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bogleech · 5 years ago

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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.

#pokemon #fakemon

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quartings · 6 years ago

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A bunch of animals that aren’t Pokemon yet:

Here’s all the cool animals I could think of that don’t have Pokemon based off of them yet- as you’ll see, there’s about 300 or so! And when you count plants, fungi, inanimate objects, yokai, etc, plus the fact that Pokemon loves to repeat animals (Looking at the Gen 5-8 starters), you could say that we still have another 8 Gens of content to look forward to!

Invertebrates:

· Anemone

· Assassin Bug

· Black Widow Spider

· Bobbit Worm

· Bombardier Beetle

· Christmas Tree Worm

· Colossal Squid

· Cone Snail

· Cuttlefish

· Decorator Crab

· Earwig

· Flea

· Fly

· Giant Tube Worm

· Glaucus

· Glow worm

· Grasshopper

· Honeypot Ants

· Hummingbird Moth

· Leaf Bug

· Leech

· Lobster

· Locust

· Man O’War

· Mayfly

· Mimic Octopus

· Poodle Moth

· Proper Cockroach

· Proper Mosquito

· Scarab

· Sea Pig

· Sea Urchin

· Spider Crab

· Stalk-eyed Fly

· Stick Insect

· Tarantula Hawk Wasp

· Tardigrade

· Termite

· Thorn Bug

· Water Boatman

· Worm

Fish:

· Archerfish

· Barreleyefish

· Basking Shark

· Blobfish

· Both genders of Anglerfish

· Bubblehead Goldfish

· Chimera

· Clownfish

· Cookiecutter Shark

· Cowfish

· Flashlightfish

· Flying Fish

· Frilled Shark

· Frogfish

· Gar

· Garden Eel

· Goblin Shark

· Hammerhead Shark

· Icefish

· Lionfish

· Mahi-Mahi

· Megamouth Shark

· Moray Eel

· Oarfish

· Parrotfish

· Ribbon Eel

· Snakehead

· Stingray

· Stonefish

· Sturgeon

· Swordfish

· Thresher Shark

· Tripod fish

· Whale Shark

· Wobbegong

· Wolffish

Amphibians:

· Caecillian

· Cane Toad

· Flying Frog

· Midwife Toad

· Olm

Reptiles:

· Anole

· Armadillo Lizard

· Blue Tongued Skink

· Draco

· Flying Snake

· Gila Monster

· Iguana

· Jackson’s Chameleon

· Komodo Dragon

· Marine Iguana

· Sea Snake

· Snake-neck Turtle

· Thorny Devil

· Tuatara

Birds:

· Blue Jay

· Bowerbird

· Burrowing Owl

· Canary

· Cassowary

· Cockatoo

· Cock of the Rock

· Condor

· Cormorant

· Crane

· Emu

· Flamingo

· Frigate Bird

· Goose

· Hoatzin

· Hornbill

· Hummingbird

· Jacana

· Kakapo

· Kea

· Kingfisher

· Kiwi

· Kookaburra

· Lyrebird

· Oilbird

· Peacock

· Potoo/Nightjar

· Puffin

· Roadrunner

· Sage Grouse

· Secretary Bird

· Shoebill

· Snowy Owl

· Stork

· Turkey

· Umbrellabird

Mammals:

· Aardvark

· Armadillo

· Aye Aye

· Babirusa

· Baiji

· Bilby

· Bottlenose Dolphin

· Capybara

· Cheetah

· Chinese Water Deer

· Coati

· Colugo

· Dalmatian/Corgi/Daschund/Greyhound/Chihuahua/Husky

· Dingo

· Foosa

· Gazelle

· Golden Mole

· Hyrax

· Irrawaddy Dolphin

· Jerboa

· Lemming

· Llama

· Manatee

· Moose

· Musk Ox

· Naked Mole Rat

· Narwhal

· Okapi

· Platypus

· Porcupine

· Possum

· Proboscis Monkey

· Proper Gorilla

· Proper Kangaroo

· Proper Rhino

· Quokka

· Ram

· Saiga

· Slow Loris

· Snow Leopard

· Solenodon

· Sperm Whale

· Star-nosed Mole

· Tarsier

· Tenrec

· Warthog

· Wolverine

· Wombat

Prehistoric:

