#I really really hate wasps and stinging bugs

[dcviated]

Finished my exam and passed- cool. Now I have to deal with a yellow jacket nest that may or may not spread into the walls. Cool cool.

Cool.

At least my eye exam didn't say I'm going blind. That's something. And more people boggled at my pacman eye. Always satisfying.

[joshnekuu]

I'll stop dwelling on this after this, but like. It really makes me sad how misunderstood and hated wasps are.

Wasps are my favorite bug. And I know that it's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy, the more people hate wasps the more i feel the need to defend them. Because they're just animals. They're tiny creatures that have evolved over a long, LONG time to protect their defenseless offspring, which means they don't hold back if they think they're in danger! And you, a human, are a massive behemoth that stumbles into their homes and destroys them without even meaning too- but they don't KNOW that. They're bugs.

They don't have the capacity to hate you, or to feel anger or vengeance. All they know is to protect themselves, their nests, and their babies. And if they think that something is a threat, they will attack it. And just because you don't perceive your actions as threatening doesn't mean that the wasps don't. Which is why learning their body language is so helpful, because then you'll know if you're scaring them and they're gearing up to go for a sting!

I'm not saying that people have to love wasps. I'm not even saying you have to LIKE them. I just think that understanding them as creatures, remembering that they're animals, goes a long way in helping you to be less afraid of them, less reactive to them, which in turns means you are a lot less likely to be stung by them.

Also, if you try to torment any animal with fire, then idk, you might deserve to get stung.

[naamahdarling]

Do you have a favorite creepy critter/misunderstood species that the rest of the world irrationally hates/is terrified of?

A lot of them. Spiders, stinging insects. I'm scared of them a lot of the time (or of flying stinging things anyway) but also they are just little guys who don't really mean any harm and are just going about their business. They eat bugs, they mostly leave us alone. I feel bad they are so despised. I wish we strove for neutrality and practicality instead of praising violence against the occasional creature so much smaller and weaker than us. I don't want aggressive wasps on my porch, either, but I don't hate them. I just need them to move. You can feel that way about any animal.

It's the same with snakes. People are so violent about it. It makes me angry and sad. That black rat snake or bullsnake is eating something you really don't want around. If you have chicks or eggs, that's one thing, but if you just have a suburban yard and see the occasional wiggly boi passing through, you can just leave them alone, or figure out what kind they are before reacting badly.

And they aren't creepy but definitely pigeons. Oh I'm soooo sorry you got inconvenienced or grossed out by "flying rats". They're soooo awful, these pretty little animals your forebears domesticated and abandoned, and which we have failed so badly we don't even remember that the contract of domestication ever existed. Morally speaking, pigeons are a real big L for us. We owe them better. It isn't any different than feral cats, it's just that we still keep cats in our homes, and the problem with feral cats isn't as bad.

[cyren-myadd]

Could you make a Quaritch ticklish fic with his son Spider, please?

I've never gotten a request before! I hope you enjoy:

“Hey, Quaritch, look at this!”

Quaritch looked up from where he was washing his sweat-soaked tank top in a small stream at the sound of Spider’s voice. It took him a moment to spot him crouched among a bunch of oversized ferns, with something cradled in his hands. He couldn’t tell exactly what it was from his position. When Spider saw he had his attention, he very, very slowly stood and walked over to Quaritch with his mysterious prize hidden in his arms.

Alarm bells immediately went off in Quaritch’s head and his ears twitched up in alarm. Spider never did anything “very, very slowly,” so there had to be a reason for it. The shit eating grin on his face gave Quaritch the sneaking suspicion that whatever the reason was, he wasn’t going to like it.

Quaritch went back to cleaning his top and hoped Spider would get bored and leave him alone, but he had no such luck. To his dismay, Spider marched right up to him and gently displayed his hands with a soft, “ta da!”

“Ugh!” Quaritch didn’t bother trying to hide his disgust at the sight of the hideous little creature in Spider’s hands: it looked like the nightmarish offspring of a scorpion and a hornet, and it was about the size of a small dog. Coarse, wiry hair covered its spindly legs, and a wicked-looking stinger hovered mere centimeters above the unprotected skin of Spider’s palm. Quaritch’s ears flattened back in revulsion. Why such a beast would ever need to exist was beyond him. God, he hated this damn planet.

Spider snickered at his reaction. “You like it?”

“No! What the hell even is that? Why are you holding it?” Quaritch leaned away from Spider warily. He wouldn’t put it past the kid to try and throw it at him for shits and giggles. “Put that thing back where you found it before it stings you for Christ’s sake!”

“The Na’vi call it kalwey. Humans call it tarantula-wasp.” Spider explained, calmly letting the little nightmare crawl over his arms.

“If this is your way of asking for a pet, the answer is no.”

“Kalwey isn’t a pet. It’s a game!”

Quaritch stared balefully down at Spider and his new “friend.” He didn’t even want to ask. In the end, he didn’t need to ask because Spider continued explaining anyway.

