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[kyri45]

🍁🧡Halloween Pride Mothmen by Kyri45🧡🍁

Some cuties for tonight! Remember to leave candies outside your door for your local horrors as well!

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Moss-and-Lichen Katydid: these katydids are covered in cryptic markings and textures that allow them to blend in with their mossy, lichen-covered habitat, and their wings even mimic the appearance of a twig

The katydids of this genus (Anaphidna) can be found in the rainforests of Central and South America. They have cryptic features that mimic the mossy, lichen-covered environments in which they live -- their bodies are covered in green, brown, and white markings that are accented by bumpy, moss-like features, and their long, slender wings are usually held upward at a 45-degree angle in order to mimic the shape of a twig.

As this article notes:

These katydids fly well and probably live in the canopy, perhaps on trunks and mossy branches, where the camouflage should be particularly effective.

The moss-and-lichen mimic katydids of the group treated here are easily recognized by their long and slender wings held upward at an almost 45-degree angle. They live in rainforests of central and northern South America, with one species ranging southward to subtropical forest in NE Argentina.

Sources & More Info:

Journal of Orthoptera Research: The Group Paraphidniae, with Three New Species from Guatemala and Ecuador

iNaturalist: Genus Anaphidna

Zoosystematica Rossica: Review of the Neotropical Genus Paraphidnia

Orthoptera Species File: Anaphidna

[midwestvivian]

N Ø E Y E S

[saturnisscreaming]

Y'know the thing people do in movies/shows where there like a monster/creature place and they poke a stick in there to investigate? Then it comes out shorter cause it got all chomped or broken? I want them to stick the stick in there and it comes back longer

I just grew your stick what're you gonna do about it

[fyreheart13]

I had a sudden and irresistible urge to do a sketch of Pattern. "MMMMMMmmmmmm, No Mating." I'm reading Oathbringer again, trying to get through all the books again before the next one comes out. But yeah, enjoy this little scribble. I love him.

[gravewilt]

You're already dead.

[thraxusrelaxus]

kind of getting emotional about Pattern right now. he knew Shallan would probably end up killing him. he knew. he was there when Testament died, and yet he still bonded her. he was so invested in learning about humans and finding a way to save his people that he chose to go on what he believed was a suicide mission because he thought the knowledge he’d gain would protect them. i know he’s a Cryptic, but he is Honorspren to me

[switchkick]

NO SOMETIMES OR MAYBE FULL SEND

reblog for sample size

[asuddensway]

vintage t shirt with ski mask print

1990s

[whatthymeizzit]

Pattern is my favorite. Shallan says "well then why don't you marry Adolin" and he gets excited, not because he'd like to marry Adolin but because the very idea of learning about whether or not he could is so thrilling to him. He just loves learning and lies. Some spren are dogs and some spren are cats and Pattern is a cat.

[kyri45]

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[cakeknfe]

[nicomoon69]

the batfam thinks tim is autistic and are like “yoo he’s like me frfr”

in reality he’s a cryptid (and autistic)

[saturnisscreaming]

When you meet The Creature (and you will) give it my regards

[etherea1ity]

archive moodboard for @jeepers-creatures

want one? request here

[horygory]

Twin Peaks (2017)