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What if all my threads...were spiders
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So it's been ridiculously hot on the East Coast for a while now and the bugs have noticed!! I am dying bite by bite
But on the other side of the coin:
(animated here)
FOURTEEN YEARS OF CATERPILLAR FUCK ME
and of course, jumping spiders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGvT2DYJMc
(are tarantulas this cute? I need this in a size large enough to kiss)
Of course, when bugs aren't being cute they are being pretty badass (DON'T CLICK IF YOU ARE EASILY FREAKED OUT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hru2ujTWNLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ejN0B5YZeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw9UUuUpmcQ&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIoMQpNF1x0
(some actually rather lovely photos)
OK back to cute!!
npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years
Yes I know that not all tiny chitinous creatures are bugs, here is a podcast about what ARE
I will probably regularly be coming back to post more bug stuff and if I find that you jerkwads have turned this into a discussion about the illuminati or similarily un-kawaii bullshit then so help me...!
But on the other side of the coin:
(animated here)
This Woolly Bear Caterpillar lives in the Arctic and no matter how fast it eats, it can never gather enough food in one summer to turn into a moth. In winter it freezes solid and awakes four months later to start eating again. This happens year after year, but eventually a very special spring arrives. At the age of 14 it weaves a silk cocoon and becomes a moth. When it emerges the moth only has a few days to find a partner and mate. (Frozen Planet - BBC)
FOURTEEN YEARS OF CATERPILLAR FUCK ME
and of course, jumping spiders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGvT2DYJMc(are tarantulas this cute? I need this in a size large enough to kiss)
Of course, when bugs aren't being cute they are being pretty badass (DON'T CLICK IF YOU ARE EASILY FREAKED OUT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hru2ujTWNLAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ejN0B5YZeAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw9UUuUpmcQ&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIoMQpNF1x0
Doi Phukha National Park, Nan, Thailand. This ancient-looking creature is common in fast-moving mountain streams around the world. It is the larval form of a beetle (Coleoptera: Psephenidae) which is rather unremarkable as an adult. The larvae have gills and are fully aquatic. You can see the gills waving about in the video when I turn the poor creature over. Water Pennies feed off algae and organic detritus, which they scrape off of rocks. They are good water-quality indicators, because they are sensitive to pollution and nitrogen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxenFhUSwk&list=PLD6F3015DBBF9866C&index=7
Humans aren't the only ones trying to flee the floods in Wagga Wagga.
Thousands of spiders have crawled into farm fields in the city's northern outskirts to escape the swollen Murrumbidgee River.
The tiny arachnids have woven spectacular webs among the high grasslands, shrouding the paddocks in a vast sticky net.
Local children have been stopping to admire the eye-catching phenomenon and take photographs.
(some actually rather lovely photos)
OK back to cute!!
!!!!!!!When Jane Goodall visited in 2008, Patrick showed her rows and rows of incubating eggs: 11,376 at that time, with about 700 adults in the captive population. Lord Howe Island walking sticks seem to pair off — an unusual insect behavior — and Goodall says Patrick "showed me photos of how they sleep at night, in pairs, the male with three of his legs protectively over the female beside him."
npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway-hides-for-80-years
A stunning example of Batesian mimicry from a caterpillar of the Hemeroplanes genus. They'll even lunge at you in imitation of a snake striking
Yes I know that not all tiny chitinous creatures are bugs, here is a podcast about what ARE
I will probably regularly be coming back to post more bug stuff and if I find that you jerkwads have turned this into a discussion about the illuminati or similarily un-kawaii bullshit then so help me...!
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Except when they get on my fucking plants. Especially THIS MOTHERFUCKER right here:
That mass behind it? All eggs. As it continues it's tirade across my citrus, depositing the seed of new armies. Practically indestructible: Adults are immune to most insecticides, juveniles are too young to see with the naked eye, and the eggs can lie dormant for years.
Otherwise, bugs are okay in my book.
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The other day I saw a jumping spider that had caught a moth bigger than it was.
ooooooh no
oh FUCK oh FUCK
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Are you a giant insect?
I plead the fifth..... element.
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this is good
wait no
Kinder than Jesus.
ahaha
the cruelest study
I kill the shit out of these fuckers, though.
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that is a house centipede
they CAN bite, but overall they are nonagressive
and they help keep your home free of other pests
don't kill these guys, they're beneficial
good job
Here's a pic of me checking out a giant beetle up close. It was really laid-back.
it was sort of reflex thing, but it came out of little abyss between the cupboard and the floor while i was in the kitchen and stomp
thank goodness i do not live in australia
goddamn
it is the adorablest
did you just find a Bug BugBoy doesn't know about!?
If they were meant to live, they wouldn't have so many legs.
cthonic beasts from a nightmare realm
honestly my first thought was that it was a photoshopped cross between a hummingbird and a bee
heh not really
what actually happened was I asked her to stop and she said "why, what do they contribute"
and I said "what do you contribute"
yeah I make sure to kill anything with more than one leg
now c'mere you
After a certain amount of google-fu and google translate (apparently it only lives in japan?), I found its scientific name to be Anastoechus nitidulus.
What its common name is, I haven't a clue.
edit: after a second more of google, another name for it is Chlpačka. Now I have no idea where this bee/hummingbird is found.
pretty sure hummingbirds, or any birds, don't have six legs