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onenicebugperday · 3 days

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@dot-moth submitted: i dont know how to submit multiple photos at once so heres some ladybugs making more ladybugs! there were so many of them on one single branch…

I hope they have one million babies together :)

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #beetle #lady beetle #ladybug

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celestialphotography · 11 months

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Ladybug, ladybird, lady beetle?

#photographers on tumblr #ladybug #ladybugs #roses #rose #rose garden #gardening #flowers #cottagecore #nature #lady beetle #lady beetles #ladybird #ladybirds

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herpsandbirds · 1 month

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Lunate Lady Beetle (Cheilomenes lunata), family Cocinellidae, Cape Town, South Africa

Poisonous.

photograph by Kaldari

#cheilomenes #coccinellidae #lady beetle #ladybug #ladybird beetle #beetle #insect #coleoptera #entomology #animals #nature #africa

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foxsnails · 1 year

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Non-binary flag made from ladybugs! (And one lady beetle)

Watercolour, gouache and Procreate

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#bugs #bug art #entomology #ladybugs #ladybirds #lady beetle #pride #non binary #Nonbinary #my art #insects #beetles #watercolour #watercolor #gouache #mixed media

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enthusiastic-nimrod · 1 year

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Second sketch batch of the Lady Bugs, this time with Lady Beetle and Lady Bug!

It took me... so long to figure out Beetle's hair... so long...

Visual note time, baby!

I made around twenty sketches for Binna's hair- I wanted something that was pulled up to look "short" because Marisol and Elle already have much longer hair, but I didn't want tit to be full-on "two uber shorthaired girls and two really longhaired ones".

Her surname was taken from Albert Koebele.

Binna's hair color ALSO took forever, but I'm happy I went with the brown.

I mentioned when talking about Siby that she was based off of Sailor Mercury, but a lot of the visual choices I made were inspired by Sailor Moon for this team- like how Marisol is the most visually distinct among the girls, and everyone else has more "realistic" hair/less shocking silhouettes.

I love drawing Marisol's hair. I don't remember the inspiration anymore but the cartoony swirls bring me joy.

I intend for every girl in this team to have a splash of red in their civvy forms, but I feel like I made Binna's red the weakest. If she keeps this dress I'm color swapping the polka dots and the bg white.

Marisol's outfit was not intended to be so heavy with the red, but honestly I like it this way.

Unlike the rest of the girls who are named after entomologists, Marisol's name is based purely off of the connection between the name Mary has with ladybugs and the fact ladybugs are beetles.

#character design #character concept #magical girl #magical girl design #Magical School Girls #MSG #ladybuf #ladybug aesthetic #pink #pink aesthetic #yellow #yellow aesthetic #lady bug #lady beetle

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rebeccathenaturalist · 2 months

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I am very pleased to say that I have just completed the first draft of The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go! It currently sits at 75,530 words, though it's going to be subject to a LOT of trimming as I go through the polishing process, and then as my editor continues to refine it. But that gives me a LOT of raw material to work with.

I started intensively working on this manuscript on the first day of the year when it was at just 14,631 words with material from the proposal and a bit of writing I did before the holidays hit. That means in the past eight weeks I have written just a hair over 60,000 words, most of it in the first month.

That's it for writing for this week. I'm going to spending Thursday-Sunday at my booth at the Portland Spring Home and Garden Show chatting up my tours, classes, and nature writing, and offering a talk on gardening with native plants on Friday morning while I'm there. Wednesday is setup, and tomorrow needs to be taking care of stuff here and packing the car so I can get up early the next morning and drive over the mountains to Portland. I'm sure by the time I get home from all that and have a little decompression time I'll be ready to dive back into the manuscript to start refining it.

For now, though, I can revel in the fact that I have written many thousands of words, and the most time-consuming part of this process is done.

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bumblechub · 1 year

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SHORT CUP OF WATER

NO ICE

NO WATER

BUG

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The BUG in question is Coleomegilla maculata, the pink spotted lady beetle, and is native to North America.

#bugs #bugblr #insect #insects #entomology #bug #bug art #id in alt #insect art #beetle #pink spotted lady beetle #lady beetle #ladybug #🐞

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otaharuo · 1 month

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ナミテントウ、Harmonia axyridis、3月16日、愛知県

#insect #lady beetle

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saturnrin · 6 months

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The miraculous affecting their users outside transformation is one of my favorite concepts because it has so much potential.

For my sake, I'm going to use the ladybug miraculous as the sole example in this post. Otherwise, I'd never shut up.

The ladybug miraculous is the miraculous of creation, good luck, order, and ladybugs (duh).

