#bug photos

[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

[rjalker]

anyways unrelated to the last post, Condylostylus mundus my beloved. please hold still for me this year so I can get good pictures of you. you're so pretty.

It's a tiny little fly that's iridescent royal blue.

Here's a picture I got last year:

[ID: A photograph showing a raised garden bed, with the focus on an iridescent dark blue fly sitting on the leaf of a bean plant. Its head and abdomen are dark blue, and the thorax is lighter, almost cyan. End ID.]

#pretty sure I'm remembering insect anatomy correctly. #insect photos #bug photos #fly photos #flies #bugs #insects #Condylostylus mundus #Condylostylus #Dolichopodidae #Sciapodini #Sciapodinae #Long-legged Flies

[isopogs]

[ID: three photos of a small wasp-mimicking fly from various angles. It is sitting on some green flowers. End ID]

Fuck it. Bug pics blog is a go. Here's a Streaktail, which is a fly and not a wasp but she would very much like you to think she's a wasp

#I don't know the actual sex of this thing btw the pronouns are just for fun #entomology #bugs #bug lovers #bug photos

[enby-creature-feature]

A gorgeous lil friend i saved from the pool

I thinks its a jewel wasp its very pretty

#bugs #insects #wasp #i think #jewel wasp #bug photos #i watched it dry itself and it flew away

[bugboymichael]

tiny spider

#spider #spiderblr #isn't he cute #spiders #bug photos

[sabertoothwalrus]

#bugs #weevil #photos #audio

[dualityflipped]

I love making bug reaction gifs too use when talking too my friends , this is one of my favs.

#weevils #beetles #entomology #bugs #flashing #gif #.txt #photo sensitive warning #photosensitive warning

[greyphitus]

Hey guys

There's a post going around about something called the "Invertebrate Studies Institute" needing help. A few comments made on the post made me curious, so I checked it out and it seems sketchy to me. (ETA: the post's OP is now aware of the situation and is trying to rectify things on their end, and are ok with my post getting more exposure. Read the notes for more info too!)

The institute is a startup and the owner has displayed misogynistic behavior. He made a company and received "$1.3 million in research grants from the USDA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" in 2011, but there aren't any research papers listed on the ISI website more recent than 2012 (sources: ISI website, People Behind the Science podcast transcript, All Things Bugs LLC webpage). It's possible his research is still a work in progress, but I would expect to see some genome sequencing work at the least since that seems to be a major focus.

Also, it's possible to ship frozen specimens in dry ice and have them be fine. Even stuff for molecular work and genome sequencing. So the inability to get help from other research groups, to where they're asking for a local freezer plug-in, is a bit weird to me.

Some screenshots below the cut, didn't screenshot everything since it's mostly just text, but I did cite the sources if you wanna read them yourself.

Not sure what the overall point is of this post is besides "seems sketch to me" but I saw a lot of people worrying on the initial post so I wanted to at least mention this stuff.

Comments from the tumblr post which sparked my initial concerns.

Screenshots from the LinkedIn link, with the initial contact and follow-up legal threat.

Screenshot from the ISI website talking about their facility and "initiative" (I noticed a lot of the wording on the website sounded like they hadn't done significant research, which also gave me pause).

And, for fun, the CDC guide on shipping frozen specimens.

#not photos #invertebrate studies institute #making my own post cause I don't want to signal boost the misogynist startup sorry #FYI OG post's OP is now aware of all this and does not support the scientist in being a shitbag or anything like that #they are trying to rectify the situation on their end #they just wanted to save the frozen science bugs

[helluvatimes]

And The Dead Shall Rise

A bug playing dead to stay alive in a local park. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

We came across this ‘dead’ insect on a boardwalk while seeking snakes in a local park in the north-eastern part of the island. It looked in pretty good condition otherwise. 

After taking a shot of it and having reviewed the image in the camera, I was about to move on when it suddenly got up and flew away. 

I’ve read before about insects faking death to escape predators but that was the first time I had personally witnessed it, a behaviour that researchers had coined ‘post-contact immobility’, if my memory still serves me well.

#photographers on tumblr #bug photos #canon eos rp #canon photography #flora fauna #insect pics #macro photography #photography tips #tamron 16-300mm

[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

[waffled-iron]

big ahh polyphemus moth i saw this morning. he's so pretty

#bug #entomology #tw bugs #bug photography #insects #arthropods #photography #nature photopragpy #original phography #bug photos #insect photos #moth #moths #big moth #polyphemus moth #lepidoptera #moth photography #cute moth

[rjalker]

A bumblebee on clover

[ID: Eight photos of a bumblebee on white clover flowers. The first two photos are darker and more saturated, the rest are lighter. The bee and the flowers it is perched on are shown from multiple angles as the bee climbs on top, on the side, and the bottom of the flower. The bee has a yellow fuzzy front, with clear wings, a black face, legs, and abdomen, which is also fuzzy, but not as long as the yellow parts. On its back is a round black spot, with a "belt" of yellow separating another black stripe. End ID.]

#described images #bees #bugs #insects #bee photos #insect photos #bug photos #Rjalker takes pictures

[onenicebugperday]

Pacific digger bee, Anthophora pacifica, Apidae

As the name suggests, digger bees make nests in the soil where larvae develop in cells. They are solitary, though they may nest in large aggregations.

Photographed in Washington state by eebee

#animals #curators on tumblr #insects #bugs #bee #common digger bee #digger bee #pacific digger bee #one nice bug #i included that last photo so we could all admire the Bee Butt

[zivazivc]

I came up with Floyd's (other) ex band mates and then I went a little insane about them. . . Anyway they're all alternative trolls who adopted him into their group. They play nu metal at underground gigs but mostly they just go to raves and get stoned out of their gourds.

original photos under the cut

I googled "90s rave photos" and had such a hard time choosing which to draw. i might make more of them in the future...

#exhibit A of why floyd also deserves branch's resentment #my guy was living his best worst life #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls floyd #ex bandmates #trolls oc #alternative troll #les #hed #liv #riff #those are their names #if they get some love i will introduce them more properly in a different post #they all live in a van together and travel around. similar to JD's rv but smaller and i imagine it's bug inspired #maybe i should draw it #my art #I am so proud of these fr. some actually feel like old photos #some of these are supposed to be years apart #floyd is definitely the oldest in the second to last one. i imagine he's in his 20s in that one #and he's only around 14/15 in the last one #...yes they are all a terrible influence on him #90s rave #old photos #90s photos

[bugboymichael]

tiny ladybug (22 spot)

#bugs #ladybug #bug photos

[hellsitegenetics]

zoology student here! found you via the malaria post (funnily enough this week my class has had quite a handful of lectures on malaria as part of a unit on parasitism) and im just... blown the absolute heck away by your posts AKJHSFHJKCB. it is scratching my brain in such a great way. you are doing the gods' work, keep it up!

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Closest match: Drepanosiphum platanoidis genome assembly, chromosome: 5 Common name: Sycamore aphid

#tumblr genetics #asks #aethersflames #insects #bugs #sycamore aphid #this photo is so cute. just the two of us.....