“So, kalwey have a venom for hunting their prey. It’s harmless to Na’vi and humans, but it sure stings a lot. The Omaticaya have a game where you take turns holding the kalwey to prove you can stay calm under pressure, ‘cause the kalwey is easily startled, but it won’t sting as long as you keep your cool, see?” Sure enough, Spider stayed relaxed and the kalwey crawled up and down his arms without threatening to sting. It even crawled all the way up to his head and onto the plexiglass of his exopack. The damned thing was so big Quaritch couldn’t even see Spider’s face behind it, but he didn’t need to see to know he was still grinning like an idiot.

“Well, that’s great, kid. I’m so glad you were raised by people who think this is a good past-time.” He responded dryly.

“Wanna play with me?”

“No.”

“Aww, why not?” Spider whined while the kalwey migrated to the top of his head. It must’ve thought his dreadlocks were a good place to nest, because it folded up its legs and sat there like the world’s ugliest hat.

“Because this is ridiculous. Put it back.”

“What’s the matter? You scared?”

“I said, put it back.”

“You know, Jake is, like, really good at this game. It’s probably impossible to beat him…”

The mention of Sully instantly made Quaritch narrow his eyes. He stared Spider down for a long minute. Then, he heaved a heavy sigh and stuck out one hand. “Fine. Give me the damn bug.”

“Ha!” Spider crowed victoriously before gently removing the kalwey from its perch on his head and placing it into Quaritch’s palm.

Quaritch grimaced at the feel of its hairy little feet digging into his skin. Then, to his horror, it started crawling up his arm. He held his arm away from his body, hoping to discourage the creature from getting closer to him, but he had no such luck. It scuttled over the eagle tattoo and reached his shoulder, putting it uncomfortably close to his face. He realized he should’ve put his tank top back on before agreeing to play this ridiculous game, but it was too late to do anything about it now. All he could do was watch as the creature inched closer to his unprotected torso.

“Spider…”

“Just relax! The rule is that you have to let the kalwey go where it wants.” Explained Spider, who looked like he was enjoying Quaritch’s discomfort immensely.

Quaritch was about to tell Spider to take the damned thing off of him before it reached his neck, but then Spider said with a smug little smirk, “don’t tell me you’re scared?”

“Of course not!” Quartich snapped, mentally resigning himself to letting the kalwey have free reign of his body until Spider got bored of the game. He had a pretty short attention span. Hopefully, this would get old for him soon.

To Quaritch’s relief, when the kalwey reached his collarbone, it didn’t crawl up onto his neck, but instead went down onto his chest. Then, Quaritch found himself wishing it had crawled onto his neck when it reached his sides. Eight tiny, prickly feet dug into his striped blue skin as it crawled up and down.

Quaritch pressed his lips together in a tight line. His tail twitched and his chest started to shake. He prayed the little monster would move down onto his legs, which were protected by his pants, but unfortunately, it seemed to like skittering over his belly and his sides. Quaritch jammed his fist against his lips as his shoulders started to shake even harder.

Spider’s impish grin faded as he watched Quaritch shake. “Uh… are you okay?”

“Take it— take it off.” Quaritch wheezed through clenched teeth.

“What?”

“I said, ta– ake it off,” he repeated, his voice strained.

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“Spider—” he snapped in irritation, and suddenly, he couldn’t hold it in anymore. A small laugh escaped him that made his belly shake. “Aha, ha!”

Spider recoiled in surprise. It was the first time he’d ever heard him laugh. He probably hadn’t even thought Quaritch could laugh.

Unfortunately, the way Quaritch’s body shook from struggling to hold in his laughter upset the kalwey. It let out a warning hiss at having its exploration disturbed, and raised its wicked stinger menacingly.

“Spider, now!” Quaritch barked between strained laughs.

Right before the creature could sting him, Spider snapped out of his surprise and smacked it off his body so fast it didn’t have time to strike. Once the kalwey was gone, all the laughs Quaritch had been holding back finally escaped him.

“Ha, ha, ha— oh, hell!” He wheezed out a deep belly laugh before quickly sobering up into a scowl.

Spider stared up at him in confusion. “Quaritch?”

“Don’t ever ask me to do something like that again. That’s an order.” He snapped. His skin itched with the memory of little feet scampering over his skin.

“Wait a minute…” Spider began slowly. The confused look on his face was quickly giving way to something much more mischievous. It was a look Quaritch definitely didn’t like. “Are you ticklish?”

“No, I am not ticklish.” Quaritch glowered down at Spider, whose grin was growing wider by the second.

“Yuh-huh, you totally are!”

“I’m not a child, Spider. Of course I’m not ticklish. Now, come on, let’s get back to the rest of the squad.” Quaritch grabbed his wet tank top and quickly turned to leave, hoping if he changed the subject fast enough Spider would forget about the whole affair.

He didn’t make it five steps before a small set of hands dug into his sensitive sides. It startled him so much that he let out a small squeal of a laugh— a sound so unmanly it was downright shameful. The embarrassing little giggle was quickly drowned out by Spider bursting into laughter.

“Holy shit, you are ticklish! Ha!” He guffawed.

“You little—!” With a growl of embarrassment, Quaritch whipped around to scowl at him. He couldn’t believe Spider actually had the audacity to tickle him. Fucking tickle him. Quaritch was a colonel for Christ’s sake, not one of his little Na’vi friends to play around with.

