I love Speckled Sussex so much, mine will come just cuddle on your lap if you let them.

Well, it has been a year and I’m still working on this. The whole project has changed so much since its inception but I’m having far too much fun with it. I’m considering sharing things but we’ll see when that happens at the pace I’ve been working at haha

A close up picture of a black ground beetle on concrete.

I found a friend.

I saw a legitimate live grasshopper on my walk today and it was such a weird mix of excitement over a bug and dread that said bug can survive outside the week of the winter solstice. Nothing wrong here…

A yellow and brown ambush bug sitting in wait on a small white flower.

Finally got a decent picture of an ambush bug— I swear they’re so common but so hard to get a good picture of.

Now that I’m done with school (for now?) I can take more bug pictures between my job rejections! (this is fine, mhm)

A small bee on a yellow flower

Friend

An in-progress clay fairy house

I got to play with fancy mud

A closeup photograph of a March Fly: a long black fly with big eyes. It is standing on a green leaf.

One more #InverteFest picture of a March fly :)

Starting on a new med that actually helps with chronic illness has got to be one of the best experiences. I feel l like you get parts of your life back you didn’t even realize you lost.

A shiny blue-green fly faces away from the camera, sitting on a green leaf

Happy #InverteFest !

I’m so glad the insects are back out :)

An eastern boxelder bug on some greenery

It’s finally warming up enough to see bugs again :)

I see we’re doing deextinction discourse again, I’ll bite!

Genotypes (DNA variation) alone do not make a phenotype (how bodies look, function, behave).

Even if we reproduced an extinct genome, that animal doesn’t necessarily have the developmental context and learned culture of the extinct species

I woke up this morning and decided the best use of my time was overanalyzing the biogeography of Breath of the Wild… I’m in too deep what do I do with all this dark knowledge? Why is this how I choose to use my education?

The world: 🔥🔥🔥

Me: Do u wanna see a cool bug

A small brown jumping spider standing on a green leaf

It’s been a… time the last couple of weeks, but I’ve been distracting myself by learning Mandolin and that’s been super fun. In the meantime, have a break from the dumpster fire in the form of a cute lil’ spider

A bumblebee standing on a purple flower

I miss sky pandas

OoooOooo, look at those fly eggs, that’s such a good picture.

I get so intimidated with all the cool people who follow me back on here how am I supposed to say stupid stuff

A long beetle with a black abdomen and red spotted head, thorax, and wings. It has long black antennae and is sat on a plant.

Thinking about sunshine and milkweed beetles— someday the snow will melt and I’ll have small friends again but for now I’ll look through my pictures.

I have become the person who learns there’s an endemic spider near where I live and wants to go on a trip specifically to look for it. Why must I learn this in the winter I want to go look for spiders now.

I didn’t even take you out to a cabin in the woods without internet like I did to ghobie

A black hoverfly with yellow markings sitting on a yellow flower

Hover flies don’t get the love they deserve— they’re such under-appreciated pollinators. Also they’re just very cool and I like how they fly lol

Sketches of two beetles and a beetle larvae. One beetle is flat and black/green and the other is red. There are notes asking questions around them.

Once again having far too much fun drawing lil’ dudes

Ambush bugs are a type of assassin bug! They’re usually pretty distinct because of their chunky front legs and the fact you usually find them sitting on flowers waiting to ambush pollinators. Suuper cool little dudes

Colored and labeled sketches of a green true bug and a brown and yellow ambush bug

One of my classes has us basically making little nature journals and I’m having far too much fun sketching lil’ dudes

Give cat

Hello I guess I’m posting more insect pictures because no one can stop me

Hi blank pages are scary so I’m putting an insect picture here