Shino Aburame. 🐛

Something Ill always recommend to people trying to get more comfortable with insects (if they can handle it, not everyone can) is to just… watch them. Video or RL. Doesn’t really matter. Don’t interact- no need to touch or manipulate, just watch them.

If you want to search for this I recommend something like “Macrophotography” since that tends to shy away from some of the more clickbait-y or “horror of insects” type stuff. Though be aware it is focused on close-ups often

the convergent evolution of praying mantises and mantidflies is also really interesting. theyre from entirely different groups of insects (for reference, cockroaches and termites are mantids closest living relatives) but independently evolved almost identical raptorial limbs, as well as a fairly similar elongated thorax, and necks with a significant degree of rotation (which most insects dont have).

There’s also an entire Diptera genus that has evolved some of these traits as well!!!

chalcid wasps are trying but they got it backwards 

thinking about how cool grasshoppers are and how many unique, charming species are in the infraorder Acrididea