#buggotime

[onenicebugperday]

No ID needed, just wanted to show some photos sent my way from somewhere in Texas about a month ago

(I love being the person everyone sends bug pictures to)

They are beautiful! Yellow garden spiders are a favorite. And I also love being the person everyone sends bug pictures to :)

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I'm in an anthropology course, and there's this thing on Neanderthal skulls called an occipital bun. the thing is, on the quiz today that asked about it, I blanked on the term and accidentally wrote occudo bun. I only realized my mistake after the fact haha

hope you're having a good day!

Ah yes...

that tumblr bird...

This made me laugh, thank you for sending it in :D

[abbyshousefire]

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so hard to find a decent exorcist these days :/

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@buggotime submitted: I rediscovered this photo of this lil' guy curled around some grass from several months ago in [removed] (please remove location, thank you!) I've never seen this kind around before, do you know what species it is? (sorry if the photo quality isn't good enough for an ID!)

Without a better photo I can't say for sure but I would think either an American dagger moth or a Virginian tiger moth. Both are yellow and fuzzy with small differences a clearer photo would help distinguish.

[abbyshousefire]

@buggotime bug fact for you

the term "phasmid," meaning "stick insect," comes from a latin word meaning "apparition" or "phantom," due to the creatures' ability to hide in plain sight, and then move around and scare people.

the largest phasmids likely remain undiscovered; the longest insect known to science was a phasmid from a species that remains formally unnamed and undescribed, even since being captured for the first time in china in 2014.

a female specimen of the quasi-mythical australian species of gargantuan stick insect was sought by a curator of museum victoria for three years before he encountered one, also in 2014. upon realizing what it was, he says, “I started screaming."

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Janlynn: Smokey Mountain Cats stitched by sgivens_i.

“Judgy Kittehs ask why it took 20 years to finish. Tsk tsk. Smokey Mountain Cats by Janlynn. So.Much.Blue.”

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This was riveting

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@buggotime reminded me of you

one of my favorite things about my job that i can say to people that sounds utterly ridiculous but is technically 100% true is that one of our sea turtles keeps trying to get me to commit a felony on her behalf and gets SUPER cranky when i won’t do it

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PRIDE KITTY PINS WAVE 2 IS UP FOR PRE-ORDER!!!!

Hello everyone!! Wave 1 of my pride kitties has been a huge success, and I'm happy to announce that wave 2 is in the works now!!

COMING TO THE SHOP LATE JUNE/EARLY JULY IS THE NONBINARY, PANSEXUAL, AROMANTIC, AROACE, AND MLM PINS!!!

These pins are available for preorder now!! Production takes about 20~ days (give or take) and shipping takes about a week, so the hope is that they'll get here before the end of pride month!!

My other Pride Kitties are still available now!! (Bisexual pride kitty is being reordered too, supplies are running out fast!)

FIND EM ALL IN MY SHOP BELOW!!!!

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Fun fact: there’s a virus that makes bugs iridescent

disease that makes you beautiful then kills you

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@buggotime isn't this The Podcast you talk abt?? I see you online rn 👀

I can't stop myself from making "[character] plays Minecraft" joke aus whenever I get into a fandom. It's like a curse

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Frogs that are called "toads", but are not "true toads" (family Bufonidae), but are in a different non-true toad group...

a post for @mortimermcmirestinks

Bornean Horned Toad (Pelobatrachus nasutus), family Megophryidae, Danum Valley Conservation Area, Borneo

photograph by Marco Chan

Iberian Midwife Toad, Alytes cisternasii, male with eggs, family Alytidae, Spain

photograph by Javier Ábalos

Crucifix Toad aka Holy Cross Frog (Notaden bennettii), male, family Limnodynastidae, New South Wales, Australia

photograph by JJ Harrison 

Oriental Fire-bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis), family Bombinatoridae, found in far eastern Asia

Poisonous.

photograph by Laurent Lebois 

Mexican Burrowing Toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis), male - fully inflated and calling them fine ass females, family Rhinophrynidae, South TX, USA

This species is the only extant member of this family.

photograph by Carl J. Franklin

Emei Mustache Toad aka Taosze Spiny Toad, (Leptobrachium boringii), family Megophryidae, endemic to SE China

ENDANGERED.

The larger males grow keratinized spines on the upper lip, which they use to defend territories, during the breeding season. The spines fall off after the breeding season.

photograph: Jingsong Shi

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@buggotime isn't this The Podcast you talk abt?? I see you online rn 👀

I can't stop myself from making "[character] plays Minecraft" joke aus whenever I get into a fandom. It's like a curse