#beetle grubs

[waffled-iron]

good fucking morning guys. today will be a good day. beetle grub found. fat as fuck. wonderful.

I have gotten only 5 ish hours of sleep bjy beetle grub will make it better

#photography #bug photos #bug photography #beetle #beetle grub #rhino beetle #rhinoceros beetle #rhino beetle grub #grub #insect #insect photos #insect photography #larvae #larva #beetle larva #grubs #beetle grubs

[beausbugbiome]

One of my good friends sent me some grubs that arrived today!!

Goliathus goliatus L1 grubs 🐛

#insects #entomology #bugs #insect #bug #nature #beetle #coleoptera #beetles #bugblr #insectblr #beaus bug biome #beaus bugs #goliath beetle #goliath beetles #Goliath grub #grub #grubs #beetle grubs #baby beetle

[sketches-and-such]

New grub in-progress! I’m loving this new watercolor paper.

#grubs #beetle grubs #larvae #beetle larvae #beetle larva #Coleoptera #insect illustration #work in progress #beetles #insect art #insects #bugs #natural science illustration

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Letting the sun beetles get some sun and saw a little friend in the soil… or is it? 👀

Sun beetle grubs! The first one that I held bit me but this one was better behaved 💀 they were immediately put back after this and buried themself!

[id: the sun beetles enclosure, with two yellow and black sun beetles on the cork bark, and in the soil there’s a white grub that Juniper picks up, and it starts wiggling around]

#beetles #beetle grubs #the angry grub flail tho #UNHAND ME

[oceanbluearts]

Let's see how many prompts from @fossilforager 's invertober I'll end up doing. Starting out with day 3: Oryctes nasicornis

Fucked a bit up on the perspective but it's still a little guy in an egg! Baby is in an egg cause I thought it'd be fun to try and combine eggtober with the invert prompts. Not sure I'll keep the theme up though

#invertober #invertober2022 #bugs #insects #beetles #artists on tumblr #beetle grubs #insect larva #tradtional #i just love how shaped scarab grubs are #also i got to find out that rhinoceros beetle eggs look weirdly like tiny bird eggs which is not what i was expecting from a bug egg

[dogmicrobe]

#cw bugs #bugblr #bugcore #beetle grubs #hercules beetle #art tag #beetle

[its-a-beautful-day]

Sweet Beetle Dreams

Inspired by @pangur-and-grim new grub and @dimespin comment on this post!

#star's art #my art #artist on tumblr #bug art #Grub #Beetle #Smooth stag beetle #Insect #nature illustration #cozy aesthetic #Thank you khrysteen for the suggestion of a turnip plushie #Oh I also used the photo of Pangur's free suprise grub as the reference #Cause they looked so snuggled #I'm really really proud of this piece #Absolutely blew myself out of the water with the grub and beetle rendering

[sloppjockey]

candycandycandy. gouache watercolor painting on paper 2024

#painting #gouache #watercolor #art #dark art #insect art #insect #beetle #grub #artwork

[spaghetti-doodlesart]

#beetle #insect #bugs #hercules beetle #goliath beetle #ladybug #firefly #grub #golden scarab #primary colors #artists on tumblr #traditonal art #acrylic painting

[cuttledreams-creatures]

Crybabies

#cuttledreams #ya know how it be #bug art #antlion #beetle grub #mosquito larva #precious babies #permission given to use for icons with credit please <3

[pangur-and-grim]

I know you're excited about the kitten grubs, but how is your ACTUAL grub doing?? You haven't been posting about the grub. I NEED grub content. PLEASE, GREER.

oh that's right, I haven't spoken much about my beetle larvae!

to give a refresher, in January I ordered a smooth stag beetle grub, spoon lowered it into its enclosure, and watched it tunnel under the dirt

and since then I've had a pet tub of dirt. completely unchanging.

however the store messed up, and accidentally shipped my order twice. so the next day, I got a second surprise beetle grub, and had to scramble to put together another enclosure for it!

this is when I made my first mistake: it was a large tub, but too shallow for the grub.

my second mistake was in how I moistened the soil. the online instructions I read said the soil should be kept "wet enough that it clumps in your hand". which, given the heating is going full blast in my house and drying the air out, meant I was spritzing the soil to moisten it every morning.

and then one day I found my beetle grub at the surface of the dirt, unmoving. extremely dead :(

I gave him a proper burial. but his death surprised me. I had to revaluate how I've been caring for them - it's possible that I misunderstood the soil instructions, and spritzed too often. AND in a shallow container, there's less room for the water to go, and more chance of the grub getting overly sodden.

so one grub is unfortunately deceased. what about the second one? I have corrected my mistake and am spraying less water, but was it too little too late? or is it still alive in there, undergoing metamorphosis?

in any case, I'm determined to keep this bucket of dirt for 8 months on the off chance a beetle crawls out of it, and will be tenderly caring for it until then.

#smooth stag beetle #the first grub is in a much deeper container so it's possible that it was able to withstand the initial over-spritzing. I hope so #schrodinger's beetle larvae 😔

[kdw0000]

"𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖"

#artists on tumblr #my garbage #valentines day #valentines #grub #insect #insects #hercules beetle #larva #beetle larva #hercules beetle larva #dynastes hercules #bug

[beausbugbiome]

Dynastes grantii L3 grub 🐛

#insects #entomology #bugs #insect #bug #nature #beetle #coleoptera #beetles #beaus bug biome #beaus bugs #grubbie #grub #beetle grubs #beetle baby #arthropod #bugblr #insectblr #dynastes grantii #hercules beetles

[crevicedwelling]

today it's piglet dumpling grub baby, for you.

Leptinotarsa juncta, false potato beetle

#bugs #grub #beetle #coleoptera

[cruelnemesis]

a baby

#art #artists on tumblr #entomology #bug #larvae #grub #worm #beetle #bug art #entomology art

[futurebird]

It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.

Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.

And, of course, he gets stuck on his back, not something roaches struggle with nearly as much as beetles.

That's why always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life. I thought that was the whole point of the story... We're all grubs, but Gregor reached the next stage though sadly none of the grubs in his family could understand him.

#franz kafka #beetles #bug posting #bugblr #metamorphosis #kafka #Gregor Samsa #the metamorphosis #arthropods #bugs #insects #invertebrates #arthropod #transformation #grub #pupae #cockroaches #roach #roaches #cockroach #Blattodea #Coleoptera