#dancing insects

[kaelula-sungwis]

A man and his dog by Stefan Lehmann Via Flickr: .. catching the evening sunbeams.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Butterfly (Shuji Terayama, 1974)

[onenicebugperday]

@jambrandwich submitted: It's always a bit of a blessing when a normally skittish, flying bug decides that "Nah. You're my resting perch now and I ain't leavin'til I feel like it".

Okay, dude, but that means you'll be my next model! Suit yourself!

It's my dream to be a perch for every type of bug at one point or another. This one is very photogenic! It's a dance fly, for those curious.

[black-salt-cage]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[msexcelfractal]

I used to believe that bugs were little robots. Lots of people do, it’s the prevailing opinion next to “i’ve never thought about it”. Then I watched a mother wasp mourn her child. An animal who stretched after a nap and did little dances when her daughters returned from flight. Now she is opening her fourth capped hexagon and finding a pale white stillborn. She grasps the baby gently in her jaws and does not put it down for over 24 hours. Carries her loss, pacing back and forth the length of her enclosure. It is not the behavior of a robot.

So I think about the prior odds. Scenario A, bugs are robots. Why do I believe that? Because they are so tiny. Because if they are not robots then my world [where “insect exterminator” is a job title and I can buy a can of mass death at home depot] does not make sense. They must be insignificant.

The wasp makes me reconsider. Scenario B: her kind are like mine. cry when we are sad and happy when we play. Has this feature evolved many times? Or is it common to all the children of the precambrian worm? Every shark in the ocean swimming in their own feelings. Every bird and every cat knowing the thrill of being alive? The wasp made me realize that my whole moral picture is wrong. We’re not alone on this planet,

[heartnosekid]

foxbloodshop on ig

[neechees]

common windmill butterfly?

[image description: semi realistic digital drawing of a pale person with black hair in fancy shawl regalia, standing with a light smile. Their shawl is pink satin with two black ribbons sewn all along at the bottom of the hem, and white fringes. A white laminated paper titled "Red Thunderbird Pow wow" and the number "858" printed in the center of it is pinned to the shawl. The dancer's hair is wrapped in pink hair wraps and tied at the ends with pink shell, and black ferret fur dangling at the end of it. Their underdress is also pink satin, and their waist is covered with a black leather mirror belt, and the front half of the vest sits in front of their chest. The vest, moccasins, choker, and leggings have a design mimics the pattern of the butterfly wings. They wear a black eagle feather behind their head. end description.]

(send me a butterfly or moth species and I'll draw a fancy shawl dancer inspired by it)

[copperpipes]

🧚‍♀️✨She was a fairy✨🧚‍♀️

There he is, bug man, now with wings!

I've entertained the idea of mantis wings, and I know this is far from the original concept but I still think it turned out cool

Man did this thing piss me off, I don't think i will do it again

Mind, thats still repo. there's some more of him.

[addicted2wasps]

DISCO WASP!

Heydenia sp.

[avoliot]

I went out on the street to put out the rubbish and was met with THOUSANDS OF BEES IN THE AIR. THE AIR DARK WITH BEES. A BIBLICAL PLAGUE OF BEES.

Anyway they took a sharp right turn and for some reason swarmed in my garden. So I have made some Bee Association calls and hopefully someone will call me back to adopt this now super-chill swarm friend.

[aubrietarose]

You don't need to bask in other peoples' glow. Just make your own! Trying out a more buggy bug face. Aubie's got this mammalian thing going on, but I do find macro photos of arthropods to be quite charming and cute too. I just need to figure out how to best anthropomorphize them in my style! Aubie's TFTober 2024 Letter F - Firefly

[tootditoot]

midnight doodles because I spent an hour leading two moths out of the window because they kept hovering above me when I tried to sleep

[onenicebugperday]

@hechizo submitted: I saw these guys on a sarsparilla--there were so many all over them--and i was hoping you know what they are! adirondacks/upstate ny btw :) thanks!

Looks like dance flies in the family Empididae. Not sure on species but maybe balloon flies in the genus Hilara.

[naanznommz]

Should I make a Angel Dust animation in this style?

also, should I make more art in general in this style?

[justcreatingthings]

A video I took at an insect museum in New Orleans…

@basyacriptid cause I think you’ll like this :)

[crypticoctoberdays]

Day 13: Bugs!

I had this song unironically stuck in my head all day today so I made these lil buggies having a cute party :3