#berkeley beetle

[bagelbun-art]

A fake-screenshot attempt of these two ✨

🧍‍♀️I can't get Don Bluth's art style right yet, but I'm still trying.

[artistelect]

Watched thumbelina for the first time and I have a new bbg :)

[dopethingexpert]

old request of Mr. Beetle from Thumbelina. style was a one-trace render of the character, which gives it an unique touch

[thumbelina30th]

[bagel-bun0]

He's SO cute and tiny in this scene??? OMGG???

Angwy.

[midnightlee25]

Mini Profiles: Berkeley Beetle

Yandere type: Possessive   

Traits: Manipulative, Controlling, Clingy, Stalker, Worshiper   

Is it Instant love or one that grow over time:  

He falls for them rather quickly from the first time he sees them. 

Delusional level (0-10):  

10, he was in his own world before his darling and he will still be there after them. 

How will do they hide their yandere side:  

 It does slip out here and there but he can usually cover it quickly enough for his darling not to notice.  

Danger level (0-10):  

4, a lot of what he says stays as threats but there are rare times when he will act on them if everything else he tries fails. 

[heyhopperart]

Grundel and Berkeley characters are the best frienemies 🤣

[coleopterabyte]

ABP 2023

[abwabooyah]

My first edit ever, and it’s of this guy. Couldn’t be any more sure about my choice, honestly. 🪲

[jikothemartian-z]

Hock man I NOTTA gonna cuss but just come look at this dude

[bagelbun-art]

Ok, first time I'm posting about these two.

[Commission I asked to @blackthewolf17 ]

Mr. Beetle x Lobelia

Here's my selfship with Mr. Beetle (from Don Bluth's Thumbelina) 🌷🪲

My self insert/oc's name is Lobelia. She's a 23 year old fairy who was born with a strange condition: she's the only fairy in the valley who has wings during nighttime but during daytime her wings banish. Nobody knows why or how, she was simply born like this.

Because of her condition, this has pushed her to work day and night to keep up with her tasks and duties as a nature fairy, becoming a workaholic and barely letting herself have any free time for her own to go out to dance, sing or simply hang out with other fairies. One night a storm hits her valley and sends her flying far away from her home until she lands unconscious somewhere in the forest.

Much later, on that same night, Mr. Beetle finds her unconscious and takes her to his home to shelter her until she wakes up. Once she does, Beetle greets her and immediately starts complimenting her beauty and insists for her to stay with him. Lobelia, kindly rejects him but Beetle suggests she should at least wait until the weather is better for flying, and with that, Lobelia hesitantly agrees to stay with him until then.

Days and weeks go by and they get to know more about each other and develop actual true romantic feelings for each other. (Oh yeah, slow burn, baby 😎✨)

[Commission I asked to /jamoncillopiloncillo on ig]

At the start, of course Mr. Beetle wasn't "in love" with Lobelia. Like, yeah, he was completely attracted to her, but it was more just superficial and physical attraction.

On Lobelia's side, she did not NOT like Mr. Beetle at all when she first met him. He very often invaded her personal space and constantly flirted with her to the point it annoyed her a lot (she's accustomed to being on her own and being rejected by other fairies for her lack of wings, so ofc she'll be especially annoyed and taken aback by this).

However, she eventually recognizes Mr. Beetle has a certain... charisma and he's fun to be around with every now and then.

Their relationship develops slowly and Mr. Beetle starts seeing Lobelia more as a person than just a pretty face and respects her and her boundaries. As for Lobelia, she manages to become more self confident and lets herself have free time to dance and sing thanks to Mr. Beetle's encouragement, and she also helps him change his rude and egotistical demeanor towards people (specially women, lol).

[thunder-quartz-2]

Another villian to go silly over :3

[thumbelina30th]

[myplushheart]

here’s a meme to kick this blog through the new year door

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Preliminary Round #28

Top two will make it into the bracket

Songs below the cut

Finale - Villain: The Leading Player (Throw yourself into a fire they said, it'll be fun and fulfill you they said)

It Feels So Good To Be Bad - Villain: Red and Carface

On the Road - Villain: Mrs. Toad and her toad henchmen

Yer Beautiful, Baby - Villain: Berkeley Beetle (I like how just hearing the name of the song, I can already imagine the exact voice saying it)

From a Place of Love - Villains: Tommy and Merry

Your Best Nightmare - Villain: Flowey the Flower

The Trial (Pantheon edition) - Villain: Athena

King of Villains - Villain: Aurelio Voltaire

Cool, Considerate Man - Villain: John Dickinson/Congressional Conservatives from 1776

We Don't Talk About Bruno - Villain: Bruno Madrigal (assumedly)

[love-elizabeth]

If you saw my video on Tuesday, then you know that there’s an evolutionary reason that beetles are attracted to coontie. Furthermore, this plant is the larval host for the atala butterfly and echo moth. But what about all these other insects I saw on the coontie?!

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Weirdly enough, I couldn’t find many sources talking about that. UF IFAS had a brief mention of the fact that it attracts birds and the atala butterfly, but nothing about any other insects. 🐝 A Berkeley blog post mentioned that cycads evolved to be pollinated by beetles and small bees, but it didn’t make mention of the larger bees, wasps, and flies that I saw all over this small stretch of coontie.

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So here’s what I’d say is happening: although coontie doesn’t produce flowers, the pollen it produces must be enough to entice a large and varied collection of pollinators—especially this time of year when fewer flowering plants are in bloom.

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Something I love about ecology is that the natural world is SO VAST, and there is SO MUCH information that is either undiscovered or undocumented. It’s so exciting to be making these observations, knowing that the bees are buzzing around whether or not we humans understand why.

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#entomology #entomologist #wasp #wasps #bees #honeybees #savethebees #insects #cycad #coontie #pollination #pollinators #ecology #wildlife #bugs #florida #orlando #disneyworld #rivieraresort