Maybe the ladybug miraculous gives its user extreme good luck outside transformation.

Or, it could do the opposite; give the holder bad luck outside transformation for cosmic balance or whatever.

As the miraculous of creation, it's not hard to imagine that living beings (plants and animals specifically) would feel pulled towards its holder. Not entirely dissimilar to the way sunflowers follow the sun's light.

The holders could also gain creation magic, if you'd like. The ability to simply create whatever they'd like out of thin air. (This can include the ability to create pocket dimensions.)

Healing magic is also not-farfetched as the ladybug is used to heal injuries and revive thousands of people almost daily in the miraculous universe.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

Developing traits of a ladybug is also an option;

• Maybe the holder has thicker skin than the average person, a mimicry of a ladybugs protective shell. (Harder to bruise, takes more to break through the skin, etc.)

• Or maybe they're more susceptible to the cold (not a positive aspect, but it's good for angst, i suppose).

• a newly found fondness for flowers, nature, and sweet fruit (like strawberries)

• Ladybugs hibernate, so an increased need for sleep could be possible?

• An increased diet, as ladybugs are considered insatiable.

• you could toy with the idea of vitiligo/skin discoloration as a mimicry of a ladybugs warning spots.

• toxic blood is also a really cool idea for a ladybug-like trait.

• ladybugs secrete a pheromone to deter predators when scared or threatened. This could also be a trait the ladybug holder could inherit.

Or maybe ladybugs just regularly land on the users of this miraculous.

The side effects could be so cool! Or inconvenient! Or debilitating! Or they could be completely and totally underwhelming.

Or there could be no side effects, but where's the fun in that?

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

The Miraculi don't just affect their users physically or magically, but also mentally and emotionally.

Let's dig into that.

The Ladybug Miraculous has a fixed alignment with order. (This fact can be reflected in Tikki, the kwami of creation, as well.)

When transformed, this alignment is more obvious as the influence of a miraculous and its kwami is stronger in transformation.

The holder of the Ladybug Miraculous will gradually feel the need to take control of situations around them. Whether this be in battle (there's a reason the ladybug holder is always the leader) or in their personal life.

Things being out of their hands or control, especially when it directly affects them, can make the ladybug holder feel anxious or uncomfortable.

The ladybug holder may find themselves having a harder time loosening up or calming down. Being on high alert 24/7 isn't exactly an expected side effect, but, unfortunately, it is one.

Lists are friends to the ladybug holder; checklists, bullet-point lists, numbered lists, and even lists scribbled across the corners of notebooks in teeny tiny handwriting. Lists help keep everything in order, which is in the comfort zone of a ladybug user.

Plans are also friends. Planning is already a required skill for using the ladybug miraculous in general, as it's very important to know what to do with a lucky charm. But planning is also another way for the ladybug holder to know what to do if something happens.

Take Marinette, for example. She has backup plans for her backup plans. Marinette has plans for when things go right, plans for when things go wrong, plans for when things go semi-right, and/or semi-wrong. She's prepared for every possibility she can think of.

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Also!

The idea that the ladybug costume has to be based on the classic red and black-spotted ladybug is ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!

Don't get me wrong, the original ladybug suit and the lucky charm suit will always hold a special place in my heart.

But.

There are so many variations of ladybugs!

There's even a pink ladybug! Pink is Marinettes favorite color.

The Large Leaf Eating Ladybeetle is pretty darn cool as well; it's a static grey with gradient yellow to orange spots. (Which would make such a pretty suit if done right)

Some other ladybugs have white rings around their spots. Some have white spots, or red spots, or no spots at all!

And they come in so many colors?!?! Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white, grey, or black.

One of my personal favorites is the Steelblue Ladybird. A shiny, blue ladybug. I keep imagining an armored ladybug suit based on it.

Also, ladybugs have wings, which would be pretty cool to incorporate into the ladybug costume.

In conclusion, the ladybug miraculous is cool as fuck and I'm tired of pretending that it isn't.

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patchworkmelody · 9 months

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There are so many kinds of ladybugs! They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes! Here are some various species I used for loose inspiration. Consider poking around next time you make a ladybird :>

Plenty more under the cut <3

There are so many! And these are only a handful! I tried to keep the shapes basic. Note how even the antennae vary between species! I sometimes didn't add visible ones if the image I was using didn't show it. And all the underbellies were just picked from other colors, not accurate. For fun.

#bug #bug oc #bug fables #digital art #doodles #ladybug #ladybird #lady beetle #lady bird #bug species #SO many kinds #I just tend to see a lot of the same patterns and colors #and wanted to spread the lady buzz ;)#also these were really fun to make

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onenicebugperday · 1 year

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