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pearlore · 18 days ago

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david attenborough voice. The L D Shadowlady

#ldshadowlady #life series #wild life smp #dotty shading :)#im having a great time drawing wings of course BUT i also wanna draw her as a fishy at some point!! its actually a lot of fun coming up with #different animal designs for her?? theres a LOT of excellent options out there. parrot ofc and the classic fish. axolotl. turtle maybe. frog #bat. dragonfly?? one of those pink mantises........... whale. anglerfish #i saw someone do her as an armadillo once!! superb!!!#my art #mcyt

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ventus-selphus · 2 years ago

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playing rf games after a long period of playing is so funny like. why tf do i have a dark mantis named reimu????

#rune factory #this is oceans too #i dont think i ever sstreamed this to anyone??#i remember asking ppl for names for my fairies #but not my mantises #the other mantis is named kris so i assume its one of my deltarune buddies #text

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jack-of-all-inverts · 4 months ago

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Autumn photoshoot featuring Nyx, my subadult Darth Vader mantis! Isn't she spooky! I hope to breed her this year.

Parablepharis kuhlii asiatica

Get jumpscared! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

#tw bugs #mantis #praying mantis #parablepharis kuhlii asiatica #Parablepharis #darth vader mantis #invert pets #insect #insects #mantises #bugblr #my mantises #my inverts #nyx #subadult #halloween #photoshoot #autumn

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razehider · 24 days ago

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this is Empusa pennata, a mediterranean conehead mantis, and i've wanted to see one since i was eight years old. she wasn't happy about being removed from her hiding spot, my camera, or my general existence, which made photos a little complicated, but the real deterrent was the fact that for a really long time all i could do was stand there speechless

this has been my #1 local lifer for as long as i've had a concept of "animal i really wanna see one day". now that i've finally found one i dunno what my next goal could possibly be. maybe a dodo. maybe another conehead that looks exactly like this, why not. i miss her already

(September 1st, 2024)

#my pics #bugs #entomology #insects #mantises #conehead mantises #mantodea #empusidae #empusa #bugblr #fitting that my backlog would reach what was probably my favorite find of 2024 on the very last day of the year

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reikomakoto · 11 months ago

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In honor of shinkawo day I had a little photo shoot with my mantis shinshin (named so due to being acquired on 03.03 hehe). Enjoy her silliness!!

Forgive the plain red background it was the only solid color I had at hand and I didn't want to show the mess on my desk lol

Update: she's bigger now :)

Another edit: even bigger!

She's an adult now!

#she is my pride and joy #hoping to do another session like that when she's bigger #kawoshin #mantis #bugs #mantises #mantids #kaworu nagisa #shinji ikari #evangelion #evafixation #my stuff #shinshin the mantis

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afreakingmilkshake · 8 months ago

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im getting hyperfixated. help

#I LOVE PRAYING MANTISES 💥💥💥💥💥#this close to making an oc based on them #praying mantis #insects #traditional art #my art

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littlebittyhollowbugs · 5 months ago

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Hornet headcanon!

'Hornet' is not Hornet's true name.

I'm still torn between different reasonings for her having the name either

A- It was given to her as an honorary title, by Queen Vespa, during her training within the hive (or bestowed upon her after having finished her training as a symbol of her accomplishments.)

Or B- She gave the name to herself, after the fall of the kingdom, as a way to separate her current self from her past while still honoring some part of her past. (The part that is easiest for her to look back on.)

As for her birth name my sisters and I have decided on Arachnè. (The name is from a Greek myth, where the protagonist Arachnè challenges Athena to a weaving contest, wins, and is afterwards transformed into a spider.)

#I'm pretty sure it's said somewhere #I might just be making this up but either way I like that idea #That the hive was only recently infected.#And like the mantises they could not be infected against their will but willingly turned to the radiance #because living under a hive mind is what they were used to #and their queen who had been protecting them had died.#Anyway all of this is to say #Hornet did not have any very terrible memories or trauma related to the hive at least for the majority of the time.#Which is why she stuck to a name associated with that aspect of her life.#Also! On a somewhat related note I really enjoy the headcanon that the Pale King's true name is Ozymandias that is perfect I'm keeping that #Hollow knight #hk hornet #hollow knight hornet #hollow knight headcanon #Also yes I recognize that there are several flashbacks scenes in my fic where she is referred to as Hornet #Which doesn't align with this headcanon unless we go with option A maybe #But either way idc #I have literally been constantly learning and coming up with new hcs and theories ever since getting into hk #They don't always align #Being in the hk fandom is so fun guys #Wow this is a lot of tags ok I'm done

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qephyr · 6 months ago

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DEPLOYING GAY BUG!!!

#art #CELEBRATORY SAPPHIC MANTIS!!#orchid mantises fit the sapphic flag's color scheme v well!#drew this after coming out to my dad the other day.. love you pops :']#her anatomy is prolly suuuper messed up but FUCK IT WE BALL!!#insect #sapphic

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pigeon-feet · 2 months ago

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#bugblr #bug #insect #mantis #giant asian mantis #breyer horses #personal #my pets #at one point during this she mistook the reins for mealworms and grabbed them #i removed her before she was able to chew through them but she was still in food mode so she bit the fuck out of my finger #which made me very sad bc she was holding them in her claws for a split second before biting down and it would’ve made an excellent photo #mantises are not intelligent creatures. to be fair neither am i for putting one on a horse

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fellowshipofthenoodles · 1 year ago

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I think she’s gonna go into her final moult soon! Bittersweet, but she got a house upgrade to prepare 🥰

[id: Chicken, the dark brown Vietnamese ghost mantis, climbing around on Juniper’s hands and looking around]

#the mantises #praying mantis #mantis #bugblr #I took so many pictures but she’s too small for my phone to have focused most of them 💀#inverts #invertebrates

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st1mmywimmy · 6 months ago

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can u do I just a cool bug stimboard (I really really like bugs TwT)

-Moldy anon

🐞cool bug stimboard🐛

ik there's an arachnid here but.. whatever hehhe

small fun fact! i used to own one of the blue fellas in the top middle, he was a great pet

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virmbot · 4 months ago

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^ peet (their name)

#art #digital art #my art #oc #invader zim #iz oc #invader zim oc #irken oc #mantises are the centaurs of the bug world and i like taurs so

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jack-of-all-inverts · 2 months ago

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Adult Female Deroplatys gorochovi

Penelope has had her adult molt and she is gorgeous!

#tw bugs #mantis #invert pets #praying mantis #insects #bugblr #mantises #insect #my inverts #my mantises #deroplatys #dead leaf #dead leaf mantis #deroplatys gorochovi #adult female

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razehider · 1 day ago

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shortly after meeting an adult Empusa pennata like i've always wanted to, i came across this baby one. it was roughly in the same area as the adult, so she could be its mom for all i know. either way this bodes well for my odds of seeing more in a few months

predictably it despised me and kept leaping away with impressive speed, but it was also pathetically easy to get it back on my hand repeatedly. this was another one of those that are hard to walk away from because i never got tired of looking at it (September 18th, 2024)

#my pics #bugs #entomology #insects #mantises #conehead mantises #mantodea #empusa #bugblr #it's a huge bummer how overexposed these photos turned out considering how rare the encounter was. curse you september sun

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reikomakoto · 8 months ago

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For shinji's bday I had another photo shoot with my mantis shinshin (who has molted twice again since the last one). It's incredible to see just how big she's gotten, can't wait to see her reach her adult size.