Field Guide for the Small and Buried

photographs by Cell Cell

Luminance

Look at this cool bug I saw

This is the post of endless learning. What.

animals with a lot of legs

by Gary Faulkner

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Look at this cool bug I saw

Look at this cool bug I saw

(Hamataliwa grisea)

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

And entomology too i guess

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

A liddol creeture

A butternut woollyworm ♡

Dorsal Light Response - a reflex that causes insects to turn their backs towards a light source to orient themselves during flight.