While Spider continued to laugh at his expense, Quaritch scrambled to come up with the appropriate reaction to his behavior. If one of his subordinates had ever dared to tickle him, he would’ve had them court martialed faster than they could say Jack Robinson. But Spider wasn’t one of his subordinates. He couldn’t exactly court martial a teenager with no rank. Technically, Spider was a prisoner of war, but no POW would ever be in a position to mess with a colonel. Besides, Quaritch didn’t really want to treat him like a POW. At a loss for how to discipline him for his insubordination, all he could do was continue to glare at him disapprovingly while he howled with mean-spirited laughter.

“Alright, that’s enough. Shut up and come back to camp with me.” Quaritch ordered. He hoped the warning tone in his voice would be enough to make Spider forget this ever happened, but Spider either didn’t notice or didn’t care that he was on thin ice.

“Oh my god, the big bad Colonel Quaritch is ticklish! Who knew this was your weakness all along?” Spider snickered.

Quaritch turned to stomp back to camp, and this time Spider barely waited for his back to turn before a sneaky little hand snaked towards his exposed side. Unfortunately for Spider, this time Quaritch was ready for him. Before he could tickle him again, Quaritch seized his wrist and pinned the giggling Spider to the ground.

“Let’s see how you like it!” Quaritch snapped before he dug his fingers into Spider’s sides just how he’d dug his hands into his. Nothing happened. He changed tactics and tried to get a reaction by lightly tickling his belly and then his armpits, but it didn’t work. Instead of helplessly laughing, Spider just smirked.

Quaritch sat back on his haunches, but kept a hand on Spider to keep him pinned. “You’re not ticklish.”

“Nope! Just you.” Despite being pinned to the ground by someone who could easily crush his ribcage, Spider didn’t look worried at all. In fact, he was grinning so wide he looked like the cheshire cat. 

Quaritch’s ears twitched down in embarrassment. What the hell was he doing? He was squatting in the mud trying to tickle his captured translator like an idiot; he was making a fool of himself! When Spider had tried to tickle him again, he hadn’t thought it through, he’d just reacted, wrestling him to the ground on instinct. Why was this of all things his first instinct? This wasn’t any way to treat a subordinate, and it certainly wasn’t a way to treat a POW. If anything, this was— Quaritch’s tail flicked upwards as he realized where he’d seen this before. A hazy, half forgotten memory swam to the surface of his borrowed psyche: a much younger, much more human Miles Quaritch play-fighting with his father long, long before he’d ever even heard of a place called Pandora. With a jolt, Quaritch realized that Spider looked a lot less like a POW getting chewed out for messing with his captor, and a lot more like a young Miles smiling as he played with his dad.

Quaritch didn’t know how he felt about that.

Before he could make up his mind, a small hand snuck past his defenses and pinched his side, sending him into another fit of compulsive laughter. Spider crowed in delight at successfully tickling him again.

“Boy, if you don’t cut that out—!” Quaritch cried, but this time there was no venom in his tone. He let his inner turmoil go and let his instincts take over. Scooping Spider up into his arms, he put him in a headlock and rubbed his knuckles into his dreadlocked head.

“Hey, get off!” Spider protested as he tried to squirm out of his grip, but there was no real urgency to it.

This wasn’t the first time Quaritch had held Spider, but it was the first time he’d done so without Spider genuinely fighting to get away from him. Though Spider pushed back against his over-sized arms, his movements were playful and he laughed as he did it. It was nice, Quaritch realized. He liked the feeling of holding Spider and knowing he wasn’t scared; knowing he trusted Quaritch not to hurt him.

Once Spider started to tire from pushing against Quaritch’s much stronger arms, Quaritch swung him back onto his feet and let him go. “Alright, you little knucklehead. You’ve had your fun, but if you go trying to poke me again, I’m gonna throw you in the creek, you hear me?”

“Aye, aye, captain.” Spider replied with a sarcastic salute.

They started to walk back towards where the other recoms were setting up camp for the night. Before they were in ear shot, Spider shot Quaritch a sly grin. “So, does the rest of the squad know you’re ticklish?”

Quaritch lightly smacked his leg with his tail as he walked by. “Remember what I said about throwing you in the creek?”

Laughing, Spider threw up his hands in surrender. “Okay, okay. Your secret is safe with me, old man!”

[rainbowsparklecur]

that one character post…. with fae …,-,,2?3))3

WOOOOOOOOOO YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

First impression

ok so FUN FACT when i first started playing i was fully gearing myself up for gilman to be my absolute number 1 favorite blorbo of all time. uhhh when i first met fae i was like "oh shes cute :]" and then didnt think much about her after that iirc..........like i thought she was very sweet and all but she didnt really grab me(little did i know)

Impression now

um. i like her a normal amount.

Favorite moment

ALL FAE MOMENTS ARE GOOD MOMENTS (except yknow. That Scene. i mean it was also a good scene but also just. hhrrggnh :[ ) however gotta say favorite was the scene with her and tizo after tizo ate the weird mushroom and got sick..........they are so precious i love them so much...friend ship..........

