#four lined silverfish

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@ixwantxtoxlivex89 submitted: No IDs necessary. Just some random friends I've made over the past month or two.

What an excellent group of fine friends. I love them all deeply but especially the tussock moth in the third photo! And the jumper....

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𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞 |ROTTMNT| (Leo X Male OC)

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞'𝐬 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬

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In the city of New York, where it was currently night out and everyone was in their homes or asleep, a mutant was getting into some trouble, a silverfish mutant who was eating what appeared to be someone’s underwear. It screeches but as Raph makes his way over. As mostly every night, he and the others were patrolling the city and discovered this mutant running around.

“Okay, mutant silverfish, you’ve eaten people’s laundry for the last time!"

Raph strikes the silverfish, and it drops the basket of laundry it’s holding and splits into two, bewildering the large mutant turtle.

"What the…?"

The two silverfish are holding a pair of underwear between them. Completely ignoring Raph who hits them both again with his tonfas and they split again. The more they split into two, the smaller they became as well. With now four silverfish mutants visible, they look to Raph and screech before pouncing so on the underwear and start chewing.

Donnie flies up to his brother with his battle shell rotors, deadpanning at him.

“Hey, Raph! Every time you smash them, they just split in two!"

“I know. Isn’t it cool?"

"Think, Raph, think."

Raph blinks as he hums in thought before widening his eyes in slight realisation. “Oh…I guess it does double the problem. Which means double the smashing!" He informs before grinning in eagerness and started to recklessly smash the silverfish left and right.

Suddenly there are dozens of them and several of them leap onto Raph and knock him down. Mikey who noticed the trouble Raph was in comes running in.

"I got you, Raph. Oh!”

He flings his Kusari-fundo at the silverfish.

“This situation calls…”

The weapon wraps around the silverfish and he yanks them off Raph in one swift motion.

“…for a dose of my psycho-acrobatics!"

Mikey jumps around in the air, flipping up but didn’t calculate how high he’d jump as he collided face first into and the bottom of a fire escape. With a groan he slides down and he and the silverfish land in a dumpster.

The lid closes and the mutant silverfish begin chittering and the dumpster hops from side to side. Mikey then comes flying out of the dumpster to hit the ground with silverfish clinging and hitting him.

"Oh boy." Donnie sighs, shaking his head at the scene, crossing his arms at his little brother who was curled up slightly to protect his face.

“I got you, Mikey." Leo muses, having one foot on a fire hydrant before he takes it off and used his sword to slice the outlet off the hydrant, water instantly shooting out of it and soaking the silverfish off Mikey.

Mikey crawls backwards towards Raph as Leo jumps down in front of his two brothers.

"Looks like these fish are…” He paused as he chuckled at the next line he was going to say. “Wait for it, you’re gonna love this…all washed up." Leo jokes but was met with an instant “boo” from Raph and Mikey.

“Okay, okay, okay, how ‘bout this. Those bugs are so wet…”

Leo was unaware of the Silverfish all getting up, even when Donnie did try to warn him but was unsuccessful as the mutant's pounce onto him and the other two brothers, all yelling and flailing about.

"Ugh, this is getting old." Donnie groans with a brief annoyance expression, he holds out his mechanical staff and transforms it into a chest mounted weapon that shoots tennis balls. 

The balls strike the silverfish, knocking them off of his brothers and the Silverfish run away.

"Mission accomplished!" Mikey cheered, as Donnie’s weapons goes back to its original form.

“Whew. Nice hustle, Donnie. I knew we could deal with this as a team." Raph praises but blinks in realisation as he looked around for a sign of their other fellow mutant turtle Adriaen.

”Uh…anyone seen Adriaen?”

Leo perks up and looks around hastily, before gasping. “Oh no…the Silverfish got him! No! He was too young! Too handsome!” Leo wailed out, kneeling down to his knees on the ground dramatically. ”I’m right here.” Adriaen’s voice echoed over to them, he appears from the rooftop, jumping down and landing next to the once distressed Leo who was now eyeballing Adriaen with relief.

”Where’d you even go?”

Adriaen crossed his arms calmly. “I was looking to see if any of those Silverfish went in the other direction.” He concluded, Donnie sighs and looks to him with a tired look.

”You could have told us where you were going.”

”Didn’t think I had to. Anyway, you took care of things here?” Adriaen asks, as Leo stands back up and placed his arm onto Adriaen’s shoulder smoothly.

”Yep. We all totally won against the silverfish.”

Donnie stared blankly at him, holding his staff tightly in his grip. “Actually, it was pretty much just me, but segue, I think I have a little something to kick our skills into high gear." Donnie informs when he perked up at his own idea that he wanted to now show off.

With a press of a button on his wrist controller, the ground suddenly rumbled and followed by a whirring sound. In seconds a huge drill comes up through the pavement in the alley, having the boys stare in surprise.

"What the what?"

“Whoa!"

“Jumpin’ Jack Flash!"

Mikey rolls across the ground and hugs it, “It’s beautiful." He sighs dreamily but Donnie was quick to shut down the amazement of the drill.

“No, no, no. Not that."

“What do you mean not that? That should totally be the thing." Leo lightly argued but Donnie shook his head, "No, no, no, that’s just a little…it’s in beta. Don’t worry about it.” He explains, making Adriaen tilt his head slightly.

”That sounds suspicious.”

”The real thing is much more personal and thoughtful, and I really hope you like it, ‘cause if you don’t I will just be crushed!"

Donnie exclaimed which had everyone stare at him in slight surprise at his sudden declaration of being hurt if they didn’t like his gifts, but Raph quickly snapped Donnie back.

"Donnie, just show it to us. I’m sure we’ll all love it!"

“All right. Here it goes."

He presses another button, as the drill starts spinning which caused Mikey to be flung off it. Leo leans close to Adriaen’s ear, "Okay, so we’re just moving past the drill?" He muttered as the black masked turtle shrugged.

“Suppose we are.”

The drill opens and two yellow spotlights flash from the ends, shelves pop up, each holding one item and a place card with everyone’s names on them.

Mikey gasps in excitement, looking at the orange jumpsuit. "You even got my life colours right!" He praises in utter amazement; Leo was next to view his gift. Which looked to be a blue bulky collar.

"Oh-ho-ho, wow! I don’t know what this is, but it has got a lot of blinkity-blinks."

"Whoa, jazzy headgear!" Raph announces at his gift which was a red helmet that reminded Adriaen of what baseball players wore.

He observes his gift. Unlike the others it wasn’t big, but he admits it did look stylish. It was a black bracelet that he could wear on his wrist. “Huh, not bad looking Donnie.” He informs the purple masked turtle who smiled happily.

They all grab their gifts and put it on their bodies in their respective place. Adriaen had to take off one of his current wristbands so that he could try on the new one that was made.

“I’m so glad you like ‘em! Now let me show you how they work." Donnie commented and was about to explain everything but before he could he was interrupted when a silverfish screeched in the distance which gained everyone’s attention.

“Huh?"

“What was that?"

They all start running towards the sound, before stopping near a corner. Mikey had halted earlier and observed a sign above.

"Chateau Pretenche? I think I’ve heard of this place."

Adriaen grabs him by the jumpsuit and yanks him over to join the rest. They hear snorting and peer around a corner to see a large pig mutant in an alley.

“Another mutant? What’s his deal?" Leo mumbles in curiosity, tilting his head to the side. A silverfish hits the ground and rolls over, screeching as it starts to run but the pig mutant grabs it by its tail and tosses it into a bag.

Adriaen narrowed his eyes in curiosity as to what this strange mutant was up to with that silverfish. 

“You know what, that guy looks like the Meat Sweats!" Raph lightly jokes, causing his brothers to laugh at the nickname he gave the pig mutant.

Meat Sweats tosses the bag over his shoulder and jumps into a tunnel opening, but he was too large to fit in right away, struggling to get down but he eventually did. “Let’s go.” Adriaen was first to speak up, running after Meat Sweats down the manhole and into the underground subway tunnels. The turtles follow pursuit of Meat Sweats, but they kept to the shadows. 

A train goes whooshing by, but they remained undiscovered and follow Meat Sweats to his home. Hiding behind barrels, they watch carefully as Meat Sweats was humming to himself and dropped the silverfish into a pot of hit liquid.

He licks his lips and begins seasoning the pot, “Mmm! A little salt. A pinch of savory. Lemon for the tang.” He lists off what he was going and closed the lid.

“Unleash the flavor!"

"Unleash the flavor? Omigosh! It’s Rupert Swaggart!" Mikey repeats before gasping in utter astonishment. “Oh, yeah! Uh, who’s that?" Raph questioned his little brother.

Adriaen placed a hand to his chin; he had heard of the name before but couldn’t quite remember where.

”The celebrity chef. Host of “Kondescending Kitchen”. The show where he screams at chefs until they give up their dreams? I love that guy!"

Ah, right. I remember seeing Mikey watch that show from time to time.

”The last I watched the show, Rupert was slapping one of the contestants with a pork chop, and then guess what? One of those oozequitos landed on him and bit him. Next thing I know I saw my favourite chef get turned into a pig mutant!”

Mikey informs which immediately had Adriaen chime in, leaning slightly towards Mikey in bewilderment.

“Hold on. You saw a celebrity chef transform into a pig mutant and you didn’t think to tell anyone?" Adriaen lightly scolded, narrowing his eyes but Mikey shrugs his shoulders innocently.

"I didn’t wanna burn my risotto! Chateau Pretenche is his restaurant. No wonder he’s here!"

Leo taps Adriaen on the shoulder and gestures for him to look back at Meat Sweats, he and everyone else witness Meat Sweats lifting the lid off the pot to show the cooked silverfish.

“Oh, he’s not gonna eat that bug, is he?"

Meat Sweats’ arm suddenly transforms into tentacles, causing Adriaen to widen his eyes as Meat Sweats growls and snorts, he puts the tentacles into the pot as green glowing ooze travels up his arm.

He’s…absorbing the silverfish?

“Ugh! The bacteria!"

"Oh, that’s so much worse!"

“Ah ha! I feel the rush of your delicious energy. The herbs du provence, a nice touch. Hm?” Meat Sweats sighs as though he was feeling refreshed but paused and sniffed the air.

“Am I picking up the delightful aroma of mutant with an after-stench of turtle? I’m thinking lime turtle tenderloin over a bed of saffron rice."

Mikey licks his lips, "Ooh, that sounds good!" He exclaims but was quickly quieted down when Donnie claps a hand over his mouth.

"He’s talking about eating us!"

Mikey huffs and pushes away his hand, crossing his arms stubbornly. “Excuse me for wanting to be eaten in style!" He added, but they go back to concentrating when heavy footsteps approached. Meat Sweats held a mallet in one hand as the other hand still had his tentacles twitching. He sniffs the air and then begins knocking barrels aside as he searches for the turtles. 

"Yeah! Ha! It’s time to mash this pig’s potatoes. Hot soup!" Raph announces, jumping out from behind the barrels and charging at Meat Sweats.

Well there goes our hiding spot.

He witnessed Raph suddenly tripping over, looking around briefly as though someone was talking to him and he was trying to figure out who.

Huh?

He quickly stands up, “Uh, Donnie, the helmet’s talking to me!" Raph exclaims in a panic, in which he yelped when the mutant pig took a swing at him.

Donnie seemed rather pleased and stood up to watch Raph.

"Oh, goody! It’s working!"

Adriaen observed Donnie in puzzlement, “Hold on, do these accessories do stuff-“ He began to question but was interrupted when Raph yells and runs around to avoid being captured by Meat Sweats.

Raph held up the tonfas, in which they glow, and Meat Sweats hits them, causing the red glow to disappear and Raph fell down.

Meat Sweats picks him up, spins him around and flings him into a barrel. The others watch on, both unsure whether to step in and help or give Raph some time for him to start fighting back.

“How’s this for options…smash, and bash!" Raph yells, hitting the mutant pig with the mystical energy of the tonfas. 

But to both his and the others shock, Meat Sweats splits into multiple smaller parts of himself.

"Time to unleash the flavor!"

The mini mutants all cling onto Raph, hitting and biting him as Raph tried to shake them off.

“Ow! Hey, stop it! Ow!"

“Fascinating. He must have absorbed the silverfish’s powers. This represents a new level of mutant abilities!" Donnie observes, taking on the information as Adriaen deadpans at him. The mini-Meat Sweats spots Donnie and the others before all charging towards them. “Ah! Let’s get outta here!” Leo yells, quickly grabbing Adriaen’s hand and dragging him out the home of Meat Sweats and into the subway tunnel. Mikey was quick to follow behind along with Raph.

Donnie however was unlucky, tripping over the multiple Meat Sweats and being dragged back into the lair. 

“Leo let go!” Adriaen calls out, slipping out of his grasp and quickly splitting up from Leo, some of the mini Meat Sweats following him. Adriaen was running around while trying to come up with a plan.

But before he could, he skids to a halt when Mikey bounced pat him, looking like an orange beach ball with his jumpsuit now inflated. “What the…?” Adriaen muttered before blocking a jump from one of the Meat Sweats and kicking it back away from him.

He takes out his Kama’s twirling them briefly, from the side of him he saw Leo being electrocuted whenever he made one of his cheesy quips.

Adriaen quickly focused back on his own fight, slicing at the Meat Sweats that pounced onto him, but they only duplicated, making this harder than he wanted it to. ”Crap…” He hissed, backing up and running away. He needed to try and think of something, but that was going to be difficult if these mini Meat Sweats were just going to multiply when hit.

He suddenly heard beeping noises, making him look around in confusion, he listens to the beeps as he noticed it came from the bracelet that Donnie made for him.

”Too far away from others. Initiating grapple.”

Initiating what now-?

He watched in utter bewilderment when a hole appeared on the top of the bracelet and a grappling line was shot out, the line itself wrapped around Leo who was recovering from being flung back by Mikey.

”Eh?”

Uh oh-

Without being able to register what was happening, Adriaen was pulled back towards Leo at high speed. He yells in shock as did Leo when he saw Adriaen coming at him.

The two turtles collide with each other, the line wrapping around them, trapping them side by side as they were flung back into a broken tram, where Raph was inside. Mikey who managed to deflate jumped back briefly to not get hit in the crossfire of Leo and Adriaen.

The two mutant turtles groan and managed to go stand up, only to notice that they were entangled around the line. “What the?!” Adriaen exclaims in shock as Leo blinks and slightly blushed at the closeness of the two. But he wobbled after losing balance when Adriaen was moving around to free himself. “Wait, wait, wait! Oof!” Leo panicked as they tumble down onto the ground.

“What is with these devices…?” Adriaen grunts, recovering from the fall as he carefully stands up with Leo.

"I don’t know! Every time I do some razzamatazz, this suit inflates and throws me off my game! I need my razz and my tazz!" Mikey cried out, with Leo sighing and leaning a little forward in annoyance.

"And every time I drop a killer joke bomb, this stupid collar zaps me!"

Adriaen hums and said his own complaint about his “gift” from Donatello. “Apparently if I’m too far away, this thing fires a grappling line, and I’m pulled back.” He informs, looking down at the bracelet where he noticed a button and he used his thumb that was free to press it.

The line that was wrapped around him and Leo, loosens and the two were free. The line zips back up and into the hole that it shot out of.

“Well, my gift just keeps nagging me. I don’t need to be told how to think!" Raph scoffs, crossing his arms in annoyance.

"Does Donnie really think I’m a crazy kangaroo who needs to wear a padded suit, so I don’t hurt myself?"

"Yeah, does he really think I need to be told what to do all the time?"

”I’ll say, does he believe that I can’t be trusted to go off on my own or whatever?”

“Right? And who doesn’t love my one-liners? They fire up the team, right guys?" Leo added, smirking proudly as he stared at his brothers and Adriaen, thinking they were going to agree with him.

But the three say nothing.

"Anyway, we need to tell Donnie that he doesn’t get to tell us what to be." Leo comments, arms crossed stubbornly, “Yeah, I know. But he’s got such a softshell." Raph sighs, feeling a little bad. Adriaen on the other hand, was feeling the opposite. "Doesn’t matter. From the looks of it, it's like he’s trying to fix us. What are we, broken?" He rhetorically announced, but the three brothers answered him anyways.

“No."

"So, what’re you gonna do about it, leader? Huh? You gonna stand up and tell him his gifts stink?" Mikey inquired to Raph who flinched a bit but the more he thought about it the more he narrowed his eyes in agreement.

"Yeah! Yeah, I think I am!”

His cell phone begins ringing, as it showed it was Donnie who was calling him. 

“It’s him."

"Oh, he’s so gonna get it."

Raph answers the phone, and quickly turns his back on the others before he spoke in a soft tone.

“Ooh, hey buddy! Hey, um. Really loving the gifts, you got us.” He chuckles out, upon hearing his change of attitude, Mikey, Adriaen and Leo frown at him in slight disappointment.

“Yeah, we…we know how long it took you to make ‘em and it was so thoughtful."

Mikey was waving his arms around to get his older brothers’ attention, but Raph didn’t bother to look, continuing to speak on the phone.

"But, uh…uh, what’s that? Hang on, hang on. I’m gonna put you on speaker."

He pulls the phone away from his head and puts it on speaker where immediately a frantic voice of Donnie screamed out from the other end.

“Where did you guys go? They’re all over me! They’re gonna cook me alive! Aah!"

Oh, right he got caught.

The four turtles quickly sat down together to think of something on how to get Donnie back in one piece.

"Okay. Now according to Donnie’s condescending hat, I need to make a plan." Raph informs, having the three turn to him for his plan.

“What do you got?"

Raph remained silent and was concentrating, but to his own dismay he couldn’t think of anything.

“I’m not good at making plans!"

“Of course you’re not! And I’m not good at fighting if I can’t razzamatazz!" Mikey assured his brother as well complaining once more. But Donnie’s voice shouted out at them in panic still.

“I’m still on speaker!"

Adriaen was quick to end the call by hanging up Raph’s phone as he sighs and glanced at the others. “Anyone got ideas?” He quizzes, but they all just groan and sigh.

”I’m not good at suppressing my lightning wit. The point is, who are we? We are who we are." Leo states, causing Raph to nod.

“Yeah. And the only way we’re gonna save the guy who’s roasting on a spit, is by being we."

Raph holds his hand out for a hand stack, Mikey and Leo joining in. They stare over at Adriaen who sighed and placed his hand on the top.

“Let’s do this thing boys.”

Upon agreeing to being themselves they made their way back to the lair of Meat Sweats, having Mikey call out to him.

"Hey! Meat Sweats!"

“Distraction-jitsu!"

Raph makes a shadow puppet on a trailer wall, making the pig mutant snort and spins around to see that Donnie is gone, and was being carried away by Raph.

"Come back! I used an entire pound of butter on him!"

Meat Sweats throws barrels at Raph and then chases after him., having be led out of his lair, Leo pops up behind him, without his collar.

“Hey, Meat Sweats…looks like you’re about to get some shocking news!"

He pulls open the back of the mutant’s pants and drops the collar in. Electricity crackles and Meat Sweats gets shocked.

“Oh, ho, ho. I love the smell of frying bacon in the morning."

Mini shocks hit Meat Sweats who squeals in pain. Leo chuckled and leaned against a pillar; Donnie who was hiding behind it peeks out in confusion.

