*sidles Up To You At The Bar* Would You Like To Hear My Wise Aphorism

People who like mantises but aren't that into entomology are always "orchid mantises" this and "orchid mantises" that. Overrated. Can we talk about Toxodera integrifolia for a minute:

(Image links because as much as it pains me I've never seen one of these beauties irl: 1 2 3)

Like how are these things real. Girl what is that thorax shape. Why are you wearing eyeliner. And the colors? Absolutely fire. This is a 10/10 insect if you ask me.

Babygirl I can make references to media I haven't even consumed

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

well maybe if you looked at some jumping spiders wearing water droplets as hats you’d calm down

Magnificent bolas spider, Ordgarius magnificus, Araneidae

Found in southeastern Australia

Photos 1-2 by doggy48, 3-4 by michaeldoe, 5-7 by nicklambert, 8 (for scale) by rhett_dodd, and 9 (egg sacs) by imcmaster

if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.