Idea for a story

well obviousdly theres The Dogdeer Fic but uhhh in terms of fae-centric stuff i do have uh. a few ideas. main 1 is a multi-chapter(maybe) fic based on part of faes topside ending (something about her getting taken in by some family in the commonwealth?) except i dont actually know much of what actually happened bc im avoiding spoilers so all of this could be horrifically inaccurate! so uh take it with a grain of salt lol ill probably edit it when i actually liberate her. also heres some snippets if youre inchrested lol

even if the idea doesnt work uhh just take this as practice for writing fae ok i had fun writing this and im proud of it lol

Unpopular opinion

thinks. ummm not a fan of moonheart/fae x almer romantically. also have some feelings about her not being As cuddly/social/happy-go-lucky as the fandom sometimes portrays her as but thats more like personal interpretation i guess *hides behind furniture*

Favorite relationship

UMMM......dog.......deer... they have potential.............honestly i love their relationship in game not just the potential they have i just hate how sgg was like "ummm yea almer is actually IN LOVE with fae theyre both so STRAIGHT AND IN LOVE and theyre gonna GET MARRIED AND HAVE BABIES"

however i also adore fae and tizos friendship.........theyre so precious cmon

like CMON how could you not love them. look at them

Favorite headcanon

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sifts through all my headcanons. i like the idea of her not remembering a lot of her past due to trauma and stuff(dissociative amnesia???is that the word) though i still wanna like research that kinda thing more so i dont portray it inaccurately or anything. also maybe the idea of her kinda having memory problems present day.....maybe......... uhh in terms of more light/fluffy headcanons uhhh......she likes bugs :] she loves bugs she very good with them even more "creepy" crawlys like spiders and wasps shes very gentle with them and in turn theyve rarely if ever bite/sting her. also shes maybe kinda nearsighted (if you ever see my draw her with glasses thats why lol) uh this is not projection at all. also one time i got an anon that said something about transmasc fae. i thought that was neat but uh maybe thats just me maybe im weird haha

OH WAIT ANOTHER ONE I JUST REMEMBERED when she was little she had a stray cat friend .she named him bread :]

uhhhh i think thats all THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!!!!!!!!!

[practically-an-x-man]

I won't lie. I got distracted watching a video of a guy who's tent was being torn apart by leaf cutter ants and began researching the logistics of that.

BUT I'M BACK with an ask ONCE AGAIN. And it's bugged themed. For definitely unrelated reasons.

Your characters gain the ability to control one species of bug (specific species, not all of ants or all of wasps), and they have as much time as they need to research what bug they'd like. What qualifies as a bug in this case is subjective. Anything in class insecta is fair game but arachnida is cool too.

First of all, that documentary sounds fascinating and I can totally appreciate going down a research rabbithole like that :D

Second, I love this ask, let's dive right in!!

Rae: Copidosoma floridanum - a type of cosmopolitan wasp. The main reason she'd choose it is for it being cosmopolitan, she can utilize this power regardless of her travels.

Robin: Reticulitermes flavipes - the eastern subterranean termite. She'd pretty much exclusively use this power to keep them away from the operahouse and its wooden sets (same with her parents' house, since it's pretty old)

Madison: Pachydiplax longipennis - the blue dasher dragonfly. Technically any dragonfly would suffice, but blue dashers are common where she lives so she wouldn't have trouble finding them. Either way - semiaquatic, predatory, and edible in a pinch.

Ophelia: Camponotus pennsylvanicus - the black carpenter ant. Am I stealing this from Ant-Man? Maybe. But she'd find a way to use them in her lab, for sure.

Gia: Apis mellifera - the Western honey bee. Having an infinite supply of pollinators is a surefire way to keep her shop, and her clover, as healthy as possible.

Jasper: Melolontha vulgaris - the May beetle. Oil from their larvae is sometimes used as a topical treatment for scratches, abrasions, and rheumatism in traditional medicine - it's not quite Neosporin, but it'll work in a pinch

Kestrel: Eristalis tenax - the common drone fly. Another cosmopolitan species, good for use on their travels, but small and unassuming enough that could be good for some quiet espionage.

Katherine: Anthrenus scrophulariae - the common carpet beetle. They're one of the four common species of beetles that cause damage to textiles and other artifacts in museums, so that's a 25% lower chance that they'll get damaged on her watch

Quinn: Pepsis grossa - a North American tarantula hawk moth. Its sting is said to be incredibly painful and is among the highest ranked on the Schmidt pain index - she'd go with the bullet ant, but she's a lot less likely to find those in the California desert.

Eris: Paraponera clavata - there's the bullet ant. Eris just wants to cause as much pain as possible, when they need to. What kind of bug could double as a weapon to be used in battle? Bullet ant.

Nikoletta: Periplaneta americana - the American cockroach. It's gross, and she honestly hates roaches (and half of this power would just be used keeping them away from her home), but they're so common in big cities like New Orleans that she's always got a few around to control. It's a similar strategy to Cleo and her rats, really.

Jimmy: Drosophilia melanogaster - fruit flies. Look, here's his logic: they were first used in genetics back in 1910, and they were a big deal, and he works with scientists now too... maybe they'd have use for this power of his? (also credit to the one scientific name I did not have to look up beforehand because I had it memorized lol)

Vivienne: Aedes aegypti - the yellow fever mosquito. Disease is... kind of a big deal in her time, there aren't a lot of cures for these horrific ailments, and while Vivienne itself is largely immune by being a siren, she doesn't want Wojchek or his crew stricken ill by some tiny little bug.