“I must admit, I do smell delicious." 

“Huh? Wait, what are you doing?" Donnie tilted his head and raised his brow at Leo, who grins at him. "I’m getting the most out of your gift, Donnie. Check it out. Hey, Meat Sweats, I hear baloney is full of you!" He taunted with his quips, as Meat Sweats screams as electricity hits him and then he falls to the ground.

"Hey, no, that’s not how..."

“He’s getting a little hot under his-"

Before Leo could say another one-liner, he was punched by Meat Sweats. Above said mutant was Mikey standing on a girder. 

“Chef Swaggart! Oh! Big fan.  I was wondering, um, how do you get your meat so tender?"

“You’ve got to pound it!" Meat Sweats quickly spins around only to be bewildered when Mikey comes spinning down towards him, followed by a robotic voice from Mickey’s suit.

"Impact imminent."

The orange jumpsuit expands, making Mikey bounce off of Meat Sweats numerous times, sending him flying into a train car. Meat Sweats hits the car and knocks it off the tracks with a small explosion. Mikey managed to land next to Leo in which the two bump fists. 

Donnie hops up to them, still tied in sausages.

“Hey, hey, hey, that is not how you were supposed to use those! I spent a lot of time on…"

Thudding sound interrupts him, the three seeing Meat Sweats break open the side of the train car with his mallet. The brothers gasp in surprise, noticing how the mutant growls towards them.

Meat Sweats climbs onto the side of the car just as a train goes whooshing by. When the train vanishes, Meat Sweats is no longer at the spot he was originally at.

"Uh-oh!"

Meat Sweats growls as he jumps down from an overhead girder at the three turtles.

"Omigosh!"

Mikey and Leo were quick to run away, leaving Donnie sitting on the ground, panic clear in his eyes as Meat Sweats swings his mallet down at the tied-up turtle but Raph blocks the strike with his mystic tonfas and ruthlessly starts punching Meat Sweats, knocking him back.

“Whoo!"

Raph waves his arms and then Meat Sweats suddenly grabs him around the face and begins smacking him on the ground. He tries to smash him with the mallet, but Raph backflips out of the way. 

The large red masked mutant turtle jumps at him, smashing down with his weapons, and Meat Sweats flies back. 

The helmet must’ve said something as Raph groans in response and clutches at the helmet. Meat Sweats runs at him, holding the mallet ready to strike.

Gaining an idea, Raph removes the helmet from his head and puts it on his fist.

He and Meat Sweats leap at each other, with Raph yelling out “hot soup” and successfully punches Meat Sweats in the face with the helmet, cracking it and sending Meat Sweats flying. The mutant pig groans in agony as he glared at the turtles, he stands up. “I’m gonna make sure you’re all cooked!” He threatens, taking a step forward only to be suddenly tied up by a grappling cable.

”Huh?” 

He looks over to see Adriaen standing far away with a sly grin, Adriaen gave a cheeky wave before throwing the bracelet he took off as it automatically attached onto a moving train.

With Meat Sweats still tied up, he was dragged along by the high-speed train, with only his voice being echoed throughout the tunnel.

"Aaaah! Rubbish!"

Adriaen walks back over to the others who proudly smile at their actions. Raph raises his fist, which is still wearing the helmet in front of Donnie’s face and moves it as though it’s talking.

"Donnie, your gifts really brought out the best in us."

"I’m funnier!"

"I’m bouncier!"

Adriaen shrugs his shoulders and places a hand on his hip comfortably. “I learned to be closer to you all.” He somewhat teased as Raph chuckles.

“And I’m smash-ier! Your gifts are the stuff!"

"But you were supposed to…ah, forget it. You guys are great the way you are. Bring it in. Group hug."

In an instant the brothers pile into a hug, Adriaen wasn’t much of a hugger, much like how Donnie was, but I guess this time Donnie was overlooking it.

Leo saw Adriaen hanging back, as he grabs his arm and pulled him into the group hug as well, squishing him cheek against the black masked turtle who lightly groans, but he didn’t push him away.

"Impact imminent."

Their eyes all pop open in shock as they realised Mikey was still wearing the jumpsuit.

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A/N: I APOLOGISE FOR ANY GRAMMAR MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE, I TYPE REALLY FAST AND OFTEN DON'T SEE THEM UNTIL I ACTUALLY PUBLISH THE CHAPTER.  

Aww Leo dragging Adriaen into the hug cause he wants him to be included!

Also, Leo panicking but also being deeply happy when he and Adriaen got wrapped up in the cable line was adorable in my head-

First Chapter here

Next Chapter here

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[ID: 9 digital drawings featuring several dog and cat ocs. The first features a line-up of four characters, all fire-based. The biggest three are all dogs, all a variation of poodles and having similar, warm color pallets, while a small blue kitten perches on one of them. On the far right is Feruki, a bipedal gal with flame patterns on her fur and tall, metallic boots, alongside a rib pattern on her chest. In the middle is Chark, the tallest sibling, with fur covering their eyes and a tshirt featuring a roman 3 symbol. They also have a collar and sneakers with sharp teeth on them, and a lock hanging from the collar. The dog sibling to the far left is Flark, a quadrupedal poodle with long, poofy hair and equally poofy tail, alongside metallic bracelets and a spotted pattern all over. On his back is Aura, a small white and black kitten with a blue tail flame. The 2nd drawing features a bipedal chihuahua with large blank eyes, a red eyeball for a nose, and several eyeballs imbedded into his purple tie. This drawing mimics a similar one from 2015, pasted onto the right side of the image. The next five images are taken from the first lineup of the fire siblings, the first of which feature them with fire forms. Each has a different percentage of their body ablaze, with Feruki being entirely engulfed in flames, Chark having half of their body on fire, Flark only having his eyes, ears and tails as flames, and Aura’s head being all blue fire. The other four images show each sibling separately, all in their normal forms. The final two images are of a cat and fish based character, the one on the left showing them as a floating robot skeleton resembling fish bones, and the one on the right depicting his armored form pre-breakage, where he’s shown to resemble a catfish and silverfish (the insect). Both forms have some version of a battle ax, and the skeleton form also has a large, poofy jacket with a missing right sleeve. End ID]

Cats & Dogs!

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Zuzu's Bug-ventures: Home Edition!

I'm so behind on identifying these, but most of them were from last week. Some I've already posted on their own, but I thought I would add them to the week's collection.

Bronzed cutworm moth (Nephelodes minians). I don't think I've ever looked up what moths look like when they're mating, but I guess this is it!

Eastern harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum). Found it on the porch and honestly thought it was dead. It disappeared by the evening, so either it wasn't dead, or something grabbed it

Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). Always a welcome sight

Eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons). All these directions!

Four-lined silverfish (Ctenolepisma lineatum). Without fail, these guys are always in the sink after you come back from a trip

Unsure of ID. Possibly a huntsman spider of some kind. It was pretty big and very dead

Small grass skipper butterfly (Atalopedes campestris). After 50000 blurry skipper photos, one of them finally decided to let me get a good one

Peck's skipper butterfly (Polites peckius). There were so many different kinds of skippers out and about!

Silver-spotted skipper butterfly (Epargyreus clarus). Action shot, but it was just the right angle to see identify it as a silver-spotted one

Small grass skipper butterfly (Atalopedes campestris). Yes, a second one. But it looks different enough from the first that I thought I would post it. And we're done with the skippers now, I promise (at least for this post)

Unsure of ID, but it's definitely the underside of a jumping spider

Flea jumping spider (naphrys pulex). These are so cute. They're my favorite jumping spider at this point

Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica). I have no idea how my phone was able to accomplish this one. Perfect bee. Gorgeous. No notes

Unsure of ID. NO idea. I know it's hard to see, but this extremely tiny spider made an incredible web

Dusky Stink Bug (Euschistus tristigmus). Just a guy. It was funny because my dad was like "look! there's a cool bug on my car for your collection!" and I had to tell him that it was just a stink bug

Unsure of ID. Possibly a plant bug (Megaloceroea recticornis).

Varied carpet beetle larva (Anthrenus verbasci). This was on my wall. Hopefully it was the only one!

Unsure of ID. Possibly Alebra aurea, which is a type of leafhopper.

Giant crane fly (Nephrotoma ferruginea). This one is super dead, but you can see my pictures of it doing alive stuff here.

Unsure of ID. I'm thinking just a curled up millipede

Winter ant (Prenolepis imparis). I was ready to ignore this thinking it was an ant I've seen before a zillion times. But looking closer, it's really pretty! Apparently they're usually active in the winter/cold weather, so I'm not sure what this guy was doing hanging around when it was late September and 68 degrees.

Minettia magna. Can't find the common name. The internet's just calling it a fly

Unsure of ID. Red velvet mite? Clover mite? I used to be fascinated by these little guys as a kid

Pennsylvania ground beetle (Harpalus pensylvanicus). I mean, it do be hanging out in Pennsylvania, I'll give it that. I saved this one after I saw it crawl under a recliner in my parents' house

Unsure of ID. Something in the Anthidium genus. This one is dead, hanging by a single leg stuck to a flower bud.

Long-bodied cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides). They're ridiculously cute. Also I've never seen one not upside down lol.

Citrus flatid planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa). This was my favorite (and cutest) find of the week! I thought it was a tiny bird poop, but thought I saw legs, so I zoomed in with my phone and caught this little fella! Incredible, incredible.

So there you have it for last week! In order to stop myself from getting frustrated at the lack of quality in my photos, I decided my main goal is not to take gorgeous bug photos, but instead to try and take the best photos I can with the shittiest phone camera. And I think I've done a pretty good job of testing the limits of this thing!

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26/01/23-Two photos of Grey Silverfish this morning, moon it was lovely to see out the front this evening and phone photos in Winchester this lunch time including periwinkle

For only the second time I saw a hat trick of raptors in Winchester today; Peregrine pulling apart food on St. Thomas Church and Buzzard and two Red Kites soaring with the kites tussling interestingly too over high up trees seen from my riverside dining spot by the Itchen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen majestic Red Kite and Buzzard in the air at once before, a great opportunity to see how much bigger in wing span the Red Kites are and aside from the brilliant spectacle of seeing them at the Hawk Conservancy I haven’t often seen more than one Red Kite in the air in Hampshire before where they are much more common these days. I got a smashing view of Buzzard in a tree by the railway line on the way to the station this morning too, one of a few birds I am on a top run for lately. I saw another two birds I’m enjoying of late Chiffchaff and Grey Wagtail at the river and on a pipe over the water at Abbey Gardens respectively. To think I’ve seen Chiffchaffs four times at three different sites already this month, whilst a resident bird these days, for a big spring time and summer bird is quite something. On a changeable day of weather with sunny and cloudy parts it was lovely to see nice bits of red at sunrise, rainbow from the office and a lovely emerging moon on the way home tonight. It was good to be able to make out trees again at the station with it light a little bit later now. I believe the yellow plant in the first phone photo is wattle and there is nice ivy there too of course. I enjoyed great views of two of the regular spiders in the landing tonight. 

I have been slightly considering lately after doing my usual two bridge camera in bag for office working days per month the last two Thursdays if I want to bring it more regularly. I have probably come to the conclusion that whilst I’d like to, for the sake of keeping it in tact and me not having too heavy a load to carry on my commute, bringing it more than I do (whilst I might add the odd day to the two per month for certain reasons here and there) isn’t feasible as it adds a lot to an already packed backpack. But this week, with a brilliant and unique set of wildlife seen on my lunch times in Winchester and in other parts of the day without bringing my camera at all (when I have my camera I might be a bit more alert to see more whilst looking for photos) - and whilst I am enjoying branching out into phone photos of things the last few months something I’d not really explored before as I got a camera before I ever got a phone so that’s more second nature to me for photos - it has reminded me how wonderful it is just to observe things as a great form of escapism on a working day.

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Four-Lined Silverfish - Ctenolepisma lineatum

As today’s post will show, my bedroom had another visitor yesterday, and one that hasn’t been seen for several years. Seeing out of the corner of my eye, I though it might have been a house centipede, but it’s fortunately something less sprawling and carnivorous given its large, conspicuous size. This is a giant compared to the Common Silverfish, and with a distinctive shell pattern to observe. While scurrying around, it mostly kept to the shadows covering the wall, avoiding the light, but it wasn’t so quick as to avoid being photographed and captured to be put outside. Normally, Silverfish that roam the outdoors prefer to remain in dark, moist environments, away from light, but the necessity of easily obtainable food and better ambient temperatures can tempt them to venture inside homes. Furthermore, there are plenty of places to hide inside a house, especially with a flattened body. The arrival of this insect is probably an indicator that I’ll need to vacuum my room this weekend and clean the dust behind the bookshelf and drawers. Drawn to dust, scraps and book glue, Silverfish can gorge themselves and be sustained and content in the urban environment. 

If you find Silverfish in your house, there’s no reason to panic. Simply clean up and they’ll disappear...for a while. I mean, dust and dirt gradually builds up, so they won’t be far away. But unlike other insect “pests” of the urban environment such as Roaches or Flies, Silverfish tend to not carry filth or disease with them, generally live a cleaner lifestyle and are harmless to humans. They might be a little unnerving, but they don’t deserve a reputation as “disgusting”. While they can run fast, lacking wings means they have to work harder to evade human methods of removal! Fortunately, the insect has a keen sensory system to help it navigate the environment (and avoid capture). The camera flash which provided powerful light really highlights the depth of this sensory array! Two long antennae and the abdominal sensory filaments are the standouts, but there are additional hairs and spines all along this creature’s body to allow it to detect outside stimuli and threats. There are even microfilaments along the filaments for fine-detail sensory! Paired with heightened vision (this genus of Silverfish sports compound eyes), this insect would likely know you’re in its presence before you’ve even seen it and then sprint away as the light flicks on!

Pictures were taken on August 11, 2022 with a Google Pixel 4.

