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todaysbug · 5 months

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December 12th, 2023

Sea Mouse (Aphrodita aculeata)

Distribution: Found in marine habitats of the northern hemisphere; the North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

Habitat: Benthic; lives from the sublittoral zone down to a maximum of 1000 metres.

Diet: Carnivorous; feeds mainly on other invertebrates such as small crabs, hermit crabs, mollusks, nemerteans and other polychaete worms.

Description: Despite its caterpillar-like appearance, the sea mouse is actually a polychaete worm! Its most obvious feature is the dense mat of hairs, or setae, that cover its body. While most are a brownish-red colour, these are intermingled with glassy hairs (especially on either side of its body), which have an iridescent quality. These hairs are usually reddish in colour, but become a bright bluish-green when the light hits them a certain way. This acts as a defence mechanism to ward off predators, acting as a form of aposematism, but also acts as camouflage, with the worms appearing brown from above (blending in with the substrate) and blue from the sides (blending in with the water).

(Images by Gert Oxby and Michel Garnier)

#today's bug #biology #bugs #ecology #entomology #nature #wildlife #polychaete

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stevejgarza · 2 months

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

#today on tumblr #art #doodle #original art #illustration #artists on tumblr #bug art #bugs #funny art #ink art #pen and ink #worms #wormblr #wizard

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satanicdollx · 5 months

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they should invent friends that do not live so fucking far

#I'm less sad today but still sad #we're not even that far even from a European point of view like 400kms is okay-ish 🥹#it's just complicated in terms of public transportation and it's expensive #anyway gonna play DAO (bc BG3 is still bugged) and chill all day feel free to invade my asks #nyx.txt

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eyejuice · 6 months

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My favourite weevil came to visit - Botany Bay diamond weevil Chrysolopus spectabilis.

#weevil #bug #beetle #Botany bay diamond weevil #Chrysolopus spectabilis #insects #Coleoptera #Australian insect #today's bug

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time-woods · 7 months

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more of these dorks

#prismo the wishmaster #scarab the god auditor #fionna and cake #adventure time #fionna and cake spoilers #prohibitedwish #i believe thats their ship name #anyways accidental flirting with a weirdo bug #i have so many doodles of them from just today #im having to hold myself back rn

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onenicebugperday · 2 months

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Pearl moth, Pachynoa xanthochyta, Crambidae

Photographed in Indonesia by astrapia

#animals #curators on tumblr #insects #bugs #moth #crambid moth #pearl moth #one nice bug #creature for you today

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kedreeva · 7 months

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These little fuckers are round gobies. They are a freshwater goby that's invasive in Michigan, and they're in the nearby lake. They're distinct from the four native species due to their fused pelvic fins (middle pic) and a big black dot at the rear of their front dorsal fin. Though some other gobies have spots on their fins, NO Michigan-native species has a fused pelvic fin. These guys are very aggressive feeders and are very good at outcompeting native gobies.

They're also extremely good at stealing bait off big hooks as people on the docks reel in their lines. In particular, the bastard in the bottom photo stole my bait two days ago, so I caught him and filleted him for Bug.

Today, after acquiring smaller hooks, I went back and got 16 more, and educated several other fishers about their invasive nature. I got two turned over to me by others, and caught 14 more myself.

One man wandered over and asked why I was catching them on purpose. It was too much trouble to explain my feelings about invasive species, so I just told him, one of them stole my bait two days ago. He stopped watching my bobber and boggled at me and goes:

"You're doing this for revenge?"

So now there's some guy in town that thinks I am exacting revenge upon fish kind for a single stolen worm.

#personal #stories about ked's life #fish #animal death for ts #Anyway #I'm going to learn how to make fish meal to make peafowl treats #I just killed the ones today and put them out for the crows #Bug stole the smallest one and ran off with it #I don't know if she managed to eat it or not #but I couldn't find it where she was standing “killing” it #so I assume so

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sanctus-ingenium · 2 months

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last august I posted the lineart of this (plus an art nouveau style background frame) to subscribers on patreon but i've never been able to finish it, so after using it as marker brush practice today i hereby release it from my custody into the wild...

