#insectcore
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I found my first mantidfly :)
this is only like the 2nd bug I’ve ever pinned so please be nice.
lucky me I’ve probably seen more cicadas this year than in my whole life.
echinops bannaticus blue globe thistle
echinacea purpurea •coneflower
so fuzzy
wisteria and a baby
cornflower bachelor button
you are so cute little bee!
spiderwort
Before I painted this I had no idea what fireflies looked like before they became beetles. Then after I found out they just became even cooler!
Also here are some cool facts I found out when I was researching them:
1. They can glow at every stage of their lives. From the egg to pupa stage its usually like a faint glow and then in the adult beetle stage they flash or blink.
2. They stay in the larva stage for like 2 years until they pupate.
3. When they’re in the larva stage they eat all kinds of other insects even snails and slugs.
4. I just think they’re really cool. Also after I finished this painting I served seeing so many firefly larva it was so cool!!
Also I do have prints of this illustration in my etsy shop. It’s linked below.
I painted this little insect ID card for this moth I saw this summer. I had never seen one before. My favorite part was painting all the little stripes ans dots on the caterpiller!
Finally posting this Giant African Millipede. I finished it like 3 months ago lol.
Now for some millipede facts:
• Millipedes are omnivores the only eat leaves and other plants on the ground. They’re basically mini recyclers.
• Millipedes don’t actually have a 1000 legs at most they have between 30 and 400 depending on their size and how many body segments they have. Millipedes have 4 legs per body segment.
• The Giant African Millipede is the largest milipede in the world out of at least 10,000 know species.
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