This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.
The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.
The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.
Chinese lantern➕honey ant🐜
indeed
There are horseshoe crabs decorated with cherry blossoms. It feels soft and spring-like.
Cherry blossom horseshoe crab 🌸
rhino beetles have strong armour, phasmids mimic sticks (mimicry almost didnt exist in the paleozoic), moths have a very short lifespan. very different vibes from a dragonfly or a titanopteran casually reaching 40 cm length . it is most definitely competition that played the most role imo.
i feel like its fairly obvious bc giant bugs exist now but they either mimic nature or live for a short while etc
well ive been into katydids since i was like 6 but somehow it doesn't offend me even tho im overall prone to gatekeeping
this guy was under every post about "green buge", writing "katydid" in caps, seems he couldn't take it anymore, this is probably how it feels when a hyper niche interests gains traction
i know
its not under my post
i get it...
A wooden sculpture of anomalocaris. The style is very cute and round.
Wooden sculpture of anomalocaris (i think) by Kobo Nishioka that I also got at wonfes! It’s just so cute….
My green buge and pins finally arrived
Bought a little giraffe weevil pin from @fossilforager.bsky.social awhile ago and I had to get some friends for it
A digital drawing of a brown stick grasshopper insect. It has two green eyes, two short antenna and looks ahead. Its head is triangular almost in shape.
A character reference sheet. The drawing is done digitally. The reference sheet shows a brown stick grasshopper insect with six legs, two green eyes and two brown short antenna. He looks happy and is waving with one front arm. There are two other drawings near by showing other facial expressions he has.
This is Walter. He is an unspecified species of stick grasshopper, Proscopiidae.
I don't think I've ever shared him before here so here he is in all his glory.
Walter.
#art #oc #bugart #furryart #bug
this is getting on my merves so badly, i need to get off tiktok and instagram and twitter
twitter nazis are infliltrating the paleo community now
no way ...
same
#みんなでつくるBluesky古生物図鑑
エーギロカシス ベンモウライ
Aegirocassis benmoulai
オルドビス紀前期
モロッコ（Fezouata Formation）
推定最大体長2m
海産
ステム節足動物 Stem Arthropod
ラディオドンタ類 Radiodonta
フルディア科 Hurdiidae
エーギロカシス亜科 Aegirocassisinae
guess the country 🥀
this site made me more confident about being a legal adult who still plays rhythm and gacha games
btw i don't feed my sticks fruits regularly. nothing happens if its a little amount and pesticide-free!! but main diet should absolutely be leafs
bro's reflex is not letting him drink 😭😭
A bright green katydid with wing buds. Her legs are spiny, has an ovipositor, and the pronotum is lined in white.
Front view of the katydid. It has a blocky, stout head.
Happy #invertefest! I was going to tell everyone how much I love this beautiful Pseudophyllus titan I got, unfortunately she refused to eat and passed away today 😞 that’s just how bug keeping goes, isn’t it?
A female scorpionfly sits on the leaf covered ground with a tiny Santa hat on her head.
A metallic blue fly sits on a leaf with a Santa hat on.
A red bush cricket sits among the plants with a Santa hat on.
A green sharpshooter leafhopper sits on a leaf with a Santa hat on.
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 As such, I'm required to provide photos of insects wearing Santa hats.
Whether you celebrate or not, I hope you have a wonderful day!
holy shit she just finished eating a large ass apple slice i'd never thought she would finish
like wow it's getting destroyed and there's almost nothing i can do
reading about pre-historic ecosystems because learning about modern ones makes me depressed
my modest collection of flies with WIDE heads 🙇
a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador),
a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique),
a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia),
and an antlered Richardia (Colombia)
why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!
