#Stinging Insects

[littlepawz]

Spring is here and summer is fast approaching with lovely flowers and some scary 6-legged creatures to make your life more interesting. Here is a look  at the ‘yellow stripey things’ to know which ones to guard against. 

#flying insects #stinging insects #guide to wasps #stripey flies #attacking insects #beware of these #yellow stripey things #summer guide #understanding stingers #scary insects #picnic pests

[blatantescapism]

Exciting adventure tonight

Went out in the dark & the pouring rain to bag the nest of bald-faced hornets

Precautionary measures:

(Not pictured: work gloves tucked into jacket cuffs, jeans tucked into boots, with rubber bands to keep all the joins airtight)

The nest was larger than my 5-gallon bucket, in both length and girth, which led to an exciting moment where I had to abandon ship for a while until the rain beat them back down:

Came back with a big lawn leaf bag & got the whole mess into a carryable arrangement. Brought it to a spot under the pine grove far from everything important, loosed the bag, and ran like fuck.

I had to brush off the five or so who managed to cling onto me, but I escaped without being stung!

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[llamatheist]

Uhoh :( I wish they hadn't picked our backyard where we have multiple stupid (affectionate) animals who definitely will bother flying bugs.

#animals #insects #bugs #wasps #paper wasps #golden paper wasp #hymenoptera #stinging insects

[realkaijuhavecurves]

Listening to Sting of the Wild by entomologist Justin O. Schmidt right now. I'm at the chapter about Tarantula Hawks, the wasp with one of the most painful stings in the insect kingdom. Intrigued by his description of their vibrant metallic hues, I had to google them to see what they look like:

And I thought to myself, hmmm, this looks familiar...

Aha, I know where I've seen this before!

I had to confirm with the Fallout wiki that I wasn't misremembering, and sure enough, it was Tarantula Hawk (Latin name Pepsinae) DNA that Dr. Borous spliced to create Cazadores in Old World Blues.

And if the sting of a regular, normal sized Tarantula Hawk is unbearably painful to the point that nobody who gets stung can retain motor control, I dread to think what a Cazadore sting must feel like.

#insects #stinging insects #sting of the wild #fallout new vegas #old world blues #cazadores #tarantula hawk #pepsinae

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got stung by a bee and panicked so hard I woke myself up.

#dream #bee #bee sting #panic #insect

[doecrossing]

Geniunely I don't get the whole song and dance ppl do abt wasps being sooo mean and aggressive. A paper wasp landed on my book while I was reading outside the other day and we just chilled for a bit until she flew away. Maybe they sting you bc you're ugly or something idk.

#i think the actual reason is that ppl who are afraid of wasps fuck with them more #e.g. tearing down their nests or swatting at them #so ofc they get stung more often #the best way to not get stung by stinging insects is literally by giving them space and being chill when they get in yours #txt

[futurebird]

Dubious superpowers. Pick one.

A. Sleep like a cuckoo bee. Simply bite on to a branch or parapet of a building & get a solid seven hours in all weather & conditions.

B. Live on nectar. Feel fully energized & get excellent nutrition on a diet of nothing but sugared drinks.

C. Diapause your life. Slow down aging, & metabolism at will during the winter months. You could sleep for days & eat very little with no ill effects.

D. Powerful sting. Sting people you don't like. Boy will it hurt 'em!

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

According to my research, the tarantula hawk earned a top score of four, making its sting almost unbearably painful. It usually only aggravates the unlucky victim for five minutes, so experts suggest that when stung, the only response is to 'lay down and scream.'

