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{{woozymitts asked:}}

I’m so sorry if you’ve talked about this already but I just saw it and you were the first person I thought of

Anyways have you seen this absolutely INSANE rove beetle

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bogleech:

I HAVE HOPED TO SEE ACTUAL CLEAR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS FOR YEARS. I have seen nothing but scientific drawings and some microscopy slides!!! Oh my god it looks even sillier and more far-fetched than I thought it would. I want everyone to know before they carelessly continue scrolling that this is how the beetle pretends to be a termite and freeloads in termite society and the entire fake termite is just the beetle’s abdomen. If you look closely you can see that’s what it is, that it just has a massive weird butt so big it can hide entirely under its own butt and that it (the butt) is shaped like a different, inflatable decoy bug with fake antennas and fake legs.

Just four fake legs because it did not study entomology but luckily neither have the termites.

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#bugs #biology #the more you know #I’m so curious what the intermediate steps in evolving this shape looked like #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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clouds-of-wings:

mardigrasdeathpostage:

clouds-of-wings:

Every summer wasps come into my room. And every summer they hover in front of every artwork on my wall, then hover in front of me, then leave through the window. It’s time to face the truth: I’m running a free art gallery for wasps. And I don’t even have a gift shop!

Well build one then!

*3D prints tiny keychains*

*paints Adele Bloch-Bauer on the windowsill with honey*

*fills drops of the sweetest liqueur I have into hollow pepper seeds and writes my address on them with the smallest paintbrush in the world*

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#bugs #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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thisarenotarealblog:

terriwriting:

anarcho-skamunist:

anarcho-skamunist:

jrpg final bosses will seem way too over the top but then I encounter one fruit fly irl and start to monologue when it dodges me

“no… how did you survive my attack… what is this power??”

Me chasing a mosquito at 2 in the morning: “You insignificant little pest. How dare you disturb me?! I will destroy you and all your kind!”

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #bugs #domesticity

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tunamoth:

crankyteapot:

crankyteapot:

BUG RACE

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the competition is intense

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Our champions are now taking their deserved rest.

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#I know I am very late here #my consider-reblogging list piled up a bunch while I was sick and whatnot #(and for that matter I didn’t even *originally* see this post until it was too late to vote) #but what a beautiful piece of history #I especially love the illustrations #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #surveys #bugs #I wonder how polls will show up in tumblr-utils scrapes #(…oh my god‚ in the new post UI you can edit tags)

{{Polls show up in tumblr-utils scrapes like this:

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This is similar to what you’d see visiting the webpage. Almost all of the information is missing, available only through the dashboard view. As such, I will be using cropped dashboard screenshots to display polls here.}}

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brin-bellway:

https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org/128631.html

@itsbenedict​ replied: this is a phenomenon that drives me to bestial, murderous rage

When I went in for lunch shift the next morning, the fly had evolved overnight into a wasp. Fortunately, I only ever saw it once, out by the soda machine.

Six days later, I found a very dead wasp curled up next to a heating element. Until next time, then.

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#(posted this too soon‚ sorry about that) #bugs #replies #oh look an update #unsanitary cw #death tw? #in which Brin has a job #trying to keep this lighthearted in keeping with the original joke

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altospaceangel:

hug-your-face:

guerrillatech:

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Okay but

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Most effective pesticide: Philadelphians

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #bugs #unsanitary cw? #death tw? #(I’d never heard of spotted lanternflies before) #(I looked it up and apparently my area’s winters are right in the grey area where spotted lanternflies can kind of sort of maybe overwinter) #(so I may or may not be seeing them soon) #((apparently they are known to fuck up apple trees‚ grapevines‚ and stonefruit trees))

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happytuesday:

hdot-mokoriri:

I’m taking a walk right now.✨

今散歩中です ✨

Look at these leaf dogs!

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#that being said I *am* enjoying the National Puppy Day celebrations #bugs #snails #slugs #adorable #(I’m reminded of that thread a while back about artificial neural networks thinking everything is a dog) #(”oh yeah it’s *artificial neural networks* that do that”) #(”*they’re* the ones who call lots of things ‘dogs’ that clearly aren’t dogs”) #(”no other sorts of minds would *ever* do that constantly”)

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ivanaskye:

to anyone who needs to hear this,

you look EXACTLY like a leaf

your eye spots ARE absolutely terrifying

when you raise your front legs you DO look bigger than anything, even a tree

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#bugs #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #unreality cw?