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References:

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Here are a couple of my lil bug OCs! Clover is a European honey bee and Dandy is a common Eastern velvet ant (which are not ants, but actually wasps!). They end up on a misadventure when Clover gets lost and needs Dandy's help to find her hive again.

Dungeons and Dragons is a fun game.

When you were a malicious pirate named Zephyr and then a crewmate murdered you and threw you in the ocean and you made a deal with an otherworldy sea god to come back to life as a fish person that has magic and a brand new name.

My admittedly-kind-of-a-jerk D&D character (she’s working on it), Lunulata the warlock.

The ground nesting bees have decided the weather is good enough to make an appearance. If you see these lil gals, please let them be(e)! They’re very unlikely to sting (I’ve bothered them so much, no stings) and are great for native plants! iNaturalist suggests to me these particular bees are the unequal cellophane bee, Colletes inaequalis.

A couple of tags on my previous comic about Opiliones were talking about other daddy longlegs - that’s the trouble with common names!

(Deleting and reposting because I realized I uploaded it wrong - sorry to anyone who commented, I’m still getting used to Tumblr again and very much enjoying it!)