· Dodo

· Thylacine

· Giant Auk

· Megaloceros

· Smilodon

· Megatherium

· Glyptodont

· Coelodonta

· Phorusrhacos

· Basilosaurus

· Argentavis

· Spinosaurus

· Ankylosaurus

· Parasaurolophus

· Hatzegotpterix

· Koolasuchus

· Triceratops

· Shunosaurus

· Iguanadon

· Liopleurodon

· Elasmosaurus

· Opthalmosaurus

· Therezinosaurus

· Utahraptor

· Yi Qi

· Tapejara

· Ornithocheirus

· Stegosaurus

· Dimetrodon

· Dunkleosteus

· Heliocoprion

· Stethacanthus

· Diplocaulus

· Cameroceras

· Pterygotus

Mythical/Cryptid:

· Beast of Bodmin

· Beast of Dartmoor

· Bigfoot

· Cerberus

· Chimera

· Chupacabra

· Flatwoods monster

· Fresno Night Walkers

· Gargoyle

· Griffin

· Ice Wyrm

· Jackalope

· Jersey Devil

· Minotaur

· Mongolian Death Worm

· Mothman

· Nessie

· Ningen

· Owlman

· Pegasus

· Quetzalcoatl

· Ropen

· Wolpertinger

And there’s probably many more I don’t know of or forgot!

#pokemon #pokemon gen 8 #zoology #paleobiology #cryptozoology #q speaks #my writings

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talldarkandroguesome · 2 years ago

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22nd of Frostfalls, Loredas

Today we went for a country ride as a family. The trees have turned a lovely shade of red, blushing like autumn gave them a sudden kiss and whispered words of a debaucherous nature. The ground is scattered with those that have fallen, crisp and dry, so that the guar and carriage make a delightful sound as it goes over the leaf dusted road. I had to bundle up Cariel with my own cloak as hers was not enough to keep her warm with the chill of the wind.

Kuna refused one, even as her cheeks were whipped by the wind as we went to the point they looked akin to the leaves on the trees. Sildras picked up one of the fallen leaves, one which was vibrantly touched with red, orange, and green. He said that it looked like it was painted. I said it had been, only that it was nature who had done so. He laughed and told me I was being very silly.

I mocked hurt and told him that I was being honest. For nature had the greatest brush of all and every color at her disposal. A true artist who painted Nirn in her whims.

Avon told me he was going to send me to Solitude if I continued to wax poetically, for it was more pathetic than I thought and could clearly use some brushing up on the art.

The children looked to see how I would react, so I threw myself dramatically back against the seat of the carriage and decried how unappreciated a real artist was. I told Sildras to watch out, for such was his fate as a young painter.

Avon laughed and the children followed suit. I joined in and we all had a grand time. We stopped at a small private gardens that is situated near where the road forks between the main road westward and the northward road to Mzithumz. It was set up by a retired member of the Mages Guild who wanted a sort of Arboretum where he could experiment with the many saplings and seeds he had been given over the years from his travels. This is the time of year where he allows people to come and see the ways in which agriculture is performed in other parts of Tamriel and he has a lovely place with grand rows of apple trees from Skyrim and squashes and gourds from Blackmarsh and pomegranates from Cyrodill, and so many other bounties of autumn from the rest of the continent.

Sildras brought along a notebook to take notes for his own reasons. I think they are studying something to do with taking records of your research and he is using this as an opportunity to practice.

We strolled his many gardens and mock farm plots. The children hand fed the exotic animals of abroad such as dogs, goats, cows, and even a pig.

