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mintflavoredart · 22 hours
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trunswicked · 23 hours
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Bunch of arthropod guys - refs created for OC purposes! ;)
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onenicebugperday · 2 days
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Greater bee fly, Bombylius venosus, Bombyliidae
Photographed in Belgium by Gilles San Martin
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ex0skeletal-undead · 2 days
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Demeter, Goddess of Agriculture by Matheus Ferreira de Jesus
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personostient · 16 hours
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GASP bloo bee is sooo preeettyyy, may I touch the face/fuzzy fur?~
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Bee my guests~
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atanerrum · 23 hours
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there's nothing you can do to me i wouldn't do to myself 🩸
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ink-the-artist · 24 hours
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Cicadas
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yellydany · 3 days
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Pink Moth Adopt (OPEN)
PM for acquisition + quality image! 65 USD 🦋 Pink Dragon Moth🐉💕 A design I love but never ended up using so giving it away if anyone would like to keep it!
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mindblowingscience · 21 hours
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Bumblebees can surprisingly withstand days underwater, according to a study published Wednesday, suggesting they could withstand increased floods brought on by climate change that threaten their winter hibernation burrows. The survival of these pollinators that are crucial to ecosystems is "encouraging" amid worrying global trends of their declining populations, the study's lead author Sabrina Rondeau told AFP. With global warming prompting more frequent and extreme floods in regions around the world, it poses "an unpredictable challenge for soil-dwelling species, particularly bees nesting or overwintering underground", co-author Nigel Raine of the University of Guelph said in a statement. Rondeau said she first discovered queen bumblebees could withstand drowning by accident. She had been studying the effect of pesticide residues in soil on queen bumblebees that burrow underground for the winter when water accidentally entered the tubes housing a few of the bees. "I freaked out," said Rondeau, who had been conducting the experiment for her doctoral studies. "It was only a small proportion… so it was not that big of a deal, but I didn't want to lose those bees." To her "shock", she said, they survived. "I've been studying bumblebees for a very long time. I've talked about it to a lot of people and no one knew that this was a possibility," she said.
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psikonauti · 2 days
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Mantis toxodera integrifolia
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roobiedo · 3 days
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Made this for the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week server in a sudden creative fever, so I guess I'll post it here too hh
A relative of mine knows someone who teaches kids, so I'm gonna suggest this as an art project for them! The idea is that students could each make/decorate their own shelf, then put them together to form a hive, which could function as mini lockers in their classrooms. Then, by the end of the school year or something, they could either take their own little shelf home (or exchange them with their peers?), or recycle them into materials for the next class! Hopefully it'll teach them about pollinators too 🐝
Idk how doable this project is really, and its scary to imagine one of my silly designs could actually become something tangible irl. But even so, I'm still excited to try 🥰 (And if anyone else attempts this too, please let me know!!!)
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mantimae · 2 days
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I'm working on getting ready to launch my portfolio website this week and I drew this lil guy today to welcome visitors onto my page :)
Edit: My website is now up!! You can come say "hi" to this fella in their proper home on the homepage of https://maemaemae.com/ <3 <3 :D
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onenicebugperday · 3 days
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Hologram moth, Diachrysia balluca, Noctuidae
Found in the Northeastern and Midwestern US and eastern Canada
Photos by diohio1
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the-cricket-chirps · 3 days
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Niklaus Stoecklin, Still Life with Burning Candle, Matchbox and Dead Moth, 1950
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lethargicmoth · 16 hours
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Commission I did some time ago~
A fluffy little one, Mallophora orcina (Diptera: Asilidae) is a species of robber fly that predates bees and also mimics bumblebees and carpenter bees. 🐝🦟
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