "You shouldn't stay up longer than necessary, either. Is something holding you up?"

"Ah, well..." Yakumo looked at the lamp on the crate. It would be rather difficult to sleep with it still on, and he couldn't ask it be turned off if Edmond was still writing. "It's fine. I can wait a little longer. I'll make sure the tent is properly set up."

"Haven't you already done that twice?"

There wasn't much else left to do here. Maybe he could go outside or look around the barn for things that might be useful next morning? His eyes tried to look around. It would be rather difficult to do this in the dark... Besides, he didn't want to do anything that would be too distracting. Edmond was very particular about this letter.

As Yakumo looked around from where he was sitting, he could see something scuttling up one of the sides of the crate. He frowned at the presence of the insect. People commonly referred to those as "claw traps." They had a crab claw-like pincer and a nasty habit of biting people in their sleep and hiding in boots. What if there were more around? Thankfully, he'd had the foresight to bring some repellant.

Yakumo crawled closer to the tent, where he'd left his belongings. He rummaged around his bag for the repellent and something to kill the insect with. However, Edmond was so absorbed in writing his letter that he hadn't noticed yet. It was probably better to warn him before he got bitten.

"Sir Edmond, there's a claw trap going up your desk."

At the mention of the bug Edmond haphazardly grabbed all his things and scrambled backward in panic, spilling black ink on the wooden floor, splashing some of it on his shirt.

Yakumo's heart made a jump. He dropped his bag and reacted without thinking.

Squish, crack. He immediately squashed the bug with his bare hand.

For a moment, there was silence. He stared at his hand, at Edmond, who looked way too tense over a single bug. When Yakumo realized what he had done, a shudder ran up his spine. He lifted his hand. It was wet and crunchy, and he probably just stuck the claw into his palm because it hurt. He looked at it. Yes. There it was. Like a massive splinter.

He was more worried about how Edmond hadn't taken a single breath ever since he'd killed this thing, though.

"S-Sir Edmond, is everything alright?" He asked as he shook the remains of the claw trap off his hand.

Snapping out of his panicked state, Edmond nervously cleared his throat, his cheeks burning red. He looked aside and took a deep breath with an angry expression on his face.

"Y-Yes... I... Oh, how embarrassing... I need a moment."

With a nod of acknowledgment, Yakumo rushed to wash his hands in the basin, just the get the gooey and feeling off his palm. Now he was going to have to go back into the house to change the water. He was not about to wash his face with cold insect soup when he woke up in the morning.

The act of cleaning and removing the pincer from his palm helped him calm down and think about what just happened. He turned around to look at Edmond, who examined the stained sleeve of his shirt with an air of inconvenienced embarrassment. That ink stain was not coming out, and he probably knew that.

"Umm... Do you have something in particular against these insects? I've never seen you react like that to any others before..."

For sure, they'd been toiling in the fields for most of the day, and this wasn't the first time they'd dealt with a bug problem before. Usually speaking, Edmond didn't hesitate. He looked at the offending creature with disgust and slammed the first hard thing he could find against them, making it abundantly clear that, while he didn't like them, he could handle them perfectly fine on his own. While claw traps were unpleasant, this seemed a bit excessive.

Looking tired all of a sudden, Edmond took a long breath and let out a deep sigh.

"I don't like those."

"Ah... Well, yes? It's... not hard to see that at all..." He waited for Edmond to continue, and he was about to nervously change the topic and run away to change the water when Edmond cleared his throat.

"We saw a lot of them back when I was still in training. There was one summer when they were everywhere, wherever we set camp. They barely let us sleep. I've had an... aversion to them ever since. But I can handle them on my own next time. I just need a second or two to calm down."

The last part was a quick attempt to save face, but Yakumo wouldn't have minded it at all if he had to get rid of one of these pests again. He merely hoped Edmond's panic was a little less contagious next time.

Hoping to help Edmond retain some of his dignity for now, Yakumo tried to make the atmosphere a little less stilted by subtly shifting the subject away from how Edmond felt about these insects.

"You must have stayed within the Light Territory that summer then?"

Edmond gave Yakumo a surprised look.

"How do you know that?"

"Claw traps can only really survive there. The Water and Wood territories are too humid for them."

Hold on... Yakumo's brow furrowed deeply once he realized what he'd just said.

"How did it get here, then?" Edmond asked. And he was right. They were right in the middle of the Water territory, weren't they? But Yakumo didn't really have an explanation.

"M-Maybe they're mutating...?"

"No."

Edmond snapped at the suggestion. Yakumo reflexively lowered his head in response.

"Um..."

"Don't make me even entertain that idea." He stood up, slightly agitated. "I'm going the search the hayloft in case there are more. I won't be able to sleep otherwise."

"W-We have repellent myrrh. We can burn some inside the tent. It doesn't smell bad or anything..."

His voice was barely a whisper, but the night was already silent in the village and the fields. Edmond had no problem picking up what he was saying, or the tone in which it was said.

"... I apologize. My tone was too harsh."

Yakumo had never heard Edmond talk to him like that before. There was no doubt that these bugs were a touchy subject. He chuckled nervously.

"It's... fine. Don't worry. I understand."

With his cheeks turning red once again, Edmond let out some unintelligible noise that maybe, in some corner of his mind, had been words at some point. Eventually, he gave up, huffing in frustration.