There were a surprisingly bountiful number of insects, at least in the sunnier areas. There was even what appeared to be an apiary on the grounds, though we were not taken towards it. I suppose it is the time of year when the bees are quieting down until spring. But there were still some butterflies and their mimics, some brilliant metallic wasps, fuzzy turquoise bees, a variety of flies, and even a grasshopper. I saw one very good sized orb weaver and thought that it must be my Prince’s way of saying I was on the correct path. That I had done well. We took our lunch upon a small hill under a beautiful array of maples, whose leaves were every color of the season. One small leaf fell into my glass of wine and I thought of how absolutely it encapsulates the paintings of the season, the glass of wine with the maple leaf. How many thousands of screens I have seen painted in the precise manner I found myself in.

After lunch we went through some of the regional gardens, including a conservatory with the starkly alien looking plants of the deserts of Alik’r and Elsweyr. We looked at the towering tree ferns and mangroves of Black Marsh and I thought of those times trudging through swampland to free those wrongfully stolen from their families by the Dres or Telvanni and we would stop to avert notice and you would turn and see the most beautiful flora one might imagine, just there growing out of the mud. I suppose it is easier when you do not need to concern yourself with things such as leeches.

At the end, our guide was generous enough to allow each of the children to pick one fruit or vegetable of their choosing. Sildras chose a pomegranate. The girls were worried about taking anything from any of the trees, but compromised by taking the fruit which had fallen on the ground. Kuna found an apple which must have fallen recently, for it had none of the mold or insect holes otherwise expected. Cariel took a baby pumpkin which she found somewhere along the walk.

Avon and I purchased some dried apples and pear preserves that were made from the fruit of the gardens and which we are told the cost of which goes towards maintaining the grounds.

We were not even halfway home when Cariel fell sound asleep, tuckered out from running around the gardens. Kuna, despite her pride, did not last the whole of the trip back before she succumbed to slumber as well. Even Sildras was close to nodding off by the time we rolled down the hillside into the outskirts of Mournhold.

I am sure that everyone will sleep well tonight. Perhaps even me. I know there have been some frightening dreams of late, but if I got some rest at last it would do me much good. I have been having an easier time of sleeping. Not great, everything seems to come to me with some horrible outcome, even if the outset of the dream is good. But I have awoken feeling more rested regardless and more able to fall back to sleep after waking from the nightmares. As tired as I am, I cannot imagine I would not do the same again. We shall see if it lasts tonight.

#ESO #TES #RP #Dunmer #Elder Scrolls Online #The Elder Scrolls

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ashokmanjan · 3 years ago

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Another leaf looking or mimicking Hopper. Perfect to provide the best camouflage on the leaves Phyllochoreia Ramakrishnai. Common name leaf mimic katydid / grasshopper. Look at how its colours of green , yellow mimicking the guava leaf colour and even brown mimics dry parts of the leaf #macroinsect #tgif_insects #snagnation #macroworld_tr #macro_royals #macro_highlight #macromood #macro_mania #macro_captures #macro_love #macroclique #macro_holic #macro_freaks #macro_captures #macro_world #kings_macro #macro_vision #macro_brilliance #tgif_macro #invert_macro #soulmademacro #electric_macro #macro_secrets #macro_alit (at Hingaara - The Nature stay (Malgudi Town)) https://www.instagram.com/ashok_manjan/p/CXLhqN1v9u5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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psikonauti · 5 years ago

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Leaf mimic grasshopper - Systella sp.

