#aphid

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

I wanted to make a proper hollow knight oc, and now I feel like I finally got a good idea of what I want! Meet teacup and dewy! Once regal samplers and taste testers in search of edible foods in their homeland of once proud Verdania now in ruins. Heartbroken over the fallen kingdom teacup has now taken residence in a far off land called Nephaliam with a world of new things to discover and explore, with...a catch. Apparently giants live here, and don't take kindly to bugkind.

some bugs #mybugs

when I flipped their rock, this ant grabbed the nearest aphid and ran it to safety. she’s another species of Lasius, this one in the subgenus Chthonolasius; I can’t tell if her colony’s aphids are different from the Cautolasius’ though.

Ant milking honeydew from aphids By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

that one zombie baby hivewing and his babysitter