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The full book title contains 3777 words and reads as follows: 'The historical development of the Heart i.e. from its formation from Annelida: Clam worm, Seamouse, Lugworm, Megascolex, Tubifex, Pheretima, Freshwater leech, marine leech, land leech. Arthropoda: Ladybird, Krill, Rock Barnacle, Root-headed Barnacle, Copepod, Silverfish, Cairns birdwing, Silver - spotted skipper, Scutigera, Cray fish, Large white, Andonis blue, Camberwell beauty, Tiger swallowtail, Regent skipper, Black – veined white, Green – underside blue, Blue Morpho, Apollo, Guava skipper, Cleopatra, Large copper, Millipede, Orb spider, Black widow spider, Giant crab spider, Wolf spider, Bird – eating spider, Tenebrionid beetle, Green Tiger beetle, African goliath beetle, Scolopendra, Diving beetle, African ground beetle, New guinea weevil, Barnacle, Lobster, Shrimp, Woodlice, Mite, Prawn, Housefly, Butterfly, Monarch butterfly, Peacock butterfly, Honey bee, Fairy shrimp, Horsehoe crab, Tick, Bluebootle, Froghopper, Yellow crazy ant, Water flea, Sea spider, Fiddler crab, Shiny spider crab, Hermit crab, Sail swallowtail, Red admiral, Morpho butterfly, Desert locust, Stephens island weta, Speckled bush cricket, Mole cricket, Dung – beetle, Euthalia ynipardus, Small blues, Termite, Hornet, Mosquito, Garden spider, Tarantula, Desert hairy scorpion, Emperor dragon – fly, Moth, Centipede, Wood ant, Stag beetle, Indian red admiral, Blue admiral, Harvestman, Hoverfly, Shield bug, Assassin bug, Cicada, Coreid bug, Rose aphid, Water – boatman, Wasp, June bug, Large tortoiseshell, Frog beetle, Mexican red – legged tarantula, Paintedlady, Sydney funnelweb spider, Small tortoiseshell, Mountain bumble bee, Trapdoor spider, Jumping spider, Daddy longlegs spider, Orchind bee, Asian carpenter bee, Parasitic bee, House spider, Giant longhorn beetle, Flea, Bedbug Beetle, Cockroach, Scorpion, Spider, Ant, Gnats, Grasshopper, Silver fish, Crab, Great green bush cricket, Elephant hawk – moth. Mollusca: Neomenia, Chaetoderma, Chiton, Lepidopleurus, Apple snail, Sea hare, Sea lemon, Dentalium, Freshwater mussel, Marine mussel, Pearl oyster, Cuttlefish, Giant squid, Chambered fish, Devilfish. Fishes or Pisces: African glass catfish, African lungfish, Aholehole, Airbreathing catfish, Alaska blackfish, Albacore, Alewife, Alfonsino, Algae eater, Alligatorfish, Alligator gar, Amberjack - Seriola dumerili, American sole, Amur pike, Anchovy, Anemonefish, Angelfish, Angler, Angler catfish, Anglerfish, Antarctic cod, Antarctic icefish, Antenna codlet, Arapaima, Archerfish, Arctic char, Armored gurnard, Armored searobin, Armorhead, Armorhead catfish, Armoured catfish, Arowana, Arrowtooth eel, Asian carps, Asiatic glassfish, Atka mackerel, Atlantic Bonito (Sarda sarda), Atlantic cod, Atlantic herring, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic Sharpnose Shark - Rhizoprioltodon terraenovae, Atlantic saury, Atlantic silverside, Australasian salmon, Australian grayling, Australian herring, Australian lungfish, Australian prowfish, Ayu, Baikal oilfish, Bala shark, Ballan wrasse, Bamboo shark, Banded killifish, Bandfish, Banjo, Bangus, Banjo catfish, Bank Sea Bass, Barb, Barbel, Barbeled dragonfish, Barbeled houndshark, Barbel-less catfish, Barfish, Barracuda, Barracudina, Barramundi, Barred danio, Barreleye, Basking shark, Bass, Basslet, Batfish, Bat ray, Beachsalmon, Beaked salmon, Beaked sandfish, Beardfish, Beluga sturgeon, Bengal danio, Betta, Bichir, Bicolor goat fish, Bigeye, , Bighead carp, Bigmouth buffalo, Bigscale, Billfish, Bitterling, Black angelfish, Black bass, Black dragonfish, Blackchin, Blackfin Tuna - Thunnus atlanticus, Blackfish, Black neon tetra, Blacktip reef shark, Black mackerel, Black scalyfin, Black sea bass, Black scabbardfish, Black swallower, Black tetra, Black triggerfish, Bank Sea Bass aka Yellow Sea Bass - Centropristis ocyurus, Bleak, Blenny, Blind goby, Blind shark, Blobfish, Blueline Tilefish, Blowfish, Blue catfish, Blue danio, Blue-redstripe danio, Blueline Tilefish , Blue eye, Bluefin tuna, Bluefish, Bluegill, Blue gourami, Blue shark, Blue triggerfish, Blue whiting, Bluntnose knifefish, Bluntnose minnow, Boafish, Boarfish, Bobtail snipe eel, Bocaccio, Boga, Bombay duck, Bonefish, Bonito, Bonnetmouth, Bonytail chub, Bronze corydoras, Bonytongue, Bowfin, Boxfish, Bramble shark, Bream, Brill, Bristlemouth, Bristlenose catfish, Broadband dogfish, Brook lamprey, Brook trout, Brotula, Brown trout, Buffalo fish, Bullhead, Bullhead shark, Bull shark, Bull trout, Burbot, Bumblebee goby, Buri, Burma danio, Burrowing goby, Butterfish, Butterfly ray, Butterflyfish, California flyingfish, California halibut, Canary rockfish, Candiru, Candlefish, Capelin, Cardinalfish, Cardinal tetra, Carp, Carpetshark, Carpsucker, Catalufa, Catfish, Catla, Cat shark, Cavefish, Celebes rainbowfish, Central mudminnow, Chain pickerel, Channel bass, Channel catfish, Char, Cherry salmon, Chimaera, Chinook salmon, Cherubfish, Chub, Chubsucker, Chum salmon, Cichlid, Cisco, Climbing catfish, Climbing gourami, Climbing perch, Clingfish, Clownfish, Clown loach, Clown triggerfish, Cobbler, Cobia, Cod, Codlet, Codling, Coelacanth, Coffinfish, Coho salmon, Coley, Collared carpetshark, Collared dogfish, Colorado squawfish, Combfish, Combtail gourami, Common carp, Common tunny, Conger eel, Convict blenny, Convict cichlid, Cookie-cutter shark, Coolie loach, Cornetfish, Cowfish, Cownose ray, Cow shark, Crappie, Creek chub, Crestfish, Crevice kelpfish, Croaker, Crocodile icefish, Crocodile shark, Crucian carp, Cuckoo wrasse, Cusk, Cusk-eel, Cutlassfish, Cutthroat eel, Cutthroat trout, Dab, Dace, Desert pupfish, Devario, Devil ray, Dhufish, Discus, Diver: New Zealand sand diver or long-finned sand diver, Dogfish, Dogfish shark, Dogteeth tetra, Dojo loach, Dolly Varden trout, Dolphin fish - Corypaena hippurus, Dorab, Dorado, Dory, Dottyback, Dragonet, Dragonfish, Dragon goby, Driftfish, Driftwood catfish, Drum, Duckbill, Duckbill eel, Dusky grouper, Dusky Shark - Carcharhinus obscurus, Dwarf gourami, Dwarf loach, Eagle ray, Earthworm eel, Eel, Eel cod, Eel-goby, Eelpout, Eeltail catfish, Elasmobranch, Electric catfish, Electric eel, Electric knifefish, Electric ray, Elephant fish, Elephantnose fish, Elver, Ember parrotfish, Emerald catfish, Emperor angelfish, Emperor bream, Escolar, Eucla cod, Eulachon, European chub, European eel, European flounder, European minnow, European perch, False brotula, False cat shark, False moray, Fangtooth, Fathead sculpin, Featherback, Fierasfer, Fire goby, Filefish, Finback cat shark, Fingerfish, Firefish, Flabby whale fish, Flagblenny, Flagfin, Flagfish, Flagtail, Flashlight fish, Flatfish, Flathead, Flathead catfish, Flier, Flounder, Flying gurnard, Flying fish, Footballfish, Forehead brooder, Four-eyed fish, French angelfish, Freshwater eel, Freshwater hatchetfish, Freshwater shark, Frigate mackerel, Frilled shark, Frogfish, Frogmouth catfish, Fusilier fish, Galjoen fis, Ganges shark, Geel, Garibaldi, Garpike, Ghost fish, Ghost flathead, Ghost knifefish, Ghost pipefish, Ghost shark, Ghoul, Giant danio, Giant gourami, Giant sea bass, Gibberfish, Gila trout, Gizzard shad, Glass catfish, Glassfish, Glass knifefish, Glowlight danio, Goatfish, Goblin shark, Goby, Golden dojo, Golden loach, Golden shiner, Golden trout, Goldeye, Goldfish, Gombessa, Goosefish, Gopher rockfish, Gourami, Grass carp, Graveldiver, Grayling, Gray mullet, Gray reef shark, Great white shark, Green swordtail, Greeneye, Greenling, Grenadier, Green spotted puffer, Ground shark, Grouper, Grunion, Grunt, Grunter, Grunt sculpin, Gudgeon, Guitarfish, Gulf menhaden, Gulper eel, Gulper, Gunnel, Guppy, Gurnard, Haddock, Hagfish, Hairtail, Hake, Halfbeak, Halfmoon, Halibut, Halosaur, Hamlet, Hammerhead shark, Hammerjaw, Handfish, Hardhead catfish, Harelip sucker, Hatchetfish, Hawkfish, Herring, Herring smelt, Hickory Shad, Horn shark, Horsefish, Houndshark, Huchen, Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, Hussar, Icefish, Ide, Ilisha, Inanga, Inconnu, Jack, Jackfish, Jack Dempsey, Japanese eel, Javelin, Jawfish, Jellynose fish, Jewelfish, Jewel tetra, Jewfish, John Dory, Kafue pike, Kahawai, Kaluga, Kanyu, Kelp perch, Kelpfish, Killifish, King of the herrings, Kingfish, King-of-the-salmon, Kissing gourami, Knifefish, Knifejaw, Koi, Kokanee, Kokopu, Kuhli loach, Labyrinth fish, Ladyfish, Lake chub, Lake trout, Lake whitefish, Lampfish, Lamprey, Lanternfish, Largemouth bass, Leaffish, Lefteye flounder, Lemon shark, Lemon sole, Lemon tetra, Lenok, Leopard danio, Lightfish, Limia, Lined sole, Ling, Ling cod, Lionfish, Livebearer, Lizardfish, Loach, Loach catfish, Loach goby, Loach minnow, Longfin, Longfin dragonfish, Longfin escolar, Longfin smelt, Long-finned char, Long-finned pike, Longjaw mudsucker, Longneck eel, Longnose chimaera, Longnose dace, Longnose lancetfish, Longnose sucker, Longnose whiptail catfish, Long-whiskered catfish, Loosejaw, Lost River sucker, Louvar, Loweye catfish, Luderick, Luminous hake, Lumpsucker, Lungfish, Mackerel, Mackerel shark, Madtom, Mahi-mahi, Mahseer, Mail-cheeked fish, Mako shark, Mandarinfish, Masu salmon, Medaka, Medusafish, Megamouth shark, Menhaden, Merluccid hake, Mexican golden trout, Midshipman fish, Milkfish,, Minnow, Minnow of the deep, Modoc sucker, Mojarra, Mola, Monkeyface prickleback, Monkfish, Mooneye, Moonfish, Moorish idol, Mora, Moray eel, Morid cod, Morwong, Moses sole, Mosquitofish, Mouthbrooder, Mozambique tilapia, Mrigal, Mud catfish (Mud cat), Mudfish, Mudminnow, Mud minnow, Mudskipper, Mudsucker, Mullet, Mummichog, Murray cod, Muskellunge, Mustache triggerfish, Mustard eel, Naked-back knifefish, Nase, Needlefish, Neon tetra, New World rivuline, New Zealand smelt, Nibble fish, Noodlefish, North American darter, North American freshwater catfish, North Pacific daggertooth, Northern anchovy, Northern clingfish, Northern lampfish, Northern pike, Northern sea robin, Northern squawfish, Northern stargazer, Notothen, Nurseryfish, Nurse shark, Oarfish, Ocean perch, Ocean sunfish, Oceanic whitetip shark, Oilfish, Oldwife, Old World knifefish, Olive flounder, Opah, Opaleye, Orange roughy, Orangespine unicorn fish, Orangestriped triggerfish, Orbicular batfish, Orbicular velvetfish, Oregon chub, Orfe, Oriental loach, Oscar, Owens pupfish, Pacific albacore, Pacific cod, Pacific hake, Pacific herring, Pacific lamprey, Pacific salmo, Pacific saury, Pacific trout, Pacific viperfish, Paddlefish, Pancake batfish, Panga, Paradise fish, Parasitic catfish, Parore, Parrotfish, Peacock flounder, Peamouth, Pearleye, Pearlfish, Pearl danio, Pearl perch, Pelagic cod, Pelican eel, Pelican gulper, Pencil catfish, Pencilfish, Pencilsmelt, Peppered corydoras, Perch, Peters' elephantnose fish, Pickerel, Pigfish, Pike conger, Pike eel, Pike, Pikeblenny, Pikeperch, Pilchard, Pilot fish, Pineapplefish, Pineconefish, Pink salmon, Píntano, Pipefish, Piranha, Pirarucu, Pirate perch, Plaice, Platy, Platyfish, Pleco, Plownose chimaera, Poacher, Pollock, Pomfret, Pompano dolphinfish, Ponyfish, Popeye catalufa, Porbeagle shark, Porcupinefish, Porgy, Port Jackson shark, Powen, Prickleback, Pricklefish, Prickly shark, Prowfish, Pufferfish, Pumpkinseed, Pupfish, Pygmy sunfish, Queen danio, Queen parrotfish, Queen triggerfish, Quillback, Quillfish, Rabbitfish, Raccoon butterfly fish, Ragfish, Rainbow trout, Rainbowfish, Rasbora, Ratfish, Rattail, Ray, Razorback sucker, Razorfish, Red Grouper, Red salmon, Red snapper, Redfin perch, Redfish, Redhorse sucker, Redlip blenny, Redmouth whalefish, Redtooth triggerfish, Red velvetfish, Red whalefish, Reedfish, Reef triggerfish, Remora, Requiem shark, Ribbon eel, Ribbon sawtail fish, Ribbonfish, Rice eel, Ricefish, Ridgehead, Riffle dace, Righteye flounder, Rio Grande perch, River loach, River shark, River stingray, Rivuline, Roach, Roanoke bass, Rock bass, Rock beauty, Rock cod, Rocket danio, Rockfish, Rockling, Rockweed gunnel, Rohu, Ronquil, Roosterfish, Ropefish, Rough scad, Rough sculpin, Roughy, Roundhead, Round herring, Round stingray, Round whitefish, Rudd, Rudderfish, Ruffe, Russian sturgeon, Sábalo, Sabertooth, Saber-toothed blenny, Sabertooth fish, Sablefish, Sacramento blackfish, Sacramento splittail, Sailfin silverside, Sailfish, Salamanderfish, Salmon, Salmon shark, Sandbar shark, Sandburrower, Sand dab, Sand diver, Sand eel, Sandfish, Sand goby, Sand knifefish, Sand lance, Sandperch, Sandroller, Sand stargazer, Sand tiger, Sand tilefish, Sandbar Shark - Carchathinus plumbeus, Sarcastic fringehead, Sardine, Sargassum fish, Sauger, Saury, Sawfishm, Saw shark, Sawtooth eel, Scabbard fish, Scaly dragonfish, Scat, Scissortail rasbora, Scorpionfish, Sculpin, Scup, Sea bass, Sea bream, Sea catfish, Sea chub, Sea devil, Sea dragon, Sea lamprey, Sea raven, Sea snail, Sea toad, Seahorse, Seamoth, Searobin, Sevan trout, Sergeant major, Shad, Shark, Sharksucker, Sharpnose puffer, Sheatfish, Sheepshead, Sheepshead minnow, Shiner, Shortnose chimaera, Shortnose sucker, Shovelnose sturgeon, Shrimpfish, Siamese fighting fish, Sillago, Silver carp, Silver dollar, Silver dory, Silver hake, Silverside, Silvertip tetra, Sind danio, Sixgill ray, Sixgill shark, Skate, Skilfish, Skipjack tuna, Slender mola, Slender snipe eel, Sleeper, Sleeper shark, Slickhead, Slimehead, Slimy mackerel, Slimy sculpin, Slipmouth, Smalleye squaretail, Smalltooth sawfish, Smelt, Smelt-whiting, Smooth dogfish, Snailfish, Snake eel, Snakehead, Snake mackerel, Snapper, Snipe eel, Snipefish, Snoek, Snook, Snubnose eel, Snubnose parasitic eel, Sockeye salmon, Soldierfish, Sole, South American darter, South American lungfish, Southern Dolly Varden, Southern flounder, Southern hake, Southern sandfish, Southern smelt, Spadefish, Spaghetti eel, Spanish mackerel, Spearfish, Speckled trout, Spiderfish, Spikefish, Spinefoot, Spiny basslet, Spiny dogfish, Spiny dwarf catfish, Spiny eel, Spinyfin, Splitfin, Spookfish, Spotted climbing perch, Spotted danio, Spottail Pinfish - Diplodus holbrooki, Sprat, Springfish, Squarehead catfish, Squaretail, Squawfish, Squeaker, Squirrelfish, Staghorn sculpin, Stargazer, Starry flounder, Steelhead, Stickleback, Stingfish, Stingray, Stonecat, Stonefish, Stoneroller minnow, Stream catfish, Striped bass, Striped burrfish, Sturgeon, Sucker, Suckermouth armored catfish, Summer flounder, Sundaland noodlefish,Sunfish, Surf sardine, Surfperch, Surgeonfish, Swallower, Swamp-eel, Swampfish, Sweeper, Swordfish, Swordtail, Tadpole cod, Tadpole fish, Tailor, Taimen, Tang, Tapetail, Tarpon, Tarwhine, Telescopefish, Temperate bass, Temperate perch, Tenpounder, Tenuis, Tetra, Thorny catfish, Thornfish, Threadfin, Threadfin bream, Thread-tail, Three spot gourami, Threespine stickleback, Three-toothed puffer, Thresher shark, Tidewater goby, Tiger barb, Tigerperch, Tiger shark, Tiger shovelnose catfish, Tilapia, Tilefish, Titan triggerfish, Toadfish, Tommy ruff, Tompot blenny, Tonguefish, Tope, Topminnow, Torpedo, Torrent catfish, Torrent fish, Trahira, Treefish, Trevally, Triggerfish, Triplefin blenny, Triplespine, Tripletail, Tripod fish, Trout, Trout cod, Trout-perch, Trumpeter, Trumpetfish, Trunkfish, Tubeblenny, Tube-eye, Tube-snout, Tubeshoulder, Tui chub, Tuna, Turbot, Two spotted goby, Uaru, Unicorn fish, Upside-down catfish, Vanjaram, Velvet belly lanternshark, Velvet catfish, Velvetfish, Vermillion Snapper - Rhomboplites aurorubens, Vimba, Viperfish, Wahoo, Walking catfish, Wallago, Walleye, Walleye Pollock, Walu, Warmouth, Warty angler, Waryfish, Waspfish, Weasel shark, Weatherfish, Weever, Weeverfish, Wels catfish, Whale catfish, Whalefish, Whale shark, Whiff, Whitebait, White croaker, Whitefish, White marlin, White shark, Whitetip reef shark, Whiting, Wobbegong, Wolf-eel, Wolffish, Wolf-herring, Worm eel, Wormfish, Wrasse, Wrymouth, X-ray fish, Yellowback fusilier, Yellowbanded perch, Yellow bass, Yellowedge grouper (Hyporthodus flavolimbatus), Yellow-edged moray, Yellow-eye mullet, Yellowhead jawfish, Yellowfin croaker, Yellowfin cutthroat trout, Yellowfin grouper, Yellowfin Tuna - Thunnus albacares, Yellowfin pike, Yellowfin surgeonfish, Yellowfin tuna, Yellowmargin triggerfish, Yellow moray, Yellow perch, Yellowtail, Yellowtail amberjack, Yellowtail barracuda, Yellowtail clownfish, Yellowtail horse mackerel, Yellowtail kingfish, Yellowtail snapper, Yellow tang, Yellow weaver, Yellowtail catfish, Zander, Zebra bullhead shark, Zebra danio, Zebrafish, Zebra lionfish, Zebra loach, Zebra oto, Zebra pleco, Zebra shark, Zebra tilapia, Zebra turkeyfish, Ziege, Zingel. Amphibians: Frogs and Toads, Painted frogs, Disc tongued frogs, Fire Belly toads, Litter frogs, European Spadefoot toads, Parsley frogs, Tongueless frogs, Clawed frogs, Mexican Burrowing Toad, American spadefoot toads, Screeching frogs, True toads, Glass Frogs, Poison dart frogs, Ghost frogs, Shovelnose frogs, Tree frogs, Sedge frogs, Southern frogs, Narrow-mouthed frogs, Australian ground frogs, True frogs, Moss frogs, Seychelles frog, Giant Salamanders, Asiatic Salamanders, Mole Salamanders, Pacific giant salamanders, Amphiumas, Lungless salamanders, Mudpuppies and Waterdogs, Torrent salamanders, True salamanders and Newts, Sirens, Common caecilians, Fish caecilians, Beaked caecilians. Reptiles: Turtles, common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtle, pond turtles and box turtles, tortoises, Asian river turtles and allies, pignose turtles, softshell turtles, river turtles, mud turtles, sea turtles, leatherback turtles, tuataras, scaled reptiles, agamas, chameleons, casquehead lizard, iguanas, Madagascar iguanids, collared and leopard lizards, horned lizards, anoles, wood lizards, Neotropical ground lizards, geckos, legless lizards, blind lizards, spinytail Lizards, plated lizards, spectacled lizards, whiptails and tegus, Lacertids, skinks, night lizards, glass lizards, American legless lizards, knob-scaled lizards, gila monsters, earless Monitor lizards, monitor lizards, worm Lizards, shorthead Worm Lizards, two-legged Worm Lizards, snakes, wart snakes, false coral snakes, dwarf pipe snakes, African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes, boas, anacondas, Old World sand boas, Mauritius snakes, Colubrids, typical snakes, Asian pipe snakes, cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes, Mexican pythons, pythons, dwarf boas, pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes, vipers, pitvipers, Fae's viper, night adders, pitvipers, rattlesnakes, true vipers, sunbeam snakes, blind snakes, primitive blind snakes, slender blind snakes, thread snakes, blind snakes, typical blind snakes, Crocodiles, alligators, garials. Aves: Ostrich, rheas, cassowaries and emu, kiwis, elephant birds, upland moas, great moas, lesser moas, Tinamous, Australian brush turkey,megapodes, chachalacas, curassows, and guans, Guineafowl, pheasants and allies, New World quail, pheasants and relatives, mihirungs, screamers, magpie-goose, ducks, geese, and swans, grebes, swimming flamingos, flamingos, pigeons and doves, sandgrouse, mesites, Tawny frogmouth, Nightjars, oilbird, potoos, frogmouths, owlet-nightjars, treeswifts, swifts, hummingbird, cuckoos and relatives, turacos and relatives, bustards, hoatzin, cranes and allies, cranes, limpkin, trumpeters, rails and allies, adzebills, finfoots, flufftails, rails and relatives, thick-knees and allies, thick-knees and relatives, sheathbills, Magellanic plover, plover-like waders, golden plovers, ibisbill, oystercatchers, plovers and lapwings, jacana-like waders, painted snipes, Egyptian plover, jacanas, seedsnipes, plains-wanderer, sandpipers and relatives, buttonquail, gulls and allies, coursers and pratincoles, crab-plover, skuas and jaegers, auks and puffins, gulls, skimmers and terns, sunbittern, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, austral storm petrels, northern storm petrels, petrels and relatives, White stork, storks, frigatebirds, boobies and gannets, darters, cormorants and shags, ibises and spoonbills, hamerkop, shoebill, pelicans, herons and relatives, New World vultures, secretarybird, osprey, hawks, eagles, buzzards, harriers, kites and Old World vultures, barn owls, true owls, mousebirds, cuckooroller, trogons and quetzals, hornbills, hoopoe, woodhoopoes, bee-eater, rollers, ground rollers, todies, motmots, Kingfisher, jacamars, puffbirds, African barbets, Asian barbets, toucans, toucan barbets, American barbets, woodpeckers, honeyguides, seriemas, falcons and relatives, kakapo, kea and kakas, cockatoos, African and American parrots, Australasian parrots, Pesquet's parrot, vasa parrots, Pitta cyanea, Lyrebird, New Zealand wrens, suboscines, Old World suboscines, sapayoa, Calyptomenid broadbills, pittas, broadbills, asities, New World suboscines, bronchophones, manakins, cotingas, sharpbills, royal flycatchers and allies, becards and tityras, spadebills, many-colored rush tyrants, mionectine flycatchers, tyrant flycatchers, tracheophones, crescent-chests, gnateaters, antbirds, antpittas, ground antbirds, ovenbirds, oscines, scrub-birds, lyrebirds, bowerbirds, Australasian treecreepers, Australasian wrens, bristlebirds, gerygones and allies, honeyeaters and relatives, Australasian babblers, logrunners, quail-thrushes and jewel-babblers, cuckoo-shrikes, whitehead and allies, sittellas, wattled ploughbills, whipbirds and quail-thrushes, Australo-Papuan bellbirds, crested shriketits, painted berrypeckers, vireos and relatives, whistlers and relatives, Old World orioles, Boatbills, woodswallows and butcherbirds, mottled berryhunter, ioras, bristlehead, bushshrikes and relatives, wattle-eyes and batises, vangas , fantails, silktail, drongo fantail, drongos, blue-capped ifrits, Australian mudnesters, birds-of-paradise, monarch flycatchers, shrikes, jays and crows, berrypeckers, satinbirds, Australasian robins, stitchbird, wattlebirds, rockfowl, rock-jumpers, rail-babbler, fairy warblers, hyliotas, penduline tits, chickadees and true tits, Nicators, bearded reedling, larks, African warblers, cisticolas and relatives, marsh warblers, pygmy wren-babblers, grass warblers, Malagasy warblers, swallows and martins, bulbuls, leaf warblers, bush warblers , Bushtits, true warblers, parrotbills, fulvettas, white-eyes, babblers and relatives, fulvettas, ground babblers, laughing thrushes, kinglets, spotted wren-babblers, Hawaiian honeyeaters, silky-flycatchers, waxwings, Palmchat, hypocolius, wallcreeper, nuthatches, treecreepers, wrens, gnatcatchers, dippers, thrushes and relatives, flycatchers and relatives, oxpeckers, mockingbirds and thrashers, starlings and mynas , sugarbirds, dapplethroat and allies, flowerpeckers, sunbirds, fairy-bluebirds, leafbirds, olive warbler, accentors, pink-tailed bunting, weavers and relatives, whydahs and indigobirds, weaver finches, Old World sparrows, wagtails and pipits, finches and relatives, longspurs, snow buntings, rosy thrush-tanagers, Old World buntings and New World sparrows, American sparrows, palm-tanager and allies, New World blackbirds and New World orioles, Cuban warblers, wood warblers, cardinals, grosbeaks, and New World buntings, tanagers and relatives. MAMMALS: Rat, Bat, Horse, Standardbred, Throughbred, Saddlebred, Arab, Palomino, Australian stock, Appaloosa, Barb, Lippizaner, Mustang, American Shetland, Falabella, Percheron, Shire, Mule, Bullock, Setter, Oxen, Camel, Tiger, Lion, Hyaenas, Leopard, Bear, Cat, Dog, Sheep, Goat, Cow, Cob, Pig, Chamois, Bulldog, Borzoi, Loris, Longspur, Harvest mouse, Spiny – ant eater, Duck – billed platypus, Elephant, Rhinoceros, Tonkinese, Ragdoll, Margay, Tapir, Seal, Sea lion, Walrus, Dolphin, Bactrian camel, Arabian camel, Bushbaby, Burmese cat, Whale, Porpoise, Aardvark, Ape, Monkey, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Flying Lemur, Hare, Pika, Macaque, Rabbit, Colobus, Antelope, Caribou, Cattle, Deer, Grizzly bear, Hyrax, Armadillo, Porcupine, Hedgehog, Arctic hare, Mole, Shrew, Beaver, Asian black bear, Polar bear, Sloth bear, Spectacled bear, Mouse, Squirrel, Dugong, Moose, Fallow deer, Reindeer, Red deer, Manatee, Egyptian Mau, Scottish fold, Himalayan, Birman, Red squirrel, Hippopotamus, Weasel, Whale, Wither, Blue whale, Sperm whale, Killer whale, Wallaby, Beluga, Baird’s beaked whale, Grey whale, Bryde’s whale, Pygmy right whale, Southern right whale, Seal, Ape, Indri, Aye – aye, Alaskan Malamute, Dobermann, Beagle, Kinkajou, Afgan Hound, Rough Collie, Cardigan Welsh Corgi, Sheepdog, Pointer, Poddle, Weimaraner, Bloodhound, Zebra, Giraffe, Yak, Arctic fox, Polecat, Golden Retriever, Kerry Blue, Prairie dog, Airedale, German spitz, Pekingese, Otter, Shih Tzu, Proboscis monkey, Orang – utan, Red Howler monkey, Spider monkey, Sloth, Koala, Pangolin, Mustelid, Mongoose, Guinea pig, Malayan Porcupine, Naked Mole rat, Capybara, Pallid Gerbil, Brown rat, Somali, Ocicat, Balinese, Bengal, Cymric, Chartreux, Devon Rex, Turkish Angora, Russian Blue, Yellow – necked woodmouse, Hamster, Grey squirrel, Chipmunk, Fox, Blue Longhair, Chinese Pangolin, Blue – cream shorthair, Tortoiseshell and white shorthair, Brown spotted shorthair, Red and white Japanese bobtail, Javanese, Red Persian Longhair, Brown classic tabby maine coon, Lilac angora, Seal point Siamese, Brown and white sphinx, Red classic tabby manx, Vampire bat, Proboscis bat, Franquet’s fruit bat, Bengal Tiger, Horseshoe bat, Noctule bat, Funnel - eared bat, Blue exotic, Foreign lilac oriental shorthair, Boxer, Bay, Cream point colour pointed british shorthair, Abyssinian, Cinnamon silver Cornish rex, Wolverine, Skunk, Human being, Pine marten, Stoat, Chocolate point longhair, Husky, Ant eater, Kangaroo, Gray Mouse Lemur, Musk oxen, Raccoon dogrie, Pasnda, Bouto, Pembroke Welsh corgi, Whippet, Whisker, Indus river dolphin, Franciscana, Sorrel, Finless porpoise, Jerboa, Harbour porpoise, Bottlenose dolphin, Border Collie, Diana Monkey, White – beaked dolphin, Atlantic white – sided dolphin, Bobcat, Alpaca, Aberdeen angus, Lynx, Pacific white – sided dolphin, Rhesus monkey, Irish wolfhound, Baboon, Slivery marmoset, Puma, Ocelot, Norwegian Forest Cat, Basenji, Keeshond, Akita, Samoyed, Briard, Brittaney, Vizsla, Weimaraner, Saluki, Greyhound, Rottweiler, Bullmastiff, Newfoundland, Puli, Bombay, Sphynx, Kangaroo rat, Humpback whale, Red panda, Maltese, Pug, Chihuahua, Papillon, Pomeranian, Schipperke, Aardwolve, Cheetah, Civet, Red – Bellied Lemur, Moustache, Monkey, Yorkshire terrier, German shepherd, Clumber spaniel, Bouvier des Flandres, Belgian sheepdog, Boston terrier, Italian greyhound, Chesapeake Bay retriever, Genet, Musk deer, Bichon fries, Rock Hyrax, Pony, Mink, Mammoth, Mastodon, Giant sloth, Llama, African Elephant, DeBrazza’s Monkey, Siberian Tiger, Hackney Pony, Bonnet Monkey, German wirehaired pointer, Ferret, Jaguar, Dalmatian, Red Bengal Tiger, Badger, Shunk, Skye terrier, Great dane, Grampus, Bandicoot, Wolf, Marmot, Squirrel monkey, Sable, Minke whale, Spectacle porpoise, Opossums, Airedale, Wombat. etc , Ramapithecus, Australopithecus bosei or Paranthropus bosei, Zinjanthopus bosei, Homo – erectus ( Java man, Peking man, Heidelberg man ), Homo – Sapiens ( Neanderthal man, Cro – Magnon man) to the modern humans with their development and structure of their Heart, their contributions to the formation of the modern humans. What is the origin of the heart? In which place the heart is situated? What is the weight of our (modern humans) heart? Can a person live without a heart? What is the function of the heart? How heart pumps blood to the body? What type of circulation takes place in the human heart? How big our human heart is? Why is our (modern humans) heart considered as the most developed in the world? Why does heart stop? What are heart sounds? What are the types of heart sounds? What causes the heart sounds heard with a stethoscope? What is the anatomy of the heart? Why heart is considered an important organ in the body? Why can’t people live if heartbeat stops? Where is heart located in? How many chambers are present in the heart? What is the number of heart beats per minute? What is the amount of blood pumped by heart? How much blood does the human heart pump in a lifetime? And Short notes on heart attack i.e. what is the definition of a heart attack? Why does a heart attack occur? What are the types of the heart attack? What happens if human get a heart attack? What are the symptoms of Heart attack? What are the causes of the Heart attack? What are the risk factors related to the Heart attack? What are the types of risk factors cause the Heart attack? What are the complications of a Heart attack? What types of diagnosis useful in detecting and treating a heart attack? What treatment is needed to treat heart attack patients? What are 5 strategies to be maintained after the heart attack? What to do after recovery from a heart attack? What is cardiac rehabilitation? Why cardiac rehabilitation is needed to heart attack patients? Does cardiac rehabilitation create positive effects? What are a lifestyle and home remedies are to be maintained? What type of coping and support should be given to heart attack patients? What are the immediate measures should be taken when you encounter an emergency of heart attack patient? What signs and symptoms list should be made to consult a doctor? What is a widow maker heart attack? What is the definition of a widowmaker heart attack? What are the symptoms of Widowmaker heart attack? What are the causes of Widowmaker heart attack? What are the risk factors related to Widowmaker heart attack? What are the complications of a widowmaker heart attack? What types of diagnosis useful in detecting and treating a widowmaker heart attack? What treatment is needed to treat heart attack patients? How to make over your lifestyle? What type of measures should be taken to stay away from a heart attack? What are 20 types of foods should be taken to keep your heart healthy? Solutions and answers of above questions, material and topics are included and cleared in this book.'