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onenicebugperday · 2 years ago

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Leaf-mimic grasshoppers in the genus Chorotypus

Found in South and Southeast Asia

Photos 1-3 by gancw1, 4 by dhfischer, 5 by albertkang, 6 by budak, and 7 by catalinatong

#animals #curators on tumblr #insects #bugs #grasshopper #leaf mimic grasshopper #camouflage #mimicry #one nice bug

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wovav · 3 years ago

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Insect Predators and More

Flies, as you’ve likely noticed, are all around us. The hover flies (predators) and the bristly tachinids (parasitoids) are familiar sights to most observant gardeners, but many other interesting flies frequent our yards. Over 40 families of flies function as predators of other insects. Some predaceous flies feed on dead organic material (detritivores) or waste (coprophages), activities that are a benefit to our gardens. I know the weather is warming when I first spot the brilliant emerald sheen of the long-legged fly (family Dolichopodidae), usually perched on a leaf in my yard. It isn’t actually the male fly’s beautiful metallic colors of green, blue, bronze, silver, or gold that attract the female’s attention, but instead—you guessed it—his long, graceful legs! But in case that is not enough to lure a female, many long-legged flies also provide “nuptial gifts,” usually prey, which they dangle in front of the desired female. Predaceous in both the larval and adult stages, their prey includes unwelcome plant-damaging insects such as thrips, aphids, various small larvae, and spider mites. The closely related predaceous dance flies perform a synchronized dance in their mating swarms, and also exhibit the trait of offering nuptial gifts.

To the casual observer, the predatory midges (family Cecidomyidae) resemble tiny mosquitoes, albeit with their antennae curled back over their heads. They are in fact tiny flies (as are mosquitoes). While a few eat plants or cause galls, most are active allies. Their larvae are specialist or general predators (a few are parasitoids) of soft-bodied insects, especially scale insects and members of the mealybug family. Others prey on whiteflies and thrips. The tangerine-colored larvae of aphid flies (Aphidoletes) look like miniature slugs. They eat only aphids and lots of them, and are such reliable specialists that they are used for biocontrol of aphids in commercial greenhouses. In your garden, chances are if you have aphids, predatory midges are already present. Look for their characteristic orange larvae on the undersides of leaves of afflicted plants. One hot summer day, driving through the desert, one of the biggest robber flies (family Asilidae) I have ever seen flew into our open car window, much to everyone’s consternation. It is true that some robber flies can reach formidable size, and ambush (hence their name) a wide range of large prey such as grasshoppers, stinging wasps, dragonflies, and spiders. Smaller ones attack correspondingly smaller prey, but the fearsome robber flies can catch prey larger than themselves, sometimes far larger. They are powerful, quick in flight, and able to catch prey on the wing, sallying forth with remarkable speed from a convenient perch. Prey is quickly subdued with a venomous bite. Robber flies can be recognized by their rapid flight, a generally tapered abdomen, and especially by their bristly “mustache” (the mystax), thought to protect them from flailing prey. Many are wasp mimics. These large flies, whether pinballing around the confines of your car or zipping around your garden, are no threat to humans. They can bite, but first you would have to catch one! The stiletto flies (family Therevidae) are closely related and similar to robber flies, although these are usually smaller and more slender. Unlike the robber flies, they are clean-shaven. In their larval stage, they prey on soil arthropods. Adults dine on nectar, pollen, and honeydew. You may also encounter soldier flies (family Stratiomyidae) from time to time. Many are wasp mimics. The most commonly encountered species is the shiny black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens). A sphecid wasp mimic, it has two transparent “windows” on its abdomen that give the appearance of a slender waist. Adults are usually nectar feeders. Eggs are laid in batches of hundreds, and dark grayish-brown larvae soon hatch. These mainly break down decomposing organic matter in the soil. They also prey on soil arthropods, especially the larvae of blow flies and house flies. Voracious eaters of soggy fruit, vegetable waste, and coffee grounds, soldier fly larvae are also helpful in home composting systems (while they will show up on their own, they can be purchased live and given their own compost bin). Laden with fat and protein, the larvae are used in aquaculture and for pet and human food. My chickens love dried soldier fly larvae! As you might expect, the golden dung fly (family Scathophagidae) is found on dung, in this case usually that of large mammals.

