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jonnysinsectcatalogue · 1 year

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Giant Casemaker Caddisfly - Ptilostomis ocellifera

Truthfully, this specie doesn’t have a common name, so I’ve given the common name of the family it belongs to. The specific name of that family is Phryganeidae. According to Bugguide, Caddisflies in that family can be identified (with a close glance) by the presence of: tibial spurs, hairs that lack a clubbed appearance, and ocelli (simple eyes) on their heads. All these features can be found here: zoom in to see for yourself. As well, P. ocellifera is a best guess as its relatively common and comparing it with other images shows promise of matching, especially when considering the wing patterns. Do you see the 3 white triangle-shaped dots? Finally, as the post titles suggests, the insects in this group are sized quite large, at least when compared to its relatives. The other Trichopterans of Ontario featured on this blog are of respectable size, but appear more narrow and slim compared to this specimen. I do wish that I hadn’t been so caught up in the excitement of finding something new and remembered to place a finger in a shot to give this insect a sense of scale. I suppose for a comparison, this hairy-winged insect’s size is similar to some of the more plain looking night time Moths of cottage country who are also drawn to lights.

At first glance, it might be easy to mistaken this once-denizen of the lake for a Moth, especially since it too was drawn to lights. A closer glance at it reveals it to be a Caddisfly, complete with wings held like a tent and palp mouthparts in front of its head. Though large, those mouthparts aren’t going to leave any bug bites should you try handling such a delicate creature. The only thing those mouthparts need to be able to do is to cut out of their larval casing so the adult can emerge onto dry land, and even then, mandible/mouthpart integrity varies from specie to specie. It’s a totally different story with the larvae however which use their mandibles to catch prey and to cut up materials for their large casings. They’re giant-sized even in larval form! If you catch one there are ways to know that you’ve found a giant. There is a protrusion on the top of the abdomen right after the thorax and a horn beneath their head in front of their legs. They can be tricky to find, but giant insects need giant homes to live in, and these insects build long houses of underwater debris and plant matter held together by silk. If you find those tubes, you may find a larva to examine, though I’m not suggesting to forcefully remove them from their homes. Observation in a container of water should be fine though.

Pictures were taken on June 25, 2022 in Muskoka with a Google Pixel 4.

#jonny’s insect catalogue #ontario insect #caddisfly #ptilostomis ocellifera #giant casemaker caddisfly #trichoptera #insect #muskoka #2022 #june2022 #entomology #nature #invertebrates

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herpsandbirds · 10 months

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Sea Slug, Costasiella ocellifera, family Costasiellidae (Sarcoglossa), Caribbean Sea

Photograph by Mélodie Cts

#sarcoglossa #sea slug #mollusk #costasiella #costasiellidae #animals #nature #ocean #caribbean

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chaoticspacefam · 3 years

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🖊🖊 for Ni'kasi and an oc of your choice 👀

Thanks for the ask, Pinky! apparently my brain has decided “gush” means “throw lots of random fun facts at everyone” today so here we go! Here’s your favourite tomato gal! :3

-She and Saarai were always twins and I’d always intended for them to be close, and the bare-bones basic premise of how I wanted their relationship to work was “Saarai is the brawn and Kas is the brains”. While this is still true, it did evolve ever so slightly in that Saarai is now also the (more reliable) moral compass. Kas isn’t particularly Dark-sided, but she’s not Light-sided either, she’s inherited a lot more of mom’s “I will do what I have to to get a job done even if that means I have to kill a bitch” attitude XD

-When I first came up with the idea for the twins, Kas’s name was originally going to be “Jen” which is the High Sith word for “hidden, or in shadow” (”Saarai” is the High Sith word for “Truth”, for reference ;) ) ; so their names joined together would have meant “Hidden Truth”. I don’t remember where Ni’kasi came from because it isn’t an “actual” Sith word nor does it have particular meaning (though I might try to make one up, we’ll see :P), but the very first time I went to write down solid bios for them I ended up writing “Ni’kasi” instead of “Jen” for her and it’s stuck ever since then.

-Initially, Kas’s colour pallette was a lot lighter, which you can see in all of her screenshots up till now (cause I forgot to change her when I changed the design earlier this year oops :’D) and also in this art piece I ordered of her last year, here:

(art is by @/cerculor on deviantART)

and the twins were very darn near close to being identical, but I decided that I actually rather liked their dad’s more purple-ish skintone earlier this year and that it was a shame neither of the twins looked a bit more like him, so I changed Kas up a bit and gave her dad’s skintone, jaw spurs and eye colour. She’s got mom’s red-tinted hair and (mostly) mom’s ridge/browstalk structure though :D

-Great with her own kids and direct blood relatives (e.g. nieces, nephews, grandchildren), but kinda iffy with other, random children. She won’t hurt them but she’s very much D’leah’s child in that respect, she’s very “Sith-y”, and liable to be abrasive, unsympathetic and so on. Generally not the sort of presence you’d want around your kids... there will definitely be tears hahahaha

-The scar on her eye was originally going to be caused by D’leah in the same fight that she gets Saarai’s nose, when Ni’kasi got between them to try and break up the scuffle, but I retconned that instead when I re-thought some stuff about that so now she gets it from the Inquisitors after they figure out who killed Ty’s dad and come after them.