[ask-impure-vessel]

Burn the Father

Curses and blessings are such interesting things, are they not?

The goddess whose boundless jealous love turned into a curse, the god whose desires created a blessing upon the lands around him-these things had far-reaching consequences some within the higher being’s imagining, some not.

Which is which, I wonder?

I wonder.

Oh, I am quite aware of all you who address that knight. You children, you youths, you mortals who see what not even us higher beings can. How very amusing a trick!

Let’s see how that goes, shall we? A new chapter opens, friends, enemies and curious onlookers alike!

Oh, me? I think you can guess exactly who I am.

The Pale Court seemed normal that morning, even sedate. Ze’mer was out on some mission, it was said but the Silverfish Knight often disappeared into the Mushroom Wastes for her ‘missions.’ She was the most mysterious of the five knights, mighty and well-rounded. Not strong anywhere, not weak anywhere except in matters of the heart. What had been her undoing in one life would not be in this one.

If the Pale King had gone through anything out of the ordinary, none would ever be any the wiser for it as he held his public court, hearing petitions and meeting with this and that committee, dealing with the practical realities of running a kingdom. No one man is a whole kingdom’s worth of bureaucracy, even if that man is a god of mind. He isn’t a bug of huge crowds, but this mode of existence has suited him fine for hundreds of years. Would suit him for thousands more, even if technology and cultural norms moved on. He even has some inkling as to how it might look like.

(Perhaps you have an idea, too?)

The Vessel had left the palace two days ago. Hadn’t been back since, which had yet to cause a stir. People often went days without seeing the king’s personal knight, so it wasn’t that unusual.

A messenger came bustling up, a seal of one of the great knights in their hand, kneeling to the right of the king’s audience, waiting to be acknowledged as the king finished speaking to the bug before him. “Messenger, come forward.” The king beckoned.

A message was passed quietly, in code. The king dismissed him. “The court must be adjourned for this day. Another matter requires my immediate attention. Return on the morrow.” He spoke calmly.

He rose and departed, the people kowtowing and prostrating before him. So bright, so very awesome his presence was for them. The whispering began immediately. Unfortunately, the messenger hadn’t left yet and would be questioned within an inch of their miserable life by courtiers about the contents of the message, but the messenger wouldn’t reveal, any messenger would know better.

He went at a normal pace through the palace, then to the infirmery. A blanket was thrown over the burden Ze’mer and some pillbug were sharing, a heavy one indeed. They carefully pulled their awkward burden onto a cot. “Ah, your majesty! I am scholar Quirrel-the ah. My friend here-” He stammered, bowing respectfully.

“Le’mer, ‘che will need say no more. Your excellence.” The Silverfish knelt. “The vessel was retrieved, unconscious and injured from the Mantis Village, where their healers had seen to its wounds. It found a worthy battle with this scholar here at its side with all four of the mantis lords. They had together uncovered that the brother of the four was infected and fought to put him down for willingly embracing the infection. Its injuries from the battle were extensive, but it remains unconscious with... worrying signs.” She reported, to the point.

He tugged off the blanket and his heart lept up into his throat, pounding painfully.

The vessel lay there, their injuries serious but not too grave. There were burns in their mask from where the traitorous mantis lord had spat infection onto them-but what had caused the Pale King to begin taking steps back was the dull glow of orange, flecks of it only but noticeable within the vessel’s negative space eyes.

“No.” He spoke in terrified denial. It would have been one thing had the vessel been prevented from waking by some injury. Breaking its shell to force a regeneration was the kindest solution to such a thing-but with the Radiance’s light interfering? He didn’t dare. He walked forward, he had to find out how bad it was.

He placed a hand over the vessel’s head. He couldn’t sense the Radiance? Her light was there, but all he could sense was racing thoughts, terror, agonized pain, despair and shame. The vessel was suffering, whatever vision they’d been entrapped into.

“How ironic. The Pale King’s vessel to seal away the light currently held in thrall to that burning light. Ah-I should introduce myself.” Came a voice like smoke.

The moth was black of body, with a white mask, red-eyed with two very distinctive lines on that mask-one through each eye. Ze’mer pulled her greatnail on the moth, who only smirked at her. “Great Knight Ze’mer, stand down. Though that bug may not look like much that is the mortal vessel for a higher being. Have some respect.” The Pale King ordered.

The knight backed off. “I actually come here with help, Pale Wyrm from my master, though of course...”

“-it has a cost.” Wyrm spoke bluntly.

“Indeed. The Vessel here was trapped within a vision of its future, had certain events not occurred. The moment the seals begin to fail. As you might imagine, that’s a both a most terrible and agonizing thing to experience. Perhaps an echo of its sire’s foresight?” He mused. “It pleaded for help and in the fear and pain, that nightmare of course drew the Heart’s notice. To pay any price to make it stop.”

Both Quirrel and the Pale King looked furious, a crackling sound and growling coming from the king. “Leave them alone! My friend shouldn’t be going through this, they don’t deserve this!” Quirrel cried out.

“No, they don’t-you are right. But he does. I do not like people who harm children.” Grimm spoke, his voice dripping with disgust. “But despite it all, I know the harm you did to your soul to do as you did. Why you felt you had no other recourse. Still absolutely disgusted, oh yes. But respectful of that resolve.”

“We are not discussing that here. What. Do you want, Troupe Master?” The Pale King spoke angrily.

“I wish to bargain for your child’s healing. They are currently given a reprieve by the Nightmare King. Due to their distress, but their mental stress and physical injuries gave the infection a path. Right now, they suffer and if you tried to break their shell to force them to form a shade, you would not much like the result.” He spoke gently. “Healing the physical trauma will help-but it’s what Vessel needs to hear from you that will help them escape their own mental prison. They are trapped in a place where they failed. In a sense, they have failed the purpose you set them to. They do not need the Pale King, they do not need their Master Wyrm. They need their father. Do you get what I’m saying?” Grimm spoke seriously.

“You’re-” Quirrel loaded the single word with horror. “You’re their father?”

Wyrm grasped the knight’s hand. Squeezed it. “Yes. I am the knight’s father. Oh, child you don’t need to do anything to prove yourself further to me, I am already so very proud of everything you already are and more. You didn’t fail me, I failed you.” The king held the hand to his head. “I have always loved you and I always will, Vessel. Please, come home. Please.” A tear escaped the king’s eye, falling onto Grimm’s outstretched hand.

“The price, Pale King. The Heart is not merciful, but it is not overly cruel, either. When your kingdom falls, my troupe shall visit in full in its time, yes-but I will say-you get to pick who leaves with me for the Troupe in the end. I think I will stick around to see who wins this contest. I have a very good feeling as to who leaves and stays-it’s a new start I offer to either, but it you know full well what becoming a troupe member entails.” He spoke seriously. “That is the choice I offer you. You do not get to decide right now. But know that you will have some tragic consequences if you do not think this fully through. There’s a chance that the Heart leaves with two servants instead of one if you choose poorly. Do we have a deal?”

Wyrm looked at the moth, holding his hand out. And shook his hand. “You have a deal. I’ll figure it out, you pest.”

Grimm smiled. “I’m sure. I’ll go pester a maid about a guest room, I know which one and how. Your child shall wake soon.” He let the tear fall into one of Vessel’s eyes.

The orange lights began to slowly break up.

[the-world-of-enterra]

Enterran Races

Enterra is full of life and has numerous sapient insect-like aliens. They, however, only look like bugs/insects on the outside and have differences that allow them to be bigger and fill numerous niches. Below is a basic explanation of the races!)

