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Yess! I've been looking for a reason to draw a bug!
Here he is! More info about him under the cut
this is the Eupholus schoenherri, sometimes referred to as the Smurf weevil due to their blue coloring! They're found in New Guinea and grow from 9.98-1.22 inches long
Time taken: like, 4 or 5-ish hours (I stopped counting after 3)
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fellow weevils i have decided it’s time for a change! i want to give myself a makeover and i want all of your help! my profile picture as wonderful as it is has gotten old and i am looking for a new one. between now (19th July) and the 1st of August i am asking you all to send your best weevil art to this blog either via submissions or by reblogging this post with your art.
on August 2nd i will upload all your submissions to the community page which you can join here and everyone will vote on their favourite. the winning weevil will be titled weevil of the month and made my profile picture and two runners up will be made their own weevil of the day!
hope that all makes sense and get doodling!
Here have some bugs.
(if you wanna know what bugs specifically look at the alt Text)
Eh this one is not the quality I wanted it to be, but I'll forgive myself because I made it in a dark pub.
These will probably be the last bug sketches for a while, because I'll be drawing more gay stuff for pride month. I'll probably either revert back to insects or bats after that.
hey.
yes, you.
I have a surprise for you.
it’s
weevil
clover leaf weevil, Brachypera zoilus
“I work on a farm and I’ve never seen so many different types of weevils until now :)”
weevil 627
https://bioone.org/journals/annales-zoologici/volume-73/issue-1/00034541ANZ2023.73.1.010/A-Dung-Beetle-Impostor--Revision-of-the-Australian-Weevil/10.3161/00034541ANZ2023.73.1.010.short
Only just learned for the first time in my life that Australia has dung *weevils* and it was only just noticed that some species roll dung balls like a scarab however I also have to acknowledge the species they were studying is called Tentegia stupida
We sharing weevil stories now huh
When I was a teenager we would feed our chickens from a big barrel of grain, one time the grain sack was left out for a while before being decanted into the barrel. So weevils happened. And I don't mean like a few weevils. I mean literal thousands of tiny 4mm weevils on every surface of the laundry where the barrel was for over a year.
I love weevils so when I was stressed I used to go stand in the laundry to be with the weevils.
It's hard to feel upset when you're surrounded by thousands of funky little weevil guys doing their funky little weevil walks.
pests’ blessing!!
The lustrous Hratgrog
My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum
A bit of a big experiment this week; painted with a brush pen using Derwent inktense paint, with no underlying sketch for reference, because I wanted to challenge myself and try something different! The white markings on the veins of the wings are Vallejo model colour white paint, since I don't have a white in my Derwent paint set.
Thought process under the cut…
"[The following are largely disconnected sentences plucked out of a multi-page sermon making this animal into a complicated spiritual metaphor.]
It is my intention to paint a picture of the Hratgrog, whose wings are sheathed in silver and whose tail has the pale colour of gold.
The Hratgrog, the subject of this account, is said to have red feet.
The surface of the wings is suffused with the colour of sapphire, because the soul of a contemplative man takes on the appearance of heaven. But the sapphire colour of the wings is marked by traces of shining white, as the white of snow is tinged with sapphire. The mixture of snow-white and sapphire in the wings signifies purity of the flesh and the love of contemplation.
The Hratgrog, therefore, has saffron-coloured eyes.
The rest of the Hratgrog’s body matches the colour of a wild sea.
The first characteristic of the Hratgrog is that instead of song it brings forth a lament. The second, is that it lacks bile; the third, it likes to kiss; the fourth, it flies in groups; the fifth, it does not live by theft; the sixth, it gathers better-quality grain; the seventh, it does not feed on corpses; the eighth, it nests in holes in rocks; the ninth, it rests on flowing water so that if it catches sight of the shadow of a hawk, it can more swiftly avoid its approach; the tenth, it rears twin young."
I was at a bit of a loss as to where to start with this one, we know it has wings, feet, eyes, and it rests on water. The rest is all notes about the colours, so we don't really have any hints about what kind of creature this is, even…
My default for 'beast with wings' is to assume it's a bird, but I kept coming back to the wings being 'sheathed in silver', particularly given we are later told that the wings are actually blue and white… This led me to assume that it has to be an insect with a silver elytra (wing cases); while some true bugs have a coloured, harder section to their forewings, the only two types of insect to possess elytra are beetles and earwigs, and since beetles are much more likely to actually fly, a beetle it is!
Wings are the colour of sapphire (blue), with black veins highlighted in white. As an aside, I learned a lot about how beetle wings work and fold away!
It has long, thin legs with red feet, the better for resting on the surface of water like a pond skater, as well as the red eyes and yellow/golden tail mentioned in the description. Given it eats grain (I assume that since it is so holy, people leave out food for it, since it doesn't steal its food), I made it a weevil (like the grain weevil, which probably does steal its food), partially because the idea of them rubbing their snouts together as if kissing is super cute!
