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hazel2468 · 3 months

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Well guys, I have an announcement!

Everyone, meet Reaper!

He's a Phyllocrania Paradoxa- a Ghost Mantis, and I fucking adore him!

He seems very lively, but very okay with being handled. I'm obviously not going to be handling him a lot, but he walked right out onto my hand when I got him from his little travel cup, and he decided he would rather take a drink of a little water drop off my finger than off of his leaf!

I tossed a pair of fruit flies into his enclosure, and he spent about ten minutes stalking one before snatching it up and munching on it. Ate the whole thing really quick- he was hungry! If he doesn't catch the other, I'll make sure he gets another one either today or tomorrow (the other one might have gotten lucky and escaped, not sure, if it did, well, good for it).

#bugblr #praying mantis #cw bug #bug pic #i am in LOVE oh my lanta #he's so TEENY TINY #unsure exactly what instar he is but the seller says he is male #and based on the crest and abdomen I think that is correct #right now he's just chilling post-meal in his new home and i am #SO happy!#and yeah... yeah I'm getting a fucking jumping spider too #i have a whole fruit fly culture he won't eat all of that himself #plus when he gets larger he'll be moving on to house flies so #spooder it is!#and if anyone is wondering #I ordered him from #The Bugg Plug #they were FANTASTIC #there were some weather issues and FedEx shipping was a mess #and they kept me super up to date and posted about it as well so I knew what was going on #they were very very quick to answer my questions and resolved an issue with my tracking number like in five minutes #i will 100% be ordering other bugs from them in the future

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zombiez000 · 1 year

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what a nice day 🌊🏖🐚

#irl #bug pic

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buglover724 · 3 months

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when u cyberbully me. this is who u hurt

#media #pic #bugs #millipede #millipedes

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kedreeva · 4 months

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Today in measuring your peahen, Bug is casually 2 foot, 3 inches tall (she can stretch a little taller when she REALLY wants a treat). This is just tall enough to see over a tray table and pull things off of nightstands and end cabinets.

Bug is also a little over 3 feet long from tail tip to beak tip. Most of Bug is made up of tail and neck. There is a 6lb dead weight in the middle somewhere that she knows how to directly place onto the ball of one foot while standing on you.

Bug's wingspan is around 3.5 feet, thought I didn't get a measurement. It will be over 4 feet as an adult.

Bug is growing in her spurs. As a Spalding (hybrid) hen, Bug will likely have one inch bone knives conveniently attached to her tarsometatarsus. This is technically fused foot bones, not a leg bone. Curiously, pure Pavo cristatus hens have spurs, and pure Pavo muticus hens have spurs, but many domestic Pavo cristatus and low-percent Spalding hens lack them. This is one of the indications of domestication in the cristatus species. As I prefer the wild type, I prefer my hens spurred, so this is a good sign!

Bug's toes measure a smidge over 5 inches from the tip of her rear-facing to to the tip of her longest front facing toe. Try measuring that on your hand.

Bug's nails measure 1/2-3/4 an inch long, depending on the toe. That's almost as long as one finger section for most people.

When I had snakes, I got asked all the time if I was afraid of them biting me. The answer is no. I have been bitten by a 6 foot long, 20lb boa constrictor, and have no scars to prove it. Meanwhile I have so many scars from peafowl sitting on me, particularly on my forearms, that I have had to reassure people I am not a danger to myself.

I post these photos as a reference, but also as a precaution. This is a BABY peafowl, and a female at that. She is only 6 months old and weighs a little over 6lbs, which means she's about 2/3 of the way grown, and adult hens are typically 3/4 the size of an adult male. These are BIG birds that can do a LOT of damage, even accidentally. When they become aggressive, as in the case of hand-raised males or poorly bred birds, they become a potentially fatal threat to any other fowl you have. Unlike chickens, they are more than capable of (and prone to!) jumping to human face level before they flog (kick with their feet in a way that allows their spurs to hit home), which means they could easily take out an eye or cause other serious facial injury if they get a lucky strike. I have seen more than a few people end up with stitches, and more than a few birds end up euthanized because people think they are gonna be cute cuddly friends.

I know that Bug is a cute bird, but I also want to stress that a) she has an outstanding personality as a result of breeding choices and socialization b) she hasn't hit maturity, and won't do so for another 2+ years, so her personality could change considerably still and c) I have been raising peafowl one way or another for my entire adult life, which has been structured around keeping them. I love my birds, and I would love for more people to keep peafowl as they are great animals, but they are not casual animals. They are large and potentially dangerous farm fowl that take a lot of space, care, and knowledge to keep.