Spider: Sigh... I'd been so careful about strictly insects this whole time, but it would be wrong to give him anything but a spider. Hogna carolinensis - the wolf spider, and the largest wolf spider species to be found in America. He just thinks it would be cool to freak people out by having this massive wolf spider crawl out of his mouth or something. He's... an odd one, that for sure.

[sunn-kist]

Inspired by this post, I've seen quite a few people talking about this now and I wanted to add something.

You don't have to like bugs.

You can still be annoyed by by mosquitoes. You can still get angry at wasps. You can still be scared of spiders, or freaked out by centipedes, or disgusted by whatever little bug you happen to come across in your life. If you don't like bugs that's okay.

You just have to acknowledge that they are still important to the ecosystem, and all of them dying would be a bad thing.

I'm not talking about invasive species or when certain species are genuinely harmful to certain habitats. I'm talking about when people say "wasps are so useless, we should just exterminate them." Or "mosquitoes are so terrible, why don't we just get rid of them all?"

They may not matter to you, and you may find them bothersome and annoying and scary, but they matter to the other animals and living creatures around them. They matter to the rest of the natural world they live in.

So it's okay to go "augh i got a wasp sting, it really hurts :(" Or "man, mosquito bites are such a bother, I can't stop itching them." But it is not okay to go "this entire species should be damned to hell forever just because they inconvenience me a little bit." You can hate something and also respect the fact that it deserves to live.

[demonsfate]

This... coupled with Devil [Jin] calling others "insects" when he gets mad -

I like the idea of demons (or demonic like people) walking on earth and being absolutely aghast by the existence of bugs. Just IMAGINE being a demonic being, being all powerful, everything fears you... except for bugs. Because bugs don't have the capability to fear. So whilst everyone else runs away, these little fuckers persist. Walking outside and a mosquito lands on you, a wasp stings you, spiders and ants crawling everywhere around your feet, flies landing on your food, crickets in ya goddamn home for no reason.

It's actually quite understandable why demons would be quick to hate bugs LMAO. And really, anyone who bothers to keep annoying them despite them [in their minds] being obviously Superior and Stronger, is just like an insect.

[morbidsmenagerie]

Also just because I just reblogged this post and because people have been commenting on my wasp zine all varieties of:

But I have a phobia

Hate them anyway they bite/sting

Bet you've never been attacked by a wasp/spider/ect

If they stay away from me they're fine but as soon as they get close they're dead

I'm just going to! Respond to all of these!

Yes, spiders and wasps can sting or bite you. Bees can sting you. Beetles can bite you. For some reason though there's just a particular, vile hatred towards spiders and wasps. I don't even think people are generally as mad at mosquitoes for biting them, mosquitoes are more considered annoying than "kill it with fire get it away from me" stuff. I'd imagine most of you have been bitten by a dog or scratched by a cat, and yet cat/dog pictures don't get people saying "ew clearly you've never been bitten by one of those or you wouldn't find it so cute".

In most other animals, people understand that there's some level of personal responsibility involved. You got bit by a dog because you invaded its personal space and ignored its warnings, you got bit by mosquitoes because you weren't wearing bug repellant, ect. Obviously you can only minimize your negative interactions with bugs, it's definitely possible for them to get into your house and surprise you, but you can reduce the times this happens by practicing good house keeping. Crumbs, gaps in your windows/doors, trash buildup, ect can all attract bugs which in turn attracts spiders.

No bug "attacked" you. Bugs are not evil, vindictive, or out to get you. They're animals, and relatively simple ones at that. They do not have the capacity to wish you, in particular, harm. A spider runs towards you because it's trying to seek cover, and your shadow looks like a dark place for it to hide out in. Spiders have fairly poor eyesight for the most part and don't even "see" you as a unified thing, most of the time they just realize it's suddenly bright and they're exposed and they feel the vibrations of something very large above them. Wasps fly at you either because you got too close to their hive and they see you as a danger, or because you smell interesting and they want to see if you're food. If they are flying at you to protect their hive, don't try to swat at them, just quickly and calmly move to a safe place. If they're smelling you because they find your smell interesting, freeze and let them sniff around until they determine that you aren't a yummy fruit and fly away. Bees do the same thing! Most people know how to interact with bees though and don't blame the bee if they disturb a nest and get stung.

If you have a phobia, that must be really hard, I'm sorry! But understand that your phobia isn't the bugs fault. The bug isn't trying to scare you, they're just existing. If your phobia is severely affecting your ability to live in a world full of bugs, there are ways you can work on it. I'm not expecting everyone to like bugs, I just want to push for tolerance if possible. I used to be really freaked out by roaches (I lived in South Carolina and we had palmetto bugs) but I decided to actively work on it. I kept hissing roaches, because they were the least roachy roach I knew of, and interacting with them made me much more comfortable with all roaches. I still don't like roaches generally and I don't want them to infest my house, so I just keep good housekeeping practices and try to prevent that from happening. I like hissers now though, and I learned about a lot of other roaches I really like (domino roaches, cryptocercus, honestly a lot of the gyna roaches, and red runners which I also kept for a bit!) I know that is an extreme way to overcome your fear, but learning about and being curious about bugs you are afraid of does help. I used to even not like wasps! What changed my mind was reading about them (especially Endless Forms by Sierian Sumner) and actually learning about how diverse of an order hymenoptera really is. I definitely thought all wasps were the social hive building kind that sting which negatively affected my image of them, but there's so many wasps! That's part of the reason why I made the zine. If looking at pictures of spiders/wasps is too scary, there's books without pictures, or you can just ask some bug enthusiast friends/blogs for interesting facts to start out. Definitely decide how comfortable you are with exposure and don't over do it.