Vespin - Various bee, ant and wasp like races. The fairy ant is a subspecies of Vespins. Many Vespins are fluffy in various ways. There is one Vespin species that carries a large pouch of a honey like substance in their tail, which resembles an insect's abdomen. Skathara - Various beetle like races. They are an incredibly varied race, and most of them are winged even if some can not fly well. Skathara are the most commonly found race in Enterra. There are hundreds of variations. Lepidian - A race resembling butterflies and moths. There are two varieties - the butterfly like variety, generally slimmer with shorter fur and clubbed antennae. They often have exotic eye marks; and moths, known to be quite fluffy with feathery antennae. They are the same race, but moths tend to be a little duller in color while there are some exceptions to this rule Mantis/Mantid - Self Explanatory. Various races that resemble mantids. Known for their claws and fierce, carnivorous nature. One of the more intelligent bugfolk. They are known for being warriors and knights, fast and intelligent. Male Mantids are smaller and more skittish than their larger, and more powerful female counterparts. Mantid males learn how to cook at a very early age as it is customary for a male to offer a meal to the female he is attempting to woo. Over the years, this has evolved into a complex courting ritual where the male cooks a special meal for his mate. Male mantids are known to be some of the best chefs and cooks in Enterra because of this. Moscellan - Flies. Various winged bugfolk, that vary quite a bit in their size and appearance. Moscellans have several variants and subspecies, resembling common flies, lacewings, and many others. Moscellans also have a mosquito like race, though, unlike earth mosquitoes, they do not need blood to reproduce. They mostly eat nectar and juice. Arauna- Arauna resemble spiders, and vary widely. They are sometimes referred to as Weavers. Arauna come in many shapes and sizes, and are all carnivorous. They are very proficient in magic, and their silk is highly sought after due to its unique ability to harness and direct the natural magic found all over Enterra. Some Weavers thrive on trading their silk, or building enchantments with it. Locyyr - A race that resembles crickets and grasshoppers. Herbovorous, highly social, love music and singing Kabira - A race resembling a Ciceda. They tend to be quite large, and are known for their loud voices and rowdy parties. Skvori - A race resembling earwigs. There are some that resemble silverfish and other similar creatures as well. Vazka - A race resembling a dragonfly or a damselfly. They are fast and fierce, agile fliers. Sometimes mistaken for Moscellan, they differ in many ways, only sharing the fact that they have wings. They tend to be tall and slender Isovian - Isopod like race, they can resemble a millipede or a pillbug. Makali - A race resembling stick insects, though they can also resemble leaves or even resemble an entire plant.  They are a highly camouflaged race, and are incredibly passive. They prefer to hide. There is a race connected to the Makali that is commonly called a Root, or Tree. They are like the dryads of this world, and often resemble various Makali variants. Scorvians - A race that resemble scorpions. They are tough and have venemous stingered tails as well as four arms, two of which have large sharp claws on them. Homorian - A race of fluffy bugfolk, that vary widely in their markings and colors. Their bodies resemble, somewhat, true bugs from Earth. Acarian - A small race, related to Weavers. They do not spin silk, and are known to be quite short. Liquid diets of blood, nectar, or juice are very common among Acarians. Kukera - This race resembles roaches. They are adaptable and very social, living in very large communities. They are friendly herbivores, and very clean. Kukera can come in many colors, but browns and red-browns are the most common. Kukera rarely if ever fight, and prefer their speed and tough shells to defend themselves. Some do have spikes on their legs. They have weak eyesight, but very sensitive antennae. Enterran Humans - After the humans of Earth destroyed their home planet through warfare and taking too much, several generation ships left to spread through the stars, to find a new home. One of these ships went down in Enterra, where they were taken in by the Shadowed King Zarkhan. He, however, just wanted their technology. Once he got what he wanted, he turned on them. They fled into the surrounding wilds, and a few settlements can be found here and there. Enterran humans have changed a lot from their ancestors, due to nanites their early generations had that helped them adapt. Enterran humans have reddish brown skin and fine features, with darker striping along the Blaschko's lines giving them a unique marbled appearance. Their hair is black with long fingers and toes, capable of helping them survive in the treetops. Enterran humans may not have the natural armor of most Enterran creatures, they make up for it with their intelligence, resourcefulness, and stealth. Enterran humans often wear greens and browns to further blend in with their environment. Enterran humans are more conscious of their environment, due to the stories passed down about what happened to Earth, and have adapted to be more friendly towards the creatures around them; seeing as those who were aggressive and attacked the locals didn't last long. The Nanites that helped them adapt so quickly have long since broken down, and are no longer in effect. Enterran humans are often seen with Kukera, a race they have been allied with for generations.

[bogleech]

Okay here’s the whole entire text of my original pokemon gen concept under a cut (sorry if that screws you up on mobile)

I’ve only ever sketched a tiny number of these (like my fly ideas here), but I can see most of them in my head pretty clearly and might sketch more of them by request someday. I originally set my fan-region in Florida, a place I hated living but still had a lot of interesting characteristics. This changed over once I moved to Oregon, and the thing about Oregon is that it has desert, forest, swamp, coastline and frozen mountaintops that are all pretty vast, ancient and in places relatively untouched compared to the rest of North America. This is not only a perfect setting for some really wild pokemon, but makes a believable choice because our Pacific Northwest is pretty popular in Japan.

The different biomes of this region have "deep" areas where the pokemon change. Some also have "polluted" areas. The region is environmentally themed and heavily deals with human interference on the natural world.

The villains are Team Bio, genetic engineerers lead by a mysterious old woman who narrowly survived the original Mewtwo experiment. Her underlings all use "mutant" pokemon, and she seeks to create a new species of hyper-intelligent, pure-hearted pokemon that will replace humans entirely. Along the way is a strange increase in reports of interstellar pokemon activity... I actually tried hard to minimize how many pokemon in this are just “my kind” of concept, but I think I failed pretty hard. It probably does feel like it leans a little more towards Mortasheen than something Pokemon would actually make, but for basically every pokemon that’s one of my “dream concepts” or “most wanted” I tried to come up with one that I thought would appeal more to somebody else’s taste than mine.

THE STARTERS

Grass Starter: a grass "lumberjack" pterosaur with an axe for a beak. Second stage has more saw-like beak, final stage is a grass/steel quetzalcoatlus (the pterosaur) with a beak and crest forming a chainsaw, no longer flies

Fire type calf whose black cow marks are actually soot. Evolves into cow with craggy black “helmet” and horns of charcoal. Final stage a charcoal-armored minotaur like fire/ground type.

Water Starter is a beady-eyed water shrew with big webbed flipper feet, known to steal shiny objects. Second stage more humanoid, said to dive for treasure. Final stage is water/dark lanky, stripey shrew with a black mask, said to rob boats like a “highwayman” of the river.

Meadows and forest:

Normal type mammal is a spherical porcupine, like a chestnut. Rubs its spines with noxious fruit juices, giving it a multicolored look. Evolved form is a colorful “punk” porcupine.

Early bug is a sticklike inchworm Evolves to cocoon resembling a wooden log on top. Final form is bipedal stick mimic grasshopper, evocative of a cute wooden puppet with a pointed nose.

Basic bird is a hummingbird Evolves to be four-winged and legless, never lands in its whole life. Final hummingbird is a fierce looking hunter that drains energy from grass types like a predator.

Grass type walking bud creature, looks nervous. Evolves to grass/flying orchid-like angelic flower. Alternate evolution is wilted, grey, grass/ghost goth orchid with tattered petals, cute but sad. (evolves this way if it levels up after a battle in which it sustained super-effective damage)

Ground type earthworm sticking out of dirt, cute flower-shaped head. Evolved worm looks like shark sticking out of the dirt, nose looks like its prevo

Electric/dark pikachu-like packrat holding a large coin. Electrically charges its treasure as a booby trap. Actually said to be employed as underlings by the water-type shrew starter.

MISCELLANY:

Bug/poison type grub with fangs. Only encountered in garbage cans. Evolves into a fly pupa Final stage is a gloomy looking, drooling anthropomorphic fly.

Single stage bug/fairy type: a beautiful Maleficent-looking parasitoid wasp. Evolves from any cocoon/pupa pokemon if they're holding a "suspicious egg" item.

Ocean

Water/grass nudibranch with flower on its back. Evolves to a glaucus, each "arm" a colorful flower that absorbs sunlight as it floats.

Water type fish that "sails" on the sea's surface with its fins. Sleepy looking stingray evolution. Final form is water/dragon deep sea fish, combines some traits of anglerfish and viperfish with eyes on stalks. Only evolves from stingray when you're in the sea trench.

Water/flying marlin with huge, dazzling butterfly like fins.

Water type baby dolphin, fuzzy like a seal pup, only evolves if it has fainted more times than the number of its current level. Evolved form is water/dark, shaggy-furred, fierce looking, battle scarred dolphin with legs instead of flippers, a throwback to the doglike ancestors of delphinidae.

Polluted inlet

Water/poison oil slick with two tentacles and beady white eyes, signature ability changes it to water/fire type if it uses a fire move. Evolved form is an oil slick rising into a cartoon octopus with x's for pupils.

Water/steel fish hook with tiny head and eyes, like a barbed metal worm. Water/steel fishing jig, googly eyes and everything.

Barren Island - just a very big rock in the middle of the inlet

Ghost/poison: a greenish "dodo bird" with a face like a biohazard mask, the ghost of a species that went exinct due to sickness.

Sea Trench

Water/fire bristleworm "snake" Water/fire tube worm "dragon"

Water/ghost wailord skeleton draped in pink fuzz and a garden of one-eyed bone worms.

Swamp

Electric/flying bird resembling a lightbulb kiwi. Evolved form resembling a neon light lawn flamingo.

Grass/fairy giant sloth with sleepy face, completely covered in shaggy moss with various flowers and mushrooms. Protector of the swamp, able to control plant life.

Grass/psychic sundew, just a pair of sundew leaves atop a sleepy looking oddish-esque bulb. Evolved sundew is mostly a big circular sundew rosette, but a humanoid flower rotates in the center like a music box to lure prey.

Water/fighting borzoi pup with long legs, acts like a water strider. Evolved form is an elongated, elegant borzoi "ballerina" that dances atop water

Water/ground red leech slightly evocative of a vacuum cleaner. A healer that sucks poison from the body instead of blood. May mysteriously appear in your team after walking through swamp water.

Deep Forest:

Grass/ground banana slug with colorful mold spots, learns spore. Evolves into mold splotched, brown banana peel creature, more like a big squid.

Grass/dark autumn leaf in the shape of a bat, has levitate. Evolved form redder, bigger "vampire cape" leaf-bat.

Psychic/ghost cheshire cat with Meowth-like proportions, bright crescent smile. Evolved form just huge smile and cat eyes hovering in the air, beastly cat body fading into view only for physical attacks or when struck.

Rock type humanoid made of transparent amber with a strange mayfly-like bug sleeping inside. Outer body can "break" at low HP and release faster, more offensive pure bug form.

Rock: incredibly huge, stony looking moose with long white fur draped over its eyes and back. Comes in size variations like Pumpkaboo line and said to never stop growing. A truly titanic one is used as transportation through the deep forest.

Snowy patches

Bug/ice velvet worm that spews a freezing liquid. Silly looking, almost like wiggler from mario.

Ice/flying fluffy white bird resembling a tiny Japanese style snowman. Evolves to resemble western style snowman with clawed bird feet, pointed beak nose. A flightless pure ice mountain dweller.

Electric/ice with levitate: a crystalline "UFO" sky-jellyfish with many colorful lights, core body looks like a cute pikmin-esque "alien" inside. Catch by fishing off of ledges into the sky. Mistaken by locals for alien activity.

Lava Tube Caves

Psychic type bipedal pink salamander with no eyes. Evolves into beautiful milotic-like psychic/dragon blind olm.

Rock/fighting spearhead with feet, eyes are just round holes through blade. Evolves to gain a stick-figure sort of body.

Abandoned town

Normal/bug filthy dog, a shaggy pile of fur with goofy eyes and pink tongue. Little black specks jump about it. Ability changes normal moves to bug moves. Evolved form more obviously a dog but still very shaggy, surrounded by constant cloud of black specks.

Grass/electric "christmas tree" made of holly and lights. Found in a burned down house, glowing eyes peer out from beneath it.

Ghost: has a colorful quilt for a body and a pincushion for a head. Found inside houses.

Garbage dump - accessible through abandoned town, possibly what drove people away (includes piles of toys you may investigate to encounter a banette, mimikyu or klefki)

Water/poison: cartoony fish with blank eyes and humanoid pair of legs. Fish for in toxic green garbage pools. Evolves into ground/poison skeleton fish with four limbs, walking like a lizard.

Steel/bug rusty orange silverfish. Eats junk metal. Evolved form so big it wears a rusty car for protection with just its legs and feelers sticking out.

MICROPOKEMON - enlarged artificially in a laboratory where you can also take your fossils.

Bug/fighting flea - spiny black flea with big jagged white teeth. Create from the "pest sample" an item carried randomly by the normal/bug dog.

Poison/fairy germ - fuzzy multicolored mold ball with eyes, stalked suckers. Retrieve "germ sample" from the dodo ghost.

Water/fairy tardigrade - transparent, cute bug stylized almost like a "gummy bear."  Retrieve "dew sample" from moss sloth.

Pseudolegendary:

Rock type baby gargoyle creature. Evolves to winged gargoyle with levitate and a few mossy patches. Final form is an elegant griffon-like rock/dragon with an elaborately carved surface

SPACE ARK DRAGON This location is itself a dragon/fairy legendary pokemon so massive you can enter its body. It exists to collect and preserve species from dying worlds. Most common wild pokemon inside is duosion and sometimes Reuniclus. You can also collect "gene samples" from crystalline pods to replicate the ultrabeasts in the same lab you enlarge the microbes and resurrect fossils.

Bug/dark parasitic alien, a little like weird yellow plant suckered to the ground, red flower-like head with an eye on each petal ala the yokai parasite, gyochu.

Bug/dark parasitic alien, a colorful worm with cute eyes and beautiful mothlike wings, a little like the yokai parasite koshi-no-mushi.

Bug/dark parasitic alien, a pale, red and white striped "lizard" with six spindly limbs and a tubular proboscis, inspired by the yokai parasite kagemushi.

Fairy type alien medic, looks like a cute flatwoods monster with heart motif and nurse coat. Flees from all battles unless you have defeated at least one of each of the parasites.

LEGENDARIES:

Dragon/electric: the ark dragon's smaller offspring, looks like an electronic space whale.

Dragon/steel, menacing, sleek black starship creature. Rival to the ark dragon, a "world reaper" that attempts to destroy planets that it thinks are already dying.

Psychic/fairy little white, fluffy mothman-like being, an observer that casts judgment on suffering worlds to call one of the dragons (version based)

Normal type legendary is the most human-like pokemon we've ever seen, a serene floating figure with long hair and black, almond-shaped eyes. A genetic experiment to supplant humans.

Electric/fighting: a hulking humanoid beast, almost frankensteinian with asymmetrical features, a failed early experiment.

A "glitched and scrambled" two dimensional pokemon. The result of the earliest known experiments in digital pokemon transfer. Actually literally typeless.

POISON FUSIONS created in the garbage dump:

Weezodor - poison/flying - Garbodor/weezing hybrid, like a jellyfish bag with smog tentacles.

Mukking - poison/water - Weezing/muk hybrid, like a koffing with slime appendages.

Garmuk - poison/ground - Muk/garbodor hybrid, like a giant slug made of trash.

MUTANT POKEMON: mutations of classic first-stage pokemon into creatures slightly tougher than even their original final stages.

Mutant Caterpie - bug/dragon - huge, dragonlike Caterpie with more menacing eyespots, clawed limbs.

Mutant Paras - pure grass - giant paras with far more mushrooms of different colors, body pure white with no mouth and white sphere eyes, actually made only of fungus.

Mutant Venonat - bug/dark - same old venonat with a big shaggy monster body

Mutant Zubat - Psychic - somewhat larger than crobat, has actual legs and a pair of clawed arms instead of wings. Much bigger ears.

Mutant Voltorb - electric/steel - a Voltorb even bigger than Electrode, otherwise looks normal besides angrier yellow eyes...until it splits open to reveal sharp teeth.

Mutant Tangela - grass/fairy - more like its scrapped Gen II evolution but perhaps a lot taller, with two very very long arms.

Mutant Geodude - rock/fighting - HUGE spiky arms and hands but head/body are the same as always.

Mutant Shellder - water/steel - it's the spiraly slowbro one!

Mutant Exeggcute - psychic/poison - bigger and more plentiful but "rotten" looking eggs with gloomier eyes and dark purple goo.

Mutant Eevee - normal - bigger than any of the eeveelutions, shaggy and beastly with the "camouflage" ability. Learns strong attacks of every eevee evolution type.

Mutant Doduo - fighting type with only one head

Mutant Luvdisc - the only one based on a non-evolving pokemon. Angry "broken heart" Luvdisc with record offensive stats for the series, but even worse defenses than regular luvdisc.

Mutant Trapinch - dragon/bug - giant turtle-like Trapinch, redder, spiny, second mouth inside jaws.

Mutant Dratini - dragon/fairy - huge long dratini with longer feathery wing ears, identical wings down body.

Mutant Larvitar - dragon/dark - big, armored green reptile, still has larvitar type head with craggier, meaner horn.

Mutant Bagon - dragon - huge, more t-rex proportioned bagon, spiked shell on head.

Mutant Deino - bigger and shaggier with a ring of five long-necked deino heads

Mutant Gible - dragon/fighting - only usually seen as a huge sharky fin sticking out of the ground. When it emerges, its body isn't much bigger than regular gible.

Mutant Goomy - psychic/dragon - giant goomy with gaping mouth, antennae are much longer, green and stripey.

Mutant Jangmo-o - dragon/steel - same old head but more ankylosaur-like big body, entirely a dark iron color with more pitted looking scales.

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS no mechanical or typing difference, but new color schemes and decorations on existing pokemon, totally an aesthetic change. Have their own shiny forms.

SEA TRENCH FORMS: Entirely pale pink golisopod line with closed eyes transparent red tentacool line with darker red nodules dark maroon inkay line with blue lights red and purple feebas line

CAVE FORMS: White, eyeless venipede line White, eyeless magikarp line

DEEP SWAMP FORMS: crocodile-green Sandile line with lily pad on head black shelled "freshwater" shellder line with green algae growths pure red and purple colored bellsprout line

DEEP FOREST FORMS: braviary with more hawklike colors foongus line with no pokeball pattern...the original foongus? wolf-spider colored joltik line

POLLUTED INLET FORMS: Dewpider line with all black body and limbs, yellow glowing eyes in dirty green water Grey wailmer line draped in red algae, clumps of barnacles (presumably degenerated binacle) Wingull line with grey and black oil-splotched feathers, tin can on head

GARBAGE DUMP FORMS: Bounsweet line with only grey, brown and black colors, dark spoiled looking splotches Black bag trubbish line with green trash, copper colored pipes Rusted looking klink line, rotates only once every few seconds.

----------GYM LEADERS -------------- In this region the gyms are dual type, and bring back past mechanics and gimmicks as their focus.

flying/normal: a blind, wheelchair-bound old man who specializes in dog and bird pokemon. Uses a baton pass team.

Steel/electric: an astronaut commanding his gym by remote feed from the station. Uses Magnezone, Rotom forms and, surprisingly, a random steel or electric ultrabeast.

Poison/bug: a germophobic lady scientist ironically obsessed with pollution pokemon, always wearing a biohazard suit. Has weezing, garbodor, the fly pokemon and Yanmega. Uses Z-moves, but it's random whether she uses a bug or poison one and on which pokemon.

Dark/fire: an elderly biker lady. Has no gym and in fact roams around the region. Surprisingly challenges you to a third-gen style beauty contest with her frightening selection of pokemon.

Grass/fairy: witchy pharmacist and botanist who lives out in the woods, all of her grass types are mushroom based. Unusually has you team up with her in a double battle against a random pokemon of unusual size and strength, like Alola's totem pokemon.

Ground/fighting: an extremely frail little nerdy guy who likes amazingly fearsome pokemon, hates bullies but kind of is one. Makes you face a horde battle with all of his pokemon vs. only one of yours at a time.

Dragon/rock: a boisterous monster movie director who dresses his pokemon in costumes, gym is a cardboard city. Uses a dynamaxed pokemon.

