These sweet little ladybirds wish but to snuggle against your wrist. Their recent brushes with gamma radiation may have caused them to start glowing unusual colours, but that just adds to their appeal, right?
♚ ghoulg1rl’s full illustration featuring MM!Gonta Gokuhara will be available in the “I Am The MASTERMIND!” Danganronpa Fanzine. Make sure to get your bundle before preorders close Feb 20th!
PHOBIA SAFE (no real creatures shown in post itself) with clickable source links for every single fact!
Arthropods are wonderful amazing living things, but often poorly appreciated. This post dispels some common arthropod myths, but also collects some generally cool, fun or surprising facts!
Some people don’t like looking at arthropods, and I won’t pretend to get it, but they still deserve cool and (to the best of my ability) accurate facts, so there will be no real photos in this post. It’s also extremely long, so I’ve put a cut after the first few items! I apologize if any links change or go down, and will fix them when possible.
First: “Bugs” ARE animals. An animal can really be as simple as a jellyfish or a sea sponge, but Arthropods are on the more complex side of the animal kingdom with such familiar adaptations as legs, eyes, muscle tissue, neural cells, egg-laying and more. Possibly only rivaled by nematode worms, they may also represent the majority of animal life in terms of both species and actual biomass, making arthropods the foremost representatives of what constitutes an animal.
Wasps are at least as important as bees. Wasps can pollinate almost all the same flowers, even if it’s with slightly less efficiency, but many plants also attract wasps alone for pollination, and wasps pull additional duty regulating every food web that involves insects at all.
Mosquitoes are also necessary, sorry. The viral claim that “scientists” have “proven” them to be useless is a misunderstanding of one researcher’s opinion that it would be safe to eradicate one variety of mosquito from a limited area. All over the world, mosquitoes are a massive part of the nutrient cycle, and little else could multiply as rapidly in the same range of conditions if they were to go missing.
Ants and bees are effectively just specialized wasps themselves, together forming the order Hymenoptera along with the less famous “sawflies.” You can think of ants as super-social, super-successful subterranean wasps for having evolved from the same ancestors.
Fireflies are carnivorous beetles, which feed primarily on slugs and snails during their larval stages. In some species, adult female fireflies also prey on the males of other fireflies, imitating their light signals as a lure.
Termites are cockroaches. Totally unrelated to ants despite their very similar lifestyles, termites were always considered closely related to roaches but were more recently proven to actually just be very oddball roaches themselves. There are even some highly social wood-eating cockroaches that bridge the evolutionary gap, still alive today.
They may be rough but I wanted to post a few of my character workings for Earworm. I love these bugs………
Ive been spending a lot of time figuring out my characters and Im trying to post more of what Ive drawn of them. I’ll put their short descriptions here too. WOO
I updated my commissions page! I realize I had left out all the cute pets that I’ve done and found a nicer way to show off some boxes! I regularly update when commissions are open on the header of my page but you can send a message any time with questions!
We think all of our challenges on DIY are worth trying but what makes our science challenges so special, you ask? While having fun you’re also understanding the building blocks to many scientific principles - and that’s pretty COOL!
This week, we’re sharing with you some of our favorite science challenges:
1. Let’s begin with How to Create a Parachute – it’s quite simple (as long as your parachute flies in the end)!
2. The best way to know if an object conducts electricity is to NOT touch it with your bare hands. Here’s where an electricity tester comes in handy. Try building one!
[ID: Hollow Knight: Silksong fanart. A warm digital painting in red and pink palette depicting Hornet and Lace falling together from heights. Hornet wraps her arms around Lace. Their faces are just inches apart. Hornet’s cape flutters in the air. The background is pastel pink and red blending together through their fall. End ID]
