#insect reproduction

[dualitieds]

Twirls his stupidly big ears/

#le ocs #my art #doodle #sketch #hey guuys. *voice of a sickly dying dog* #sorry for not drawing #this is probably the only thing you’ll get this month #welcome to my Ironic hypothetical furry dating sim where knowledge in insect behavior and reproduction is a must #people start booing

[futurebird]

I just realized that Messor barbarus can't sting. And now I need to rethink something I thought was obvious about seed collecting ants.

Pogonomyrmex and Veromessor (the genuses of harvester ants we have in the Americas) can sting. It seems that much like "Army Ants" the group "harvester ants" isn't as cohesive as I thought.

That said... they are somewhat related, both practice social hybridogenesis.

I'm stunned. Ants shock me every single day! They can't keep getting away with this!

Please don't ask me to explain this yet I'm still trying to understand what the heck these ants are even doing.

#ant #ant propaganda #bugs #insects #myrmecology #antblr #bugblr #antposting #ant secrets #harvester ants #Hybridogenesis #reproductive system

[banesberry-anomoly]

would arache adopt me if I asked very nicely

sitting batting eyelashes image

[SURE, BUG. I ALREADY GOT THOUSANDS OF SPIDERS RUNNING AROUND, WHAT'S ANOTHER INSECT?]

#Banesberry art #Ask world #anon #altoclef.exe #Before anyone comes at me #Arache uses the words 'Bug' and 'Insect' as nicknames #The same way people say 'Dude' or 'Bro' sksjsks #But by spiders he means that literally. He has two separate reproductive systems. #(He lays eggs) #You didnt hear that from me though 8⁰] #Anyways Intersex Dealer for the win #Torren Arache #buckshot roulette #buckshot roulette art #buckshot roulette dealer #the dealer

[spricket-central]

id set aside some of Baguette and Donut's eggs after Donut died back in January, and while i was pretty sure most (if not all) were unviable, theres been ONE egg in particular that ive had my eye on:

its gradually been turning this darker, tan color over time. i have no idea if thats a good sign or a bad sign, but im wondering if maybe thats the color of a little nymph forming and showing through the eggshell?

only time will tell though! Poppyseed is still the only spricket ive ever successfully hatched, and it took her 2 months after being "planted," but she was a summertime baby, so her egg was naturally kept warmer.

we'll just have to wait and see if this little spricket seed ends up sprouting!

#insects #pet bugs #bugblr #invert pets #crickets #camel cricket #cave cricket #spider cricket #spricket #rhaphidophoridae #eggs #reproduction #baguette #donut #research #pics

[skydarcyedwards]

Well This Is Orchid

Sun Orchid, possibly Shy Sun Orchid, Thelymitra graminea.

Two weevils, soon to be more I suppose. I won't try to classify them, they need privacy right now.

Castle Rock, Porongorup.

2022

Canon 60D

Canon EF-s 35mm f/2.8 IS STM macro

#weevils #orchids #entomology #sun orchid #porongorup #albany #australian orchids #purple #purple orchid #purple plants #purple flowers #reproduction #insects #macro #flowers #plants #mountain #castle rock

[critter-catcher]

Let's talk bugs for the next day of pride month!

Wasps reproduce both sexually and asexually. The ones that reproduce sexually females are born from a fertilized egg while males come from unfertilized eggs. There are some populations of wasp that produce only females from unfertilized eggs, essentially laying eggs fertilized by their own personal DNA.

Scientists have found that whether or not a wasp reproduces sexually or asexually is determined by a single gene. Using experiments with aphid wasps, researchers were able to demonstrate that the trait is inherited recessively, and that 12.5% of females in a specific generation reproduced asexually.

Next up is ants!

Ants also have the ability to reproduce both sexually and asexually! In the case of black carpenter ants, fertilized eggs will become female workers, while unfertilized eggs become males. Mycocepurus smithii, a fungus harvesting species, is believed to be fully asexual in a majority of its populations!

Before a 2011 study, these ants were thought to be fully asexual. The study sampled 1,930 million smithii ants from 234 colonies collected in Latin America, finding that every ant was a female clone of the queen in 35 of the 39 populations examined. In the remaining four, all found along the Amazon River, ants had a mixture of genes that suggested sexual reproduction.

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#animals #nature #critters #wild life #wildlife #animal facts #facts #insects #bugs #wasps #bees #ants #pride #pride month #asexual reproduction #lgbt #asexual

[rubensmuse]

im not an entomologist but i think im right about killiks at least

#pardon my bad handwriting #killiks #swtor #can i get away w tagging this as vector hyllus #insects #this is just the humanoid size ones btw i think killiks have a lot of variation between castes #little winged emissary bugs vs drones that crawl on all sixes vs alates who lose their wings when they become reproductives #i just like bugs man #edit: ok apparently some mantises do have asses like that #er. abdomens like rhat #but that vindicates my position that killiks walk on 4 legs dammit #my art #just squirrelly things

[nessiesspeakeasy]

*putting the Mind Control fic into the queue*

I would absolutely love to hear more about your insect fae people <3

Hi! Sorry it took so long for me to answer this! Life and all~

The following talks about their mating/reproductive/romantic culture, as well as a little societal culture, but there's a lot of talk about the mating culture. I also go into what happens to the main characters after the fic ends.

