#cw wasp

[bonefall]

I like that Waspstar's name has some symbolism to it! Real wasps having a reputation of stinging without reason or being aggressive, when in reality they're normally just protecting their hives..

Oooo, thanks for pointing out, that's delicious.

Most of the time, Canon!Waspwhisker has blue eyes since he's a gray and white cat... but none of his kits have blue eyes anyway, and there's too many cats with this color scheme anyway.

So maybe I'll make BB!Waspwhisker have BRIGHT yellow eyes, just like a yellowjacket. I'll even make the gray patch on xeir head resemble the T-shape that a common wasp has. This mark helps distinguish a more "aggressive" common wasp from the passive (but larger) german wasp

Xey're not trying to hurt you, so don't try to hurt xem. Come openly, speak calmly, perhaps make a small offering of meat and sweets and you'll see no problems.

CW: BUG FACE. Insect. Close-up head of a wasp.

[ID: A common wasp. From top down, its head is striped black, then yellow, then a black stripe connects its antennae and dips downward into a T. A final black stripe defines its mandible and "lips."]

Funfact; the common wasp is rare in the US, but the German wasp has been widely introduced. If the yellowjackets seem "smaller" in the UK, that's probably because you're looking at a common wasp!

[tala-the-artist]

(content warning: a wasp)

A bit of lore

Beetle Khan wasn't my first choice for his solver form (and probably isn't the final draft).

Waaaaaaay back when, I had his form modeled after a Tarantula Hawk Wasp.

Of course I had other ideas (and still do), like a Giant Anteater, Owl, keeping him as a Bat of course, etc.

[chaos-potat]

I have weird paranoia about waking up with a wasp/hornet nest being in my room suddenly and they swarm and cover me and sting me endlessly 👍

Oh, I've had nightmares like that, I had a huge wasp nest above my door and my window was old so they'd come in my room sometimes

I probably shouldn't have said that if you have a fear of wasps

this is more rational than my fear, I'll say that for sure

[rebeccathenaturalist]

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[mothmiso]

Lauwersmeer (2) (3) (4) by Jeroen Hillenga

Via Flickr:

(3) Een rozengal is een vergroeiing van een rozenstruik, veroorzaakt door de Rozengalwesp (Diplolepis rosae). Deze maakt een beschadiging ergens op de plant, legt haar eitjes, spuit een stofje in waardoor op die plek van de rozenstruik een vreemdgevormde woekering ontstaat: de gal. Deze dient dan als woning voor de larven van de galwesp. A rose gall is an overgrowth of a rose bush, caused by the rose gall wasp (Diplolepis rosae). This causes damage somewhere on the plant, lays its eggs, injects a substance that causes a strangely shaped proliferation at that spot on the rose bush: the gall. This then serves as a home for the larvae of the gall wasp.     

[swords-and-chaos]

the nature of collecting silly things is that, at some point, you’re going to spend an concerning and unusually large amount of money on something extremely frivolous.

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……….. in completely unrelated news, my clown doll commission from @slocotion should be arriving quite soon.

also please go and support slocotion if you can! if you don’t know who she is, you are missing out! she’s an incredible artist and does what are like peak clown designs!

image under the cut!

sneak preview of Atlas the Pepsis wasp clown!!!

To Slocotion: I know I have said this before, but you have been so thoroughly lovely to work with throughout this whole process :D! You were genuinely so sweet for offering a commission slot in the first place! Also, pls lmk if I am sharing images of them prematurely! I know that you haven’t posted any images of them yet, so feel free to just ignore this and post images later, add onto it, or let me know and I will delete it when I am online.

[bucketboxart]

Wasp. (Requested by my brother.)

[bamsara]

I THOUGHT I KILLED ALL OF YOU

Forget the car, what did you mean by a hole in your mouth? You were talking about a cavity I hope

nah dog there's a hole there, not on a tooth AND THERES A WASP AT MY WINDOW AGIAN AS I TYPE THIS HELLLO

[dogfennel]

wake again after rest

[jimothantheclown]

I WAS SUPER FURRY IN 5TH GRADE AND THEN I WAS LIKE "I don't interact with the Fandom enough to really be a furry and I don't really draw furries much but they're cool" AND NOW IM EXPLODING BC I REMEMBERED SOME FURRY SPECIES I WANTED TO DRAW IN 5TH GRADE

KABOOM BLAAAAM FUCKING MUD DAUBER

KABLAM FUCKING VERNID!!!!! I WAS OBSESSED WITH THOSE FUCKERS!!!!

