#dried bugs

[mushroommemoirs]

This shadow box frame is almost 100 years old!

This was purchased by my great grandmother in the early 50s in Brazil, the flowers and butterfly are real and have managed to hang onto there color beautifully!

#vulture core #goblincore #vulture culture #cottagecore #taxidermy #bugs #entomology #butterfly #dried butterfly #dry specimen #dried bugs #dried flowers #art #shadow box #vintage #vintage art #vintage taxidermy

[beaft]

when i first moved in here this room was full of junk. now it's still full of junk, but in, like, a cool, aesthetic way.

(god help me when i move out and have to somehow pack all this stuff away again)

#i have! too many THINGS! #though tbh this is nothing compared to my old room at my parents' place (where most of my stuff still resides) #every surface is covered #every space that might be spare is taken up with cool rocks and jars of dead bugs and shells and dried flowers and animal bones #it's a complex ecosystem designed for the sole purpose of Collecting Dust #be shh now

[heartnosekid]

briarwitchcreations on ig

#stim #art #terrariums #whimsigoth #sfw #brown #black #white #clear #crystals #rocks #minerals #bugs #insects #butterflies #glass #hands free #dried mushrooms #lorquin's admiral butterfly #limenitis lorquini #lichens #dried plants #decor #ishy gifs #postish

[moghedien]

ok but as a white person who grew up in a rice eating culture (Cajun), hearing other white people who didn’t grow up eating rice often talk about rice is sometimes the most maddening/insane experience

#‘you have to wash rice because all rice gets bugs in it’ no????? it doesn’t???? #i have multiple kinds of rice in my pantry regularly I have never seen these fucking bugs that are supposedly in all rice #do you mean weevils? because those aren’t supposed to be there #you either had a bad bag or you didn’t store shit right #you wash rice for most Asian dishes to remove starch from it #Latin and Cajun dishes dont wash rice because the starch is fine #like you could fuck up a recipe if you wash rice when you weren’t supposed to #‘you can’t keep leftover rice in your fridge it will mold within hours’ WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT #you can keep that shit in your fridge in the rice cooker pot it is literally fine it just dries out

[canisalbus]

For how much Machete is described by others as off-putting, he really is a beautiful dog. Does Vasco ever tell him so? That his eyes make him look earnest, his fur the most comforting shade of white like cream, the way his ears catch light like stained glass? If someone doesn't tell him so, he'd forever think he was ugliest duckling

I think Vasco definitely tries, sincerely and often, but Machete is very reluctant to accept compliments and positive feedback. Especially if it's about something as personal and innate as his looks.

#he quietly spends a lot of time and effort trying to make himself look his best so appearances aren't a trivial thing for him #he's always very clean and neat and presentable #except on those occasions when he's soaked in blood but that's totally besides the point #white fur is kind of high maintenance any tiny bit of dirt or staining becomes an eyesore and if it dries it may be hard to remove #he bathes very frequently way more than average considering the time period #some of the outfits he wears are worth more than the combined lifetime earnings of like six generations of his family #silk was outrageously expensive and the brightest red dye came from pulverized cochineal insects that had to be imported from America #which had been colonized less than a century ago so those tiny little cactus bugs were really troublesome to get and the demand was huge #he doesn't quite have the nerve to wear perfume despite it's widespread popularity at the time #but he makes sure the smell of frankincense burned during church services sticks to his fur and clothes #in general when you spend your entire life around strict emotionally congested highly religious men #you might not end up developing a very healthy self-esteem or body image #once you've internalized that sense of inferiority it's hard to unlearn it #he's so thirsty for approval and praise but when he receives some he immediately gets uncomfortable and distrustful and vaguely angry #he absolutely struggles to compliment people back as well at least on any meaningful and personal level so there's that #answered #anonymous #Machete

[pallanophblargh]

I got really lucky in terms of timing: the last of the seven cecropia kids has begun their cocoon! Which means I won’t have to worry about them when I go on vacation in a few days. I’m gonna miss them so so so much, you have no idea.

If I get lucky next year and get a female moth out of these seven and she finds a mate, I’d like to raise more of these sweet little babies next year.

Fingers crossed that I get to see all of them emerge in a year!

#hyalophora cecropia #cecropia moth #caterpillar #cocoon #saturnid #putting the silk in giant silk moth #larvae #pupating #insect #bug #lepidoptera #the one unsettling thing is their dried cocoons look a little too much like human hair if it was cotton candy #but that’s okay it keeps them nice and safe #the amount of clumsy wandering they did worried me but they figured everything out just fine #they’re gonna hang in my porch for the winter #godspeed my little babies I hope they all make #now I can go and be anxious about everything else

[abombihoney]

when ur wings r made of that funky carpet that put in like, arcades and skating rinks and shit

#bug fables #my art #leif #vi #colored #i really like the texture on this #anyway leif is half bowling alley #his wings have the texture of mostly dried soda

[ruthytwoshakes]

cicadas are fun to eat if you are an animal , or a person, nom nom nom crunch crunch. They only come out every couple of decades though, so you’re gonna have to wait a long time before you can see them again. Gorge yourself until then. Decorate your windowsills with their shells, record their buzzing to listen to while you sleep. Don’t forget, you can’t forget. okay bye.

