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Tiger beetle larvae, Cicindelidae

The predatory larvae of tiger beetles live in cylindrical burrows as much as a meter deep. They lie in wait for prey to come close enough to grab and drag down into their burrow. The hump and hooks on their body prevent struggling prey from pulling them out of the burrow.

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Ah, Love, you smell of petroleum

and overwork

with grease on your fingernails,

paint in your hair

there is a pained look on your eye

from no appreciation

you speak to me of the lilacs

and appleblossoms we ought to have

the banquets we should be serving,

afterwards rubbing each other for hours

with tenderness and genuine

olive oil

someday. Meantime here is your cracked plate

with spaghetti. Wash your hands &

touch me, praise

my cooking. I shall praise your calluses.

we shall dance in the kitchen

of our imagination.

4/16 of my yubinuki project

all four of these have the same stitches in the same place, but sewn in different orders.

switching it up for my next few, in technique and colour. here's #5:

Gotta get some things out of the way before we start

a perch, for a precarious june, and we extend a very warm welcome to another applicant for residency in Nowhere Town, Greater Borough of Nowhere, Nowhere, @my-friends-fan

Here's a 6th-century eastern Greek oil flask shaped like a fish—allegedly a tilapia nilotica.

An Eastern Greek turtle-shaped perfume-jar at the Princeton University Art Museum.