#moth spider

[jadafitch]

Female bolas spiders mimic the sex-pheromones of moths, luring them close enough to snag with their fishing line. A sticky blob on the end of silk thread, rather than the traditional orb web.

[mothmussy]

Spidersona🕸🕷

My canon event is gettin molly whopped by Miguel (pathetic man) O'Hara

[moxijunk]

Episode 8 festivities,,, MOTH SPIDER!!!!

[mof-rot]

Web-Wing! My Spider sona! Spider with moth aspects such as sensitive eyes, wings and attenae!

Edit: I redrew this digitally and with different colors and designs but I’m leaving this in the wild for funsies

[plusie]

[somanywhales]

don’t get mad at me for my categories, listen i’m not an entomologist i just like bugs im doing my best.

i’m sorry if i forgot your bug!!

[dosiadove]

i need more friends who love bugs. I cant take telling people i love bugs and there reaction being "i hate them i kill everyone i see", or "ew" ( and then giving me a weird look. where are the bug lovers? where are my friends? let me show you my collection, lets draw insects together, lets make power points of our favorites.

[hannahorca]

Monstrous Arthropods

[icedghostlatte-art]

Moth Danny!

[nostalgicfun]

I Spy Spooky Mansion, 1999

[inkymoth101]

Decided to draw @bun0nthemoon’s OCs bc I thought they were pretty :>

[humblegrub]

sewing patterns for bugs! (pt 2)

beetle plush pattern by ApothecaryOcto

simple fabric moth/butterfly pattern by willowynn

bee plush pattern by TooStuffedPatterns

snail plush pattern by willowynn

beetle plush pattern by MasterPlush

spider plush pattern by SugarcubeCherry

minecraft bee plush pattern by HabbiesAus

snail plush pattern by Delilah Iris

butterfly / moth plush pattern by Victoria Zhuk

garden snail pattern by DragonsGardenShop

[crevicedwelling]

I was so happy to see one of my favorite examples of visual mimicry in Costa Rica! take a look at this Petrophila moth and a Nectopsyche caddisfly. notice anything familiar about the pattern they seem to share?

it’s the front view of a jumping spider! black round eyes in rows, and stripes for legs with gaps between them. the resemblance, especially seeing the mimics at actual size in person, is striking. both moth and caddisfly have a reflective white patch of scales around the eyes, making them seem reflective and alert.

jumpers are active visual predators, a threat to small insects but also to one another, and have good facial recognition skills for members of their taxonomic family who might be rivals or predators. it’s thought that a jumping spider, viewing a mimic, might be scared off or even consider it a rival and start a territorial display, giving the mimic time to flee.

many Petrophila and their relatives in the subfamily Acentropinae have the jumping spider patterns, and I saw a few species with varying degrees of spideriness. there’s a surprising amount of other arthropods that mimic jumpers, too, from planthoppers to cockroaches and even other jumping spiders with false eyes.

[quilbug-draws]

Enjoy some spooky-coded lads for spook day🎃✨

Acherontia atropos - African death's-head hawkmoth Alaus oculatus - Eyed Elater Beetle Cyclocosmia - Ravine Trapdoor Spider

[bananafire11]

More buggy au refs coming riiight up. BIIIG shoutout to @kitkatbunnies because she helped SOOO much with these designs, give her a round of applause

[plusie]

🌱 - realistic bug stuffies :3