-This is also how Kas ends up in the slave pens, after they kill D’leah they throw Ni’kasi into slavery (which is a bit of plot armour/oversight on the Inquisitors part, I admit but shhh XD) and figure y’know “she’s never gonna get out of there again”. A lot can happen, and be forgotten, in 60 odd years tho so eventually they do throw her back into the Academy much to Kas’s surprise.

-She has a lot more scars other than the one on her eye, just that most of them are on her back, or the back of her neck, so you generally can’t see them (I haven’t drawn a scar ref for her yet, it is also on the to-do list lol)

And we random-rolled Aria for this one, so more Tiny Sith nonsense!

(art is by @/ocellifera on deviantART)

-Aria’s hairstyle and general appearance actually came about because it was based on my second-favourite “portrait” choice for the PC in KOTOR II. She wasn’t how I saw my version of the Exile looking, but I really liked the design (including the little blonde fringe streak) so I decided I wanted to do something with it! <3

-We don’t get to see it much because usually when I draw her she’s back with the Sith and fully into the “Dark side” portion of her story and therefore her eyes are amber, but here you go, a nice glimpse of Aria’s natural eye colour! As mentioned on Myla’s ask, she has heterochromia as well, though her grey is “lighter” than Myla’s as she inherited the grey from dad and the brown from mom (yes I know technically it doesn’t work like that but basically I couldn’t decide which one I liked better so instead of agonising over the choice I went “one of each, problem solved” XD)

-Aria was actually the very first SWTOR-era OC I made, very closely followed by her dad, Roan, and then Vano, then her mom when I worked on her backstory, and followed by everyone else haha. I created her for an RP on an RP site that got a couple of posts in and then died/my partner ghosted me for whatever reason (I’ve never found out nor does it matter really), I was disappointed because I really liked Aria and didn’t get to “do much” with her, so I recycled her when another RP popped up, used that to build her backstory and prompt me to start the Subterfugeverse and then threw her into the Zephyrverse AU RP with my buddy k-christine once she got back in touch and we started RPing again :D -Aria gave me the most trouble (other than maybeee Saarai) in terms of finally nailing down what her sexuality was. I had no idea what she’d be at all when I first made her, other than I knew this binch wasn’t straight hahaha. So first, I defaulted her to bi, but then that didn’t seem to fit her much (I didn’t know pansexuality was a thing at the time), then during my self-projection phase I considered leaving her as just a lesbian but she wasn’t happy with that either and eventually I figured out pan is a thing and she started jumping up and down and screaming HELLO YEAH THAT ONE!! at me. The only thing that was for sure obvious to me was that she’s demiromantic, because while she can get around and doesn’t care who with (insert “will fuck anything (humanoid) with a pulse” joke here), the romantic feelings often attached to that for other people take a long time to develop for Aria.

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draikinator-archive · 6 years

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Character belongs to Ocellifera!

My Art Fight Profile!

Redbubble | Patreon | Ko-Fi

#warriors #warrior cats #ocellifera #art #cat #lightning #artfight #art fight

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catastrophezine · 4 years

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Hello everyone! With the progression of CATastrophe II: Gay Cat Boogaloo picking back up, I’d like to announce all of our wonderful contributors! Thank you so much to our 46 absolutely wonderful artists and writers for taking part in this zine!

Here are the social media links and zine roles of all of our wonderful contributors!

Nauro

Coordinator, Zine Artist

Merch Artist https://twitter.com/nauroarts

Miloh

Zine Artist

https://thefatalfeast.tumblr.com/

Shenkkazoo

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/shenkkazoo

Baylee_Doodle

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/Baylee_Doodle

BurryTheMaid

Zine Artist

https://www.deviantart.com/burythemaid

WrenKing

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/wrenking

Stumpyberrynose

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/stumpyberrynose

Sorrelstream

Zine Artist

https://sorrelstream.tumblr.com/

TheDoodleFox

Social Media Manager, Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://thedoodlefox.tumblr.com/

