When I spot random dudes re-writing my captions, working with a weird dilligence to rewrite each sentence into something technically different but essentially the same, I feel as if I’m being forced to give a quasi-literate douche-nozzle a piggy-back ride into some poor girl’s pants.
This happens to me, too, and it’s always annoying. Though not quite as asinine as the blogs that always remove the attribution on a caption while keeping the caption itself, making it look like they wrote it themselves. Especially since those people tend to slap on a link to themselves at the end…
Although, there is one blog out there whose “thing” is they find captions and then replace all the female pronouns with first-person ones, making it so everything they reblog is now about them personally. I’m not even mad, it’s just too strange and funny to actually get bothered by that one.
I forget what my point was.
@allbino submitted: Hello fellow insect lover!
I Just moved to a new place in Brisbane, QLD, Australia and have been finding heaps of cute insects in my new garden, all on my lime tree. I’d love if you could help me identify them? Thank you!
This caterpillar that morphs from brown/white (like bird poo ) then to white/green with red retractable horns?
This cute little leaf hopper?
This (actually huge?!) stink bug, largest I’ve seen
And I’ve seen a few of these beautiful iridescent spiders ✨
How exciting to have a garden full of pals you can go admire any time you like! I can certainly help you ID them. The caterpillars are orchard swallowtails, and they prefer citrus trees as their host plant! The “horns” are called osmeteria and they evert them from inside their body defensively. They emit a stinky odor that predators don’t like.
The planthopper is a citrus planthopper, which makes sense. The Large Dude is not a stink bug, but it is related to stink bugs! It’s called a bronze orange bug and once again feeds on citrus. Technically the family they’re in are called the tessaratomids, but colloquially people call them giant shield bugs or giant stink bugs.
And finally the absolutely beautiful spider man is a sea-green northern jumper! Keep your eyes peeled for females nearby as well. They’re more rotund and are a sort of bronzey-purple color.
Thanks for sharing all these great pals, tell them all I love them!
@caffinatedsalt submitted: Hello!! Just wanted to share this cute little fella my friend and I found crawling over the welcome mat to our local Boba Shop! After this brief interaction, he was promptly moved to the nearest plant to prevent being squashed <3
Hello! What a beautiful little twig! 10/10 would be fooled by their incredible camouflage
TW: Bees, like thousands of bees, trypophobia
When the warning said thousands of bees they meant it
what the FUCK that’s alotta bees
at what point do you just say “fuck it, this is the bees’ house now”
That’s insane.
@onenicebugperday in case you haven’t seen this yet
My gosh I love them My favorite part is how they all politely file into the box once the queen is in there. Precious.
@cptn-catastrophic submitted: Spotted on my way to work. Was encouraged off the pavement and into the plants.
Oooooooooo you got stick bugged on your way to work!! Jealous…
Insects do the Strangest Things, Leonora and Arthur Hornblow, 1990. Illustrated by Dorothea Barlowe.
@oneezha submitted: meet twix! tbh i thought he, much like the other two potter wasps on our back deck, didn’t survive the weather whiplash march hit us with (especially since his pot was cracked). i was gonna keep him as a specimen but surprise! he made it through the growth cycle! part of the shell is stuck on his waist and one of his wings is a little jank, but i guess thats to be expected from being knocked out of the mudball early. he’s a sweet lil bean that likes strolling on my arms and hasn’t once shown any signs of being threatened. his current favorite treat is organic strawberry honey
i would smooch him but alas, he is so small.
Twix!!! Wow full disclosure I would die for Twix. I’m so glad he’s doing well after a rough start to life! Please tell him I love him and blow him a kiss from me :)
@cptn-catastrophic submitted: Rescued off flatmates curtain, had a tantrum about the glass, and then was set free outside. :)
Ooooo looks Angery. Love this dude deeply…I am blowing them a long-distance kiss…hope they feel it……