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saltycharacters · 3 years ago

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Ok thank you all for letting me indulge,,,,, so these r all of my crustacean pins, which include pillbugs/isopods, trilobites, crabs, and crayfish :] Fun fact, the bottom left isopod and bottom right yeti crab glow in the dark

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Next is my "pest" pins, which include all of my cockroach, fly, mosquito, and silverfish pins. My favorite is the far left cockroach bc it's gorgeous and also the antennas move :]

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These are some of my beetle and all of my arachnid pins, plus a cute little "look after the little things" pin!!!

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These r all my hoppers and plant-mimic bugs :] The "get stick bugged" pin faintly glows in the dark

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These are all of my "long bugs"!! Wish there were more millipede pins out there,,,

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And these r all of my remaining bugs,,

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And here are some of my non-bug related but still rlly cool pins :]

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If anyone is interested in any of these pins then let me know and I'll link you to where I got em :]

Would anyone like to see my bug pins

#im also expecting a ball python pin shaped like a pretzel soon REALLY excited to get that one #anyway thank you guys for letting me ramble

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dark-space-exotics · 7 years ago

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Cnemidophyllum cf.citrifolium, a very large and impressive katydid.

#Cnemidophyllum citrifolium #leaf #mimic #katydid #giant #cricket #grasshopper #captive bred #exotic pet #bug #insect #crested

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bethestaryouareradio · 4 years ago

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Guardians of the Garden Galaxy

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.” William Shakespeare

The gray turtle dove darted from the mulberry tree to the wooden nest box and back again. Thinking there must be eggs, I grabbed my camera and discovered a baby dove nestled in a hollowed nest with the mother bird proudly standing guard. The sounds of gentle cooing surrounded this bucolic scene. I felt blessed that these birds chose my garden to settle.

If you want a healthy, glorious summer garden, beneficial insects, arachnids, birds, amphibians, and reptiles must call your landscape “home”.

Many people scream at the sight of a snake or a lizard and start swatting when they witness a spider. However, these are beneficial biologicals devouring the insects and predators that capture prey that destroy your garden. Everyone loves lady beetles, known as ladybugs, and people understand the value of bees, but did you know that frogs, hoverflies, ground beetles, praying mantids, and lacewings are invaluable friends to the garden?

The guardians of my garden galaxy are plentiful and ubiquitous. Every day as I walk through my oasis, I am greeted by numerous lizards darting from rock to plant, frogs hopping to hide under a leaf, spiders weaving webs, bumblebees, hoverflies, and honeybees sucking the nectar from a variety of species, and birds making nests and dining on insects. My favorite garden guardians are the kingsnakes that eat gophers, moles, voles and keep the rattlesnakes away.

Our garden colleagues keep nature in balance without the use of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides. Using integrated pest management, natural sources of nutrients including compost and mulch, will fertilize and keep your garden healthy.

Here are some of the benefits of inviting our flying, hopping, slithering, and scooting comrades into your garden.

Birds: As they fly from tree to tree, birds are pollinators adding more blooms and fruit which attract more birds. Birds eat a variety of pests including mosquitoes, aphids, grubs, slugs, and spiders. Large birds such as owls and hawks eat rodents including voles, moles, squirrels, rats, and other unwelcome critters. They help control weeds by eating weed seeds. Watching birds and listening to their song reduces stress.

Invite birds to your landscape by offering:  A water source including a gurgling fountain or birdbath.  Birdhouses for shelter and nesting.  Feeders for seed. Even putting a pie tin in the bushes with seeds or picked clover and dandelions will attract our feathered friends,  Plant a selection of flowering plants, shrubs, berries for them to enjoy.

Frogs and Toads: Natural pest control. They eat caterpillars, cutworms, bugs, beetles, grubs, slugs, grasshoppers, and numerous other detrimental insects.

Invite frogs and toads to your landscape by offering:  A place to hide. Frogs and toads are shy. They prefer a cool, shaded area with lots of moisture and plants. Turn over a flowerpot and they will make a house.  A pond allows them to lay eggs. Have fun watching tadpoles.

