#giant katydids

[professionalunprofessional]

The Giant Katydid… what a chonker!

#Phylum: Arthropoda #Class: Insecta #Order: Orthoptera #Suborder: Ensifera #Family: Tettigoniidae #Genus: Stilpnochlora #Stilpnochlora couloniana #giant katydids #katydids #insects

[onenicebugperday]

Giant Malaysian katydids, Arachnacris sp., Tettigoniidae

Photos 1-2 by squiresk, 3 by lkuijvenhoven, 4-6 by yah_japan, 7 by jiroiguchi, and 8-10 by gancw1

#animals #curators on tumblr #insects #bugs #katydid #giant malaysian katydid #Arachnacris #one nice bug #ohhhhh I want to touch #camouflage #mimicry

[heartnosekid]

slow-mo of a giant katydid absolutely ending you | source

#stim #giant katydid #insects #bugs #sfw #elden ring #<-- absolutely a fitting tag obvi #stilpnochlora couloniana #green #white #you died #slow motion #hands #animals #wings #ishy gifs #postish #katydids

[drinksss]

donuts

#artists on tumblr #blender #3D modeling #giant green katydid #katydid #insects #bugblr #art #bakery #baking #breadblr #donuts #homemade #food #entomology #graphic design #magazine #cover #poster #design

[ratcandy]

i love the bug collection

whats ur favorite bug in the collection

There’s many in there I like but I’m gonna go with the one I named . This is Dave .my Mantis (at least how I found him):

stared really hard at a tree until a twig moved slightly and behold. A man

#Either him or the really big fuzzy bumblebee I have. Or the Luna moth. Or the giant katydid. Or the zebra longwing. Or the ichneumonid #or the cicada. You get the point I like a lot of them #ask #bugposting #I would have the picture of him in the collection but I’m too lazy to blur the label again #bugs #mantis

[herpwrangler]

giant katydid spotted

#giant katydid #katydid #insect #bug #:)

[wildegeist]

The look this katydid is giving me feels scornful somehow

#florida giant katydid!! what a cool bug to run into #my only regret is i couldnt get as good photos of this guy as usual cause it was too far up :( #wilde finds bugs #bugs #wildemisc

[magioffire]

Me trying to save a katydid from a spider web and a giant ball of wasps fall out of their (supposed to be dead cuz I sprayed them) nest in my roof and I've never been more traumatized

#WHAT THE FUCK DID ANOTHER WASP JUST PUSH THE DYING ONES OUT???? #fucking terrifying #ooc. #tbd. #i did manage to save the katydid btw its leg was stuck in the web #i picked it up and put it in the grass lol #and then the wasps attacked #giant ball of falling wasps LOL #im sobbing im gonna have to spray the bastards again #i probs didnt get the queen

[leviathiane]

waugh i get a lot of photos from friends asking me to identify a bug and they all just gave me the OK to post them on my entomo/arachnology instagram but now i have to actually go ID them down to the latin names fuck

#depths' talks #i just spent so long on a katydid.... #can u tell i dont ID a lot of katydids lol #ive seen like 2 and never at an opportune time to actually catch and document #its ALWAYS through a wire fence while late to class dammit #the giant millipede was comparatively much easier

[tiktaaliker]

just picturing lucky shot's reptid parent pointing at the irregular parent like "you're a freak. i like that." and that's how they get together

once again this is one of the types of asks i get thats like. you joke but that is almost literally what happens for real. its like how sometimes when birds get banded they will attract more mates because its a cool color or its shiny. like yeah theyre all freaks of nature who shouldnt reasonably exist but also. they do be kinda fly tho 👀

#ask and ye shall receive #Anonymous #mortally coiled #like the main thing is that the people in mortally coiled are SO diverse even within groups #that when the irregulars show up its like. well this might as well happen. #none of my business if johnny the bird person wandered out from the woods yesterday when bird people technically dont exist #my neighbor carl is a giant katydid. who the fuck cares

[bogleech]

Top ten imaginary bugs?

A tree dwelling cockroach that lights up like a firefly

A big spiny predatory katydid that lights up to lure the cockroaches

A freshwater mantis shrimp I could just find at the average creek like I can crawfish.

