#crickets pet

[dazzelmethat]

Anteater Weevil. Smaller than a great anteater and more arboreal, the species combo would eat more termites and sap from trees than ants on the ground.

@weevilsdaily Hope you don't mind me tagging you. Your blog is what got me to get down and fully design an idea I've had for a while.

I love both great anteaters and weevils so so much.

[elektroyu]

A memorial painting of beautiful Cricket for @the-wardens-torch that I finished just before Christmas! She had a lot in common in life circumstances with my own cat Schnuffel, which makes this painting so much more special to me. ❤️ I really loved working on this and also love how beautiful the suggestions for the background colors turned out! Thank you so much for trusting me with this painting! :)

js-tierportraits.de

[sonbckp]

Male field crickets, like many other species of crickets, produce sounds by rubbing their forewings together. They have a special structure on their wings called the stridulatory file, which is a series of ridges and bumps that they rub against the scraper or plectrum, a hard edge on the opposite wing. This produces a distinctive chirping sound that can be heard in fields, meadows, and other open habitats during the warm months of the year. The chirping serves as a way for male field crickets to attract females for mating and to establish their territory. The sound can vary depending on the species of cricket, but generally, it is a high-pitched and rhythmic chirping that can be quite loud and distinct, especially when many crickets are chirping at the same time.

[neogargoylecore]

Brass mole cricket tea pets ♡!

(I can't find the brand or manufacturer :(?)

[pizza-feverdream]

When you try to annoy me while I'm listening to music this is who you're messing with. Btw

[makenna-made-this]

Welcome to today's game of How Many Leaves Can I Stick On Cricket Before She Gives A Shit

[futurebird]

Tube loitering

One of the downsides to connecting your nests using long tubes is "ant loitering" some ants like to just hang out in the tubes because they retain a little moisture and it's near everything. This will cause the tubes to get dirty and less attractive... hence my new invention of a "mid tube fan."

Getting ants to do anything is next level. They respond to every change and not in the ways you'd predict. They are sensitive to temp, light levels and air currents in ways that aren't obvious. I just need to find a small enough fan and 3D print a little holder for it. 

I recently cleared out a tube that the cone ants blocked with sand, using ... the legs of dead crickets like rebar to reenforce the structure. They had made this whole barricade to regulate the air flow to the nest (hence I'd never recommend a fan on a nest tube)

I guess building a wall out of cricket legs (as struts) with a sand slurry like concrete... isn't any more strange than those early humans with their bone huts...

though I still find both creepy.

[spricket-central]

when i first met Donut, i wasnt sure he'd survive the night.

i caught him while he was hiding in the folds of my bedsheets, with my cat Wembley still in pursuit. the poor thing had taken a beating: he was missing his right jumping leg, and his 2nd right walking leg appeared to be completely paralyzed, dragging behind him as he nervously skittered around in his temporary enclosure.

luckily, his injuries were purely external, and he pulled through brilliantly!

i moved him into a large enclosure with Baguette, a solitary adult female i had rescued only a week prior. she was a tad stand-offish with him at first, but the two quickly became friendly, spending most of their time hanging out together!

his paralyzed leg was eventually discarded, possibly by him gnawing it off himself. he moved about rather clumsily, only having one leg on his right side to work with his undamaged left limbs, but he seemed to have no problem getting around regardless. he loved to climb around the enclosure, and could still haul ass when he felt surprised or threatened, ahaha.

Donut was such a character. i have no idea how he managed to fit so much energy (or cucumber) into that funny little bean-shaped body. im so glad that i was able to give him a calm, easy life after his brush with death. i just wanted him to be comfortable, but he didnt just survive: he thrived.

Donut, i love you dearly, and I'll miss you and your antics so much. i promise I'll take good care of your girlfriend. im even thinking of incubating some of her eggs, so who knows, you may even end up a father!

I'll think of you tomorrow when im cutting up everybodys cucumber 💚

Donut

10/17/23 (caught) - 1/8/24

[shrivingtoad]

Some more pictures of freya, because i have about 60 haha

Shes always an angel to handle, and once stayed in my hand completely content for over an hour (we were watching a movie) before i put her back 😅

[kedreeva]

[video description: a brown peahen with purple/blue iridescence on her neck, shown from the shoulders up in a white bathtub, surrounded by crickets she rapidly consumes while beeping happily. Partway through she makes a distorted beep because her face is full of crickets, and the camera person wheezes softly with laughter. There's a part of a flat egg carton nearby, with more crickets on it]

My friend at Uluru Reptiles gifted Bug some crickets at the end of the show today, so she got a nice big buggy dinner, and now she's passed out on my legs awaiting bedtime in peace.

[image description: the peahen from above, sleeping in a loose loaf shape atop bare human legs, on a purple pillow that rests on a backwards chair. The peahen is very pretty and sweet faced in sleep]

I love a lot of things about peafowl but watching them use their own fluffy necks as a pillow is fantastic

[janabyrd]

ough

[mtsodie]

Who is cricket?

my cat

she looks like this ☝️ her skills include chirping and jumping really high

[superfluffychickens]

Cricket is so Roumd and Shaped™️

[sonbckp]

Male crickets make their distinctive loud chirping noises in summer as part of their courtship ritual. It is like a love song to attract female crickets. You can often hear their cries from April onwards on warm nights.

[bonefall]

Have you ever heard of Pixel Cats End? If you're into petsite games you might want to check it out, especially since it's just celebrating the end of beta.

I played it! It's ok!

Honestly it's a bit too "soft" for me in terms of its site tone. Accumulating a lot of cats is too easy, and in spite of having some great mechanics related to feeding your village, building infrastructure, and a fantastic relationship system, it feels like there's no consequences to anything. No one gets sick, friendships don't fall apart, there's no way to lose cats without intentionally getting rid of them, etc.

Plus, its breeding system isn't super compelling to me, because it mostly used realistic genetics. It's not like FR or later Lioden where there's a ton of crazy markings, bases, colors, and breeds. When I played PCE, it was pretty standard cats with very normal colors and markings.

Which is a shame because I LOVED how it decoupled the breeding from standard Male/Female pairings. I'd never seen that done before.

THAT SAID I'm absolutely positive that this is all a Me-Thing. I'm sure these same reasons it didn't really land with me is the same reasons why people love it so much. Most people aren't Me who likes Lioden explicitly because the lions die lmao.

[tomorrowusa]

Pet shops, especially in blue states, could make a few extra dollars by selling Kirsti Noem signs for the purpose depicted in the cartoon.