#WOLFSPIDER WOLFSPIDER WOLFSPIDER WOLFSPIDER

[butchseiya]

Hope everybody is having happy holidays! Here's Bonesaw/Cindy Lou Who with a lovingly wrapped (and rather suspicious looking) gift for you!

Anyways, sharing my last batch of wildbow novel-related doodles of the year!

Wolfspider sketches

Tattletale stock image redraw from twitter

More under the cut

Noticed i had too many recent sad Tattletales so i drew her making fun of Amy for a change

Really old Wolfspider sketches

Rachel annoyed at Tattletale

I dont recall saying I started listening to Twig on here. Here's an attempt at a Mary portrait.

That's all for this year! Thank you for all the love in this community throughout 2024!

[mybonesareolderthanme]

Have we talked about how Taylor has common themes with each teammate when she meets them and they foreshadow something about her final form as Khepri? (Also ship names being based on bug things makes me feel wickedly gleeful)

• Taylor + Lisa = SmugBug = uncanny insights, could be mistaken for precognition ; reckless self endangerment

• Taylor + Rachel = WolfSpider = sudden not-necessarily-proportional violence ; brain no longer maps to human interaction

• Taylor + Grue = Dark&Creepy = obfuscation, macho power displays ; power theft

• Taylor + Regent = QueenBee = false sense of emotional detachment ; controlling people but not their minds

• Taylor + Imp = Fly On The Wall = unobtrusively spies on others ; forgetting

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Strange Bedfellows: these unprecedented photos show a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider

I stumbled across these photos while I was looking up information on leafcutter bees, and I just thought that this was too cool not to share. Captured by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders, the photos were taken in Queensland, Australia several years ago, and they quickly garnered the attention of both entomologists and arachnologists.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside as the bee approaches, allowing her to enter the nest, and then she simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

Once the leaf is in position, they seem to inspect the nest together, sitting side-by-side in the entryway; the bee eventually flies off again to gather more leaves, while the wolfspider climbs back into the burrow.

The leafcutter bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the wolfspider is equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

The photographer encountered this bizarre scene by accident, and he then captured a series of images over the course of about 2 days (these are just a few of the photos that were taken). During that 2-day period, the bee was seen entering the nest with pieces of foliage dozens of times, gradually constructing the walls and brood chambers of its nest, and the spider was clearly occupying the same burrow, but they did not exhibit any signs of aggression toward one another.

The photos have been examined by various entomologists and arachnologists, and those experts seem ubiquitously surprised by the behavior that the images depict. The curator of entomology at Victoria Museum, Dr. Ken Walker, noted that this may be the very first time that this behavior has ever been documented, while Dr. Robert Raven, an arachnid expert at the Queensland Museum, described it as a "bizarre" situation.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

[sillydog33]

Completely heterosexual interaction.

[variouspolltournaments]

Anti-Propaganda is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote for something and not give reasons to vote against something.

[meowmeow1meow]

when ur chilling with ur teammate but then accidentally start looking at eachother

[waterghostype]

protagonist’s biggest haters

[bug4932]

rachel, i wish you were born a boy

[bayward]

hai wormblr nation.. i am new (finished a week or so ago after not reading for like 6 months 💀) have an offering.. feel free 2 berate me in the notes if i have any incorrect takes because i will not fight back it has been a while and i am Tired it is Late

happy lesbian day for all girlkissers

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[germesthegenie]

Worlds Apart

I like to think Taylor adopted a dog on Aleph, like how Rachel made her memorial next to a bee’s nest. Something to remember the other by, the one who made an effort to really understand them when no one else would or could.

[shrimpler]

ive been reading worm ..

edit: girls!

[butchseiya]

Rachel is initially confused on why Taylor insists on spending time with her...

[freakingweirdo]

[phlorealcalicanto]

I just read all of Worm in like a month and I kept frantically reaching for the next chapter thinking surely, SURELY this is the one where the tension between Taylor and Rachel reaches a breaking point and they fuck messy style while some unspeakable calamity happens around them. And it just. never happens. (the fucking I mean, the calamities keep happening a bunch)

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

ok Taylor there's about a billion other ways you could have disseminated that cure to her. you could have had a bug coat itself in your sweat and then fly into her mouth when she was talking or something and you wouldn't have had to risk getting close enough for her to seriously injure or murder you. you just wanted an excuse to kiss the hot feral doggirl you've been engaging in toxic yuri with for the last 20 chapters

[sillydog33]

rachel was being so nice in arc 16 and 18.. adorable