Anyway! It was my friend's idea to make them insects:

So, credit to her! And then as I wrote, I jotted down ideas about their culture that I have now expanded on, as well as what happens to the main characters:

They mate like bugs in the sense of there's no marriage or attachment, just fuck and lay eggs and be done. It's rare for more than five out of a clutch to survive to birth. Related fae recognize each other throughout their lives, but it's common to just ignore them or nod in acknowledgement. Connecting with them is just as common.

So, if fae want long term partners, they find it in other races, which are considered exotic. The most exotic and covetted are the ones who give their whole names and lives to the fae completely since letting the fae control them and read their mind is extremely rare.

Any of them can create a cloaca or bug womby thingy so they can get pregnant if they want from their male long-term partners. The non-fae female partners tend to have eggs planted in their wombs and grow them until it's time to hatch, then they break free in their mother's wombs and are birthed like humans. The shells are soft and get dissolved into the mother to give back nutrients she desperately needs. Because the eggs are growing inside, a lot of them dissolve as others grow. Again, the most birthed this way is five at a time. In either case, impregnated fae or non-fae, there have been instances where a sixth egg has hatched, but months later. This is because it can get stuck or pressed against the side and only be able to properly grow when it's by itself. These are considered lucky.

These fae made from these bonds are considered fae and not half-breeds or whatever fucking prejudice. This creates a huge variety in what fae look like and the fae are proud of it, hating anything that is too similar to each other because then it's not unique~. This can create an issue if there are identical twins, but only until they are a few years old and cannot have anything unique to define them. It is common for twin fae to end up getting their physicality changed to look more different.

Taking care of their non-fae partner is a societal rule, but the basis of what care is varies a lot. If the non-fae is abused beyond care, then the fae loses their non-fae partner and is effectively cancelled and considered scum. They tend to lose any status they had, losing their homes and financial stability. That is the least of the consequences. In very rare cases, some fae have been executed for extreme abuse, especially the ones ending in the non-fae's death or mind break.

Royals/ nobility tend not to have a lot of children since it can become competitive and there have been too many coops and murders for right to rule. It was decreed royals are only allowed up to two children. This is controlled by only allowing a total of five eggs to form and be fertalized. More often, one is hatched out of such a small clutch, so another clutch of five will be fertilized right after the hatching of the first clutch.

Being in the fae realm and eating and drinking their food/liquids slows down aging, making the human life expectancy several hundred years, still small compared to fae.

The future of these two:

Aile relinquishes their right to the title of royalty/ nobility to have the large family they want with Jesse. They were able to do it in such a way that they kept their job, home and finances. This only happened because they had planned and manipulated things so only Aile was the one that could do the work they did.

Aile will control almost everything Jesse does in the first couple of years, slowly training him into being more present and more active. They figure it will take several years, but it's okay, fae live almost forever.

Jesse's depression will never go away completely, however, it will lessen and he will be able to go years at a time before it comes back and when it does, Aile is always there to help him through it. It's safe to say Jesse does better not being in the human realm and not being forced to be in survival mode.

There is a point in the first year where Jesse thinks how nice it would be to just let Aile disconnect his brain. This pisses Aile off and it's the first time Jesse sees the true wrath Aile is capable of. Aile does not hurt Jesse, of course, but Jesse can feel the power and heaviness of their anger. Aile probably fucked Jesse senseless and then made them take a trip to a small house Aile's family owns and made Jesse go and lay in grass and hike to see the stars untouched by city lights. They had picnics and swam naked in rivers and cooked meals together. Slowly, over the days, Jesse's mind began to unfog and for the first time, Aile and Jesse had meaningful conversations and were even able to laugh together. This trip is where Jesse began to realize he might enjoy Aile's company… Maybe even have romantic feelings towards the fae.

Jesse never thinks about disconnecting his brain again after this trip. He even starts to become more invested in what Aile does and Aile openly shares it, listening to Jesse's perspective on everything, even if they don't use it all the time.

Jesse gets to discover what he really likes to do at the insistance of Aile.

During one of their bi-annual trips to the cabin, Jesse gets hit with the realization that he loves Aile. Aile, not suspecting the thought, gets shocked and drops whatever they were holding. They clean the mess up together while Jesse flirts with Aile about how he should think more things like that more often if it'll get that reaction from the fae. Aile fully blushes, which is another first.