Raysplash

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://raysplash.tumblr.com/

Darkyfoot

Zine Artist

https://darkyfoot.tumblr.com/

Red-Draws

Merch Artist

https://redcatdesigns.tumblr.com/

Artchert

Zine Artist

https://www.instagram.com/_artchert_/

Swiftspill

Zine Artist

https://swiftspillsartblog.tumblr.com/

RavenLunaticArt

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/RavenLunaticArt?lang=en

Kit

Zine Artist

https://ferncloud.tumblr.com/

Teratoaster

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/teratoaster

DawnCat

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://dawncatscribbles.tumblr.com

Sefin

Accountant, Writer

(No social media)

Kuuttituutti

Zine Artist

https://huitunkuutti.tumblr.com/

WiccanGinger

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://wiccanginger.tumblr.com/

VeloJelo

Zine Artist

https://velojello.tumblr.com/

LttleGhost

Zine Artist

https://lttleghost.tumblr.com/

Kiwistickers

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://kiwistickers.tumblr.com/

Softie-Serve

Zine Artist

https://softie-serve.tumblr.com/

CatTombs

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/CatTombs

Aelou

Zine Artist

https://billystorm.tumblr.com/

Feyrene

Zine Artist

https://feyrene.tumblr.com/

Ocellifera

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/ocellifera

Marley Mothbard

Charity Manager, Zine Artist

https://butchshapeshifter.tumblr.com/

WeirdGhostParty

Project Manager, Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/weirdghostparty

Nissabug

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://instagram.com/nissabug.art?igshid=naknctmv417e

Kingfauna

Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/Kingfauna

Stoatsavvy

Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/stoatsavvy

Mudshadow

Zine Artist

https://mudshadow.tumblr.com/

Gentlemosses

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://gentlemosses.tumblr.com/

Nmirah

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://nmirah.tumblr.com/

Cicadaghost

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/CicadaGhost

Magpied

Zine Artist

https://www.youtube.com/magpiedillustration

M.Jay

Zine Artist

https://marymsjay-warriors-art.tumblr.com/

Ryo

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/LozNumbers

Gayjayfeather

Zine Artist

https://gayjayfeather.tumblr.com/

Kiwianacat

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://kiwianacat.tumblr.com/

Jayseph Merch

Artist

https://jaymotiffs.tumblr.com/

Measlybug

Zine Artist

https://measlybug.tumblr.com/

Grovestep

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/grovesteps

Katkitters

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/NedArts2015

Teejsaurus

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/teejsaurus

Ghobsmacka

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://ghobsmacka.tumblr.com/

Corvidkatana

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://corvidkatana.tumblr.com/

Jaiette

Zine Artist

https://jaiette.tumblr.com/

Aviator Zoroarark

Zine Artist, Merch Artist

https://twitter.com/aviatorzoroark

Nedsseveredhead

Zine Artist

https://twitter.com/NedArts2015

Coallaii

Zine Artist, Writer

https://coallaii.tumblr.com/

Thanks once again to all of our wonderful and talented contributors! We’re beyond exited to have these folks on the team!

#Warrior Cats #pride #warrior cats pride #zine announcement #contributor announcement #artist announcement

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birdsoafeather · 4 years

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My part for a Map from last May!

It was my first time using OpenToonz and I gotta say it was really fun and gratifying to work on!

Big thanks to @ocellifera for the gorgeous background work ilysm buddy <3

#warriors maps #multi animator project #hollyleaf #canon cats #bird song #animation #my animation #mine

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thedoodlefox · 5 years

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My half of an art trade with my pal Ocellifera! https://twitter.com/ocellifera Check them out! Their art is AMAZING!

#art trade #Not my oc #oc #art #trade #my art #cat #warrior #cats #Warrior Cats #warriors #warriors oc #warrior cat oc

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galaxymooart · 5 years

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YEEHAW Some request @asabovesobelowrp doodles! Littlecreek, Minkblaze, and Thistlepaw belong to @smallmoz , @ocellifera and @pastaespurr !

#warrior cats #warrior cats oc #as above so below #aasb #cat #POINTS AT LITTLECREEK #THATS MY MOM #POINTS AT THISTLEPAW #THATS MY SON #AND POINTS AT MINKBLAZE #THATS MY TWINK

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lifeunderthewaves · 6 years

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Caribbean sea sheep by MlodieCaussat Costasiella ocellifera in Antigua (Caribbean)

#underwater

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jonnysinsectcatalogue · 1 year

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Caddisfly Larvae - Order Trichoptera