#peafowl #peahens #birds #my pets #bug the peahen #feathers #nothing in particular spurred this if you're wondering #it's just time for a reminder I think #since i often see folks talking about wanting them #when they see pics of mine

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crunchchute · 1 month

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My Sam & Max cosplay I debuted at a local con during the weekend!

#wasnt wearing leg padding in these so sorry sams a bit skinny #sam and max #cosplay #crunchchute art #my art #i could remake the pants and jacket entirely but that would be quite hard actually. i suck at making jackets especially #so those are just thrifted and edited #lots of color differences that bug me but. oh well #pants and jacket arent that different but its noticeable in these pics #as well as maxs hands and feet. theyre slightly lighter as the fabric i used is better quality #but i ran out of the stuff i used on his body etc and i couldnt buy more from that store as they took their sweet time shipping the stuff #oh well. didnt make them for a competition so its okay #im my own biggest hater and my own biggest critic #at the end of the day i made a handful of people really happy and thats all that matters to me #gotta share them every chance i get as i usually just make a cos #wear it to the con and then put it on the shelf #but im too happy with these to just hide them away after #they need a good scrub and after that id like to bring them to another con. next main goal is viecc but thats just a maybe right now

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ms-scarletwings · 23 days

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Never thought I would see a fly rocking a double mohawk before

Not exactly sure what this beaut is, but Strauzia genus was about as satisfactory as I did narrow it down.

#insects #bug photography #yellow fruit fly #bugs #flies #cute bugs #fruit flies #strauzia #mah pics #:D

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angelsdigits · 1 month

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thesurestthing · 9 months

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Image ID: yellow bumper sticker that says "horn if you're honky" in all capital black block letters

#words from bug #pics from bug

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onenicebugperday · 5 months

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Pink feather boa millipede, Gosodesmus claremontus, Andrognathidae

Found primarily in California

Photos 1-3 by mhedin, 4 by kueda, 5 by merav, 6 by yetikat, 7-9 by chloe_and_trevor, and 10 (for scale) by biosam

#animals #curators on tumblr #bugs #myriapods #millipede #feather millipede #pink feather boa millipede #congregation #one nice bug #oops coming back to tag the #harvestman #in one of the pics #also i should add #arachnids

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gray-warden · 14 days

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I just realized I never posted photos of this really pretty harvestman i came across a while back. Note the green pedipalps and the dark and light spots on its back.

#opiliones #arachnids #chelicerata #bugs #harvestman #bugblr #the light spots were a very light green iirc (it's been a while) but they just look white here #there's a photoset of a really cool harvestman going around and it reminded me of this one and i realized i never posted these pics #spider #(ik they arent spiders but i'm tagging it as that for blacklist purposes #bc i imagine that someone who's really scared of spiders probably doesnt care that actually opiliones are not spiders just close relatives)#i think its so cool how i didnt even know opiliones were a thing until a couple of years ago and now i see them all the time #turns out they're pretty common around here #(not that i never saw them before i mustve just assumed they were spiders)#theyre usually not as pretty as this one though #most of the ones i see are just black or dark brown #also i have a massive backlog of pictures ive never posted of bugs and other nature stuff #my stuff #my posts #outside tag #nature

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flickering-nightfall · 8 months

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Some bugs for fun!

#i'm pretty satisfied with how the colors came out #man i love this brush #kind of want to go back and give at least moon a “tail”#but i've already spent long enough on this when it's just a one-off thingy #time for way too many tags. *deep breath*#rain world #flickerdoodles #art #five pebbles #looks to the moon #seven red suns #no significant harassment #chasing wind #grey wind #unparalleled innocence #bugs #insects #iterators #group pic

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gothamgothic · 6 months

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One of the "blob ghosts" snuck into my bag - I found out when I went looking for one of my notebooks. Thankfully my sociology professor is as blind as a bat (Not a GREAT phrase to use at Gotham U. but still)

He likes my thermos... (I was looking forward to that soup)

At least the little guy is polite enough not to mess with my medications.

You do you, little gloopy buddy. Enjoy the free ride, I guess.

#My phone bugs out when taking pics of them -#Not sure why it does that #dp x dc #only in gotham rp #gotham city #gothamite

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hundredsspoons · 10 months

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I'm sorry, but every time I see this pic