"Tha-Thank you for handling it..."

"Oh. I... could do it again if we find another one."

Not enthused by the idea of seeing more of them, but still looking somewhat relieved, Edmond's voice and face softened just a little.

"I seriously wish we didn't... But I'd be quite grateful if you could."

#the reason why i waited to answer this was to make sure I was not going to use the scene at all #turns out that yeah i don't need it #should i put this in the main tag? #new fic coming to you... #... eventually #just bug squashing for now #i couldn't think of a good name for the insect also but it's not like i have to anymore #ok so here's my thinking process: #i've known enough people in the military to make me think that Edmond probably had to put up with some shit as a new recruit or trainee #and that he probably has things that he really really doesn't like as a result #the klein kingdom probably has a bunch of natural nuisances depending on the season #but a trainee probably wouldn't be sent out in the middle of winter right away cause they don't have those survival skills yet #so if those first excursions happen in spring or summer... then bugs are a problem #and Edmond IS a noble anyway. he was probably not expecting that many bugs much less for them to be bite-y #and as for yakumo i just dont see him minding bugs as long as they don't sting #he basically grew up in a cave first and then in a farm; he's super used to them #some kid probably tried to put a spider in his shoe once to try to scare him and got a very underwhelming response for his efforts #i do think he gets nervous when he sees something venomous especially if it moves too quickly #and he probably gets easily startled by jumping spiders if he hasn't noticed them before they jump in front of him #but that's more him being a nervous mess in general and less about bugs #ok enough rambling #i can't do concise answers for shit im sorry

[sword-dad-fukuzawa]

i love imagining zazie trying to flirt, like *shyly gives you brainworms the way a human would give you their phone number*

KNFDSKFNDKSFDD LITERALLY!! they hand vash a bunch of bug larvae and go :) look :) they glow in the dark :) you said you didn't like the dark, right? :)))) and vash is like. staring at the handful of goopy bugs now soaking his gloves like. thanks babe :,)

#zazievash #swarmpede posting #<- new zazievash tag maybe #vash the stampede #zazie the beast #the best part is vash would absolutely take care of the bugs too. like so sweetly. even if he's a little confused #anyway lemme know if y'all want me to trigger warn for insects

[voloswag]

ppl all like ‘giratina is clearly based off the serpent in the garden of e.den because obviously s.atan is the only mythological evil serpentine creature EVER’ and like, sure, think that all you want if you want to be boring and stick to a single mostly western viewpoint but maybe instead consider: the Ōmukade, a mythical monstrous version of the real mukade (Scolopendra Subspinipes, typically). it’s big and violent and has a habit of personally antagonizing dragons. (of which type palkia and dialga are, for example! (: makes the twist at the end of PL:A make even more sense, imo. what better way to drive those ancient divine dragons into a frenzy than team up with a giant angry centipede to torment them?)

my understanding from what admittedly very brief research I’ve done, Ōmukade and mukade themselves represent impurity, decay, death, etc etc. very much the same way giratina is meant to be the opposite of the ‘pure’ arceus, who’s associated with creation and life.

even the colors are very similar!!!! it has a black body, gold legs, and red head. all those colors are there in Giratina’s design. the gold crescents on giratina even resemble the centipede’s legs! giratina’s stripes could resemble the centipede’s segmented body as well, if you squint. as for shiny giratina’s coloring... I’m not entirely certain what that’s all about, but it does kind of remind me of Scolopendra Morsitans? If only for the bright yellow and teal coloration they can have.

under the cut are photos of the real buggies in question so if you are the slightest bit squeamish of crawlies please do not click through

Scolopendra Subspinipes:

Scolopendra Morsitans:

#giratina #giratina hcs #pla spoilers #bug cw #bugs cw #centipede cw #clusters cw #insect cw #ask to tag idk if im missing anything #please appreciate this i made myself very nauseous looking for pics #i love buggies but sometimes. sometimes i just cant look. but i MUST... for SCIENCE #none of this information is really very new but even bulbapedia BARELY touches on the omukade as a potential origin #and i think that's very silly of them!

[r0achezz]

What a freak

#oc #oc art #moth #moths #anthro moth #anthro oc #anthro art #he angy #moth oc #insect oc #I also have a cotton candy roach one #half of them are bugs #the other have are ethereal creatures who are still unknown to the universe #roach doodles #i need a new art tag

[desperatepleasures]

call me kushala daora the way I'm a living disaster

#mhw tag #anyway just got my ass whooped by a kirin but what else is new #insect glaive really doesnt work against them. even with a totally non-ariel strategy it's tough #i made it to the final stage of battle tho and i feel like i learned things! #but damn like you get caught in the lightning and it's all over! #still tho i think my mostly kinsect-based strategy was solid

[cinimuffin]

Butterflies, butterflies, and more butterflies (and also moths). Mini gridded pride moth/butterfly pixel art part 19. If you use them for anything please give design credit (and also @ me because I would like to see). Intended for personal use only.

#pomosexual #aroflux #aceflux #moth #butterfly #insects #bugs #cross stitch #pixel art #i gotta make or find a bday gift for someone #then i'll get back to making the big bugs of all these new guys #probably #pride #lgbtq+ #i think i got all my tags in there who knows