#oh the wasp..

[dimetrodonz]

i see the wasp on the length of my arm

[pixel-mess]

something that kinda ticks me off in the bug community is when people act like a bug has to be a useful part of the ecosystem to deserve to exist. Like for example whenever mosquitos get hated (like where people are like we should kill mosquitos entirely) people's responses are always "well mosquitos are actually polinators and do..." like. yeah i get that but just bc they are helpful isnt what gives intrinsic value! its really annoying to me, because the response to posts like that (the hating of bugs) shouldnt be "oh but its helpful!" it should be "damn. thats honestly a really weird thing to say, and the fact that you think we should eradicate an entire species (weather or not its "annoying" or "scary") off the face of the planet is a huge red flag to me, an annoying/scary individual."

like thats actually horrible of you to say.

[windkonig]

society has ingrained in all of us that bugs are bad and evil and scary and they Bite You for no reason and Sting You For Fun and I would like to challenge every single person that reads this to try to step back and challenge those thoughts. CHALLENGE that knee-jerk reaction to kill every bug you see. REALIZE that killing it doesn't have to be the answer. it's fine to not want bugs in your home. but I see so many people whose FIRST choice is to kill it, even though it'd be easy to just cup it and toss it outside. why?

one of the greatest things that got me over my extremely intense arachnophobia was knowledge. learning more about the thing I was afraid of made me realize, "oh, they're just little guys trying to get by too" and I stopped killing every spider I saw.

and it's like. no, that wasp didn't sting you for fun. it stung you because it felt scared or defensive. no, the spider in your shower isn't trying to kill you. spiders need water to live too.

you don't deem a scared dog/cat evil for biting you, do you? then why are we demonizing insects and spiders for feeling scared? they are so, so small and we are so large. they don't know anything about us, they're just trying to live life. they didn't know they built their web in a bad spot. they didn't know they built their nest next to your door. please, show some kindness to these tiny creatures. I understand you can't let infestations happen or wasps build in your walls, but whenever possible, try to put bugs in a cup and take them outside. yes, even wasps. even black widows. if you want tips for safely capturing bugs, I'm always around to ask.

also, to those who say things like, "x bug eats other pest bug, so they're okay" why? why does something have to benefit you to deserve to live? shouldn't all creatures have a chance at life, even if they're ugly, even if they don't benefit you, even if they do something you don't like? what gives you the right to decide to take the life of any animal just because ahhh it looked scary? please. all I ask is you try to be kinder. it's okay to be scared, it's not okay to pointlessly kill things.

[pumpkinpenguin]

this was supposed to be a quick sketch but i liked it to much. good end au with wasp ig lmao

[hana-bobo-finch]

everything about the wasps in bug fables is horrific if you think about it for more than a second. I mean there were probably dozens if not more wasp fatalities from the wasp king treating them so horribly but. those wasp’s loved ones might not even be able to tell or care until they weren’t under the crown’s control. am I making sense probably not but hear me OUT imagine you’re just a lil wasp fella and one day you just kinda start losing control of your thoughts and feelings, maybe you don’t have any idea of what happened during that time, and then all of a sudden you snap out of it and next thing you know everyone is Fucking Dead

[augustisodd]

IT’S WASP RICK!!!

[deconstructthesoup]

One of my absolute favorite tropes in visual media is when something (usually bad) is happening in the background, usually out of focus, there's no real musical cues or sound to highlight it at first, and the protagonists are too wrapped up in whatever they're doing to notice it

And I never thought I'd see it in an actualplay, but that's the beauty of background animations, baby!

[midwest2-bug-edition]

Wasp and bee post!

[lilycoving]

Looks like someone else is finding the new guests exciting, too!

[bretzkysbs]

(with apologies to Eric Carle)

[entities-of-posts]

Win for corruption and web avatars everywhere! New deadliest spider has been discovered in Australia and it’s basically just the old deadliest but twice as big!

It also happens to be called the Newcastle Big Boy and it’s one of the few spiders that will actively attack nearby humans. Fangs are sharp and long enough to pierce leather! Have fun with that info!

I support her.

[tj-crochets]

Starting a new post because the other ones were getting long, but the first few HST blocks are sewn and trimmed down to size!

I have a long way to go lol

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

bitches love me for my excitement over the littlest bits of nature in my daily life

[seabeck]

"spelunking is so scary" I say as I belly crawl into a mine from the early 1900s that has been nearly forgotten, 8 miles from my car, no cell phone reception

[hana-bobo-finch]

my diabolical bug fables au where Leif’s cordyceps imprints onto zasp like a baby bird because he is the only bug to have ever treated it normally and after discovering what it is in snakemouth lab it realizes. hey. I can infect any moth I want can’t I. wonder what that could be useful for

[waspspots]

Nessie, ceramic

My goal was to create a living teapot, either one that looked like it was magically brought to life or something more biological. Started with a concept more like the latter, but my skill at the wheel changed the spherical shape I wanted into something more whimsical haha.