#somebody reblogged nettlerove's ref sheet today and it reminded me i still had this lying around haha #anyway if u haven't seen my bugs. well i have bugs #setting: thera #this is best viewed through a blue light filter like f.lux i'll be 100% honest with u. it turns purple #creature design #artists on tumblr

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ratcandy · 2 months

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today i had a discussion with someone on the things we call scorpions that are not scorpions . because entomologists love to call things by names they are not actually.

ended up with this little . presentation. guide. thing. there are probably many, many more, but this is what we came up with on the Spot

#could've added that scorpionflies are not even true flies since they're not in Diptera #but if we want to start listing things we call flies that are not flies then we would need a whole separate massive list #clamtalk #ok i'm done talkign for today sorry. Very talkative. Much to say #bugs #bug tw #arachnids #arachnophobia #entomology #scorpions #ask to tag #bugposting

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everysongineverykey · 9 months

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good omens the book, 1990: see, queen is so ubiquitous in london these days that if you leave a tape in a car for too long, it'll inevitably morph into a best of queen tape. which is why their megahits are playing in crowley's bentley all the time! isn't that a funny and topical joke?

good omens the show, 2019-2023: yeah crowley's car has a hands-free call system and also only plays cassette tapes. yeah it's whatever don't think about it. what's an incredibly earnest and passionate queen love song we can play during this scene where crowley tries urgently to reach aziraphale

#good omens #this is so funny to me. they have it's a hard life in s1e1 when he's trying to call aziraphale about armageddon #you're my best friend in s1e5 when he's racing to the bookshop to see him #good old-fashioned loverboy in s2e1 when he's racing to the bookshop to help aziraphale stay safe while hiding gabriel.#in the 90s it would've been a joke about how everywhere queen was. today it's just like. this gay loser's car knows about his crush #and deliberately plays cheesy classic love songs when he's going to see him to bug him about it #and he's just accepted it into his life. i love it #AND somebody to love after he's presumed aziraphale's dead! i know that was diegetic but the bentley WOULD. you know it would

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vita-divata · 1 year

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Look at them being mischievous

#my art #jojolands #i made this silly gif a few days ago but TODAY'S JOJOLANDS DAY!!!#jjba #animation #november rain looks like a bug i can't unsee it now #jodio joestar #dragona joestar

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todaysbug · 5 months

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December 10th, 2023

Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)

Distribution: Mainly found in the southern USA, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and Venezuela.

Habitat: Most common on low shrubs and herbaceous plants; prefer open areas like fields, prairies, xeric scrub, yards and gardens.

Diet: Carnivorous generalists; feed on many crop pests, such as moths of the Noctuidae, Geometridae and Pyralidae families, but also on beneficial insects such as honeybees, wasps, syrphid flies and tachnid flies.

Description: The green lynx spider earned its common name due to the cat-like way it pounces on its prey. Unlike many other spider species, lynx spiders are active predators who hunt during the day. They usually sit on plants in order to blend in while hunting; in fact, females have been known to change colors to better match their background, a process that lasts around 16 days. Color changes also happen late in the season, where individuals will shift from a bright green to a pale yellow, likely due to the degradation of tetrapyrrole pigments in their blood.

After constructing her egg sac, the female guards it actively until her spiderlings are ready to emerge. She hangs from the sac and fiercely attacks anything that comes near, spitting venom at potential threats to distances of up to a foot. Despite being fairly common, lynx spiders rarely bite humans—their bite is however very painful (though not fatal), causing swelling that may last a few days.

(Images by Gerardo Aguilar Anzures and Eric Isley)

#today's bug #biology #bugs #ecology #entomology #nature #wildlife #arachnids

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todayontumblr · 5 months

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Friday, November 24.

A snug bug in a rug.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. This, Gregor thought, simply could not be better.