Also if your bug tolerance only extends to bugs that aren't near you, then that could also be something to work on. Bugs do not understand where your personal space meter is, they don't understand this contract you've made for allowing them to live. Bugs are everywhere, and they might end up in your house/room/bed/ect. It's not the bugs fault, and I implore you to try nonlethal removal when possible.

I might make another zine/pamphlet about overcoming bug hatred in general and building bug tolerance, but these are just some of my thoughts.

Also before someone twists my words and misinterprets this post some bugs are a problem! Obviously if your house has a roach/bed bug infestation take care of it! I also smack mosquitoes when they bite me! This is specifically about the wildly disproportionate hatred some bugs (mainly wasps and spiders) get compared to every other bug that could be considered a nuisance or cause damage.

[period-of-nocturne]

I dreamed about bugs a lot during a period and I hated it, so at some point I checked the meaning of bugs in dream

And they represent intrusive thoughts

Also if they walk on you it symbolise death... It's creepy af

Oh and if a bugs stings you it's a sing of illiness

Tsukasa don't like bugs so I couldn't help but imagine that one day when he was young he had a dream when some bug, like a wasp maybe, came and sting Saki and he couldn't do a thing about it and it was so frustrating

Then he wake up in a bad mood already, and it didn't get better because Saki got really sick that day

Hope I haven't write anything insensitive once again I'm sorry otherwise...

Also idk why I have so much Tsukasa HCs when I'm not even a huge Tsukasa fan, I like him like any other pjsk characters but that's about it

[ex-vespidae]

look i get that people are scared of spiders but guess what most spiders will literally not hurt you at all. and actually most tarantulas have venom which is WEAKER than a bee sting

A fucking BEE will hurt you more than a tarantula would.

god spider hatred is worse now actually with everyone going crazy over the new spider-verse movie. like. you realise all of those spider-people r basically part spider right RIGHT

its so fucking annoying. spiders are some of the most hated animals ever and they don't do anything! house spiders will chill and eat pests if you allow them to do so. regular spiders, like every animal, are vital to the ecosystem they live in.

honestly the fear of spiders nowadays feels like it was a fear campaign done so many years ago that worked and its never changed since

and its not only spiders that get this treatment, wasps do to! actually almost every arthropod (except maybe crustaceans and bees and butterflies ) get treated like absolute shit and im actually so done with it.

There is a way to try and ease that fear that gets imbedded into brain when you're growing up. Or at least it worked for me.

Play games with bugs in them, consume media where bugs aren't actively made out to be horrible creatures. For example, Hollow Knight is a game fully about bugs. The game makes you feel for the bug characters in the game and yeah sure Hollow Knight doesn't have the most accurate bug designs but its a start. Or maybe Bug Fables which has more accurate bug designs and yeah maybe has a spider as a bad guy but its more of a animal compared to most insects (and the wizard is actually a spider that doesn't harm you so yeah). Or I don't know be like me who gets attached to Queen Sectonia from KTDX who, while she is a villain, is probably one of the most sympathetic ones in Kirby

and actually the implications of some things there subtly implies wasps are beautiful which yeah they are! spiders r also pretty tho as well. hmrmr

another thing you can do is look at the cuter bugs before going into the more 'scary' ones (scary in quotations since thats how society sees them, but not me) for example, instead of going straight into the bigger tarantulas start with jumping spiders which are very small and cute and colourful, or just follow a bug account, there's plenty of photographers that take macro photos and post them online, allowing you to get closer to bugs.

there's probably different ways for everyone but I wish you people all the best in discovering the beauty of arachnids and insects and arthropods in general. also by the way you are not an animal lover if you don't like arthropods. insects make up i think its more than 80% of animal species? not sure on that part but i know its a big number. are you really an animal lover if you hate most animals that exist.

Also. To those people who post things like "I want to squish it" or something similar on bug posts. Please stop. Please leave and never come back. People who share bugs most of the time do not want to fucking hear it. Keep it to yourself and maybe think why you feel that way. Is it truly a phobia or something that you get conditioned into believing.

[ask-the-shorty-squad]

*/w group No.1*

As a team manager it's my job to motivate my team and help them in every which way possible. Never giving up is essential to being a Team Manager, if you want the spirit.

YOU GOTTA SHOW THE SPIRIT!!! NEVER GIVE UP!!!!

And you gotta make sure your Team is fully and we rested, so if they need a break you gotta give them a break! Overworking your body will just cause problems! And then your body wont be able to comprehend all the pressure and strength your forcing out and you'll hit the floor!

Its why I hated school, during P.E if we needed a break they'd make us do extra. That aint healthy in the slightest.