Ghost/psychic: a horror author, Vincent Price like, lives in a mansion and makes visitors face scenes from his books. Instead of a single battle, he has you face a series of singular mega pokemon behind each "scene." THE LABORATORY This location is of course secretly associated with the villain team, but you can free it up from them in the endgame. Here you can make fossil pokemon, micropokemon, regional forms from past generations, ultrabeasts and even mega stones, but all require you to spend one or more “gene crystals.” You’re handed a number of these through the storyline but it would be very challenging to farm more than that  (think Gen 7 bottlecaps). Spending more crystals at the lab would allow you to finally alter abilities, natures and IV’s at a whim, and for an exceptional cost you could upgrade the BASE stats of any L100 pokemon permanently. This is a percentage increase applied across the board to all of its stats at once, and stops at either 100 total points beyond their normal limits, or a final base stat total of 530 (equivalent to a fully evolved starter) MISC STUFF:

Your mom this gen asks you if you hope to have an easy, challenging, or very challenging adventure. You can return to her at any time to adjust the difficulty again.

When you beat the game, you can make a custom trainer for online battles using the models of other NPC trainer types, i.e. you can finally be a swimmer/scientist/grunt/etc. You can unlock some popular ones from past generations.

You can select one pokemon as your main partner, which not only has it following you, but involves it a little more in the storyline (special events based on its first typing) and gives it some in-game perks.

A special item attached to any one of your pokemon allows your whole team to “share strength,” meaning that their weaknesses are mitigated for each teammate they share a type with. This allows for type-themed teams to be more viable but wouldn’t completely eliminate their weaknesses, and the effect diminishes proportionately for every pokemon that faints.

You can designate a seventh pokemon to be your “team mascot,” a non-combat role with different effects depending on species/type.

A single team can have either the mascot, a z-move, a dynamax/gigantamax form or a mega, cannot mix these.

Legendary pokemon now suffer a stat nerf for every other legendary pokemon on the same team. A team of six legendaries would actually be somewhat below-average in stats.

[onenicebugperday]

Is this a firebrat or a silverfish it looks like both ? Location: Massachusetts

Mmmmmm looks like a four-lined silverfish to me but tbh they are not at all my area of expertise! But the coloring doesn't look like what you'd see on a common firebrat to me.

[firelord-frowny]

!!! i got bored and decided to make a list of all the wild bugs/arthropods ive ever seen with my own eyes and been able to identify annnnd here it is! i’m up to 85 and imma go through old pics to find more bc i KNOW there are more.

White tailed skimmer dragonfly

Widow skimmer dragonfly

Red saddlebags dragonfly

Double banded scoliid wasp

European yellowjacket wasp

Four toothed mason wasp

American bumblebee

Eastern bumblebee

European Honeybee*

Carpenter bee

European hornet*

Eastern yellowjacket

European paper wasp*

Eastern paper wasp

Red paper wasp

Common paper wasp

Cicada killer wasp

Spider wasp

17 year cicada

Metallic green sweat bee

Anormenis chloris leafhopper

Common meadow katydid

Fork-tailed bush katydid

Black and yellow mud dauber wasp

Marbled orb weaver spider

Silver spotted skipper butterfly

Snowy urola moth

Wavy lined emerald moth caterpillar

Common buckeye butterfly

Monarch butterfly

Tiger swallowtail

Black swallowtail

Zebra swallowtail

Red spotted purple butterfly

Red admiral butterfly

Fiery skipper butterfly

Cabbage white butterfly

Hummingbird hawkmoth

Pandora sphinx moth

Bald faced hornet

Wheel bug

Leaf footed bug

Eastern firefly

Marmorated stink bug*

Carolina mantis

Chinese mantis*

Periodical cicada

Common looper moth

Velvet ant wasp

Army worm caterpillar

Eastern tent caterpillar

Eastern tent moth

Wheel bug nymph

ladybug

Box elder bug

Wood louse

Pill millipede

House centipede

Peck’s skipper butterfly

Black widow spider

Robber fly

Crane fly

Dogbane leaf beetle

Earwig (idek wtf an earwig actually is. Is it a beetle?? Is it in the termite family?? Who are you, earwig? Imma look it up. Ok i just looked it up and MOTHER OF GOD they’re in the COCKROACH family and i will explain in the post after this one why i find that to be HORRIBLE news for me)

Japanese beetle*

Cucumber beetle

Northern walkingstick

Cabbage worm

European chafer beetle (I HATE!!!)*

Polyphemus moth

Luna moth

Dobsonfly

Silverfish

American cockroach

Oriental cockroach

German cockroach

Wolf spider

Nursery web spider

Crowned orb weaver

Garden spider 

Funnel web spider

(eastern?) harvestman

White spotted jumping spider

American green crab spider

Florida lubber grasshopper

[berrymascarpone]

For the last few months, I’ve been rereading the Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K Le Guin, and has very beautiful descriptions of idyllic mountain towns and different landscapes. And, of course, being a huge fanfic nerd, I immediately thought of writing a fic like that. So yeah, here’s the result:

Title: Hope Like a Sword, Intolerable

There is no death, there is the Force. The Force is an endless ocean that crashes its unresting waves on all the shores across time and space and eternity, and each life merely an instant of foam on the crest.

One man falls into the Force and tries to keep himself from splintering into foam. He has the knowledge of the Whills behind him, and the clawing desperation of a lifetime. The Force takes, it takes his brother’s betrayal like a red-hot blade between his ribs, the scouring, lonely years in the desert, the candlelight flicker of hope in the war that had no end. The Force takes it all, and leaves the man, clinging, desperate. He thinks he can swim the currents, stay the tide, but the ocean drags him under, into the deep undertow. It draws him in, inexorable, and when it has taken enough, brined the years and sun-bleached distances from his bones, it spits him out like all the beached whales and floating debris on a strange shore.

He stumbles, unsteady, and, with a final crash, he wakes.

===

Obi-Wan Kenobi is born crying.

This is not unusual, but after his first gulps of air, after being cleaned and swaddled and rocked, he continues to wail, thin and reedy, and refuses to stop, except to drink from his mother’s breast and sleep in fits and starts. But his parents, Druma and San-Mai Kenobi, are an older couple who have four other children they’ve raised through sleepless nights and more crying than a Chandrilian tragedy. They are worried, but not overly so. They soothe him with lullabies and gentle rocking, and sometimes a bit of sweet sleep-grass for him to chew on. It’s just a touch of colic, they argue, nothing unusual. He will grow out of it.

He does, eventually, and though he still wakes to his own cries occasionally, he quickly stops as soon as one of his parents comes into the room, staring with wide eyes at Druma’s sleepy face, or San-Mai’s tired smile.

He’s the perfect child, all big eyes and quiet curiosity, and very little fussing. His parents are grateful for a calm child at last, especially because they are busy with the farm and the Shaak herds, and the many things that must be done in a small Stewjoni village around harvest time. Perhaps that is why they don’t notice the way he stares at them sometimes, at his own hands and at the small blue-painted room he shares with his toddler sister Nerva, and the way he reaches out to things with just a bit of hesitation, like he’s reaching for a soap bubble that will disappear once he touches it.

===

He grows.

In his first two years, Obi-Wan is a quiet, somber child. He plays with his toys quietly, moves his little stuffed nexu toy around with a faraway look on his face, though he doesn’t touch the toy soldiers his older brothers give him. He tolerates the antics of his older siblings with an unending patience, letting them tote him around the house and dress him in their too-large clothes. He doesn’t cry much, even when Ric, his second oldest brother, drops him accidentally and he hits his head on the side of the dining room table. He stares at the blood on his hands like it’s the strangest thing he’s ever seen, and Ric is the one who starts bawling, drawing their parents over like concerned hens. He doesn’t fuss, doesn’t do anything to cause worry, and his parents are grateful. They have four other children to chase after and placate, including a toddler girl who is just learning to run, a pair of preteen twins, and a teenage son who is just starting to assert his independence, and they are happy for a little peace from him.

His parents do worry when he does not speak for his first year, does not babble and coo like the other infants, though he masters crawling and his first wobbly steps with apparent ease.

“There’s nothing wrong with him, physically,” the village pediatrician says, “He’s hit all the growth milestones, and there isn’t any sign of physical or neurological issues. Maybe he just needs a bit more time.”

His mother sighs and frets and smooths his hair as he sits quietly on her lap, but his father shrugs. A quiet boy is not the worst thing in the world, especially not after the first few months of non-stop crying. They know his vocal cords work, at least. And his sister Nerva only started speaking real words at eight months, he reasons, though he does not mention she had chattered endlessly in nonsense syllables since she could make sound.

And perhaps their worries are heard by some higher power, because Obi-Wan speaks the next day, a quiet, “Mama,” just before dinner.

Then, he looks at his father sitting in the next chair over, and tilts his head, and says, “Papa.”

His mother cries, and envelops him in a hug. His father is proud, of course, but there is a niggling sense in the back of his mind, that says this is not how the rest of your children learned to talk. He ignores it, because what does he care of the proper order of things, now that his youngest child is calling him papa?

It’s a cause for celebration in the house, and they spend the evening trying to teach them their names. Nerva, already four and speaking in full if not always grammatically correct sentences, laughs happily as he murmurs quiet syllables to her. Ric and Mari point and name every object they can find and try to get him to repeat the words. Even Owen, deep in his sulky teenage phase, musters up a smile for his cute littlest brother, who says his name with a frown, stumbling over the syllables with adorable frustration.

===

Obi-Wan wanders.

He starts wandering as soon as his legs are strong enough to hold his weight, with the aimless curiosity of a child, peering into every burrow and hole around their farm. His father, who has grown up in this town and knows the fields and hills as well the back of his own eyelids, sends him out to the pasture with the goose flock and a long switch made of rushes with which to herd them, as he sent all of his children before, and was sent himself as a toddling child. There is nothing in these hills that can hurt him, and the boy should learn some independence. They sent their akk-hound Maruma with him, though. Just in case.

His siblings sometimes catch him sitting on a rock in the hills, swinging his feet into the air and singing little nonsense songs with a marching cadence. Druma hears him once, and he’s reminded of the songs soldiers sing in the capital, ones he’s heard once in his boyhood years, when his father took him to see a military parade of crisply-uniformed militia members singing their way down the cramped streets, feet pounding a rhythm into the cobblestone.

Once, and only once, Obi-Wan wanders off the farm, past the fences and pastures, and into the forests of tall, dark conifers, and does not come back with the geese at dinner time. His parents are frantic, and send word out to the neighbors, who quickly organize into a search party, combing through the trees.

They find him in a field of vetch and clover, face blotched with crying and buried in Maruma’s soft scales. When they ask what happened, he shakes his head and says, “I can’t find him. He’s gone, gone.” And bursts into fresh tears.

They never do figure out who he meant, who was missing. No one in the village has left or died recently, and even the animals have been safe from predators and disease. No travelers in the summer, or visitors from the city. Druma remembers suddenly the old stories, of ghosts and barrows full of ancestors’ bones, and he wonders. But he does not speak these thoughts aloud.

Occasionally, when Obi-Wan stays up late enough to see the dawning stars, his mother notices a shift in his expression, a yearning, bereft look too old for his face, like he is searching for something loved and lost out amidst the black.

San-Mai feels something almost like fear in those moments, because her youngest, her little ember child, seems so far away, seems poised to leap up and join the cold stars in the heavens. Perhaps he belongs out there—far away among the stars and nebulae. Perhaps he is only here on borrowed time, and one day something will tug on the hook already buried in his heart and call him back.

But the next morning, he is in his bed again, sleeping. San-Mai’s heart is still once more, reassured that he is still here, still theirs.

===

He relearns things he has forgotten.

When he is three, his siblings teach him to fish in the cold mountain streams, how to stomp on the ground to make the worms come to the surface, to bait a hook and to lay on his stomach at the riverbank, holding the fishing line, and to jerk the string back quickly when he feels the faint tremble that indicates a bite. The first time he hooks a fish, everyone cheers even though the wriggling silverfish at the end of his line is only as big as his tiny palm. Owen cleans and cooks the fish over a crackling fire regardless, and Mari, his older sister, blows the crisping skin until he can eat it without burning himself.

His mother teaches him the songs of Stewjon, the lullabies, lays and ballads in the high lilting Stewjoni language that they speak in addition to Galactic Basic, and he mimics her in a wobbly voice, singing of fey creatures in the hills, brave heroes on the mountain slopes, maidens lost and maidens found, and maidens who find themselves. His favorite songs, however, are the ones about the old adventurers coming home, the hero returning after years of toil and war to his ploughshare and his scythe, to sing and rest before the crackling hearth fire, warming his old bones. He listens to those songs, which are not at all popular except in the cold winter months when all people long for warm hearths and friendly voices raised in song, and there is something of heartbreak in his face.

===

Obi-Wan dreams.

He sometimes wishes he could stay here forever, grow up again tall and weedy in the cradle of the valley of his birth, away from all power and darkness, forgetting all hope and horror. Live a farmer’s life, herding shaak and nauga, singing the joyful mountain songs, worrying only for the next season’s rains and the next year’s harvest.

But that is his wish, not his fate.

===

Stewjon is an agrarian planet, full of farmers and shaak herders with their mundane problems, solved by the local villagers’ collective experience and rugged determination. They do not, as a rule, receive foreign diplomats or visitors, except perhaps the buyers of nauga wool and local herbs, or an occasional wanderer looking for some peace. So it is with surprise and not a bit of nervousness that the small village cradled in the valley like a hundred other valleys gets word that a Jedi contingent is arriving the next week. It’s only for an Agricorps project, collecting samples from the buckwheat fields, and collecting information on livestock breeding and rainfall and harvest yields.

San-Mai mentions this fact casually to her husband, a bit of village gossip. She does not realize that Obi-Wan is listening, as he always is. She does notice when he drops the bowl of nauga wool he’s combing and looks up at them.

“Jedi?” He says, wide-eyed, “They’re coming here?”

“Yes dear,” Druma says, picking up the bowl and pressing a large, calloused hand over Obi-Wan’s head, ruffling the fine-gold hair. “They are big, strong warriors, like the ones that fight monsters in the songs, you remember?”

Obi-Wan nods, but there is something different in his eyes. It is a look that sets Druma’s nerves on edge with a sudden foreboding. His child looks so far away. Though he’s looking at Druma, he stares also at something beyond his father, beyond the house and the valley, and his gaze is full of longing.

“Are they here to stop a—a monster?” Obi-Wan asks.

“They’re here to help with the fields,” Druma says, “They are scholars too, you see. Wise men and women, who can feel the crops and the animals and tell if they are sick. They are here to make sure that ours are healthy and hale.”

Obi-Wan hums, kicks his feet as they dangle over the countertop where he’s seated.

“Can I go see them?” He asks, quietly.

“Of course,” San-Mai says. The whole village is likely to be out to see the Jedi. It’s not often that such exciting guests arrive. And though it is hard to remember that Obi-Wan is only four, with how serious he seems, it is not unusual for their youngest to grow excited over new things.

But Obi-Wan does not look excited. His face is drawn and thoughtful, and very distant.

===

Obi-Wan leaves.

The Jedi arrive in town, a tall bear of a Master and his sullen, dark-haired apprentice. They visit the required farms, take the samples they need, all the while trailed by a gaggle of curious village children, brave enough to follow but too shy to approach. Master Jinn smiles indulgently at them, and produces candies from the city from his voluminous sleeves. Padawan du Crion scowls, but when his Master is busy talking to Druma about the rainfalls and Shaak births, he entertains them with a magic trick—juggling rocks without use of his hands, and preens as they gasp and giggle with every little leap of stone and wave of his hand.

Obi-Wan does not laugh, but he smiles, reaches out and—the stones fall, but do not hit the ground. The apprentice gapes, his hands still, and he points at Obi-Wan and says, like an accusation, “You’re Force-sensitive!”

The children scatter, like startled birds, leaving Obi-Wan alone unperturbed.

Master Jinn comes over in two long strides. Druma follows closely behind, and he pales when he sees his youngest son, palms upward, and the stones floating about his head like planets orbiting a star.

“Obi-Wan?” He murmurs, more acceptance than surprise because he has always known, somewhere deep in his marrow where the old stories are rooted, that his child has never been his, has always belonged to another world, another fate. That eventually the day would come to let him go.

From the look on his child’s face, he knows that time has come.

He has four other children, but it is still so hard to give this one up.

===

“There is no death, there is the Force,” Obi-Wan says, and Qui-Gon freezes, looks down at the child with the old man’s eyes.

“All life and years and distances,” Obi-Wan says, “All stars and sunlight, all will and hope. That is what one must give, and that is what the Force demands. We are not saints, but seekers, Master Jinn.”

Qui-Gon Jinn kneels down before the child. Whatever expression his face might hold is obscured by the curtain of his hair, to all except the boy.

“Where did you learn that?” He says, softly. He remembers the words, has read them in ancient texts of Force-ghosts and spiritual presences, as no more than rumors and references in historical accounts. He thinks he might delve deeper to satisfy his esoteric curiosity, one day, when he has finished training his apprentice and has more time on his hands. He wonders, now, if there is some kernel of truth to those whispers.

“From you,” the boy says, quietly enough that no one else can hear, “From life and from loss.”

Qui-Gon is silent for a long time. He says, “What do you want to do, now?”

Obi-Wan’s lip trembles, and Qui-Gon is reminded suddenly that this is still a child in body, despite what his spirit remembers.

He says, “I want to go home.”

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The minute a female cricket makes it inside your home, it can lay its eggs – hundreds or even thousands of them. Cricket eggs takes about a year to hatch, so detection is quite complicated, or even impossible. Crickets can cause harm and a lot of inconvenience, especially if you have just bought brand new clothes or if you have just had your furniture restored or replaced. Crickets are small insects that make chirping sounds to attract females for mating. There are roughly 900 known species of crickets around the world. Noticeable species of crickets include ground crickets, field crickets, and house crickets. Normally, crickets are found in temperate climates and are located within houses, meadows, and gardens. They are considered to be pests inside homes and buildings due to their high-pitched chirping sounds. Typically, they feed off organic materials, but will eat almost anything including wood, wallpaper, clothes, food, and wrappers. Call the pest control experts that have the professional experience and expertise needed to eliminate crickets infestations successfully in your house or workplace. Pest Control For Silverfish

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All cockroach species are scavengers, devouring garbage, dead insects, or human food, which they contaminate with their excrement. Because of the threat of transmitted diseases much work and expense have been invested in the chemical control of this pest. Insecticides have been successful before but numerous cockroaches have developed very high levels of resistance to the most widely used poisons. With society’s increasing concerns over the health and wellness and environmental effects of insecticides, one fact remains, cockroaches must be controlled to maintain optimal health conditions. Thus, the skilled pest control industry has been seeking new methods that utilize pest techniques and also address the home owners need for safe effective control.

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Spiders are feared by many people when spotted around the home or yard. No matter what size the spider, they typically cause troublesome and often lethal bites. Pest companies providing pest control for spiders discourage consumers from trying to use eradication procedures using hazardous chemicals in their homes as it not safe to do it yourself. It is best to immediately call a professional pest control service for spiders to administer appropriate and safe spider control methods. It is strongly recommended to get in touch with pest control specialists to help you do away with spiders in your house, because the best way to eradicate these creatures is to first identify them and utilize methods that will specifically counter their behavior within your house. Pest control specialists will utilize sprays and pest control methods that will either directly or indirectly kill the spiders.

