I Have Wanted To See A Tiger Beetle Larva My Entire Life, But Never Did Until @revretch Suddenly Spotted

I have wanted to see a tiger beetle larva my entire life, but never did until @revretch suddenly spotted one scurrying around by the river yesterday. They normally spend all their time hiding in a tunnel like a trap door spider, so I never thought I'd see one out and about in broad daylight! I recognized the big, flat head and the little hump on its back instantly!

Just noticed this diagram has it hunting a velvet ant....can they really do that? Are they THAT tough???

I also wasn't sure they could be raised easily, because I heard they're particular about the density and moisture level of the sand they tunnel into. What if it was running around because the sand wasn't quite right in that spot?! I scooped some up anyway, and I used a twig to poke holes in it, just to see if MAYBE it'd deem one a suitable house. The next morning I found it like you see in the following video, and I wondered if it felt comfortable enough to eat the way it does in the wild, so in the clip I also drop a pantry moth caterpillar into the jar:

LIQUID WATER ON MARS!!! HELL YEAH

On it

Sebastian pregnant (REAL???)

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New name: Whistler People! They're called such because humanity knows them for their sound-based technology that often whistles. I'm still working on them but just know I'll keep the mostly in the dark for now, and focus on their pets instead!

Here's a crude drawing of a Whistler Person with a generic pet Parvae on a leash.

I'm putting acid rain and normal rain and low gravity in the Headsplitter world so I can make the sophonts there giant mollusk-proxies and I was gonna call them the Cascadians but that's way too cool. One day I'll come up with something boring instead.

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Fun fact: they actually move without joints! Their legs are powered via hydraulics, and they move by retracting and stretching out the different feet with liquid, much like a sea star! Think of it like this:

(Image ID: Multiple shots of a sea star using its thousands of tube feet to traverse a rocky seabed. End ID

I'm putting acid rain and normal rain and low gravity in the Headsplitter world so I can make the sophonts there giant mollusk-proxies and I was gonna call them the Cascadians but that's way too cool. One day I'll come up with something boring instead.