#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! :)

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[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.

[spricket-central]

heres a video of Carrot going hog wild on her veggies

LOV 2 MONCH

[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

[witheredgardenparty]

Drowning myself a bit in the concept of a yandere who prides himself on being the boogeyman of underground circles but as soon as he is face-to-face with his darling, dissolves into a bumbling mess of graceless stammering and cumbersome limbs. A tripping-over-air, tongue-tied loser who has lost all sense of cool.

In the witching hours, he is a deadly force with unyielding claws and nimble words. The daylight finds him kneeling at the alter of your every spoken phrase.

What a blessing that darling is gracious to this poor helpless sap. Such a "harmless", if occasionally clumsy fellow. And -- oh! You dropped all of your papers! Here, let me help! No, really, it's no problem. (Did he just sniff my hair? No, I must have imagined that... right?)

To the other monsters that roam the shadows, he is a heartless, shapeless void of terror. To speak the dread name is to summon him and whatever fate the wheel so spins that day.

To you, he is a perfect gentleman. A, perhaps slightly, awkward acquaintance who could never hurt a fly. Literally. You think he might be a little afraid of bugs?

You cannot help but notice things have been changing since your new friend has shown up, though. New movements in the neighborhood. Not bad necessarily, but different.

That asshole next door has definitely been treating you nicer. Suspiciously nicer. And these numbers on your bills... have they gone down? You will have to call the bank to ask about it. You are pretty sure you owe more than this.

As soon as you figure out what happened to your favorite sweater...

[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.

[jovieinramshackle]

Chris Keaton the man that you are

Save me cricket man SAVE ME!!

Anyways posting doodles as an excuse to ramble about him

I ended up changing him very slightly from the first time drawing him here, not much other than his skin and hair palette, and giving him antennas instead of regular ahoge

Chris is a 29-year-old school teacher and childhood friend to Pio (although due to being 5 years older he always felt more like a big brother). He's currently married to a woman with one daughter!

He loves working with kids, which is why he is a teacher. He tries his best to positively influence his students and reminds them to always listen to their conscience (also fun fact, a lot of his students assume he's gay because of how he behaves, so they're always surprised when he mentions his wife and child).

Not many people know this (only ones being his family and Pio's), but Chris is half-fea with some cricket-like characteristics. Most notable is his second pair of arms, which he usually hides with magic to avoid scaring the humans in his town. His antennas also function similarly to those of a cricket.

Despite being half fae and a mage, Chris has mostly known the way of humans, since he grew up around them. It's rare that he'd even use his magic unless necessary.

He adores his family with all his being and he's completely smitten with his wife. His wife works as a child therapist and his daughter always says she wants to be smart like her parents when she's older.

Pio is usually the victim of his long yapping sessions about his family (think of Hughes and Roy from FMA/B if you know them) and he usually can't do much than just sit down and listen until Chris is done.

Despite finding him a little annoying, Pio has always depended on Chris for support and guidance. He was the first person Pio came out as trans and was immediately accepted and supported.

Chris always saw Pio as a good and good-hearted man. But as he got older, he felt the need to be more independent, and thanks to certain...new influences (Fellow) Pio ended up making decisions he eventually regretted, hearing a painful "I told you so" from Chris.

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[superfluffychickens]

Sound on! Cricket was SO MAD that Hnub was standing on my knee - she’s such a character, she “guards” me like a resource and doesn’t like it when she sees other chickens getting close to me. Jealous!

[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

[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.

[spricket-central]

Pumpkin has also caught Ceiling Fever

so tiny, so talented! Good Job, Pumpkin!

[mtsodie]

Who is cricket?

my cat

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