LophiusDragon

roesel's bush cricket and a pintail duck - two collage illustrations for a local canal project

made with nasturtium leaves, various cartridge paper, newsprint, photography paper, and paints, pencils & pastels

Bronze Glandular Bush Cricket (Bradyporus dasypus), T - male, B - female, family Tettigoniidae, Bulgaria

Anteater Weevil. Smaller than a great anteater and more arboreal, the species combo would eat more termites and sap from trees than ants on the ground.

@weevilsdaily Hope you don't mind me tagging you. Your blog is what got me to get down and fully design an idea I've had for a while.

WAH WAH WAH WAH THIS IS SO TRUE AHAHA what a challenge...... theres so many good bugs.... im going to have to completely omit spiders, because if i didnt all my choices would just be spiders!!! So,

1: Solpugids!!!!! Rahhh!!!!

2: HARVESTMAN INSECTS!!!!

1: praying mantis! specifically a large female individual I named Lettuce, hung out with me for like 30 minutes and felt comfortable enough to groom herself in my hand

2: common grass spider! not a bug but still an arthropod and one I lovvveee I find them all the time and they're such sweetie pies, like the most tolerant and unbothered spiders ever, you can literally poke their butts and they do not care, they also feel great to hold in my hand (they got a nice heft to them idk how else to describe it :P) and I love doing it as much as I can

3: I can't pick an individual so honestly just multiple of the order orthoptera, like katydids, grasshoppers, crickets, and trigs! I've held multiple individuals of all four of those names and again, such sweeties!! And, for some reason, all four of them have also tried to nibble my hand? I even have a couple videos of them doing it, idk why they do it, it just tickles and makes me laugh so oh well :P

bug photos and videos under the cut, arthrophobes beware!

Eleodes desert stink beetle

Earwigs