#The Insect Queen

[malliya-gw2]

PURBOE

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Most musical insect?

Hmmmm....

It would have to be a young bug, hard bug. Chewing in a tree, gonna take on the world someday… With a multi-limb vambrace and thoracic carapace, poking its rostrum all over the place…

Weevil! Weevils rock you.

[addicted2wasps]

An old video from 2011. Yours truly picking up a queen Vespula alascensis that was overwintering somewhere in the basement and woke up prematurely. This was filmed during the winter months. I think I tried to keep her alive until spring, but she passed, unfortunately. She was so sweet. I did my best to keep her alive at the time. 😢 Please excuse the framed beetles in the background, I had just finished making that display and then hung it up on my wall afterward. I don't recommend that people go around trying to pick up any wasp that they see (especially allergic folks), but the point of this video is to show that these animals are not completely mindlessly hostile and can be very passive if shown respect.

[fairytaleprincessart]

[futurebird]

What is a gamergate?

Friendly reminder about the word #gamergate

A "gamergate" (pronounced like "gamete") is a mated worker ant with the potential to become a queen of the colony. This is believed to be how early ant colonies worked before the physical differences between queens and workers became more pronounced in the majority of ant species. Diacamma, Harpegnathos and Ophthalmopone genus ants still have this ability.

This is the *only* significant meaning the word "gamergate" has had and will ever have.

I'm sorry... but look at her. She's like a cartoon character. "harpos" are very popular among antkeepers and their ability to choose new queens makes for interesting colony dynamic. They duel each other with their long mandibles to decide who will be queen.

And they can jump!

[onenicebugperday]

Ant cockroach, Attaphila fungicola, Blattellidae

Ant cockroaches live in the nests of leaf-cutter ants and disperse phoretically by hitching rides on virgin queen ants (photo 1) or by riding on leaves carried by ants returning to a nest. They have been suggested to feed on the fungus their host ants farm and are not attacked by host workers because they blend into the colony by mimicking the odor of their hosts ants. Adults measure only about 3mm in length.

Photo 1 by leg9 and 2-4 by myrmexflora

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This queen butterfly caterpillar was tiny, as you can see by its aphid neighbors. Caterpillars and aphids all enjoyed the milkweed vine in the backyard.

Cochise County, Arizona, August 2024.

[browsethestacks]

Merry Christmas From The Superman Family

Art by Gene Gonzales

[oswaldpettyeyeart]

first meeting?

you can commission me something like this! all the info is in my pinned.

[nitpickrider]

Brainiac's miscalculation is that Luthor would ever allow himself to be commanded. And that Lana would ever hesitate. Action Comics 583

[viviraptor-art]

reason #276 that shrimpshipping is canon, their favorite monsters' names match perfectly... should we be shipping them too?

bonus:

[malliya-gw2]

[kryptonbabe]

🔥 Some hot takes on the women of the Superfamily:

Superwoman should be Kara Zor-el and neither Lois Lane nor Lana Lang – historically I know they came first, but in the universe it makes much more sense for this title to go for Kara (like in Kara Zor-el Superwoman in the Future State event, bring that costume back too, it's time to end the war on skirts, pants are cool, but skirts are not inherently sexist please and Kara is known for her fashion diversity...)

Let Natasha Irons be more than your LGBTQ / black token, we only see her as more than a background character in diversity specials and she can be way more interesting than that, she fought a powerful sentient AI in Superman and the Authority and it was so cool, she could be a valuable member of a team (any team except Suicide Squad please), let her shine even if she's not necessarily the main character

Don't make Lois Lane a super-powered person (unless it's really quickly just for fun or an old-timey throwback), let her be cool for her own merits, regular humans can have interesting abilities you know (some would mention Batman as an example even). She's an awesome investigative reporter and she could have another series, even if a limited one like the 2019's Greg Rucka, Mike Perkins one. Lois had a super popular series (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane) from 1959 to 1974, she deserves the spotlight

If you need to give powers to Lana Lang make her Insect Queen again, let my girl be weird, she's very underutilized these days either way (and I don't know... bring back Bee-boy, he had only one appearance but sure it was a tragic and bizarre story, he would do a fine super-villain or... a Doom Patrol member! This could be a whole arc about how he has his life destroyed, his heart broken and goes on a path of rage until the Doom Patrol reaches out and he finds a new family... but ok enough of Bee-boy)

Let's stop trying to make Karen, aka Power Girl, into a Superfamily member (I'm looking at you 2023 Power Girl series), she respects them, but her family is the JSA, she actively refused multiple times to be associated with the Superfamily, not because she hates them, but because she makes a point of being her own woman, creating her own legacy. She's a proud and sometimes hardheaded person yes, but that's her personality and that makes her different and interesting

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Where the fuck is Otho-ra??????????????????

[the-animal-kingdom]

Did you know, that wasps can create their own paper? This material is what is used to create wasp nests. When a lone Queen wasp finds a good place to build, she begins to chew on wood fibres, mixes it with her saliva and then spits it back out to form walls. The nest starts as a durable, vertical stalk and then she builds an inverted cup shape that has 6 sided cells, as a nursery for larva. She also sprays this first part of the nest with a chemical that is able to repel ants.

When she is done with the first part, the Queen wasp lays eggs in the cells she created and when they then reach adulthood, these worker wasps will then continue to build the nest, allowing for the Queen to resign to egg laying.

It can typically take a hive around 2-4 weeks to build a full, finished nest.

[fairytaleprincessart]

[s4tvrnsays]

Oh naw ladybug hit the shinji pose shit just got serious

Anyways have some bug girls