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i just learned that the first species of millipede to actually have 1000 or more legs, Eumillipes persephone, was discovered in 2020!!

This bad boy has 618 legs and THIS one...

HAS 1,306 LEGS

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Melophorus potteri?

Opisthopsis rufithorax?

Thoughts? Love?

Potteri is a chunky lass... Wonderful

Rufithorax.. Oiughh.. Oouhghhehehe

Hehehwgege.. The bug of all time

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Synanthedon andrenaeformis

The Orange Tailed Clearwing.

Can grow up to 22mm in wingspan.

Found only in England.

These moths spend two whole years as larvae/pupae, only to spend a single week as an adult.

They overwinter as larvae.

(Photo by Dave Shenton)

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Do NOT kill yourself, you haven't read the wikipedia entry for every known species in the order Hymenoptera yet

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This makes me so happy 

(via)

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Beautiful Ants

Echinopla melanarctos

2. Gigantiops destructor

3. Echinopla striata

4. Oecophylla longinoda

5. Dorylus sp.

6. Tetramorium pulcherrimum

7. Cephalotes clypeatus

8. Polyrhachis lamellidens

9. Harpegnathos sp.

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Special Loaf

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so many snow animals are just white puff with dot eyes. amazing design

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behold

(acherontia atropos)

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Graceful Twig Ant (watercolor)

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Shiny Acrobat Ant (Crematogaster laeviuscula) tending to her flock

Trying to draw more bugs in this super simple stick art style. Hopefully I can simply them while still having them be recognizable. Is there any other bugs you'd like me to simplify? Let me know!

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HERE YOU GO , my movie about ants, "The Selfish Weaver" ! The subtitles aren't finished, but what is there should suffice for a basic understanding ! (@lovedtogekiss you wanted to be tagged!)

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I’ve been seeing these fluffy wax-tailed cixiid planthoppers all through spring, always in close association with Aphaenogaster ants. however, these ants are Lasius, and I think they may have adopted this flock of cixiids after the Aphaenogaster left the area.

presumably, both ant species drink the honeydew produced by the planthoppers, and in return they get a safe place to live and easy access to the tree roots from which they themselves drink. cixiids’ waxy plumes detach at the slightest contact to gum up a predator’s jaws, yet I’ve never seen any ants with wax stuck to them.

this mutualistic relationship comes to an end when the planthoppers mature, leaving the ants to go drink sap from aboveground plants. they also leave behind their wax tail and develop big eyes and glassy wings.

this is a Melanoliarus seen nearby. I’m not sure if it has any relationship to the juvenile cixiids pictured, but if not they’ll probably become something that looks very similar.

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They hit her with a frying pan :(

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Girl that explodes into blood and viscera

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tetramorium fulviceps also known as little shmoopy doopy skrunkly dinkly doos