#giant wasp spider

[gaildaley]

WELCOME TO 2023!

I see it’s about time to post last year’s blogs to catch you up on what I’ve been doing this past year. Some months have very little in them, due to a series of fall I took in May and June.  I started going back to the Chiropractor again, and I’m doing much better, but I basically lost control of my ring and pinkie fingers on both hands, which makes me a slower typist. On a good note I am able…

[smashpages]

Giant Size House of M (Marvel, July 2025) cover by Adam Kubert

[smol-lucy]

This happened today (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)

[guairescp]

Why do all the cutest and coolest insects have the most dangerous bites or stings? It's so unfair

You all cannot tell me in good faith you don't want to be near these animals.

[watch-joey-collect]

[sandymybeloved]

its really funny to me (and by funny i mean infuriating), how vastly different the acceptable levels of silly nonsense are between different eras of specifically the revival

its like, RTD era: incredibly dumb moment (affectionate), Moffat era: that's silly (derogatory), Chibnall era: I have to suspend my disbelief??? (borderline homocidal)

[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #16

Paul Tobin/Denis Medri

[venustheplan3t]

I love them. I love them I love them I love them I love them I love them I love them I love them I love them I love them I lo-

glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

[buriedpentacles]

When I say "connect with nature" I don't just mean the aesthetic forests with deer and beautiful flowers.

I mean the weeds growing through concrete, the fungus that grows on the rotten shed, the nettles that always seem to return and the scary, spindly cellar spider in the corner of the bathroom.

Nature is not always pretty or magical - the pigeons and seagulls you swat at are nature too, the wasps and flies that hover by your meals are animals too, store-bought strawberries and the leaves that fall from your neighbour's tree are not all that different from the Giant Sequoias and it's seeds.

If you want to connect and understand nature, I mean *really* connect to it, in it's entirety, you have to seek out and learn about the ugly, scary and mundane things as well. You don't have to like it, just don't forget that it's there.

[bogleech]

Anyway while we're on the subject of public misconception towards living things (which is completely understandable because have you SEEN living things? There's like dozens of them!) here's a fresh rundown of some common mistakes about bugs!

Arachnids aren't just spiders! They're also scorpions, mites, ticks and some real weirdos out there

Insects with wings are always finished growing! Wings are the last new thing they ever develop! There can never be a "baby bee" that's just a smaller bee flying around.

That said, not all insects have larvae! Many older insect groups do look like little versions of adults....but the wings rule still applies.

Insects do have brains! Lobes and everything!

Only the Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps) have stingers like that.

Not all bees and wasps live in colonies with queens

The only non-hymenoptera with queens are termites, which is convergent evolution, because termites are a type of cockroach!

There are still other insects with colonial lifestyles to various degrees which can include special reproductive castes, just not the whole "queen" setup.

Even ants still deviate from that; there are multi-queen ant species, some species where the whole colony is just females who clone themselves and other outliers

There is no "hive mind;" social insects coordinate no differently from schools of fish, flocks of birds, or for that matter crowds of humans! They're just following the same signals together and communicating to each other!

Not all mosquito species carry disease, and not all of them bite people

Mosquitoes ARE ecologically very important and nobody in science ever actually said otherwise

The bite of a black widow is so rarely deadly that the United States doesn't bother stocking antivenin despite hundreds of reported bites per year. It just feels really really bad and they give you painkillers.

Recluse venom does damage skin, but only in the tiny area surrounding the bite. More serious cases are due to this dead skin inviting bacterial infection, and in fact our hospitals don't carry recluse antivenin either; they just prescribe powerful antibiotics, which has been fully effective at treating confirmed bites.

Bed bugs are real actual specific insects

"Cooties" basically are, too; it's old slang for lice

Crane flies aren't "mosquito hawks;" they actually don't eat at all!

Hobo spiders aren't really found to have a dangerous bite, leaving only widows and recluses as North America's "medically significant" spiders

Domestic honeybees actually kill far more people than hornets, including everywhere the giant "murder" hornet naturally occurs.

Wasps are only "less efficient" pollinators in that less pollen sticks to them per wasp. They are still absolutely critical pollinators and many flowers are pollinated by wasps exclusively.

Flies are also as important or more important to pollination than bees.

For "per insect" pollination efficiency it's now believed that moths also beat bees

Honeybees are non-native to most of the world and not great for the local ecosystem, they're just essential to us and our food industry

Getting a botfly is unpleasant and can become painful, but they aren't actually dangerous and they don't eat your flesh; they essentially push the flesh out of the way to create a chamber and they feed on fluids your immune system keeps making in response to the intrusion. They also keep this chamber free of bacterial infection because that would harm them too!

Botflies also exist in most parts of the world, but only one species specializes partially in humans (and primates in general, but can make do with a few other hosts)

"Kissing bugs" are a group of a couple unusual species of assassin bug. Only the kissing bugs evolved to feed on blood; other assassin bugs just eat other insects.

[girlballs]

you have to hype up your girlmutuals or god will send beetles and snakes and bees and wasps and spiders and giant crabs to kill you

[wigmund]

Unprocessed uranium isn't that radioactive unless you're bare-handing it 24/7 but it does pose heavy metal poisoning risks if ingested somehow. It's probably the 'safest' thing on the list in terms of you have to take more steps to make it harmful than the various critters

Compilation of people holding things that shouldn't be held, please add more if you have any

[revelboo]

Been reading up in my free time! Such good writing as always!