A very dear friend of mine has journey to Squamish, British Columbia and has provided me with some intriguing footage, for which I’m very thankful. While aquatic insects are tricky to take footage of, catching them in a small container allows a closer look without compromising the insects’ need for water. Compared the previous video that showcased these insect larvae in the wetlands of Ontario, these specimens are much larger! Likely, they are further along in development compared to those. With a close-up view like this, it provides better ideas for comparison between these and Caterpillars (as I’ve said earlier that Trichopterans could be thought of as aquatic Lepidopterans). These are quite large specimens and their size is sufficient enough for us to focus not just on their homes, but also to pay attention to them and see their heads and legs. With greater size and bulk to manage, these insects build larger homes with available materials such as wood and debris which are bound with silk. These large water-wigglers will spend their time feeding and resting within their houses until they are ready to leave the water as adult Caddisflies, ready to enter the air. While there are many species to choose from, these large underwater cases bring to mind P. ocellifera with its large size. but without an identification that is more narrowed down, I won’t know for sure. As such, any help on identification for these Caddisfly Larvae would be very much appreciated.

Video was recorded on April 13, 2023 in Squamish with an iPhone X.

#jonny’s insect catalogue #aquatic insect #caddisfly #caddisfly larva #caddisfly larvae #trichoptera #water insect #insect #video #squamish #sḵwx̱wú7mesh #april2023 #2023 #unidentified #entomology #nature #invertebrates

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hickorymoth · 6 years

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A drawing of @ocellifera‘s Minkblaze for Art Fight!

#art fight #warrior cats #warriors #wc #fanart #minkblaze #2018

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scribsisnotdead · 3 years

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artfight attack n5 - character belongs to ocellifera!

#my art #scrib’s scribbles #july 2021 #2021 postz #artight #af2021 #team cyberpunk

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chaoticspacefam · 3 years

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7 & 16 for Vano for the Headcanons asks? c:

Thank you for the asks, @mimabeann ! Here’s everybody’s favourite (on this blog at least) avocado, though tbh Merak isn’t far behind her and they are the only two so far sksksk

(lovely art is by ocellifera on deviantART!)

7. Travel

-Travels semi-frequently, especially after becoming the Wrath as she goes wherever she is needed the most, leading to her living on her ship, the Razor, more than in an actual apartment (and actually never had one on Dromund Kaas because...she never had chance to use one and it would’ve been wasted credits so she didn’t bother. If she had to stay planet-side for a day or two she bunked at a hotel near to wherever she needed to be.) -Once the Alliance is formed and she becomes Commander, however, aside from to and from battles and running from Arcann and Vaylin, Vano travels a lot less. While she doesn’t hate it per se, she’s at best indifferent to it. Long periods in cramped ship’s quarters aren’t particularly comfortable when you’re over 6 feet tall and your body proportions are about 80% leg and 20% rest-of-your-body like she is 😆

16. Smile

-While there’s nothing immediately distinctive/unusual about Vano’s smile (all her teeth are there, she doesn’t have a particular way of curling her lip or anything like that) and it’s very ordinary, one thing that does stand out about her is that she smiles a lot. This is considered especially “odd” for a Sith, and even more so for the Empire’s Wrath. She doesn’t look very Wrathful when she’s smiling, but that’s the point. When Vano stops smiling, you know something is VERY wrong and you should probably be worried. -The smiling was one of the first things Vette noticed about her and was what led to her being brave enough to broach the shock collar subject with her when they first began working together. Vette still maintains it’s the reason she’s “literally the worst and least scary Sith to ever exist” but it’s become a sort of inside-joke between them now XD

#swtor #star wars: the old republic #OC asks #headcanon prompt asks #swtor oc: vano shenly #mirialan #sith warrior #the outlander #not my art #ocellifera #thank you for asking!#mimabeann #:D #Q&A with the crew

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ocellifera · 6 years

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tagged!

Rules: Tag 10 people you want to get to know better!

i got tagged by @cornma !! thank u so much

NAME: kobyyyy (or ocellifera if u prefer)

NICKNAME: kobes, bee, ocelli

GENDER & SEXUALITY: i am a Very gay man

ZODIAC: libra

HEIGHT: 5′7

AVERAGE AMOUNT OF SLEEP: iiiit ,, varies vastly but i usually get a Good 8 Hours believe it or not

CURRENT TIME: 3:10 PM, it is a beautiful day outside

FAVORITE ANIMALS: Rabbits. always rabbits,,

DOGS OR CATS: d-d-... dogs? hesitantly? cats maybe? i love both,,,

BLOG AGE: this blog is at LEAST 3 years old. you can see some Real crusty art to start with oh boy

REASON BEHIND HAVING A TUMBLR: i started a tumblr to have somewhere to post my art! i really was in love w yogscast so it was definitely a place that helped me Connect with that fandom at the time. tho im not as active anymore, if yall still have yog requests or questions hmu

I TAG: @weknowthatone @autumnrrivers @elswere-1 n whoever else sees this and wants to do it tbh

#tagged #not art #personal

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catastrophezine · 6 years

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