#BUGS!

[mouldyshoe]

my friend sent me these pics they got to HOLD this funky lil guy I'm SO JEALOUS 👁️👁️👁️👁️

[lilybug-02]

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS A HUGE ANT COLONY IN BRAZIL AND IT LOOKED LIKE A KINGDOM SO IN THEORY HALLOWNEST COULD BE REAL

I'm guessing you've never you seen West African Termite Mounds?

They are genuinely insane.

They even carbon-dated a set of four mounds in the Congo’s Miombo Woods and found them to be between 680 and 2200 years old. [via] HOLY SH*T

[daily-hyosatsu]

Different topic today because I received an alarming balcony visitor! He had a very loud buzz and was at least 3 cm long. He swooped at me while I was watering my plants and I dropped to the ground and kept still. But it turns out he is not a bee and he does not even sting; he was just here to make a sale!

His scientific name is Promachus yesonicus or シオヤアブ, the kanji for which are 塩屋虻: literally, salt-merchant horsefly. The white bob on his tail (which I believe only males have) is the salt he is peddling!

Also, it turns out that 塩屋 can be a surname too. It's read Shioya or sometimes Enya. It belongs to approximately 2,700 people.

塩 means salt. It's read しお or エン.

屋 means roof, and by extension, house. By further extension, it also means shop or seller/dealer. It also works as a suffix denoting what a shop sells. For example, a パン屋 [ぱんや] sells bread, a 花屋 [はなや] sells flowers, a 本屋 [ほんや] sells books, and an 居酒屋 [いざかや] (pub) is where you can "exist" and drink. This suffix also appears as ～屋さん, with the honorific -さん. It's polite to say お寿司屋さん [おすしやさん] or ラーメン屋さん. You can also use __料理屋さん [りょうりやさん] to mean "restaurant serving __ cuisine."

虻 means horsefly or gadfly. It's read あぶ or ボウ. The left radical, 虫 insect, hints at the meaning, and the right radical, 亡 (perish/deceased (hmm...)), provides the reading ボウ.

[cuttledreams-creatures]

Invertober Days 17 through 20!! Already so much progress!

- Blue Morpho Butterfly ~

- Reddish-Brown Stag Beetle ~

-White-Spotted Jellyfish ~

-European Mantis ~

Invertober is put together by fossilforager! Prompt List

[aclue-aclue]

Yo, can we talk about how dope Steve's "Bug Watching Expedition" hat was during that one episode?

Because it was.

Agreed. Top Tier design, perfectly matches his goofy vibe and is just cute in general.

Also Fun Fact, Bugs is my favorite Steve's era episode (Tied with Joe's Sketchbook Special). His Dorkie character mixed with his hobby as an amateur entomologist is just the perfect mix. I actually wish they brought Steve's love of bugs back in the Reboot, even as just a small detail.

[tobisoundx3]

BUGS!

[areallysmallmoth]

more More MORE ✨doodles✨

That all!

For now :)

[aruemon]

got a picture of a cicada earlier

really proud

i believe this is a pharaoh cicada :]

[hauntedpotat]

Some weevils for weevil Wednesday <3

(I drew A Weevil once and now doodle them on everything. So yeah weevil. Weevil Wednesdays)

[mouldyshoe]

she's been framed!!

i love how it looks next to the others I'm so happy :)))

[sunny-m00n]

BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!

bugs are the best!!!!!!!

[kkillustration]

Creepies

[pinkmoonmp3]

via anna.berger.tattoo

[sicksucculentz]

welp

turns out I really like bugs! I like millipedes and isopods!

who knew! I thought I was gonna be strictly a small mammals fan!

pleasantly shocked to find I like the spiders at work to! and i'm scared of spiders!

[spikyseasponge]

morphology of zygaena - francisco martinez clavel