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Commission to my best friend! ദ്ദി •⩊• )

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Made this with a ballpoint pen, cheap brush, bad gouache and a printing paper in 15 minutes (i'm proud)

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. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁2013 // 2025. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

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🪼⋱⋰KurageHime⋱⋰🪼

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In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

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⋆˚✿˖°⋆˚࿔ ݁Pastel Girl࿔˚⋆°˖✿˚⋆

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flu

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🍓Strawberry Fields Forever🍓

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Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

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OH MY GOD I FOUND IT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AGES

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Autism Speaks Canada is "concluding its operations" on January 31st 2025!

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My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.

We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.

Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

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a friend of mine said this looks like a decorated brownie and now i'm hungry YuY

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2024's Nicest Bug Poll!

These are the bugs that got the most notes in 2024! Vote for your favorite one! Apparently tumblr really loves velvet worms

Links to the posts followed by the poll:

Yellow pasha butterfly caterpillar

Picasso bug

Puerto Rican velvet worm

Orache moth

Candy cane snail

Blue velvet worm

Blind velvet worm

(Technically many bugs, but-) Armored woodlice

Slug caterpillars

Spill-footed lacewing larva

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Puerto Rican velvet worm, Peripatus juanensis, Peripatidae

Photographed in Puerto Rico by wesgapp