#Bug plant!!!

[bugsnakes]

i feell ike som kind of plant or something. ive been a big fan of this album called mother earth's plantasia for like 4 years by now and it always made me calm but LOCK IN as hell . love you mort garson

[heartnosekid]

machaon caterpillar (old world swallowtail) | malbafont_macrophotography on ig

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Hungry bugs

(Want these bugs on a shirt?) | Inprnt

[lionfloss]

Lymantriine Moths by itchydogimages

[los-plantalones]

fell in love with a sentient pipe cleaner today

[blessedscavengers]

nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me

terfs fuck off

made in 2023

[zegalba]

Ladybugs quench their thirst on raindrops mirroring the reflection of a nearby flower.

[sauce-central]

luke_penry.exr on TikTok

Credit if used!

[joy-haver]

[malk-with-tea]

pale queen

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Okay, so this is really cool! You have this phenomenon where some plants grow edible appendages to their seeds to entice ants to carry them underground where they can safely sprout. And then you have wasps which lay their eggs on the leaves, stems, and other parts of plants and trigger the growth of galls (swellings) which both feed and protect the wasp larvae until they reach maturity.

The boy who was watching the ants noticed they were taking wasp galls underground, too. Further exploration found that the wasp larvae were unharmed inside the galls; the only thing the ants had eaten were edible appendages similar to those on the seeds they collected. The wasp larvae stayed safe inside the ant nest, feeding on their galls, until it was time to emerge and head back out to the surface.

So it turns out that the edible portions of the galls have the same sorts of fatty acids as the edible parts of the seeds. And those fatty acids are also found in dead insects. Scientists think that the wasps evolved a way to make the galls they created mimic the edible portions of the seeds to get the ants to collect the galls. This isn't the only example of wasps making use of ants as caretakers for their young, but it's a really fascinating example thereof--especially if you consider ants evolved from wasps at least 100 million years ago.

[dimetrodone]

Wasn’t expecting Hans Christian Andersen to have written a story about how wonderful aphids are

[heartnosekid]

hummingbird clearwing moth (hemaris thysbe) | moanrchmanorfl on ig

[lytefaerie]

Found on Facebook

[onenicebugperday]

Money plant stick insect, Pylaemenes mitratus, Phasmida

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[etakeh]

This is so cool.

Tell me you've never wanted a molting cicada plushie. It's got iridescent wings. LOOK AT IT.

Also got a pitcher plant backpack...with a doomed caterpillar. Sorely tempted.

(he also makes glow in the dark plants) (and breeds monstera) (and has a free downloadable guide to plant breeding for cool characteristics)

anyway support independent artists or something? that make cool things?