You gotta make sure your team always does these things: Rest, Stay well hydrated, and Eat. And dont forget Shit. Shitting is very important.

And if you wanna train your team to the max start off slow, give them plenty of breaks, and start working your way up, give them tasks to fulfill at home, obviously make 'em record it so you know they aint slacking. But making them do just the little things like going on a walk everyday for fifteen minutes, keeping that up really helps your body, obviously your legs will hurt, but thats from your old muscles breaking creating newer stronger muscles. And resting really helps that. You gotta take care of your team like they're your family, like a second family.

Guess thats just about it for me! Gonta?

Gonta will tell you all about Entomology! And why Bugs are really our friends!

I know you have arachnophobia Teru so this will help, although some spiders can be venomous they'll only ever bite if they feel threatened if you very gentle and careful with Spider, Spider will simply crawl on palm. Most spiders arent venomous at all, and they really help our houses, they keep away food flies and wasps that try and sting us, and they very friendly and do no harm at all. Most bugs are actually very friendly, like: Centipedes, Stink bugs, Ladybugs, Mantis, Earwigs, Ground beetle, Dragon flies, Silver fish, Crickets, Tachinid flies, Camel crickets, Braconid wasps, Lacewing, Soldier beetles, Cicadas, Walking sticks, Spined soldier bug, Minute pirate bugs, Roly polies, Nabidae, and Mealworms too! All very kind bugs! All our friends too!

You should come with Gonta and meet Gontas friends soon!! Gonta would be very happy to introduce you to all of Gontas bug friends!

Maybe during a time when I feel like it. At the moment, I'm not too keen.

As a chef my responsibilities are very diverse. There's a multitude of qualities that are a must when working in the culinary industry.

•  An absolute passion for food and cooking; •    A total commitment to cleanliness and personal hygiene; •    An ability to work under pressure; •    Time management skills; •    A balanced calm temperament and an ability to maintain equanimity in difficult situations; •    An acute sense of business so as to rake in profits for the organization; •    Good health so that one can spend long hours on their feet, lift heavy pots and pans, work in proximity to fire and heat; •    The ability to take criticism; •    The ability to work as a team member and mentor others once they become experienced enough; •    Has to have the flexibility to take the unconventional hours that the trade demands;

It's also important to have a very keen memory. I've made it my sworn duty to memorize not just recipes, but also my dear friends and families most favorite dishes. All their likes and dislikes are always stored in the back of my mind when needed, or written in note cards. Culinary is what you make it to be. You could take a calm slow and steady approach like with those nearby bakeries, cafes, and other various types of small stores. Or you could take on the big restaurants where business is always booming and you're constantly on your toes. Whatever seems to work for you. At times it's not easy, but nothing worth wild is ever really easy is it?

[ammonti]

i know i wasnt asked but personally i would choose to eat honey bees as theyre the bee of choice. adult bees can also be eaten with not much harm. however you still have to mind their stingers. many people eat bee larvae instead also.

in thailand they also eat a lot of bugs. its generally bugs, but they do have bees since yk. bee bug. theyre usually fried until crunchy and then flavored. theyre put in dishes lile theyre croutons or had like chips

all of this to say i could probably eat 30 or at least until i get a sensory ick of some sort from a potentially repetitive texture

receiving this in my inbox has got to be one of the best things that have occurred to me on tumblr. I think that I would choose a not as cute bee since I like bees. or a ground bee.. the ones I'm thinking of are technically wasps I'm pretty sure but they have bee in the name and I hate them because they are very territorial but also decide they want to live on your porch and then get mad when you are at your own house and chase/sting you. plus I'm REALLY allergic to their stings, once when I got stung by two it swoll LITERALLY BIGGER THAN MY WHOLE HAND and it really hurt my feelings

[basedalcoholic]

May I ask you about bugs? Especially if there’s something you’ve always wanted to talk about but never found the right moment to? Otherwise, favorite bug(s)? Why? What bug looks the coolest? The prettiest? What bug do you relate to the most?

Okay so I've always wanted to talk about the bombardier beetle it's a very fascinating bug it shoots boiling acid it's the closest thing we have to a dragon and it's so underrated as a bug and I do believe more books about bombardier beetles need to written

My favorite bugs are scorpions, isopods, wasps and bees. Scorpions are an essential predator and are environmentally important but are not recognized as such because much like spiders they're seen as scary when they really aren't they don't want to sting and are generally easily handled and isopods reverse the damage we do on the earth but we don't recognize the impact isopods make on our planet because people don't like that they eat plant roots but they also strip the soil of heavy metals and pollutants and wasps are an important pollinator we jist don't like them because they don't make honey and are more aggressive than bees and bees are great and I hate that people only talk about honeybees when they aren't even native to north America and are killing native bees and people rarely recognize native bees as bees because of honeybees.

The coolest looking bug is objectively the vulture bee which makes honey out of rotting meat and blood

The prettiest is the Malaysian forest scorpion which is so fucking pretty

And the one I relate to most is wasps because they're often misinterpreted as aggressive and purposeless when they in fact do an essential service

[a-silver-dragoness]

Just wanted to ramble for a bit. If it makes you uncomfortable to read about depression, mental health, or suicide, please do not read. Even though it can be mighty tempting to click on that READ MORE, please don't distress yourself to satisfy your curiosity.

