i cannot get over this video of a stinkbug flailing lazily in a bathtub while midnight sonata plays in the background. literally the best video to grace the earth
(the little one making all the noise is Stormy, an adult storm-petrel who seemingly has a faulty navigation system and comes to this cahow/bermuda petrel nest every year instead of to his breeding range further north. As far as he’s concerned this is his nest, the cahows disagree!)
Every year I see dry ice marketed for use by campers, and it’s certainly effective for keeping things cooler longer, but I never see anyone talk about the fact that it’s a tick magnet, to the point that a cooler containing dry ice, even fully closed, is the go-to lure used by field researchers who WANT to attract as many ticks as possible. Here are some tick traps in action:
The fact that people are told to take dry ice with them into the woods, and not told that this is a thing, feels kind of glaring to me???
This happens because dry ice is solid carbon dioxide, and the carbon dioxide in our breath is what ticks use to track us. Not just ticks, either; mosquitoes and other blood-feeding organisms also rely on it. I’ve never been camping myself, but I imagine if you do use dry ice, you should keep it away from where you intend to sit, eat or sleep.
Malva’s family runs a ranch in the agricultural district on the Ploonet, as a result she grew up learning how to care for the various Peracaridas they raise. She absolutely cherishes them all, constantly talking about how wonderful they are to all her fellow classmates …
An alien horse girl type if you will, except with large skittering isopods instead
My boyfriend has to go to the ren fair for work but i can come and he wanted to do a matching costume. He was like “I want to be Frodo” and I was like “oh cool I can be Shelob” which was, apparently, not the couples costume he was thinking of
I was like “babe she has the most screen time of any woman in Return of the King” and my boyfriend was like “that cannot be true,” looked it up, and said “i can’t believe that’s true”
finally a strong female character who doesn’t shave her legs
Misread a writing prompt that said “you look like you could use a hug” as “you look like you could use a bug” and the image that conjured up was much funnier, just imagine someone coming up to you and saying that so sincerely and genuinely kindly, like hey, man, seems you need this more than me and then gently dropping a confused beetle into your hands or something
They don’t tell you this much, but life will be gross sometimes and that’s okay.
It’s okay when you discover that you aren’t immune to it all, because no one else is either.
At some point you will likely have to deal with some kind of infestation like mice or bedbugs or termites or roaches or rats or ants or ladybugs or wasps. At some point you will have smelly, gross medical problems or you will have to help someone else who does. At some point there will probably be mold in your fridge and you will have to clean it up. You may encounter carpet that smells and can’t quite be cleaned the whole way. Or damp walls that grow weird fungus or black mold, and you might have to move apartments or rebuild part of your house to fix it. If you have pets or children, or if you find old people or disabled people close to you at some point in your life, or even just become old or disabled yourself, you will have to deal with cleaning up poop and urine from clothes and beds and floors and anything else. There will be vomit in your life, and clogged drains, and pet hair, and infections. You may have to learn how to get blood stains out of a sofa or a sweater or a floor. You may have to deal with dead animals. You may have to buy some rubber gloves.
These things can be disheartening. But the important thing is to remember that this is basic evidence of being alive. Alive people clean up. Alive people try again. Alive people see a mess and make it better. Alive people make order out of chaos. Alive people engage in ultimately doomed but still necessary battle against entropy. You’re alive. That’s enough. You’ve got this and you’ll be okay. I believe in you.
quick messy Mothworth doodles (plus his baby caterpillar form), based on this postby@hobophoenix69, in turn based on the Bug Attorney AU by @autisticvampireclub
i LOVE the idea of this au, and wanted to practice drawing bug characters.