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Pantry pests are very standard and ordinary in a lot of households. They are very irritating and annoying, but you can successfully manage your pests problems through pest control treatment options with the right pest control service. There certainly are tons of pests that you can bring into your house from the wet market. There are moths, weevils and beetles in addition to cockroaches. Flower arrangements or decorative corns that are already dried, cake mix, chocolates, spices, muse and rat baits, cookies, granola, crackers, birdseed, pet food, dried beans, cereal and pasta are just some examples that can cause pests. If you have this kind of problem then you need a professional pest control service.

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Certainly , there are various reasons why people dislike rats. First of all, they can absolutely carry plenty of diseases and spread to humans. They are also known for damaging food by contaminating them with their urine or dropping. Their chewing can result in serious damage to our home or belongings. In America, out breaks of mice have been bring about serious and huge economic losses. If your house has been invaded by rodents best is to tend to it quickly. Areas infested by rats may be in high risks specifically if you have kids or pets. Any delay in controlling them can cause major damage to your home and put a huge hole in your budget. Rats are nocturnal and they generally stay hidden from people so eliminating them can be tricky. Our pest control service has every solution for your pest problems. We have been helping clients to eradicate rats or mice from their property for years. Our pest control specialists are well trained to ensure that each rat or mice control problem is managed smooth manner and prevent re-infestation of these pests. We only strive to provide a remedy tailored just to give maximum effect and with products used to eradicating them there is no way our method will harm the environment or cause any unnecessary suffering. Our Pest Control treatment methods will make it easier to get rid of rats efficiently and quickly.

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It’s very easy to get a skilled pest control gopher specialist stop by your home and rid it of the gophers that are destroying your property. Gophers penetrate gardens, gardens all throughout the year eating crops, plants, shrubs, trees, and lawns. They also damage water lines and sprinkler systems which can lead to soil erosion. Gopher mounds on lawns hamper mowing equipment and destroy the aesthetics of well kept turf-grass. We are the specialists in Gopher control and have been so for years. Be prepared to take immediate action as it is a lot easier and less costly to control one or two than wait until the population builds where they cause significant damage. Our gopher service specialists will inspect your property with you and provide an estimate. We will recommend the best treatment options to eradicate the gopher problem completely. Technicians are prepared to complete service at the time of estimate. We offer the best gopher solutions to get the job done. Our gopher treatments are very powerful for maximum effectiveness.

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Carpenter ants are not larger than a quarter of an inch in length, they are tiny and black, and may have wings. Carpenter ants can absolutely damage wood supports on structures, for example, two by fours and four by fours. Carpenter ants are active all year, but are usually seen in warmer months, from spring until early fall. Carpenter ants can quickly do tens of thousands of dollars of damage to your home. Carpenter ants ought to be professionally treated. Over-the-counter products do not work. Winged carpenter ants usually means you have a well developed colony, usually 3 to 4 years old. Find the services you need for any type of ant problem or ant infestation. Ants interact by touch and smell. They lay down chemical routes and continuously touch one another to relay their nest odor. Carpenter ant control can be very hard. It is important to track down the source of the ants and their nest. The complete control is accomplished when the nest itself is treated with a residual spray or dust. The ant exterminator will take time to understand the situation and also speak with the client about their personal concerns. If there are pets or little ones in the home particular care will be taken. If the ant species is harmful to wood the ant pest exterminator may examine crawl spaces and other locations of the home to see if there are any kind of infestations of this particular species. This is not only done to see just how much infestation there is and how much destruction has been done already. To thoroughly get rid of an ant issue, a pest inspector will probably give an extensive inspection of the home. This is most likely to involve inspecting each area of the home to establish the parts that might be at risk or have already been infested by ants. They might also inspect the area to identify if other pests might be within close proximity to the home. On completion of the property inspection, the qualified ant pest professional will offer a choice of services dependent on the type of ant condition you have and the level of ant infestation. Services offered might feature ant pre-treatments, ant termination or removal, cleansing the infected areas, along with repeat visits if needed if you have a heavy ant infestation.

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Having mice in your residence is stressful and can be harmful. The main variety of mouse found in homes are the common house mouse. They cause destruction to your home, spread diseases, chew on cables, household furniture, books and clothes. If you have a mouse problem it is best dealt with it quickly as they can multiply fast and you could soon find yourself with a major infestation. Mice can live and go for long periods of time in closed containers such as boxes, barrels or crates. fires may have been brought on by mice eating through electric wiring. In six months one set of mice can ingest about four pounds of food and produce some eighteen thousand pounds of fecal droppings. Mice are not blind but have bad eyesight and can not see accurately more than about six inches. They are excellent climbers and can run up just about any roughened wall without breaking stride. They can swim but prefer not to. More than once, a live mouse has been flushed down a toilet and has resurfaced a minute later. They can jump a vertical distance of 12 inches from the floor onto an elevated flat surface. They can jump a height of eight feet to the floor without any injury. They can run horizontally along pipes wires and ropes. When you see mice in your home, call a mouse pest control expert promptly. Mice carry diseases and can contaminate and destroy the food in your house and should be dealt with as soon as possible.

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Silverfish can be located typically in moist climates and like to live in dark damp areas such as basements and attics, bathroom and kitchens. They are especially attracted to paper and moist clothing. Regularly found in stored cartons in garage areas and sheds. Silverfish are known for their harmful habits and like to eat clothing, books and wallpaper. Silverfish eat carbohydrates, particularly sugars and starches. Glue in books, linen, silk and dead insects may be food sources. They have been found in unopened food packages. Silverfish is a wingless insect that is half an inch in size. It has a silver color of its scales and the fish-like movement it makes and now they are among the most hated household pests. Silverfish can cause extensive destruction, ruin photos and books, eat wallpaper and cotton. Silverfish are nocturnal and move swiftly and can jump. They are found where there is excessive humidity and will do great damage to books, wallpaper, other paper products. This species is often a pest in homes and local libraries. It feeds on starchy products like glue and lives in high humidity areas of your home. It can live in glass jars where it will feed on potatoes or things like cornmeal and other starchy foods. Thought to belong to one of the most primitive existing insect orders, more than 400 million years old.

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Flea bites might leave you with puffy itchy bite marks. Fleas can result in allergic reactions for some people and can transmit diseases. Fleas are not the simplest pest in the world to treat. If you do have a flea situation or are worried about fleas, you can give your pet medication as a preventative flea pest control measure. Fleas are parasites. The adult female flea must take in a blood meal before she can lay her eggs. The eggs fall from the host animal and collect on the surfaces below. Flea pest control is essential as they will bite your ankles and legs. Nobody should have to tolerate fleas and as long as you pay attention to your pet and make allowances for the flea season of summer you and your pet should be delighted. Fleas are transporters of disease so you need to be extra cautious if you even suspect you have fleas. Having your home inspected and treated by a flea pest professional, at the same time treating your pets can help remove most future flea problems. Using the do-it-yourself products found in retail stores is often inadequate against big infestations and can expose unnecessary chemicals into your environment. Skilled flea exterminators have easy access to the necessary equipment and high concentration insecticides. They also have the knowledge and training to use them successfully. Flea specialists know the exact concentrations use these kinds of chemicals safely and securely and suitably for the situation. You could easily spend more money attempting to treat the problem yourself with sprays from the store and continue to have no success, than it would be immediately seeking help from someone trained in pest control who offers a guarantee with the work.

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If you experience destroyed clothes, carpet, upholstery and other items, it more than likely is carpet beetles. These small pests are a lot more common than most house owners realize. They might be very harmful, and to make things worse, they are quite difficult to deal with. You may find one or two beetles or the evidence they leave behind, but the beetle problem can grow if not handled correctly and quickly. Aside from eating on your belongings, these beetle larvae shed little hairs which can create allergies. Infestations of these beetle pests have been linked to the spreading of infectious diseases, like Anthrax. Part of the trouble with controlling carpet beetles is that they reside in many areas of a house and eat a lot more than carpet. They eat everything containing organic fibers and organic products. There are three types of carpet beetle that are one of the most common problem for property owners. These are the varied carpet beetle, the black carpet beetle and the furniture carpet beetle. Larvae are by far the most unsafe stage in their life cycle. Females lay anywhere from 50 to 100 eggs near food sources. An adult beetle can live 4 years, laying eggs once a year. Eggs are exceptionally resilient. Once the eggs develop into cocoons and larvae, they stay in this stage nearly a year. The larvae is the most damaging stage. Both eggs and larvae are very difficult to detect since they tend to blend in with the fabric they live in. Once they mature, carpet beetles are scavengers and may be found in areas well far away from food sources. You may find one or two larvae crawling on surfaces. But the first indication of a carpet beetle infestation is generally irregular holes chewed in fabrics. They feed on the nap of fabrics and carpeting without eating the base threads. If you are finding holes in fabrics around your house, and think the damage is due to carpet beetles, look for fecal pellets and skins shed by the larva. They most often feed in dark secluded places, so do a thorough inspection for them.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Ticks

Ticks are arthropods that are sometimes mistakenly called insects. Insects have three body regions, six legs, and generally possess wings. Ticks lack wings, have two body regions, and depending upon their developing stage, can have either six (larva) or eight (adults and nymphs) legs. Ticks possess tremendous potential for transmitting organisms that may result in disease in humans and other animals. These disease-causing organisms include protozoa, viruses, and bacteria. Bites from particular ticks can result in a rare limp paralysis starting in the lower limbs and moving upwards with death resulting if the tick is not promptly removed. In addition, tick bites can cause skin irritations or even allergic reactions in sensitive people who are repeatedly bitten. Ticks attach themselves for a period of time, and then drop off their host to lay eggs. They require a blood meal at each stage of life in order to grow. The female tick must engorge herself with blood to obtain the nourishment necessary to produce the thousands of eggs she generates. Despite the large number of eggs produced, only a small percentage will make it to maturity.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Squirrels

Squirrel pest control may be very difficult, but as with a lot of pests it starts off with prevention. Cover all openings to your home, replace broken house windows, and inspect your house for holes or structures that provide squirrels access to the property. After you are sure all access points have been secured, you may consider an electric fence around your garden or home. Funnel-shaped plastic collars can be installed at the top of posts that support bird feeders to prevent squirrels from accessing seeds or nesting babies. Limbs that hover over your roof should be trimmed to protect against squirrels from accessing your chimney. Finally, remove outdoor food sources squirrels may find such as garbage or pet food. Unfortunately, removing squirrels from your own property can be quite dangerous. As such, professional pest control is likely your best option. Often times, squirrels are enticed by woods and trees, so if your home features trees you are most likely to have squirrel pest control problems. Once they enter your home, usually through a chimney or open fireplace, they chew electric wires, mattresses and blankets, and other parts of your house. One of the major concerns associated with a squirrel infestation is electric fire, as these pests can compromise your home’s electrical system by chewing through wires. However, squirrels can decimate your garden by eating plant bulbs, seeds and buds as well as ripe vegetables. They may even ruin your lawn as they bury food reserves.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Voles

Voles, also known as field mice, are generally gray or brown in color and are pretty small rodents. They have short tails, compressed legs, and stocky bodies. They flaunt eyes that are very little and have ears that are partially hidden. They have a layer of underfur that is commonly dense and covered with longer, thicker guard hairs. Voles do not have specified times that they are active so they can be seen scurrying about all year round in the day or evening. Voles dig numerous shallow burrows and make below ground nests that are comprised of leaves, grass, and stems. They have no problem tunneling through snow in the wintertime. Although vole numbers fluctuate from year to year, their populations often increase unexpectedly and rapidly. This is usually when wildlife control services are required. Not many homeowners know how to deal with voles and require trained professionals. Voles are extremely poor climbers and do not usually enter into homes. However, vole control is often desired for the exterior of the home. This is primarily due to the amount of destruction a vole can cause. Voles feed on a wide range of back garden plants. Some of these include carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, and turnips. They also ruin garden plantings such as lilies. These unwanted pests will gnaw the bark of fruit trees and damage tree trunks. This destruction will disrupt the flow of nutrients and water to the trees and can kill them totally. For these reasons, wildlife control professional services are needed to protect and maintain the vegetation and plants that reside on your property. Trained specialists know vole behavior and know how to get rid of voles.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Slugs

As I’m certain you recognize, slugs are among the most typical and most stubborn garden pests on the planet. They have a ravenous appetite, particularly for soft vegetations like the ones you have in your backyard. Their most preferred targets include cabbage, lettuce, sprouts, asparagus and strawberries, but they will definitely eat and destroy just about everything you try to grow. There are a wide range of landscape pests that you have to cope with when trying to grow things in your garden. One kind of pest that can become a problem over time are slugs. These can thrash a backyard garden very quickly if you don’t take care of the problem. There are many ways to deal with slugs in your backyard. The very first thing that you should do is to make certain that your backyard garden isn’t in fact drawing in slugs to it. Many make the mistake about providing things in the back garden that makes slugs want to be there. Don’t provide the slugs the needed sanctuary from the sun. Many will leave out garden containers or other things that will make a nice home for slugs to be in during the day. Remove these things.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Snails

The basic backyard garden snail will chew through the tender leaves of plants, which at best, looks unpleasant, and at worst, will kill the plant. If these little buggers have had you asking oneself, “How to manage garden snails?” then you are at the right place. We are specialists at powerful snail pest control. Snails are an intriguing species to many people. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm stops once these pests find their way into a well groomed garden. This usually happens to some extent as these slow moving creatures are constantly on the prowl for a good meal. The snail as a pest is a dreadful thing. They can eliminate young plants by chewing their stem or eating the seeds before they finish germinating. They will eat irregular holes in leaves and this can lead to quick browning. A single snail can do massive damage to a single plant in even the space of one night.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Earwigs

Earwigs hide during the day under debris or in dark places, surfacing after dark to feed on plants, organic wastes, and small-scale insects. The standard name originates from a totally unfounded superstition that these insects creep into people’s ears during the night to bite them. Earwigs are safe, only occasionally destroying flower blossoms. While Earwigs are scavengers, ingesting dead insects, decomposing plant materials they can also eat live plants and damage your vegetables and feed on the flowers of plants, including marigolds, petunias, hibiscus, and numerous other plants. Earwigs leave many little holes in plant leaves and flowers.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Rodents

Rodents such as rats and mice pollute our food and living areas with their pee and feces and they bring diseases. Rats eating through wires are known to result in over 50,000 property fires per year with another 100,000 plus fires that are most likely brought on by rodents eating through house wiring. Rodents will infest your home or building in search of shelter, food, water and warmth. Roof Rats can access your home by tree branches that touch your roof, and Norway Rats and Mice usually find access through tiny openings as small as a dime. Rats and mice may be some of the most significant pests we have to deal with. Rats and mice will continuously attempt to co-exist with us in just about every structure we live, eat, and work in. Rodents have been known to carry and transmit diseases, damage and destroy our structures, electric wires, and water lines through their chewing. Many people have a more substantial fear of rats and mice than they do of spiders. This anxiety can make you, your workers, or customers extremely uncomfortable. Selecting an pest control expert is the first step in solving the problem. At Go-Pher The Kill, we perform rodent control like nobody else. In addition to trapping, baiting, and exclusion, we include video into our service. You will have a live video stream to the places of activity so you can monitor our progress, and spy on your intruders, even at night! This service also provides our customers proof that their current problem has been resolved.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Moles

The best and most reliable method to prevent nearly every pest is to remove their food supply. This is achievable with earthworms, but difficult mainly due to the job worms provide to the soil. It is a fact of good lawns, that if you have good lawns– there is a high possibility that moles will also be a risk. Proofing is achievable, but again not very easy. The aim would be to set up a physical barrier between the sub-floor surface where the moles channel and the surface. A wire or grid system is possible that is then recovered with soil and grass. Achievable, but costly– but then it depends upon the value of the lawn surface. There is a hypothesis that vibrations keep them away. Commercially offered sonic devices, which are placed into the ground, aim to create vibrations which are supposed to discourage moles. Nevertheless, there is very little scientific research into how efficient this is in preventing activity. Preventing moles is either challenging to copy the job of worms, or costly due to the scale of area to protect. So control of the actual mole is usually the only method to eliminate their damage, and this is why it is essential to call in pest control specialists when you have a problem with moles. We know all of the best and least uncomfortable ways to tackle mole removal issues, making sure minimal pain for the moles, with the highest possible level of success. The additional reason why it is a really good idea to call pest control professionals to deal with your mole removal problem is that they are very challenging to trap. There are a variety of ways of undertaking mole control methods, all of them calling for some level of skill-set. The biggest problem is quite obvious of course, in that as they live below ground, equipment must be taken into consideration and position based on evidence and mole behavior and in their darken world, they will leave at the first sign of threat when their tunnels system has been interfered with.