Lizards: Reptiles are excellent eaters of garden pests including slugs and harmful insects. A plethora of lizards living in your landscape is an indicator of a healthy ecosystem. The food you grow will be free of heavy metals and pesticides since lizards cannot thrive in a hazardous environment.

Invite lizards to your landscape by offering:  Only natural methods of pest control.  Avoidance of all weed killers.  Mulch to regulate moisture in the soil.  Rocks, bricks, or stones for sunbathing.  A saucer or small container with water for drinking.

Snakes: Garter snakes and kingsnakes are especially beneficial in our area because they eat insects and rodents. One snake can devour an entire rat family in two weeks. Kingsnakes also kill rattlesnakes and keep them away. Make sure to learn the good snakes from the poisonous ones.

Invite snakes to your landscape by offering:  A hiding place in bushes, tree stumps, driftwood, or even metal panels.  A water source on the ground, a small birdbath, fountain, or the “butterfly bowl”.

Ladybugs:  Also known as Lady beetles or Ladybird beetles, their larvae look like alligators. Both the adults and larvae are voracious general pest predators of aphids, beetles, caterpillars, lace bugs, mealybugs, mites, scale, whiteflies, and insect eggs. The larvae consume over 40 aphids per hour and an adult ladybug will consume over 5000 aphids in a lifetime. If you have a small garden or a minimal pest population in a large garden, they will fly away. Rejoice because your garden is organically balanced.

Invite ladybugs to your landscape by offering:  A wide range of flowering plants to attract and keep them on site.

Hoverflies: Also known as syrphid flies or flower flies, hoverflies earned their name by hovering over flowers to sip the nectar, much like hummingbirds. They look similar to bees but they do not sting and are not harmful to humans. The adults are primarily pollinators and the larvae are pest predators, crawling along plant surfaces searching for prey. They seize the insect, suck out its contents, and discard the skin. They mimic bees and wasps to protect themselves from predators but have two wings instead of four.

Invite hoverflies to your landscape by offering:  A variety of nectar and pollen-producing plants such as aster, calendula, cornflower, cosmos, dill, fennel, lavender marigolds, mint, statice, zinnia, wild mustard, and sunflowers.  Food throughout every season by timing plantings for continuous blooms.

Spiders: Spiders help maintain a healthy balance in your garden by eating harmful pests from spring through winter. By controlling the bad insects, they reduce plant pathogens that damage plant tissues. Most spiders are peaceful. The most common web builder is the yellow and black spider, and the black wolf spiders are active hunters.

Invite spiders to your landscape by offering:  Grass clippings, mulch, lush bushes, and perennials for habitat.  Cover crops such as clover and vetch and hedges like boxwoods are havens for spiders.  Sunflowers, vining beans, and corn as well as other tall flowers are excellent for webs.

Grow a diversity of plants, eliminate pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides to attract beneficial insects, birds, spiders, reptiles, and numerous other guardians of our garden galaxy. By providing the basic needs of food, habitat, water, and shelter, you and your family will enjoy increased outdoor amusement while learning an appreciation of nature. Your garden will be their dinner table and their bedroom. Know your friends and protect them.

Photos and more: https://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue1410/Digging-Deep-with-Goddess-Gardener-Cynthia-Brian-Guardians-of-the-Garden-Galaxy.html

Happy Gardening. Happy Growing.

Cynthia Brian, The Goddess Gardener, is available for hire to help you prepare for your spring garden. Raised in the vineyards of Napa County, Cynthia is a New York Times best-selling author, actor, radio personality, speaker, media and writing coach, as well as the Founder and Executive Director of Be the Star You Are!® 501 c3. Tune into Cynthia’s StarStyle® Radio Broadcast at www.StarStyleRadio.com

. Buy copies of her best-selling books, including, Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul, Growing with the Goddess Gardener, and Be the Star You Are! Millennials to Boomers at www.cynthiabrian.com/online-store

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