A "giant" (like 2 inches) flightless lousefly that can thrive on any vertebrate blood and bites things at night like a vampire bat, wouldn't spread disease or infest homes or even be any more painful than a mosquito but you know it'd freak people out real bad anyways. Just something extra to keep humans on their toes.

A giant (like 1 inch) snout mite because they're really fun carnivorous mites with pointy noses, I wanna be able to keep them as pets too, or an even more giant tick but it's a non-biting scavenger. I want a big friendly tick.

A freshwater goose barnacle that can grow on land and catch insects like a venus flytrap.

A fully terrestrial crab that lives positively everywhere just so we'd have a culture in which crabs have to be recognized as common woodland creatures instead of mainly sea or beach creatures. I just think that would be fun. Might be neat if it's also super spiny all over.

A positively colossal (half an inch) tardigrade. Some tardigrades are predators, it could be one of those. A ferocious mega tardigrade that eats worms and termites and things.

One single small, plain species of trilobite that survived extinction by coming onto land but it's a petty nuisance to us, like it loves to eat stucco or something.

A biting vampire butterfly. Vampire moths exist, but they're rare and nocturnal. The vampire butterfly should be common and act like any other butterfly except that it will bite you if it gets the chance. As with the woodland crab I just wanna see what cultural impact there'd be if one butterfly was scary. It should look really distinct among all butterflies for ease of artistic use. So nobody has to explain what kind of butterfly it is if they got it for a tattoo or put it on an album cover.

[bugkeeping]

giant leaf katydid (Steirodon sp.) cleaning her antenna :)

#orthoptera #macrophotography #costa rica #katydid #video #ots #la selva #la selva biological station #bugs #bug #bugblr

[onenicebugperday]

Do you have a favorite threat display pose from a bug? I know its bad if the animal is stressed but also so many mantis ones are just so pretty and silly (up go the arms!), it makes me wonder what other bugs have got goin on

I do love mantid threat displays! My favorite species (Idolomantis diabolica) has a beautiful threat display:

Ahhh I’m scared! Photo by also_sprach_susscrofa

But there are a lot that are super fun, especially the ones with false eyes on the wings. The katydid Pterochroza ocellata comes to mind:

Neat :) Photo by paulcools

Honorable mention to the ilia underwing moth caterpillar who, when threatened, flips onto its back to reveal a startlingly purple/pink belly!

Very “don’t eat me.” Photo by hannahwojo

#insects #bugs #the more you know #praying mantis #giant devils flower mantis #devils flower mantis #katydid #moth #caterpillar #larva #ilia underwing #homingpidgeon

[apsciencebydan]

Common names can be a bit hit or miss, but every time I see a giant katydid I think damn they got it right.

#nature #animals #bugblr #photography #science #invertebrates #entomology #katydid #lorge

[drinksss]

#artists on tumblr #entemology #entomology #giant green katydid #stilpnochiora couloniana #graphic design #typography #poster design #neon aesthetic

[darksilvania]

My entry to The Aussie Artist's 30K followers contest over on instagram, to create a Convergent or Regional form changing the pokemon types according to this format

I choose to change the TYRANITAR's line Rock type for Bug

Changing TYRANITAR's line from Rock to Bug was kind of an obvious choice since both LARVITAR and PUPITAR already had "Larvae" and "Pupa" in their names, the only challenge was to turn TYRANITAR itself into a bug

LARVITAR (Bug/Ground) is based on a Thorn Bug, I choose this due to their similar looking bodies and colors,

PUPITAR (Bug/Ground) is not really based in any particular cocoon or pupa, even tho there are several species with spiky cocoons out there

KATYRANITAR (Bug/Dark) s the regional evolution of this line, it is based on the Armored Katydid or Armored Bush Cricket, a type of giant predator katydid from Africa. This bug fitted TYRANITAR perfectly as it is the "armor pokemon".

KATYRANITAR legs are actually really long but remain folded most of the time. Due to its large size, hoping would be too hard, so they only use them in very specific situations, like pouncing over a prey from a long distance, or getting away quickly from a fight with a larger member of their species, as they are cannibals.

#pokemon #fakemon #fake pokemon #regional form #regional evolution #regional variant #bug type #bug pokemon #bug fakemon #katydid #thorn bug #larvitar #tyranitar #pupitar #instagram #contest