#bug //

[l3irdl3rain]

everyday we get closer to an era of Bug where I cannot hold her with one hand

[littlealienproducts]

Isopods and colorado bug stud mismatched earrings by ColorMosaic

[iturastwordblog-youdidntseethis]

Not a tk post. Despite what a loud critter they are, I always did and do find them very fun to find, especially during the summer and fall seasons. I always liked going outside, wandering aimlessly around forests or tree populated areas, circling trees and looking for cicada larvae molts. It's fun finding their molts, and even more fun finding a cicada mid-molt.

Here are some pics of last year when I was exploring last summer. I lifted up an old tree trunk and found a live cicada larvae! On my way home, I gave it a place to molt and at there for 2 hours watching and taking pictures of the process of a cicada's molt as well as it's darkened exoskeleton color after being freshly molted!

Following images could be a bit triggering seeing as a live adult cicada leaving its old skin.

Please be wary if this triggers you! I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable by my own images!

First image: Living nymph before molt climbing up my arm. (These little things do kind of pinch when climbing on skin, but it doesn't hurt at all!)

Second image: starting to poke out!

Third image: wriggling out. Look at those big buy eyes 🌘=🌒

Fourth image: halfway!

Fifth image: getting legs out, wings are finally free and start the drying process.

Sixth image: Almost there! Leaning backwards, wings are starting to unfurl!

Seventh image: wings are unfurling are unfurling and drying. Eventually, cicada does a sit-up and now finishes drying wings on the molt.

Eighth image: Cicada climbs off of the molt. (The metal grate wasn't very suitable so I held the cicada until it's wings stiffened and dried.)

Ninth image: Put the cicada on a branch on a walnut tree in my backyard. The exoskeleton and the cicada are still soft.

Final image! Came back some time later. Cicada is finally dry and ready!

Just a cicada rant today. Idk, I saw this post on my feed and wanted to rant as well as flex on my cicada images. (Now I wanna make a cicada oc)

Freshly molted cicadas are unreal

[l3irdl3rain]

hi i'd like to let you know last night i had a nightmare that you adopted bug out to someone you were driving next to on the freeway [you handed her over through your car window] and i woke up in a cold sweat and immediately checked your tumblr blog . thanks for not doing that

Oh yeah. I would never do that. But i am taking her bungee jumping tomorrow. and then this weekend we're going to go dive with sharks. We've also discussed going to the elephant foot in Chernobyl but she'll have to get a passport first

[ratbugs]

millipede millipede millipede millipede

[personostient]

POV You’re waving around a huge juicy raw steak

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wet and pathetic pasta man in the container cell needs to be wrung out who’s volunteering

[naturalist-journal]

[seabeck]

Sawfly

[feathery-dreamer]

that reminds me during my uni studies, I once thought of a short story titled Melanogaster about a fruit fly that escapes from a genetic research lab, but I had no thought about what could happen so I never got around to writing any of it

(also when I see the arrow that says "useless" I feel that)

school project, some drawings for my pretend game about a housefly girl called musca and her adventures in some creepy&wet place

[wildragon]

Chonk horse bug

[mollybeenoel]

Insects infected by Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis, otherwise known as cordyceps or zombie-ant fungus, fungus that infect insects such as ants and spiders — like other parasites, cordyceps drains its host completely of nutrients before filling its body with spores that will let the fungus reproduce.

[l3irdl3rain]

I can deny it no longer. Bug is not just a foster, she is my cat. I made a valiant effort to rehome her but failed both times.

[reylin-alloro]

pretty

My friends and I found this beetle on our college campus, we think it's a female elephant beetle. The photos were all taken by my friend (photography_dex on instagram).

https://www.instagram.com/photography_dex/

Go check him out.

[spiny-ant]

sabethes cyaneus stimboard to drive away the mosquito haters

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[jemrising]

I didn't like them at first, but they grew on me XD I think they would be much cuter with more caterpillar vibes, like proto leggies and bristles