[bunnis-monsters]

I am so unwell about the idea of a bee/wasp hybrid ???? Absolutely CLINICALLY down bad.

They’d be so soft and squishy and fluffy but so angry. . . Like a poorly trained purse dog.

Trying to do literally anything but bee/wasp hybrid bf just worming his way into your arms, grumbling and buzzing in annoyance. Can’t you see your cute boyfriend wants your attention?

God you can’t bring this man out in public. To most he looks so soft and sweet, but if anyone even looks in your direction he’s threatening to skewer them. Wasps and bees are very protective, so combining them is like throwing gasoline and fire into a tornado.

He’s so clingy, you’d think he’s been surgically attached to your hip. So soft and fluffy, but handsy and a bit rough. You never know what you’re getting with him.

One second he’s snuggling into you, little purrs and buzzes as his wings twitch in pleasure, then all of a sudden he’s biting your neck to establish dominance and shoving his cock into your fat cunt, stuffing you full of his eggs.

He looks like any other bumble bee hybrid, but he’s a bit angular like a wasp if that makes sense, with a reddish tint instead of yellow. Kind of like a person with strawberry blonde hair that leans more towards ginger!

He’s got terrible separation anxiety and instead of getting nervous he gets PISSED when he can’t be with you 24/7. Will absolutely show up and start fighting anyone that tries to keep you away longer than an hour or so.

Now imagine an ENTIRE HIVE of these bee/wasp hybrids! They’re absolutely overbearing… some combine the best aspects of their differing species, while the others bring out the worst.

But god you love them, and they adore you. They’re just angry, fuzzy little things!

[frogs-in3-hills]

hi does anyone else think about april throwing herself over leo to shield him in the shredder strikes back despite having no weapons no way to defend herself and probably assuming she was going to die. does anyone think about that all the time. every day. uncontrollably

[ID: Digital fanart of Ninja Turtles 2003 depicting a scene from The Shredder Strikes Back part 2. April kneels over an injured Leo, cradling his head and looking back over her shoulder to snarl viciously at the camera, though there is obvious fear in her eyes. Her hair has partially fallen out of her bun, the loose strands sticking to her face with sweat. She has a cut on her cheek. Only a portion of Leo’s face can be seen from behind her shoulder. He looks up at her with a sad, pained expression. He has a swollen, bloody shiner on his cheek in addition to other cuts and bruises on the rest of his body. They are on the wooden floor of a dark attic. End ID.]

[beamattack]

any fellow wasp enjoyers on this site

[sersi]

Let me make this easy for you. You will bring me what I need or everything you call life will end.

Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) dir. Peyton Reed

[smugpugchimera]

Visual aid for mouthparts of Hymenoptera (part1)

(please excuse the abysmal amount of typos\misspellings) Note I'm not an entomologist and this is purely for artistic\recreational purposes and I may have gotten some stuff wrong! I've accumulated the most material about Wasps, being a common ancestor of both Bees and Ands they show a lot of variations between species, some more similar to lapping Bees and some to solid+liquid food combination of intake like in Ants. Unlike the Mantis I covered, the entire group has a fused maxillo-labial complex, which may make it a bit less clear to the eye to understand. Galea and Lacinia are part of the Maxillae Notable are the Glossae (and paraglossae) a tip of the labium, they are often fused in other insects. In Hymenoptera they form a tounge-like structure covered with setae (small hairs\bristles), whish they basically use to "lick" with. Here some common wasps blepping :D

Exampes in Hornets and a species of parasetoid wasps, that has adaptation more similar to a Bee

Some good shots of a prosterior view! (their chin?)

In their resting position, note mostly just the palps are sticking out and fold back. (similar for ants as well)

And a very nice diagram for spacial understanding of the mouth anatomy, note the Epipharynx (spelled wrong in the pic) that isn't seen on the photos, it's a chitin plate forming the pallet\roof of the mouth cavity of the insect.

Also just a fun detail, Common wasps have these little bumps on the flipside of their glossae :>

I hope this helps cause this actually took pretty long to research, even if very surface level. Second part for Ants and Bees soon. Consider chipping in on my Patreon >< Sources: 1 2 3

[skelerangart]

Totally forgot about this project I did for college. We had to design an interpretive sign for a park