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Gremlin Art ! #1
The caddisfly larvae will form a protective sheet with whatever it can find. Wood, stones, snail shells…
In the 80´s french Artist Hubert Duprat supplied these little bugs with gold, pearls and crystals to create unique jewelry !
Here you can see them in their little shells.
And here’s an example of a finished product after the larvae transformed into an adult.
Day 24: whatever. go my scarab
wettest most pathetic beast in the entire zelda canon
The 'Dalceridae' are a small family of moths with around 80 known species, encompassing about one dozen genera mostly found in the Neotropical region, with a few reaching the far south of the Nearctic region.
Their larvae (along with those of the sister taxa Limacodidae and Megalopygidae), measuring only about 1-2 cm in length, are often referred to as "jewel", "jelly", or "slug" caterpillars due to the translucent gelatinous coating that covers the exoskeleton of many species, as well as their stunning colors.
Though, this jewel-like appearance does not remain for long, with their adult forms taking a bright, fluffy, orange appearance. Much like a certain cheese flavored snack!
While the exact function of this gelatinous substance, along with the fragile spines underneath is not entirely clear, it is assumed to act as a means of mechanical self-defence by being nontoxic. Instead, it provides any potential predators with a "mouthful of goo" and temporarily incapacitates them.
"I Have Committed Many Crimes But My Worst One Of All Was Being Small"
wow ive actually posted art? unbelievable!
check out la speedpainte here
Some more bugs, not entirely sure what this is but it kept flying around me when I was taking a picture of flowers. - Dr. Kondraki (She/Her)
I’m back in the mood for Minecraft, starting with some Elytra designs based off of bug wings
Rainbow Katydids by Arthur Anker and Bernard DuPont
YOOOOOO BUGGY!!!!
I LOVE YOU ROLY POLY!!!!
oh yeah. he’s scittering
@fluffywolfboyy @fr0zenballs :3
Freshly molted cicadas are unreal
I need this as a shirt 😭
moth
I love these sooo much...
Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.
So over the course of the last week of being the god of my wingless fruit fly civilization called Yeast Crawls i've learned something verrrry interesting about fruit flys and the different mutant strains. But first, let me tell you a bit about how you handle your flies.
You see, fruit flies are small. really small. So small you usually have to look at them under a microscope to really see anything about them. Unfortunately, fruit flies have this tendency to skitter arround and even fly off sometimes, which is not condusive to inspecting them under a microscope. So we use ether to knock them out. Simple solution, right?
Well as it turns out diffrent mutant fruit fly strains have diffrent resistances to ether.
I found this out after first handling the yeast crawls (apterous mutation) who are very receptive to ether. You just put them in a lil container with ether for about a minute and the fall asleep, and they will stay asleep for a solid 15 minutes. so I was expecting the flies of my other mutation (bar eyes) to also be easy to knock out.
I was wrong.
Turns out bar eye fruit flies have stupidly high resistance to ether. As in "put them in the etherlizer for 10+ minutes for them to finaly go down, take them out to put them under a microscope, they're already getting up and trying to fly away in 30 seconds" resistant to ether.
So yeah these lil flies with smaller, misshapened eyes are an absolute pain in my butt. JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY YOU NEAR SIGHTED NATTS.