#flower crab

[craboftheday]

crab of the day is...

the flower crab (portunus pelagisus)

fun fact: these crabs hide in the sand during the day, and come out at night!

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This spider, still chilling on her marigold.  Cochise County, Arizona, October 2022.

[tanuki-kimono]

Crabs holding flowers in their pincers, poetic ikebana vases created by ceramic artist Nomura Shunsuke

[thunderstruck9]

Barbara Balmer (British, 1929-2017), Posie with Crabapple Bough. Pencil and watercolour, 28 x 20.5 in.

[summerwages]

couldn't hep but notice...

[crabsnpersimmons]

I'm absolutely in love with your kitchen boys (especially moon, he's such a sweetheart)..

You made them so nice and cool!

I wanna give them all flowers and a kiss.

Also:

I can not smell,

My taste is lost.

But you, moonie-moo

Are sweeter than most!

ough thank you, anon! i'm glad you're enjoying the restaurant au so far!

here's Moon's reaction

he

he's been frozen in place for a few hours now

[calware]

updating my guy (me) i need to get my bangs trimmed because in real life they are not this short and aren't even bangs anymore

[callimara]

EVERYONE LOOK AT HER

LOOK AT MY SPIDERSONA

her canon event was having to decide on a color scheme for her suit. So much wasted textiles... so much money spent

[daily-crabbys]

Today's crab is: allergy season

[onenicebugperday]

Hi onenicebug! First time submitter, long time follower. Wanted to share some of my favourite spiders from this year. They are all in SA, Australia. The first one I think is a green lynx spider. Second one a Milky Flower Spider, and the last two I think is a kind of wolf spider. I am no expert, so feel free to correct me on any of those. And yes I threw a twig at the entrance of the wolf spider hole to get her to come out, I apologised though and gave her several compliments to make her feel better.

Thank you for sharing your bug love in the world, I have learnt about so many cool bugs, including blue velvet worms and the fact they are found in Australia! It is now on my bucket list to see one in real life.

Hello! I'm sure the wolf spider forgives you for disturbing her. Worth it to admire such a lovely lady. And if you see a velvet worm irl, make sure to send me a picture. Your IDs all look correct!

[ljsbugblog]

a girl with a snack.

Pink Flower Spider, female (Tharrhalea evanida), and unknown Vespid (family Vespidae), on Oleander (Nerium oleander).

[blanchelune]

Some artworks from the past 2 months

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[bjekkergauken]

Sooo, I have a weak spot for old flora/fauna field guides (Can never resist buying them when I find them at thrift stores, lol) and I tried painting some flora & fauna of Hyrule in that style

[jessiarts]

Icons for Newbies!

So I made a poll to see if I should draw some profile icons for newbies, and you guys said yes, so I whipped up this little set real quick!

Wasn't sure what to make so just went with some simple monochromatic designs based off the tumblr colors. These are free for anyone to use, but made mostly to help newbies not look like bots (because keeping the default icons and empty blogs make you look like bots, and if you look like a bot you risk your favorite blogs blocking you by mistake!)

Also, here's a free header- mostly because it amuses me, but also because it further helps signal you're not a bot. (So will making a post or reblogging literally anything. Even just making a post saying you're shy and/or just lurking for now helps wonders to keep people from mistaking you for a bot!)

Liking and/or reblogging is appreciated if you use them, and will help other newbies be able to see that they're available if they can't find their own!

I'll probably make more later. Again, I'm not taking individual requests for these, but if you have a theme or fandom in mind you'd like to see, throw me an ask and I might make another set happen.

[jenfoundabug]

Would you like a poppy?

It comes with a hug, free of charge!

Unidentified crab spider (Thomisidae) on a California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) Northern California, US