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GET TF OUT OF MY ROOM 😭🙏

Just wanted to share some of my OCs! They're some of my favorite DnD characters I ever played as~

(this art is pretty old but I think it still kinda holds up)

London is a wizard apprentice (and also an EXTREME failgirl) who thinks she's human but she's actually part Hexkin - a race of humanoid arthropods. It's a Jekyll and Hyde kinda situation where at certain moments she loses control of her instincts and transforms into the monstrous moth creature Phobos.

London uses her owl plush to talk to her monstrous self, whom she refers to as her sister. Phobos uses the lil caterpillar plush to talk to London when she's in control

some doodles + art of them in the Don't Starve style hehe

i found a little dead millipede today, it was so cute i picked it up and shaped its little body into a heart but then i felt so bad because what if someone finds my little corpse and decides to bend it into cute little shapes

uhm im sorry mr millipede

Bug Of The Day: RHINOCEROS BEETLE

Been hyperfixating on insects recently because i`m drawing them for my school project. I've always loved bugs but this just started a whole ass obsession, they bring me so much joy ^^ What beetle should i draw next?

Edit: Only now realized the typo in the name. Will have to fix that if i want to turn it into stickers :/

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caterpillar

THIS SET UP?

[Image Description: Drawing of a brown jumping spider from the front. End of Image Description.]

Been practicing drawing jumping spiders. I still have quite a ways to go in drawing one of my favorite animals, but I’m still pretty proud of how this quick little drawing turned out.

Animal Crossing bugs part 9!!!! They’re back, here’s the Horned Hercules beetle! 🪲

When I picked up my phone this morning there was either a shield bug or a boxelder on it I don’t remember which lmao

Where normal people live: might find a spider or an ant or a moth or a mosquito in their house every once in a while.

Wherever the fuck I live: five spiders in one day. Three worms stuck in your carpet. Infestations of moths. Infestations of ants. Three giant spiders in the same room and on the same day.

Where @m0istlasagna lives: "So, this is Fred." *Said while introducing me to a spider that just lives in the corner of their room apparently*

[wip] queen wasp

SCHOOL DOODLE DUMP!!!!

Kinda messed up Skully but I made it off memory so whatever

Don’t really like the colored heart drawing :|

creepy crawlies

Turned a silly Canadian queer camp into a FURTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EWWWEEREWWWE FURRYH DIERRERER😋🤬🤬🤬🤬/J

Yeah I’m aware the body is supposed to be rainbow but idc I think it looks cool where I put it

a meeting of creatures…

I love just finding a random bug in my house. Spiders, centipedes, earwigs, you name it, like hOLY SHIT THATS A WHOLE OTHER ANIMAL IN MY PRESENCE, HELLO THERE GORJUS

made some really cool valentines to give to your special someone tomorrow :)

Okay, for anyone interested in the science here, I have a few clarifications.

First, early fossils of land plants date to around 433 million years ago, during the Silurian period, not to the Precambrian (defined as before around 540 million years ago).

Second, Tiktaalik was not the first land animal; it is known for being the earliest/one of the earliest vertebrates to walk on land, but arthropods got there first. Early centipedes and millipedes ventured out of the water relatively soon after the plants (around 425 million years ago, also during the Silurian), while Tiktaalik evolved around 375 million years ago, during the Devonian period.

can you imagine plants on land in the precambrian like aw fuck yeah fish cant even eat us anymore this owns and then tictilak shows up

My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.

We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.

Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

I, uh, might do that… except I’d probably worry too much about the welfare of the bugs.

Me walking around with a “Free Bugs” T-shirt and when people ask I point out all the little guys around them and tell them which ones are introduced species that they can totally just grab off the street and keep as pets

walking around with a “Free Bugs” tshirt and cargo pants with a lot of very full pockets that are visibly writhing 

@printerpenguin thanks for supporting Oakie!

We present: a beetle.

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Here’s a silly doodle of Oakie we did (that doesn’t quite do them justice lol). And these are some other doodles

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Thank you @amanita-strange-and-true for voting for Oakie! This is a traditional piece we did together in an Entomology Club activity. The moth is a sphinx moth (family Sphingidae) :)

Here's a close-up:

And just for fun, we put a photo through an art filter:

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Thank you @mangobronypower for voting for Oakie and spreading the word! This is a digital piece we did featuring a lady beetle :)

With their tiny buggy feet.

I want #hemiptera to stomp on me.

Lol

Guess I got a little too into entomology

#hemiptera and Other Things That Ruined My Life: An Autobiography by spectruminterests

🐛 caterpillar - the returning champion of the 2023 race at 41.6% of the votes

🐌 snail - runner up of the 2023 race at 38.3%, only 3.3% behind the caterpillar.

🪱 worm - placed last in 2023, with only 20.1% of votes

🪲 beetle, 🐞 ladybug, and 🐝 bee are new competitors!