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guyyys its bug season again :3

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in my opinion, you could add 'fly' to the mix too

beetle-fly-wasp (coleodiphymenoptera)

Aenasius encyrtid wasps are the most perfect nugget creatures. Two of them appeared for me Friday, and I was delighted.

A Beetle-Wasp, Coleohymenoptera (not an actual thing. Unless... 👀)

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I made a lil gif of some recent snail mail doodles :-3

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A life size painting of Drosophila melanogaster.

The whole thing is approximately 2.5mm in length, I painted it under microscope with a single one of my eyelashes glued to a piece of dowel.

This one turned out the best of my attempts but I slipped and made a streak I had to repair. It's tricky when a single twitch of the brush can obliterate the entire painting in one go.

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scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

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comic done for a project assignment a few years back!

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Queer history fact: Bajazid Doda was a queer Albanian ethnographer and photographer who watched the destruction of his culture and took action against it, recording the landscape and identity of the Upper Reka Valley within Albania. His work has served as a touchstone within academia surrounding the Upper Reka Valley.

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Happy ace week!

Known as Albanian sworn virgins or burnesha, people like Leme (left) and Haki (right) practice a traditional Albanian custom that allows someone assigned female at birth to assume a male gender role by taking a vow of chastity. This tradition has been an accepted part of Albanian culture for centuries.

While each individual would have their own experiences with the practice, several sworn virgins interviewed by academics Antonia Young and Rene Gremaux in the 80s and 90s spoke about their lack of sexual desire, or the ease with which they had given up sex, suggesting that this traditional practice could form a space in Albanian culture for people we might understand as asexual.

Check out our podcast on Albanian sworn virgins to learn more!

[Images by Jill Peters]

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the start of a comic i was making in 2023 about a mosquitos point of view

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critter appreciation post 𓆤⭒𓆑⭒𓆣⭒𓆨⭒𓆦

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drawn traditionally in ink 🐛 but they kind of look digital here, that's neat!

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arborist

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Little digital drawing of this moth :33

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Old drawing I made of a caterpillar I saw.

I don't know why, but I added a tutu....

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Springtails By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994