lots of L E G S

Bugs in Hands

Inktober! Or rather tabletober bugtober. 

From @saturniidays  inktober lists for 2018/19.

Native bees. Blue banded boys showing off their roosting skills. 

Insects in Film. Mosquito team filming lesbian vampire romance. 

Famous Entomologist. Alice Blanche Balfour! Victorian bug enthusiast who looks exactly how I imagined Victorian bug enthusiast would look like. 

Insects in Music. Girls’ night out. 

Two rabbits in a meadow close to the house

Frogs in grass in the garden

A hedgehog coming to say hello

Grasshoppers in the garden

Small dragonfly in the garden

Caterpillar on the wall of the house

This is what he's going to look like when finished, my Mister Moth. Today I've been sewing his legs; made from metal wires and black tricot fabric.

His wings and body I designed and crafted in an earlier stage. His wings are already finished; embroidered by me. This is the back!

The time working on this project: embroidery on his wings took me more than 40 hours. Making his body took 3 hours. Sewing his legs today took me more than 5 hours.

Tonight he sleeps without his wings! I will eventually attach them at the end, when every part of this project is finished.

spiders will pull their own legs clean off if they get damaged because most of them can regrow legs during molting, which explains why you often see spiders missing a leg but never any missing half a leg?

some remarkably distressing scientists proved this by getting a spider to pull off all of its legs and then feeding its limbless torso for months until it sprouted a full complement of legs again and then hopefully used them to get the fuck out of dodge

baby spiders don’t get lenses until their first molt and before that they just have baby eyes and while this ought not to be any weirder than the concept of baby teeth, welp,

there are so many spiders floating around thousands of metres up in the air that they’re described as “aerial plankton”

The Sky Is Full Of Spiders

there are spider-parasitising spiders but instead of laying eggs in organs or stealing blood or anything like that they just ride on top of bigger spiders and steal snacks when their mighty steed is eating

there are ant-mimicking spiders that use their disguises to raid ant nests and w/e but there are also ant mimics that just. hang out. they make fake ant colonies full of fake ants. sometimes the actual ants that they’re mimicking find their house and live with them. stealth 100

some mother spiders live in communal family nests, where multiple mothers can work together to bring down bigger prey while all their collected babies are cared for by the babysitters

some mother spiders feed their babies mouth to mouth like birds

some mother spiders carry their babies around and i was aware of this but not the fact that if you steal their eggsac they’ll freak out and search for it for hours and sometimes end up adopting anything that’s vaguely the right size, they will carry around empty snail shells for weeks and lovingly dote on them…

HE IS IN JAIL BECAUSE HE KEEPS BREAKING INTO MY ROOM