Got anything for any of the bug-bots planned? I think they're neat. I just caught up with your Wasp fic lol

Tarantulas and the Insecticons both have storylines going (I like the bugs) ☺️

Disappear Pt 5

Tarantulas x Reader

• “No, just- can you maybe-” Trailing off as you sigh and study his avatar, you’re aware of his real body hovering a bit too close. Feeling one of those creepy spiders legs sliding against the outside of your thigh as he leans closer trying to see better and his venting stirs your hair. Trying to think of a way to tell him not to move like a robot that doesn’t just sound mean considering he is one. Looking up at him, his mandibles flex to make your skin prickle all over. Why did he have to be a giant spider? Turning and shimmying out from between his avatar and his actual body, you offer him a strained smile.

• “Doing it wrong again?” He asks, frame tensing when you retreat. Hates that a part of him is almost overwhelmed with the urge to snare you like prey. Trying to suppress those instincts with proximity, but unfortunately the closer he gets to you, the more skittish you become. Watches you rake a hand through your hair, looking up at him with a frown before you inhale and slowly blow out a breath. And offer him one of your tiny hands. Asking him to touch you even though he knows you don’t enjoy it. That he frightens you.

• Clawed servos curl around your hand as he just stares like he’s as uncomfortable touching you as you are of him. Maybe you’re the creepy one to him. And you’re still trying to understand why you’d stayed when you’d had the opportunity to run away. Most of it boiling down to how lonely he seems. The way he occasionally looks at you while he’s tinkering with something and looks like he’s almost excited, like he’s about to say something before wilting and staying silent. Holding up your other hand, you shiver despite yourself when he carefully grips it, crouching slightly as those huge servos dwarf your hands. Something he seems to realize before he just shrinks a bit, startling you so bad you nearly yank your hands loose and fall on your butt. “Okay,” you mutter, tugging gently and he drops to his actual peds instead of looming on his actual legs. Lets you lead him like you’ve been doing with his avatar. “Why can’t you move the avatar like this?”

• You’re dancing with him. Not his human avatar, him. Unable to answer you as he twines his servos with your fingers, hooks a limb against your back and takes control. Sweeping you about his makeshift lair, trying to remember the steps to a dance he’d only ever witnessed from the outskirts, never danced. Never was asked to dance. Sliding another extra limb up your spine to rest between your shoulders, he can feel your heart racing. “Why touch me when I frighten you?”

• Letting him guide you, your eyes are drawn to the pulse of his biolights on his body. The pattern alternating in rapid pulses that seem to mimic the beating of your heart. And you suppose maybe it’s the danger of him. That he scares you that makes you determined to prove you’re not scared. “You’re not so scary,” you insist. Breath hitching when three of his extra limbs come down behind you to brace himself and he dips you, your hair brushing the floor as two more limbs tuck you close to his frame, his head tipping to study you as he keeps you suspended. ‘I appreciate the lie,’ he says.

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[fran-valz]

Some highlights from the slop that is the AI Worm audiobook on YouTube Music.

Ai Taylor confronts lung, who has just transformed into a giant evil spiderman with bug wings.

Taylor shows that the bug antennas are a canon part of the costume, she might be changing race every other chapter.

Brian flexes on the dogs and a 10 year old Rachel (This is the only time Brian is portrayed as black)

Wasp skitter fights the ghost rider gang.

White Brian gives Taylor or Lisa a bug inside of a giant amber, while the rest of the Undersiders watch, including their latest recruit, a disembodied leg.

Canary is on space trial being represented by a robot lawyer.

DC fans execute nightwing cosplayer.

Taylor or Faultline single handedly take down the merchants in their sci-fi military base.

Superman checks his emails in a dark room.

Skitter comes back to her modest cabin after a long day working in the mines, her wife is preparing some horrific looking food.

The PRT council discusses a derpy-looking photo of Taylor.

????

Theo fights Taylor using his iconic venom suit in front of the spider mastermind.

Wasp Skitter and Mecha Weaver save the city once again

[lemoneyshipz]

list of things i headcannon melkor invented:

volcanoes, and as a result, all the volcanic related minerals and gems

geese, as a mockery of swans, he set them free in valinor as a prank

fungi, mushrooms, twisted from yavanna’s creations

dynamites

dragons, and later, giant lizards bc dragons are not allowed anymore

orcs, by experimenting on dead elves frankenstein style

any fucked up creature that would have made you go “what the actual f is that??” (but not spiders, and not marine creatures, well, maybe some marine creatures from land that evolved themselves into the sea)

wasps and hornets, from bees, that was a mistake, they don't talk about it.

thunderstorms

glaciers (not invented more like built)

list of things i headcannon mairon made/invented:

invented aqueducts, municipal water supply system and indoor plumbing,

invented pens bc quills suck ass

engineered two evil fortress

jewelry making as a hobby

possibly invented drumsets (you can pry drummer boy mairon from my very dead cold hard hands)

invented assembly line production

[cj-kenobi]

oh and i saw a giant wood wasp earlier and she was so pretty here she is

day 3 of attempting to catch moths (days 1-2 were deeply unsuccessful), it rained so no moths. but there was not one, not two, not THREE but FOUR cool spiders