#tarantula hawk wasp #insects that sting #other stuff

[cuteguywhump]

Anaconda (1997)

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[vehemoth-phosbitch]

oikmin

#i think of them as hover fly-adjacent. mimicking stinging insects #id in alt #my art #pikmin #winged pikmin

[whimsical-sonic]

@sonic-oc-showdown

well, i said that i'd make a post breaking down stings design if he made it to round 2 and so! this is it! this is that post

without further ado, let's talk about how i designed my boy!

warnings for (drawn) close-up images of scorpions:

let's start off with his head!

the vast majority of sting's head comes from scorpion anatomy! his eyebrows are based off of a pair of a scorpion's walking legs. scorpions have 4 pairs of walking legs which are attached to the head/thorax. i can't represent all 4 pairs but i could at least represent 1, hence why his eyebrows are Huge and stick off of his head

the pair of darker red tubes that go from behind his eyebrows to the back of his head, those are meant to be pedipalps! pedipalps are actually part of a scorpion's mouth, but for sonic character design purposes i used it to resemble hair. as for the actual pincers, thats what the two things on the back of his head are. if you were to translate it to hair, it'd be like a tight, messy bun

the other part of a scorpion's mouth are the chelicerae! his mouth originally took more inspiration from how a scorpion's mouth is supposed to look, but due to how difficult it was to consistently draw + emote in general, this was changed to be more beak-like (using mimic for reference). his "tusks" are still reminiscent of the tip of the chelicerae, only they turn up to help his mouth look more distinct!

as for the 2 pairs of dot markings on his head, those are meant to represent eyes! scorpions have at least 6 eyes, 12 at most. the 2 pairs of markings are meant to give the impression that sting has 6 eyes!

next up is his clothes! since sting specializes in close-combat fighting, he doesn't really wear loose clothes as he doesn't want to risk tripping over himself or getting caught on anything. that's why he wears a simple torn tank top and some pants

his belt is fashioned after the segments on a scorpion's abdomen! thats why there's all those lines on it

his shoes, the golden edge of his shoes with the two little protrusions, those are meant to resemble a scorpion's paws!

as for sting's tail, the reason why it's so thick is because he is a highly venomous scorpion! it's also why the pincers on his head are so small: scorpions with thick tails and small pincers are Very Venomous while scorpions with thin tails and big pincers are mostly harmless! i went for a more spherical shape with his tail because i thought it looked cool. he originally didn't have a set number of segments but ultimately i landed on 6, which is the same amount of an actual scorpion (5 metasomal segments + the 1 pincer)

lastly, his palette! sting's palette is actually inspired by the deathstalker scorpions from kipo and the age of wonderbeasts! actual deathstalkers are more orange/brown, but the mutated ones in kipo are various shades of red. you can really see the inspiration in this image here

his tail has an alternating color palette for readability! it'd be harder to make out more action-y poses if it was all the same color, or if it was half lighter half darker, so the alternating colors help make it more distinct

this art is from august! it helps show the color breakdown

(flat + shade)

AND THATS IT! that is all the thought and inspiration i put into my boy. if you took the time to actually read through all of this thank you so much!!! it genuinely means a lot to me 🌟

if you really like sting, please consider voting for him in the oc showdown! you can vote here

#cosmic chatter #sting the scorpion #sonic oc showdown 2 #my ocs #sonic oc #cw insects #for anyone who is a little squeamish abt buggies #i love my boy smmmm my special guy #pardon any art inconsistencies i forgot to eat dinner and uhh shaky wrists oopsie #i had to draw all of this last night bcuz i work long shifts on sat + sun oogh

[datgreenmonstah]

“German wasp” design

#German wasp #wasp #insect #entomology #stinging insect #art #digital art #design #tattoo #tattoo design #linework #animal art #insect art

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[hawnks]

weird teenage girls who become obsessed with what they fear, who learn their fears inside out, who ascertain expertise on their fears, and then when someone is like “wow, you know a lot about wasps, you must really like them :)” they just have to be like no <3

#tw insects #cw insects #there were these huge wasps that would swarm the street next to mine by the dozens #they’re extremely curious and will come after people and bump into them #and they’re LOUD too so even if you can’t feel one sniffing around u u can hear it #they come out of holes in the dirt. for years I called them sand bees #it took me a long time to figure out what they actually are #they’re called cicada killer wasps and they go to ground the same time perennial cicadas do #they lay their eggs inside the sleeping cicadas and come summer the babies eat their way out while the cicada is still alive #they rarely sting humans. but they can #my best girl who’s afraid of whales has a tracker for them up on her computer always #we are what we fear #squawk tag

[unbfacts]

#Tarantula hawk #wasp #insects #most painful sting