Twelve years pass before Aile gets pregnant from Jesse. Jesse is unsure how he feels about it until the baby is born. He cries as he holds their child. Aile and Jesse are good parents, traveling a lot to show their child the world. It only takes Aile five more years before they want another child from Jesse and finally confess to wanting ten children at a time. How they want all the noise and chaos that so many children will cause. Jesse is very overwhelmed at the idea, but at this point, he'll do anything to make Aile happy.

#asks #nessie answers #monsters #fae #my own twist on fae #talk of reproduction #eggpreg #depression #insect fae culture talk

[memurfevur]

i like giving any kind of grub related to Avonis traits that he had when he was a grub

which was, mainly, mantis-scythes for upper arms and stingers on his back, and ofc the ear wings but those stayed

not all traits will be expressed, some grubs might have one or the other, or both the scythes and stinger, or neither, but the genetics are there if Avonis is a part of that bloodline

(entire ramble about troll inheritance in the tags oops)

#i have weird headcanons about trolls and inheritance #in part they are bugs and i model half of this headcanon over asexual reproduction in insects where they are almost identical to the mother #so normal trolls take mostly after their direct parent and not a lot of the genes or expressions are changed #thats why its the same blood same horns and sometimes same demeanor or body or whatever #but there is slight inheritance when it comes to psionics strength magic etc #but when it comes to say mutants and cusps a lot more is able to be expressed because the DNA is already prone to mutating at a rapid rate #allowing for some genes to be turned on or off or be changed #while in development #Avonis is a mutant so he has a lot of inherited traits-- the biggest one being the ear wings he got from the Nadair bloodline #but a non-mutant Troll like Omnius would look a lot more like his direct-ancestor because the DNA is supposed to be modeled after him #it did not mutate much and so the blueprints arent changed making him identical to his father #mun talks

[lucydonato]

how about you make like a snail and go fuck yourself (snails can reproduce by self fertilization)

#if I have to learn about insect reproduction I'm taking everyone else down with me

[quiveringdeer]

Jean: Hey, Mikasa. What kind of flowers do you like?

Mikasa: I like sunflowers.

Jean, pulling out a bouquet of Venus Flytraps: Well, shit-

#incorrect aot #jean kirschtein #mikasa ackerman #jeankasa #aot #aot shenanigans #he thought they would suit her 😔 #and surely be a pick #and jean they are #but not necessarily for their floooowers #gotta ask the right questions my guy #also just looked into whether they do have flowers #and they do #but strictly for reproduction and they dont really attract insects or have pollen so #many gardeners wont even let them flower #who knew #but yea jean #ask better questions love #aaaalso i just thought about how this could connect with the whole connection #of mikasa watching the mantis eat that butterfly/other insect

[thisgentlechild]

A parasitoid wasp that insinuates itself so completely into the life cycle of its insect host that the host never gets to form its own imago:

As they feed on their pupating host, male parasitoids absorb the host's gonads

Males with male gonads mate with males that have female gonads, forming fertile host eggs

Males with female gonads can then mate with females, using a host egg as a spermatophore

The female fertilizes her own eggs, then re-lays the host egg implanted with her own

The host larva is born with wasp larvae already inside

They act as symbionts, remaining unobtrusive, increasing vigor and hunger of the host larva so it grows extra large

When the nice fat larva pupates, the wasp larvae devour it except for the gonads, and the cycle begins anew

#ideas #biology #insects #parasite #parasitism #wasps #larvae #reproduction #weird #nature #why hasn't nature done this already #or if it has why don't I know about it #fictional biology

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

i was really hoping to have a good life but i was actually born to be a cockroach

#don't reblog /// #''i am like one of those insects that can only experience love through reproduction''- me #computer generated image #guidance scale 1

[spricket-central]

sex-haver spotted

grats on the sex

#insects #pet bugs #bugblr #invert pets #crickets #camel cricket #spider cricket #cave cricket #spricket #rhaphidophoridae #poppyseed #reproduction #pics

[skydarcyedwards]

🫣

Dragonflies

Sky Edwards

2023

Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

#odonata #anisoptera #dragonflies #macro #insect macro #reproduction #naturephotography #westernaustralia #australianinsects #skydarcyedwards #wildlife #animals #australia

[memoriae-lectoris]

Green shield bugs are masters of vibrations.

First the male sends out wafts of pheromones to attract females flying nearby. But an interested female doesn’t know exactly where he is. So she lands on a leaf and generates a sophisticated pattern of vibrations, sending out a strong and precise message: an initial pulse followed by an intense burst over a narrow frequency range, another burst over a broader range, followed by a five-second pause.

Then she goes through the pattern again. The vibrations travel along the leaf and plant stem and can go into the roots and reach other plants at a rate of 98 to 330 feet per second. The male listens with his feet and straddles along two stems, gauging the direction of the message. He responds with five pulses that encourage her to keep sending out signals until they find each other.

If a female decides she’s not really interested after all, she sends a low burst of vibrations, and the male just moves on, trying his luck elsewhere.

#book: bats sing mice giggle #insect #green shield bug #communication #reproduction