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For thorough, beneficial pest control in Riverside County, contact the service providers at Go-pher The Kill Pest Control. We’ve battled our fair share of bugs in the past and have the resources and experience required to overcome pest invasions in your house. Go-pher The Kill Pest Control delivers powerful cockroach extermination professional services designed to free you of your pest situation once and for all. We take a thorough, detail-oriented approach to all that we do, so the minute you choose our team, you can feel confident that we’ll be certain to cover all bases. Just as importantly, our cockroach extermination services are designed to always keep your safety in mind. And whenever you work with us, you’ll benefit from our sensible rates and easy appointment scheduling and once a month service plans. Exterminate those roaches immediately.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Crickets

The minute a female cricket makes it inside your home, it can lay its eggs – hundreds or even thousands of them. Cricket eggs takes about a year to hatch, so detection is quite complicated, or even impossible. Crickets can cause harm and a lot of inconvenience, especially if you have just bought brand new clothes or if you have just had your furniture restored or replaced. Crickets are small insects that make chirping sounds to attract females for mating. There are roughly 900 known species of crickets around the world. Noticeable species of crickets include ground crickets, field crickets, and house crickets. Normally, crickets are found in temperate climates and are located within houses, meadows, and gardens. They are considered to be pests inside homes and buildings due to their high-pitched chirping sounds. Typically, they feed off organic materials, but will eat almost anything including wood, wallpaper, clothes, food, and wrappers. Call the pest control experts that have the professional experience and expertise needed to eliminate crickets infestations successfully in your house or workplace. Pest Control For Silverfish

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A trusted business providing pest control for wasps is set up with the necessary equipment but is also knowledgeable in safely and efficiently removing wasps. If you really want to totally remove wasps in your house call us today. Service providers specializing in pest control have a staff of specialists who are trained to remove wasps and wasp nests, and additionally prevent them from coming back. The very first thing that a professional would do is to make a survey of your area, identify sources of wasps, make an analysis, and then select the appropriate, and the safest and most effective approach to removing the wasps and their nests.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Cockroaches

All cockroach species are scavengers, devouring garbage, dead insects, or human food, which they contaminate with their excrement. Because of the threat of transmitted diseases much work and expense have been invested in the chemical control of this pest. Insecticides have been successful before but numerous cockroaches have developed very high levels of resistance to the most widely used poisons. With society’s increasing concerns over the health and wellness and environmental effects of insecticides, one fact remains, cockroaches must be controlled to maintain optimal health conditions. Thus, the skilled pest control industry has been seeking new methods that utilize pest techniques and also address the home owners need for safe effective control.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Spiders

Spiders are feared by many people when spotted around the home or yard. No matter what size the spider, they typically cause troublesome and often lethal bites. Pest companies providing pest control for spiders discourage consumers from trying to use eradication procedures using hazardous chemicals in their homes as it not safe to do it yourself. It is best to immediately call a professional pest control service for spiders to administer appropriate and safe spider control methods. It is strongly recommended to get in touch with pest control specialists to help you do away with spiders in your house, because the best way to eradicate these creatures is to first identify them and utilize methods that will specifically counter their behavior within your house. Pest control specialists will utilize sprays and pest control methods that will either directly or indirectly kill the spiders.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Pantry Pest

Pantry pests are very standard and ordinary in a lot of households. They are very irritating and annoying, but you can successfully manage your pests problems through pest control treatment options with the right pest control service. There certainly are tons of pests that you can bring into your house from the wet market. There are moths, weevils and beetles in addition to cockroaches. Flower arrangements or decorative corns that are already dried, cake mix, chocolates, spices, muse and rat baits, cookies, granola, crackers, birdseed, pet food, dried beans, cereal and pasta are just some examples that can cause pests. If you have this kind of problem then you need a professional pest control service.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Rats

Certainly , there are various reasons why people dislike rats. First of all, they can absolutely carry plenty of diseases and spread to humans. They are also known for damaging food by contaminating them with their urine or dropping. Their chewing can result in serious damage to our home or belongings. In America, out breaks of mice have been bring about serious and huge economic losses. If your house has been invaded by rodents best is to tend to it quickly. Areas infested by rats may be in high risks specifically if you have kids or pets. Any delay in controlling them can cause major damage to your home and put a huge hole in your budget. Rats are nocturnal and they generally stay hidden from people so eliminating them can be tricky. Our pest control service has every solution for your pest problems. We have been helping clients to eradicate rats or mice from their property for years. Our pest control specialists are well trained to ensure that each rat or mice control problem is managed smooth manner and prevent re-infestation of these pests. We only strive to provide a remedy tailored just to give maximum effect and with products used to eradicating them there is no way our method will harm the environment or cause any unnecessary suffering. Our Pest Control treatment methods will make it easier to get rid of rats efficiently and quickly.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Gophers

It’s very easy to get a skilled pest control gopher specialist stop by your home and rid it of the gophers that are destroying your property. Gophers penetrate gardens, gardens all throughout the year eating crops, plants, shrubs, trees, and lawns. They also damage water lines and sprinkler systems which can lead to soil erosion. Gopher mounds on lawns hamper mowing equipment and destroy the aesthetics of well kept turf-grass. We are the specialists in Gopher control and have been so for years. Be prepared to take immediate action as it is a lot easier and less costly to control one or two than wait until the population builds where they cause significant damage. Our gopher service specialists will inspect your property with you and provide an estimate. We will recommend the best treatment options to eradicate the gopher problem completely. Technicians are prepared to complete service at the time of estimate. We offer the best gopher solutions to get the job done. Our gopher treatments are very powerful for maximum effectiveness.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Ants

Carpenter ants are not larger than a quarter of an inch in length, they are tiny and black, and may have wings. Carpenter ants can absolutely damage wood supports on structures, for example, two by fours and four by fours. Carpenter ants are active all year, but are usually seen in warmer months, from spring until early fall. Carpenter ants can quickly do tens of thousands of dollars of damage to your home. Carpenter ants ought to be professionally treated. Over-the-counter products do not work. Winged carpenter ants usually means you have a well developed colony, usually 3 to 4 years old. Find the services you need for any type of ant problem or ant infestation. Ants interact by touch and smell. They lay down chemical routes and continuously touch one another to relay their nest odor. Carpenter ant control can be very hard. It is important to track down the source of the ants and their nest. The complete control is accomplished when the nest itself is treated with a residual spray or dust. The ant exterminator will take time to understand the situation and also speak with the client about their personal concerns. If there are pets or little ones in the home particular care will be taken. If the ant species is harmful to wood the ant pest exterminator may examine crawl spaces and other locations of the home to see if there are any kind of infestations of this particular species. This is not only done to see just how much infestation there is and how much destruction has been done already. To thoroughly get rid of an ant issue, a pest inspector will probably give an extensive inspection of the home. This is most likely to involve inspecting each area of the home to establish the parts that might be at risk or have already been infested by ants. They might also inspect the area to identify if other pests might be within close proximity to the home. On completion of the property inspection, the qualified ant pest professional will offer a choice of services dependent on the type of ant condition you have and the level of ant infestation. Services offered might feature ant pre-treatments, ant termination or removal, cleansing the infected areas, along with repeat visits if needed if you have a heavy ant infestation.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Mice

Having mice in your residence is stressful and can be harmful. The main variety of mouse found in homes are the common house mouse. They cause destruction to your home, spread diseases, chew on cables, household furniture, books and clothes. If you have a mouse problem it is best dealt with it quickly as they can multiply fast and you could soon find yourself with a major infestation. Mice can live and go for long periods of time in closed containers such as boxes, barrels or crates. fires may have been brought on by mice eating through electric wiring. In six months one set of mice can ingest about four pounds of food and produce some eighteen thousand pounds of fecal droppings. Mice are not blind but have bad eyesight and can not see accurately more than about six inches. They are excellent climbers and can run up just about any roughened wall without breaking stride. They can swim but prefer not to. More than once, a live mouse has been flushed down a toilet and has resurfaced a minute later. They can jump a vertical distance of 12 inches from the floor onto an elevated flat surface. They can jump a height of eight feet to the floor without any injury. They can run horizontally along pipes wires and ropes. When you see mice in your home, call a mouse pest control expert promptly. Mice carry diseases and can contaminate and destroy the food in your house and should be dealt with as soon as possible.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Silverfish

Silverfish can be located typically in moist climates and like to live in dark damp areas such as basements and attics, bathroom and kitchens. They are especially attracted to paper and moist clothing. Regularly found in stored cartons in garage areas and sheds. Silverfish are known for their harmful habits and like to eat clothing, books and wallpaper. Silverfish eat carbohydrates, particularly sugars and starches. Glue in books, linen, silk and dead insects may be food sources. They have been found in unopened food packages. Silverfish is a wingless insect that is half an inch in size. It has a silver color of its scales and the fish-like movement it makes and now they are among the most hated household pests. Silverfish can cause extensive destruction, ruin photos and books, eat wallpaper and cotton. Silverfish are nocturnal and move swiftly and can jump. They are found where there is excessive humidity and will do great damage to books, wallpaper, other paper products. This species is often a pest in homes and local libraries. It feeds on starchy products like glue and lives in high humidity areas of your home. It can live in glass jars where it will feed on potatoes or things like cornmeal and other starchy foods. Thought to belong to one of the most primitive existing insect orders, more than 400 million years old.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Fleas

Flea bites might leave you with puffy itchy bite marks. Fleas can result in allergic reactions for some people and can transmit diseases. Fleas are not the simplest pest in the world to treat. If you do have a flea situation or are worried about fleas, you can give your pet medication as a preventative flea pest control measure. Fleas are parasites. The adult female flea must take in a blood meal before she can lay her eggs. The eggs fall from the host animal and collect on the surfaces below. Flea pest control is essential as they will bite your ankles and legs. Nobody should have to tolerate fleas and as long as you pay attention to your pet and make allowances for the flea season of summer you and your pet should be delighted. Fleas are transporters of disease so you need to be extra cautious if you even suspect you have fleas. Having your home inspected and treated by a flea pest professional, at the same time treating your pets can help remove most future flea problems. Using the do-it-yourself products found in retail stores is often inadequate against big infestations and can expose unnecessary chemicals into your environment. Skilled flea exterminators have easy access to the necessary equipment and high concentration insecticides. They also have the knowledge and training to use them successfully. Flea specialists know the exact concentrations use these kinds of chemicals safely and securely and suitably for the situation. You could easily spend more money attempting to treat the problem yourself with sprays from the store and continue to have no success, than it would be immediately seeking help from someone trained in pest control who offers a guarantee with the work.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Beetles

If you experience destroyed clothes, carpet, upholstery and other items, it more than likely is carpet beetles. These small pests are a lot more common than most house owners realize. They might be very harmful, and to make things worse, they are quite difficult to deal with. You may find one or two beetles or the evidence they leave behind, but the beetle problem can grow if not handled correctly and quickly. Aside from eating on your belongings, these beetle larvae shed little hairs which can create allergies. Infestations of these beetle pests have been linked to the spreading of infectious diseases, like Anthrax. Part of the trouble with controlling carpet beetles is that they reside in many areas of a house and eat a lot more than carpet. They eat everything containing organic fibers and organic products. There are three types of carpet beetle that are one of the most common problem for property owners. These are the varied carpet beetle, the black carpet beetle and the furniture carpet beetle. Larvae are by far the most unsafe stage in their life cycle. Females lay anywhere from 50 to 100 eggs near food sources. An adult beetle can live 4 years, laying eggs once a year. Eggs are exceptionally resilient. Once the eggs develop into cocoons and larvae, they stay in this stage nearly a year. The larvae is the most damaging stage. Both eggs and larvae are very difficult to detect since they tend to blend in with the fabric they live in. Once they mature, carpet beetles are scavengers and may be found in areas well far away from food sources. You may find one or two larvae crawling on surfaces. But the first indication of a carpet beetle infestation is generally irregular holes chewed in fabrics. They feed on the nap of fabrics and carpeting without eating the base threads. If you are finding holes in fabrics around your house, and think the damage is due to carpet beetles, look for fecal pellets and skins shed by the larva. They most often feed in dark secluded places, so do a thorough inspection for them.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Ticks

Ticks are arthropods that are sometimes mistakenly called insects. Insects have three body regions, six legs, and generally possess wings. Ticks lack wings, have two body regions, and depending upon their developing stage, can have either six (larva) or eight (adults and nymphs) legs. Ticks possess tremendous potential for transmitting organisms that may result in disease in humans and other animals. These disease-causing organisms include protozoa, viruses, and bacteria. Bites from particular ticks can result in a rare limp paralysis starting in the lower limbs and moving upwards with death resulting if the tick is not promptly removed. In addition, tick bites can cause skin irritations or even allergic reactions in sensitive people who are repeatedly bitten. Ticks attach themselves for a period of time, and then drop off their host to lay eggs. They require a blood meal at each stage of life in order to grow. The female tick must engorge herself with blood to obtain the nourishment necessary to produce the thousands of eggs she generates. Despite the large number of eggs produced, only a small percentage will make it to maturity.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Squirrels

Squirrel pest control may be very difficult, but as with a lot of pests it starts off with prevention. Cover all openings to your home, replace broken house windows, and inspect your house for holes or structures that provide squirrels access to the property. After you are sure all access points have been secured, you may consider an electric fence around your garden or home. Funnel-shaped plastic collars can be installed at the top of posts that support bird feeders to prevent squirrels from accessing seeds or nesting babies. Limbs that hover over your roof should be trimmed to protect against squirrels from accessing your chimney. Finally, remove outdoor food sources squirrels may find such as garbage or pet food. Unfortunately, removing squirrels from your own property can be quite dangerous. As such, professional pest control is likely your best option. Often times, squirrels are enticed by woods and trees, so if your home features trees you are most likely to have squirrel pest control problems. Once they enter your home, usually through a chimney or open fireplace, they chew electric wires, mattresses and blankets, and other parts of your house. One of the major concerns associated with a squirrel infestation is electric fire, as these pests can compromise your home’s electrical system by chewing through wires. However, squirrels can decimate your garden by eating plant bulbs, seeds and buds as well as ripe vegetables. They may even ruin your lawn as they bury food reserves.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Voles

Voles, also known as field mice, are generally gray or brown in color and are pretty small rodents. They have short tails, compressed legs, and stocky bodies. They flaunt eyes that are very little and have ears that are partially hidden. They have a layer of underfur that is commonly dense and covered with longer, thicker guard hairs. Voles do not have specified times that they are active so they can be seen scurrying about all year round in the day or evening. Voles dig numerous shallow burrows and make below ground nests that are comprised of leaves, grass, and stems. They have no problem tunneling through snow in the wintertime. Although vole numbers fluctuate from year to year, their populations often increase unexpectedly and rapidly. This is usually when wildlife control services are required. Not many homeowners know how to deal with voles and require trained professionals. Voles are extremely poor climbers and do not usually enter into homes. However, vole control is often desired for the exterior of the home. This is primarily due to the amount of destruction a vole can cause. Voles feed on a wide range of back garden plants. Some of these include carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, and turnips. They also ruin garden plantings such as lilies. These unwanted pests will gnaw the bark of fruit trees and damage tree trunks. This destruction will disrupt the flow of nutrients and water to the trees and can kill them totally. For these reasons, wildlife control professional services are needed to protect and maintain the vegetation and plants that reside on your property. Trained specialists know vole behavior and know how to get rid of voles.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Slugs

As I’m certain you recognize, slugs are among the most typical and most stubborn garden pests on the planet. They have a ravenous appetite, particularly for soft vegetations like the ones you have in your backyard. Their most preferred targets include cabbage, lettuce, sprouts, asparagus and strawberries, but they will definitely eat and destroy just about everything you try to grow. There are a wide range of landscape pests that you have to cope with when trying to grow things in your garden. One kind of pest that can become a problem over time are slugs. These can thrash a backyard garden very quickly if you don’t take care of the problem. There are many ways to deal with slugs in your backyard. The very first thing that you should do is to make certain that your backyard garden isn’t in fact drawing in slugs to it. Many make the mistake about providing things in the back garden that makes slugs want to be there. Don’t provide the slugs the needed sanctuary from the sun. Many will leave out garden containers or other things that will make a nice home for slugs to be in during the day. Remove these things.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Snails

The basic backyard garden snail will chew through the tender leaves of plants, which at best, looks unpleasant, and at worst, will kill the plant. If these little buggers have had you asking oneself, “How to manage garden snails?” then you are at the right place. We are specialists at powerful snail pest control. Snails are an intriguing species to many people. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm stops once these pests find their way into a well groomed garden. This usually happens to some extent as these slow moving creatures are constantly on the prowl for a good meal. The snail as a pest is a dreadful thing. They can eliminate young plants by chewing their stem or eating the seeds before they finish germinating. They will eat irregular holes in leaves and this can lead to quick browning. A single snail can do massive damage to a single plant in even the space of one night.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Earwigs

Earwigs hide during the day under debris or in dark places, surfacing after dark to feed on plants, organic wastes, and small-scale insects. The standard name originates from a totally unfounded superstition that these insects creep into people’s ears during the night to bite them. Earwigs are safe, only occasionally destroying flower blossoms. While Earwigs are scavengers, ingesting dead insects, decomposing plant materials they can also eat live plants and damage your vegetables and feed on the flowers of plants, including marigolds, petunias, hibiscus, and numerous other plants. Earwigs leave many little holes in plant leaves and flowers.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Rodents

Rodents such as rats and mice pollute our food and living areas with their pee and feces and they bring diseases. Rats eating through wires are known to result in over 50,000 property fires per year with another 100,000 plus fires that are most likely brought on by rodents eating through house wiring. Rodents will infest your home or building in search of shelter, food, water and warmth. Roof Rats can access your home by tree branches that touch your roof, and Norway Rats and Mice usually find access through tiny openings as small as a dime. Rats and mice may be some of the most significant pests we have to deal with. Rats and mice will continuously attempt to co-exist with us in just about every structure we live, eat, and work in. Rodents have been known to carry and transmit diseases, damage and destroy our structures, electric wires, and water lines through their chewing. Many people have a more substantial fear of rats and mice than they do of spiders. This anxiety can make you, your workers, or customers extremely uncomfortable. Selecting an pest control expert is the first step in solving the problem. At Go-Pher The Kill, we perform rodent control like nobody else. In addition to trapping, baiting, and exclusion, we include video into our service. You will have a live video stream to the places of activity so you can monitor our progress, and spy on your intruders, even at night! This service also provides our customers proof that their current problem has been resolved.

Pest Control Exterminator Service for Moles

The best and most reliable method to prevent nearly every pest is to remove their food supply. This is achievable with earthworms, but difficult mainly due to the job worms provide to the soil. It is a fact of good lawns, that if you have good lawns– there is a high possibility that moles will also be a risk. Proofing is achievable, but again not very easy. The aim would be to set up a physical barrier between the sub-floor surface where the moles channel and the surface. A wire or grid system is possible that is then recovered with soil and grass. Achievable, but costly– but then it depends upon the value of the lawn surface. There is a hypothesis that vibrations keep them away. Commercially offered sonic devices, which are placed into the ground, aim to create vibrations which are supposed to discourage moles. Nevertheless, there is very little scientific research into how efficient this is in preventing activity. Preventing moles is either challenging to copy the job of worms, or costly due to the scale of area to protect. So control of the actual mole is usually the only method to eliminate their damage, and this is why it is essential to call in pest control specialists when you have a problem with moles. We know all of the best and least uncomfortable ways to tackle mole removal issues, making sure minimal pain for the moles, with the highest possible level of success. The additional reason why it is a really good idea to call pest control professionals to deal with your mole removal problem is that they are very challenging to trap. There are a variety of ways of undertaking mole control methods, all of them calling for some level of skill-set. The biggest problem is quite obvious of course, in that as they live below ground, equipment must be taken into consideration and position based on evidence and mole behavior and in their darken world, they will leave at the first sign of threat when their tunnels system has been interfered with.

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Four-Lined Silverfish - Ctenolepisma lineatum

Here we have the first set of pictures of an insect photographed in 2019. Wasn’t expected to find an insect to take photos of so early in the year, let alone an insect like this one! The Silverfish is one of the more primitive insect species along with their cousins, the Firebrat and Bristletails. They are so primitive in fact, that at no point in their history have they evolved wings! Going into specifics, as far as research has taken us, they represent an old branching in the insect tree. An ancestor evolved wings and gave rise to most insect varieties we have today, while these insects have remained relatively unchanged. Wings or no wings they are still insects, and they have the typical body plan of an insect, with the addition of 3 rear appendages: 2 cerci (Earwigs and Crickets have these too) and something called an epiproct (this appendage’s function varies depending on the insect; this one may use it during reproduction). 

I found this one in my room, crawling on the ceiling. Given the body shape, I thought it was in the Silverfish family, but it looks a bit different from one. Common Silverfish can be distinguished by their silvery shine, a more arched front and their wriggly movements. This one definitely isn’t as shiny as a silverfish, but it’s just as flattened as one (picture 3). While it has similar size and patterning as that of a Firebrat, closer examination of the specimen revealed a four-lined pattern adorning its back, confirming this insect’s identification. These insects prefer warm and humid environments to live in comfort, human homes being the top choice, especially in winter. Under normal conditions, this insect would enjoy eating organic wastes in leaf litter and mulch, but while indoors it will probably search for more glamorous foods including: cereals, dandruff, dead insects and even book bindings! Sounds like a life of luxury, but this insect isn’t the only visitor during the winter... and spiders and centipedes patrol the house as well, hungering for fish. If threatened, a Silverfish’s only defense is to run away and tuck in somewhere safe.

Pictures were taken on February 4, 2019 with a Samsung Galaxy S4