#mantis :]
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fernshawart · 3 days ago
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Portraits of old friends
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sushiikando · 3 days ago
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hey guyssssss i definetly dont have around 10 art pieces i havent posted smiles
anyways i turned my partners into keychains for halloween isnt that neat
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Cricket is me :)
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Mantis/Azalea is @lyrebirdreams
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Bee/Cephus is @crash-c0urs3
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darklight-owl · 5 months ago
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People who like mantises but aren't that into entomology are always "orchid mantises" this and "orchid mantises" that. Overrated. Can we talk about Toxodera integrifolia for a minute:
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(Image links because as much as it pains me I've never seen one of these beauties irl: 1 2 3)
Like how are these things real. Girl what is that thorax shape. Why are you wearing eyeliner. And the colors? Absolutely fire. This is a 10/10 insect if you ask me.
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botherbug · 10 months ago
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mantis mouthparts source
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smugpugchimera · 2 months ago
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Have been on a quest to better understand insect mouthparts, here're breakdowns I did on mantis, but a lot of the basic structure applies to most insects with chewing mouthparts Here's also a very nice video that covers all adaptations and names all the individual parts:
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herpsandbirds · 4 months ago
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Red-and-yellow Slender Flower Mantis (Toxodera integrifolia), female, family Toxoderidae, Malaysia
Photograph by Chien C Lee
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onenicebugperday · 1 year ago
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Snake mantis, Kongobatha diademata, Nanomantidae
Photographed at Airlie Beach in Australia by Steve & Alison1
Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!
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cryptic-forge · 6 months ago
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with summer come the bugs. but this one might be sweet.
i will have to reprint the spiky claw parts because their range of motion is not quite what i meant it to be, but i was eager to still paint this first version. making insect girls is fun, and i have a few other bugs in progress to greet the terrors [heat & light] of summer.
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single-serving-jack · 2 months ago
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He was a skater boy...
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0uchmp4 · 2 months ago
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Couldn't sleep, the hopeless romantic in me won't let me. So, I finished this early!
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hellsitegenetics · 14 days ago
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TRICK OR TREAT...
TRICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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crevicedwelling · 1 year ago
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male mantises are such bimbos I saw this guy miss a bee, then very confidently take a bite of the goldenrod buds he caught instead
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dinoserious · 20 days ago
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invertober day 24, giant asian mantis. 0_0
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brella-boi · 9 months ago
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you sickos want more bugs with eyelashes. so obscene. so thirsty
well who am i to deny yall the pleasure
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take your gay eyelash bugs
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apsciencebydan · 4 months ago
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Took a wrong turn on a trail yesterday and ended up having to back track, (not ideal to add an extra mile in 95° blazing sun/white sand) but it ended up worth it because this little nugget mantis found me in the middle of the trail! The Little Yucatán Mantis (Mantoida maya*) is indeed little, she's full grown and barely over an inch. Not that much bigger than the tiger beetles which roam the sands. I've only seen 3, and a couple babies (which are ant mimics!), and had just one picture of an adult before today. 🖤
*This species is native to central Florida and southward into Central America, as the name implies
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plusie · 5 months ago
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🌱 - realistic bug stuffies :3
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