#cow ant

[ratbugs]

not to be dramatic but i would do some very horrible things to see a cow ant in real life

oh how their melodious little squeaks haunt me

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Trick or treat!!!

Happy Halloween! I hope you like your eastern velvet ant, even though it's not really an ant!

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[jenfoundabug]

Dasymutilla vestita, a species of velvet ant, in southern New Mexico, US. Despite their name, velvet ants are actually wasps. The females, like the one in this picture, don't have wings and can inflict an extremely painful sting. However, they're non aggressive and will only sting in self defense. Males have wings and cannot sting.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[paradoxproductions]

A pixel bug background!! Intended to be seamlessly tiled. Featuring the following bugs:

A rubber ducky isopod

A garden worm

A dairy cow isopod

A north american leech

A white spotted Sawyer beetle

A carpenter ant

A june beetle

A fire ant

Example of it in use! It is super cute! I recommend you open it in a new tab to clearly see the pixel elements.

Feel free to use as a background on your carrd, spacehey, etc, with credit to my carrd here!

Reblogs preferred over likes, especially if you're gonna use it! | kofi/tipjar

[brella-boi]

Day 21 and 22: Pink Crab Spider and Red Velvet Ant

The pink crab is like a catboy to me actually

[t00thpasteface]

saw a cool bug and chased it around to get a photo. found out later it was a velvet ant aka the cow-killer wasp. i'm embarrassed about almost winning a darwin award but i'm more embarrassed i didn't get a better shot...

[revretch]

Zombie movie more accurate to ant Cordyceps where instead of eating other people you just go up someplace really high and wait to get eaten by a giant cow

[nagaruantsupremacy]

[vulturevalentines]

red velvet ant (d. occidentalis) for day 22 of invertober

despite its common name, the red velvet ant is a species of parasitoid wasp. it is also nicknamed the cow killer due to its extremely painful sting.

[little-creature-of-the-day]

little creature of the day: velvet ant

pretty sexist that only the males have wings

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[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

really though it's interesting thinking about morphs where the animal's sex doesn't match the morpher's gender and how they feel about that. we know that Marco acquired and morphed a female wolf in #3 and wasn't super fond of that (maybe that's why he never uses that morph again, iirc?). of course the animal's sex really doesn't matter for most intents and purposes and generally the animorphs don't have the luxury of being able to choose. still though...

I'm trying to think of morphs used where we know for sure what sex it was. they established that rachel's bald eagle morph is male. tobias got a male hawk (and good thing too or else #3 would've been even more awkward for him, probably). presumably Big Jim the gorilla is male, going by that name. david chose a male lion morph (which actually turned out to be advantageous for him when fighting Jake in tiger morph, although I think it's more likely david chose the male lion just because he didn't want to morph a female). rachel morphed a male cat. cassie morphed the female skunk and also took over caring for its kits and I feel like there's something to unpack there but I'm not sure what. rachel's elephant morph is referred to as a "bull" which implies male I believe

rachel has a lot of male morphs but I feel like she wouldn't give a shit. certainly she would give less of a shit than marco would about having to morph a female wolf. something something fragile masculinity I guess

[lelianaslefthand]

this should be illegal LOOK AT HIM..... what the fuck... invented 🥺.. sick and twisted

[lemmiestar]

no thoughts just red velvet ant

[mijikai12]

EXCUSE ME THIS IS @lovelydarkbanana’s but girl waht

just wow

[antvnger]

The moo cow may have a chocolate marshmallow…

-Meme Lord

Like…does this cow like to eat marshmallows? I don’t - I’m confused.