#nighttime insects

[saraichinwag]

Can Bees Fly At Night?

[kollector-of-stims]

Squishables Death's Head Hawkmoth!

[daily-dose-of-lepidoptera]

Daily Dose of Lepidoptera

[Day 51] (Butterfly Friday)

-Kamehameha Butterfly-

Vanessa tameamea

-Common Clubtail Butterfly-

Losaria coon

-Red Cracker Butterfly-

Hamadryas amphinome

[heartnosekid]

🔮 phosphor slime 🌙

for @bamboozlin-maxie!

🌙-⭐️-🌙 / ⭐️-🔮-⭐️ / 🌙-⭐️-🌙

[weepingfoxfury]

Thursday, Thursday, Thursday ...

Just like the spider that dropped into one of the dog's breakfasts this morning, this is me and them and another eight legged friend from last night's perambulations dropping in to offer a many limbed wave at you and wish you a very good Thursday.

Now I must whisk myself away to get ready for the shiny metropolis! :-)

PS: Incy Wincy does take bookings should you and your furry friend require a spidery food drop-in ... but hurry, cos she's a popular gal and I know you wouldn't want to miss out. ;-D

[jenfoundabug]

In case you’re wondering how crickets make the sounds they do. It’s a common misconception that they rub their legs together to make noise, but in reality most species use their wings!

The front wings (tegmina) are leathery and modified to have tiny ridges sort of like a file. When one wing is rubbed against the other (stridulation), they vibrate, generating sound. Additionally, the central part of the forewing (called the harp) is designed to resonate and amplify the sound. To make it extra loud, many crickets (like this one) face their burrows while chirping.

Crickets that sing are mainly males, and most females don’t even have the modified wings to make sound. The reason they sing has to do with mating - attracting females and repelling other males. Some species have multiple songs depending on the situation, including a “triumphal” call after successfully mating.

Species unknown

Sierra National Forest, California, US

[k4i-ztimz]

🦴🦝🦴

🦝✨🦝

🦴🦝🦴

Seijun Kazuko stimboard!

Sei is a character from my series “decaying desires”. Honestly love em and their silly autism

[unproduciblesmackdown]

what in the. see this is why it's a good thing that multiplayer videogames especially are about having fun & being yourself like what do you mean disguised spies automatically had the speed of the disguise's class & everyone's like yea if i wasn't always going for the scout disguise i'd kill myself right now. i'd be like haha can't catch Me out supposedly the extra slow or extra fast class >:) i am a harmless engineer

[sallyawayfromhome]

[reflets-de-minuit]

Do you see it?

[field-of-hopes-and-nightmares]

We continue with artfight attack! I think I'll post three time a week to finish them quickly XD

This character is Thistle from 000beauart

[karnival2]

[aliennachos]

The polyphemus and automeris io moths I found two nights in a row

[saraichinwag]

Can Bees Fly At Night?

[a-commas-a-pause]

I mean I had been blaming it on these guys:

But I'm in favour of more non-english post sequencing! I want to see what we get.

Hi! So related to the ask that someone made where they classified the bugs. It's not that we speak like moths: it's that the English language uses letters in sequences due to our linguistics that ties to the sequences used by Lepidoptera! If you sequence posts in other languages that still use the Roman alphabet, including ones that aren't Romantic languages, you SHOULD start to see a bit more diversity in what DNA you're sequencing :) I'm very curious to see what you'd sequence out of a Finnish or Estonian post, for example, as they're not related to other European languages and are neither Germanic OR Romantic.

how lucky we are, then, that our language happens to line up with the genomes of moths

[onitaszafran1975blog]