Kinda-buggy - JD

- welcome to our native bee garden! over there you can see leafcutter bees slicing leaves to line their nests, and that’s a carpenter bee hard at work chewing a tunnel for her larvae!

- oh, what’s that little green one?

- that’s a swear bee!

- don’t you mean sweat bee?

[Bee]: fuck!

love furby’s, man i still remember the blue one i had, it was the OG model design.

poor thing didn’t make the move from canada to aus all that way, as 10yr old me didn’t think to remove the batteries before it got sent over via shipping container. sadly the batteries corroded and it was never the same afterwards. it would turn itself on and off at random intervals, and it’s eyelids never shut properly. it also sounded… wrong.

it does make for a hilariously terrifying storytime however, as one night our new kitten knocked it off the desk where i kept it (covered by a bucket so i wouldn’t have to see it’s perpetually glowing eyes in the dark) the thing suddenly came to life with a cackling screech, writhing around on its back with its pupil-less eyes wide open and flashing wildly.

scared the everloving shit out of my formerly asleep younger self, genuinely to this day i think it must’ve been possessed or smth

Know the difference between isopods and pill millipedes!

Isopods: mmm leaf (breeds really fast)

Pill millipede: domestic enclosure dies

longnose gar

Am I allowed to kill people who hate bugs and specifically reach out to me to inform me of said hatred after I say I like bugs

banana slugs my beloved !!

when was the last time you saw a weevil this big

The largest weevil in North America, the palmetto weevil (Rhyncophorus cruentatus) lays eggs in the crowns of palms, where the grubs feed and often kill their host in the process.

In Florida it’s considered a major pest due to its habit of destroying ornamental palm trees, but native palmettos and sabal palms (the weevils’ natural hosts) are rarely harmed unless they’re already stressed or damaged. It’s mostly date palms and other exotic species planted along city streets that can’t take the heat and need to be drenched with insecticide to ensure survival.

(Florida, 10/31/23)

might be a silly guy and become nocturnal

Walking Leaf

I made a little friend last night