#insects //

[onenicebugperday]

Absolute unit of a robber fly found by eldoia87 on Reddit (posted with permission)

This beauty is a Beelzebub bee-eater, Mallophora leschenaulti

Found primarily in Texas and Mexico

[spiny-ant]

Every time you use your phobia to "justify" exclaiming about wanting to kill every bug or to be terrible on a bug liker's post I become less and less sympathetic for you, by the way. If you want to be accommodated for then stop weaseling into conversations about the thing you're so afraid of to tell everyone that the thing they love and are interested in deserves to die and you hate them.

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing is this worm ring!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Sattina Mantodea, oil painting by Dos Diablos on Instagram

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t . t -a. t g- tat g tta at t cg atg. ac . t t a t a a t a tg . A a g at t t t t gt t g. t a g t tg. g a t a.

Closest match: Grammoptera ruficornis genome assembly, chromosome: 9 Common name: Common Grammoptera

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I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.

[onenicebugperday]

Yellow weevil, Ameris ynca, Curculionidae

Found primarily in Brazil

Photos 1-7 by rogerriodias and 8-10 by francisco_bezerra

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Moth and Bone: Study on White, oil painting by wailingwizard

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing are these ladybug bobby pins!

[cherrybeachbum]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ̀ˋ

[onenicebugperday]

Asian spotted tortoise beetle, Aspidimorpha miliaris, Cassidinae

Found throughout South and Southeast Asia

Photos 1-2 by maomorningyip, 3-5 by johnnyyoung, 6 by budak, 7 by xtbg-eec, 8 by klearad, and 9-10 (larvae) by budak

[algrenion]

The Insulindian Phasmid……..

[saucingitup]

and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)

[lurks-no-more]

A ladybub!

saw one inside today 👍

[heartnosekid]

antlered flutter flies (toxonevra superba) | this_mama_fetz on ig

[crispapples]

I baked some beetle bread!! <3