#tf2 #sniper tf2 #tf2 sniper #tf2 fanart #fem fortress #butch fortress #futch fortress?? #somebody needs to get on that #pin up #you get it #cus they’re gonna pin her up to the wall #like a bug #that’s why she’s so scared ooooooo oh no I hope she runs away very fast so she does not get dried out and put in a collection case!! #daffys drawings #y’all ever think about the bugs you grew up with and how you’ll never see them again because I do that a lot #SEND ME BACK TO THE STICKS SEND ME BACK TO THE STICKS PLEASE ILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT!!! #you can take the butch out of the country (not for long) #but you can’t take the country out of the butch. I want to chop wood for the fireplace again. Why is there so many buildings everywhere.

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Found this small cat on the side of my porch a few weeks ago. Never managed to id it beyond Noctuidae. A few days ago I noticed it was still there but dead, just a dried-up wisp of its former self. Kind of sad.

#caterpillar #bug of the day #Lepidoptera #Noctuidae #insect #BotD #dried up wisp #moth

[kiber-gnida]

The post is not about drawing, but about another way of my creativity. I want to show my insects in epoxy resin! All of its were ethically sourced and found deceased in my country attic this summer. I thought for a long time about what to do with them and decided to perpetuate their beauty🙏🏻

#aesthetic #bugs #nature #photography #butterfly #bumblebee #flowers #dried flowers #epoxy resin #epoxytumblers #epoxyart

[cordycepsbian]

put vi on this rock

#bug fables #bf vi #stuff i made tag #her eyes haven't dried yet so she has autism eyes here #she has autism eyes all the time but especially this image

[heartsrevolving]

when the zaza hits but you're having a bad day

#spooky month #roy spooky month #hatzgang #hatzgang spooky month #moloch #moloch spooky month #why does roy look like a dried up bug LMAOOO #heartsrevolving

[coiled-dragon]

Days since the Renfield server has gotten in an intense discussion about eating bugs: 0

#honestly it hasnt come up in a while #i just love that we're discussing it #because i do wanna try!!! bugs! #but not like dried crickets or dried potato bugs... #like cooked fresh bugs

[mantisgodsdomain]

Our Scarlet is technically capable of draining life force from things like plants and crystals and occasionally structures, but it gives a lot less in terms of returns compared to just eating bugs because what he's doing, basically, is taking life force from other people and then converting it to his own life force, and what a plant has running its body isn't necessarily as useful when it comes to running his body. It's a last-ditch option at best and something he really doesn't want to do in general, because if he wants anything even vaguely resembling a decent flow of life force, he had to actually bite the thing and it really hurts your teeth to bite crystals.

Due to the specific mechanism that he converts energy through, he is also fully immune to a handful of conditions, such as The Infection, as that is... more or less just The Radiance shunting part of Her essence into a host with a specific designated purpose. It gets processed into Life Energy For Him over time, same as with any other life force he drains from anyone - though with gods, specifically, it can get a bit strange. Life force from a god is a very concentrated form of That God and the domain that is essentially their lifeblood, and though it converts fairly effectively it's also A Lot to chew through, to the point that it can functionally drown out his own conscious mind for a time. This is very unpleasant for him. Generally results in him losing time at the very least, and getting stuck with severely altered states of mind for however long it takes to process. He tries to just avoid the divine, if he can.

#we speak #headcanons #we guess. bit more like head-making-up-mechanics at this point but scarlet is ill defined enough to justify it #he usually tries not to drain life force from gods because he can lose some very significant chunks of time to it #he slept in hallownest once dreamed of LIGHT #and then woke up three months later covered in dried infection and missing all memory of the intervening time #he does not go to hallownest anymore. he doesnt want to know what the hell is up with them nowadays. #he knew them as a major trading post with a relatively high god population #and then he took a trip for a while and apparently the whole kingdom fell??? he has no context on this and isnt sure he wants to know #we stick this specific backstory in whenever we do hollow knight crossovers specifically because of the impact #of having a guy around who knows full well what hallownest is but missed the entire infection and hollow knight plan #he restocked there and pawned a kings idol like five kingdoms away for travel money and that was like half of his interaction with it #we are unclear if he would even know who the radiance is #bug fables #yes we're maintagging this. look at our post boy

[skippygoldfish]

Here's most of my isopods, taken yesterday. I had taken out the wood pieces and tapped the bugs into a container so I could stir and pat down the dirt and set everything back up. I don't know anything about isopod morphs or genetics, and they're just wild caught, but I assume most of them are what people call calico?

also today i put in some chioggia beet scraps for them to try heehee

#g postin #bugs #isopods #porcellio scaber #video #sorry to bugpost. i have a nature blog with buggy stuff but these r my PET ones #they also get old freeze dried shrimp crumbs sprinkled in for snacks

[darabeatha]

in fact, he did end up getting stomped over

#BUG CRUSH SOUND #CRONCH #do not fall asleep over dried leaves! #/e.lliot doesnt know yet but he actually -can- make himself visible to people- #but u know;; o.beron is a lot about 'saying this would ruin the climax of the story!' or 'its not the time to say this' #he's all about that #servants can show themselves or dematerialize into fine dust that others cant see