#ALL INSECTS ARE IMPORTANT

[evanwevand]

Stop demonizing wasps

Just leave them alone please

[kidovna]

BAE PLEASE DRAW MIWI IM STARVING MOTHER

I hope this is sufficient food🙏🏽

[thechibilitwick]

the shidoulings are mentally sick in the head and

[insectaesthetics]

found this Baeus sp. wasp in a vial of assorted tiny wasps (this one was the tiniest so I’m feeling lucky I even saw it) and got to database it with my own ID on it! I love whipping this species out whenever people say they hate wasps because this one is definitely hard to hate.

[cartoonscientist]

[flufflecat]

Another day, another suspiciously yellow and black animal showing up that i have named Bill.

This poor injured swallowtail was in the backyard, so i offered him a variety of flowers then moved him to a safe spot since i cant really do more to help him. He kept trying to climb my arms, but i politely asked him not to try to crawl on my face and i think he agreed.

When I was grabbing some flowers down the road, there was also a flock of goldfinches flitting around the thistles to add to my yellow-animals tally, but i couldn't get any good pics of them.

Between the goldfinches that have shown back up for the first time since june, this butterfly, and Bill the Caterpillar (who has since crawled off somewhere), I'm starting to debate whether spending the past 2 weeks joking about being possessed by bill cipher was a good idea.

Also i came face to face with a deer while out alone last night and i didn't like the way she took a step toward me when i held my hand out. She bowed to me so i bowed back and after about a minute of staring she decided to wander away.

[kookies2000]

FINALLY had the time to watch a bit of Nimona before work. The first 30 minutes felt so familiar, and I didn't know why. The dialog, the animation, the humor, the wackness of the characters, yet serious storyline, mixed in with this cuteness vibe. The way the eyes and expressions were animated looked so familiar that I couldn't put my finger on it. Heck, the way they designed the animals looked so familiar, and their soundtrack too.

It bothered me all day at work. And then I see this on Tumblr........

IT'S MY CHILDHOOD!!!

No wonder it felt familiar! I kid you not, I had to hold in so many tears during work when I found out. Ice Age was my entire childhood. The reason I started my passion in writing. Along where my value for love and morals about family came from. Same for Rio! Finding your roots and falling in love with your culture. That film was too cute. Robots with their message on classism. Hortan hears a Who! I have found memories of watching that and valuing life. Seriously, look up Hortan Hears a Who, We Are Here. And listen to that part of the soundtrack. It's beautiful. I am who I am because of Blue Sky Studios. I wasn't allowed to watch Disney as a kid, so Blue Sky Studio's were one the only films I did watch. But I am so thankful for that. The studio always made films about love, the value of life, and peace. I believe in love, peace, and justice because of this studio.

The fact that Nimona is a piece of my childhood studio that survived. It makes me tear up! I'll always be disappointed in Disney for getting rid of them. There are so many emotions. And the fact that so much heart was put into this film. And it kept that Blue Sky charm the studio always had. The love, the need for peace and justice. The film is so beautiful and I only saw 30 minutes of it so far! I'm gonna finish it tonight with my siblings. Oh man, I'm gonna ugly cry knowing this fact about the film. I'll give my thoughts on the film soon. Let me just get emotions under control.

[patema-introverted]

I haven't watched Dungeon Meshi yet and I'm already so invested because of you fucks. And it's ongoing so I can't even look up the ending. If the lesbians don't get a happy ending I'll cry.

[bravevolunteer]

i feel like it’s time for my regular reminder that michael is afraid of bees

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Here's an analysis on gonta that I really like

https://www.tumblr.com/unweavinglies/624144216037244928/gonta-gokuhara-character-analysis-when-a-genius?source=share

YES I've seen this analysis around before it's very good. Although I don't necessarily agree with all of it, I really appreciate the depth OP went into with it, its really well written and thought out!

[cantankerouscatfish]

the week in bugs! well. mostly beetles and one true bug. who was in my bathroom sink. rude.

dogbane beetle (Chrysochus auratus), black firefly (Lucidota atra), flower beetle (Glipa oculata), some kind of big june bug with the cutest :3 face, and masked hunter (Reduvius personatus). true bugs like to be bitey so that one got the cup and cardboard express route outside.

[fasciation-fascination]

I really think it's disappointing that we have all just accepted bug as the catch-all term for small invertebrate. not even because it's inaccurate, not even because Hemiptera is my Best Friend, but because you guys are all ignoring the objectively better word. creepy crawly is right there!!! it's right there and you are still calling a millipede a bug? DISAPPOINTING. you guys are No Fun. 😤

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

petition for every state that has the european honey bee as their state insect (except utah; i feel they're committed to the honey bee life) to change their state insect to a bee species native to the state. if minnesota can have the rusty patched bumblebee as their state bee, we can all do better

[norskheks]

I answered yes because I don't really look beyond, is it yellow and black striped, and did it sting me? I understand the likelihood of it having been an actual bee, particularly a honeybee, is low, but I just kind of call all creatures that look like that bees. I think the stinging guys near me are usually wasps. I still have no idea what the difference is between wasps and hornets. I don't really care to know either lol, I pretty much divide them into Nice Bees (bumblebees, honeybees) and Evil Bees 🤣

have you ever been stung by a bee?

[sscarletvenus]

i do not pity israel. never have, and never will.

each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.

Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.

babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.

i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.

israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.

how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?

all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.

the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."

it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.

this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.

may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

glory to Palestinian resistance. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[ace-disaster-weeb]

In other news, a bee somehow got into my bedroom in the middle of the night and one of my cats almost ate it, so I had to get my dad to come to the rescue