I've always expected myself to die young. Like, I'm still just waiting around to die. Even though I'm on medication now, it hasn't helped with this... "I am waiting to die" feeling. I guess since I'm not desperate enough to take my own life, but still not okay with living this one, I resolve to just... wait. Wait to die.

I just can't wrap my mind around how I can't form simple habits like brushing my teeth or showering or combing my hair. Why is it so easy for other people and not for me? I'm trying nowadays to form these habits, but... I don't understand why it's so hard for me.

Back when I was a kid in middle school is when the problems started to present themselves. Leaving very sad drawings on the water fountains, and then getting called into the school's therapist office. I hated being there, and I greatly disliked anything to do with her.

My first suicide attempt was taking three nyquil tablets, and then getting scared I'll die. I know now it takes alot more than that to overdose, but little kid me didn't know that (for the better, perhaps).

My "second" attempt is when I texted one of my friends that I was going to jump out of a truck at highway speeds. I never actually made the intent to jump out, but the thought was so dangerously at the front of my mind that... I just texted a close friend that I wanted to kill myself. Maybe I was hoping texting him would make the thought go away. Maybe I just wanted to talk. I don't know.

After that, I learned to hide my symptoms. Stopped being vocal about it. I hated the attention it brought me.

I struggle immensely with motivation. I don't have the desire to move out, or get a job, or... be a member of society. Should I have a desire to do those things? Both of my siblings moved out, but I cannot?

I believe I would be called a hikikomori.

Hikikomori (Japanese: ひきこもり or 引きこもり, lit. "pulling inward, being confined"), also known as acute social withdrawal,[1][2][3][4][5] is total withdrawal from society and seeking extreme degrees of social isolation and confinement.[6] Hikikomori refers to both the phenomenon in general and the recluses themselves. Hikikomori have been described as loners or "modern-day hermits".[7] Estimates suggest that half a million Japanese youths have become social recluses,[8] as well as more than half a million middle-aged individuals.[9]

While many people feel the pressures of the outside world, Hikikomori react by complete social withdrawal. In some more severe cases, they isolate themselves in their bedrooms for months or years at a time.[15] They usually have few or no friends. In interviews with current or recovering hikikomori, media reports and documentaries have captured the strong levels of psychological distress and angst felt by these individuals.[16]

Sounds exactly like me.

Eh... I don't really have anything more to add. I'm actually looking forward to planting my flowers, and seeing the hummingbirds again, but I absolutely DESPISE bugs. I don't like being outside in general, but in spring and summer the bugs can come inside, and I hate that. There is no fiercer anxiety than having a wasp in the house and worried it'll sting you when you're not paying attention or sleeping.

But, I am looking forward to growing catnip and sunflowers.

[spacestorms]

parasitic wasps facts for you i recommend tagging this insects, cockroaches, and parasites please

ensign wasps are the best bug ever in the whole wide world if you're poor and live in shitty house. they lay their young on cockroach eggs, and their young eat them when they hatch. their ovipositors aren't always out but when they are they bob up and down when they're hunting. additionally, i love them, orchid mantids are my favorite bug ever but ensign wasps are my second favorite because i've seen a lot of them and they're so captivating to watch, and they're beautiful. they have an antlike face i think, most people seem to mistake them for flying ants

spider killer wasps i have a love hate relationship with because i love spiders : - ( so every time there was one in the old house i would just catch it and put it out, especially because we needed spiders. but anyway they catch large male ground spiders, like fucking huntsman, beat gusts of wind down onto the spider to make it think it's being hunted by a bird, paralyze them, and put them in either their own self made burrow or the spider's own fucking burrow, and then they lay their eggs on the spider and close the burrow off. most spiders can't fight them off because they curl up

this i didn't know, spider killers will also put dead ants in their burrow, and the ants's pheromones deter predators

cicada killers do a similar thing, but with cicadas. they also don't really sting; they usually use their stinger for just paralyzing prey. the males can't sting at all, like carpenter bees. weheeee. females are twice as large, so when they lay female eggs, because i guess they can tell somehow, they lay them on multiple cicadas instead of just one. the cicadas they catch are usually bigger than them

admittedly i had to google a lot about spider killers and cicada killers because i forgot : - ( but

watching videos of any wasp dig a hole also is just so cute

a lot of parasitic wasps are also very tiny, like little fairies, and they don't hurt humans, only bugs

there's also the fig wasp but it... parasitizes... figs? they lay their eggs in the fig. this is not dangerous to humans either, but i don't remember why and i am tired of being a bad bug autistic who has to google stuff

if you would like to hear about other bugs press a i will do my best to remember

*buttonmashes A* - if you feel like it i'd love to hear more :D

you 🤝 me <- bad autistics who have to google stuff about their special interests

this is all so cool tysm for sharing!!! i agree wasps digging is so so cute. the place i used to live in a few years ago had a tiny little pond (sorta) in the backyard and i loved to sit by it and watch all the different bugs that frequented there. my favorite was this black wasp/bee(? i think it was a wasp) that would come and dig near the water, i loved watching them and listening to the little digging sounds it was so cute :)