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A general reminder—periodic cicadas pose no threat to anyone and their plant damage is limited to nipping off the ends of twigs. Please do not hose them with pesticide. They are slow and clumsy and confused and only want to make friends with other cicadas and eventually die of sexual exhaustion.

Yes, the screaming is a lot, but they’ve been extremely quiet neighbors for thirteen years, cut them some slack as they go through the most fraught time of their lives.

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Spiny Weevil (Heilus freyreissi), family Curculionidae, Choco region of Ecuador

photograph by Javier Aznar González de Rueda (@javier_aznar_photography)

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Black-and-gold Flat Millipede (Apheloria virginiensis), family Xystodesmidae, eastern U.S.

Poisonous.

photograph by Erin Huggins/USFWS

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One of my favorite millipedes, just stunning

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i NEED tumblr to see this very cool beetle i found today!!

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Very Normal Ant says hi and why are you looking at me, a Very Normal Ant

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Close encounter of the third kind

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Something else abt cockroaches is that they can also hold ur hand

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I wish the woolly chafer beetle was as big as a rabbit and I could have one as a pet

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Ever seen a poodle moth?

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Ouppy.....

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Building a mystery

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Black bark snail, Pachnodus niger, Cerastidae

Found in the Seychelles

Photo 1 by juanjo37, 2 by mazzeip, and 3-4 by arkantor

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#if this doesn’t work you can catch me crying in the club

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i know every bug. btw