There is a fun mechanic on my region involving this 2 honey based mons. Depending on which one you have at the front of your party, you can attract certain pokemons to appear in the wild that wont show up normally.
MELIFÉE is based on a Honeypot Ant, they make their honey by eating flowers, herbs and spices, which make a very sweet honey with healing properties. They try to keep their honey as pure as possible, so they carve honey dippers and lids out of wood using their mandibles to handle their honey without touching it.
BEEKREEPER make their honey by consuming meat, usually from corpses, their honey has a very strong taste and strange properties, so it is not safe for human consumption without being properly harvested and purified.
If MELIFÉE is at the front of your party, it will attract JOLIBRI, the hummingbird moth pokemon, but if you have BEEKREEPER at the front it will attract BEEZZARD, the vulture bee pokemon
JOLIBRI have a friendly relationship with MELIFÉE, they often surround them and keep watch in case other pokemons want to attack them and steel their honey, in exchange MELIFÉE gives them free honey
similar to JOLIBRI and MELIFÉE, BEEZZARD has a symbiotic relationship with BEEKREEPER, where they bring them meat and receive the excess honey they produce
And regardless of wich one of the 2 you have on your party, you will attract this 2 randomly: NECTAROBER, the Honey thief pokemon (based on a bee beetle) and BUMBLBOOZ, the Brewer pokemon (based on a drunk bumblebee)
NECTAROBER loves honey but are unable to make any, so they try to steal it. They will mostly target MELIFÉE, but will also mug BEEKREEPER if the opportunity arises. They use the fluff on their bodies to look bulkier and more intimidating that they really are, but are actually pretty weak.
BUMBLEBOOZ doesnt care about where the honey comes from, because they dont eat it directly. They collect the honey, mix it with water and other herbs and store it so it can become mead, which they drink constantly, thats why they are always seen drunk.
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WIP from drawing a bee beetle awhile back. (...Somehow I like going back to look at WIPs more than finished pieces, idk why 🤷)
Anyway I think we can all agree that bee beetles are Very Good beetles, yes? Yes.
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Eurasian Bee Beetle
Trichius fasciatus
Saw this fun guy while I was in Norway!
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sewing patterns for bugs! (pt 2)
beetle plush pattern by ApothecaryOcto
simple fabric moth/butterfly pattern by willowynn
bee plush pattern by TooStuffedPatterns
snail plush pattern by willowynn
beetle plush pattern by MasterPlush
spider plush pattern by SugarcubeCherry
minecraft bee plush pattern by HabbiesAus
snail plush pattern by Delilah Iris
butterfly / moth plush pattern by Victoria Zhuk
garden snail pattern by DragonsGardenShop
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Bee and Beetle Ita Bags // Pin And Tonic
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Wood Vetch, with a Snail and Five Insects - James Bolton - c.1770s - via The Morgan
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What time is it? Invertober time! I'm really committing to finishing the prompt list this year.
First four entries of Invertober:
Sunburst Diving Beetle
Silvery Leaf Cutter Bee
Little Fire Ant
Emerald Green Snail
Invertober is put together by fossilforager! Prompt List
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a lucky five minutes of walking turned up four beautiful deceased insects!
these four are a two-spotted bumblebee (Bombus bimaculatus) queen (?), a reddish-brown stag beetle (Lucanus capreolus), a broad-necked root borer (Prionus laticollis) and a rainbow dung beetle (Phanaeus vindex), the first I’ve ever seen
the Prionus is missing several parts and the Phanaeus was stepped on, but the other two are pristine. I’ll try to clean up and pin all of them! much more so than killing and pinning live insects, I enjoy fixing up a dusty old dead bug found on the street or in a windowsill. it’s sort of like antique restoration…
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she be like “aw tysm” and I be like “who told you? anyway, this is why the order hymenoptera (bees/wasps/ants) likely has more species compared to the order coleoptera (beetles) despite decades of us thinking beetles had the most for the past decades if not hundreds of years…”
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just a couple of fly-types beating traffic early in the morning <3
(reblogs are much appreciated! this one took a few days to finish,,,)
[image id: a digital drawing of a handful of sonic characters flying through the sky, backlit by the sun. the characters are Rouge, Silver, Jewel, Wave, Tails, Charmy, and Whisper, who is holding the end of Tangle's tail. theyre all flying in the same direction, facing left. /end id.]
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