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there goes copepod
The bug squad!
Genuinely I was excited to work on these and share them publicly- these are some of my top favorite bug guys out there. (There may be a theme of points and pincers)
I know very few people will ever see them, but I'm still happy to have made them.
i just now figured out what those weird things were in my tank holy crap. vorticella. no one in my fish group had ANY idea what they were oh my gosh i had LITTLE GUYS IN MY TANK!!! I wish i still had them. i wish i knew. oh my goodness
Lynceus clam shrimp grazes on Vorticella (single-celled animals) like a weird little cow
little creature I found last night scuttling in the rain. i believe they are part of the cherry millepede family (Xystodesmidae), probably in the genus Dicellarius. image id in alt text.
blue little guy :) will add ids later
Something I did last year for my bee biology class! Here is some stuff in spanish about the Tecoma Stans (commonly known as Chicala) which is a native Colombian plant I studied for some weeks to look at their polinators and insects around! (such as honey bees, which are not native; and some bumblebees like thygater aethiops and bombus hortulanus, both native. I also saw spiders, beetles and flies, but they are photos rather than illustrations) :D
Not gonna lie, I would love to participate in projects to make scientific illustrations someday!
in the book of ezekiel, angels are described as eyes on their wings. sound familiar?
so what i want to know is what the hell type of predator was preying on biblical angels to make them evolve eyespots
got my hands on a field guide of californian bugs and i found that there's this one bee species in southern california that looks like this
![[id: a drawing of xylocopa varpuncta, aka the valley carpenter bee. the drawing portrays a female and male of the species respectively
the female is pitch black, she has huge eyes and sketchily drawn antennae on her head. she has blue-purple lighting on the side of her face to bring out the details. Under her is white text surrounded by a black box that reads, "FEMALE".
The male is drawn in a far more simplified and cartoonish way. He is yellow and has a lighter sand color "mane" around his neck. he has huge, green eyes with beady pupils. he has rounded antennae. below him is text that reads, "male". end id]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f1014b9292a7dd5e95fb21b9a36288a2/a63d91e5d2a95aac-9d/s500x750/50d3c5f364f0d7cf4999cf4c63929b23ef63ff7a.png)
(Actual bugs under the cut, CW for insects)
