all multiples of ten for the ask game!
10) do you have any pet bugs?
sadly no! maybe one day...
20) what's a random bug fact that you tell people whenever bugs come up in conversation?
i tend to tell people whatever bug fact(s) i've learned recently! but for one i tell people consistently...talking about megaponera analis mostly =) so their nursing behaviors and scouting behaviors
30) favorite instance of mimicry?
MAN. EVERY ANT MIMIC. all of them. it would be hard to pick but at random, lobster moth caterpillars! they look so weird
[ID: A lobster moth caterpillar. It has unusually long legs for a caterpillar, and is reddish in color. End ID]
40) coolest bug created structure
there are so many cool structures out there!
i have a soft spot for weaver ant nests because they're very cool looking to me...i also really love those giant communal cocoons some genuses of african silkworm make! and this would be super incomplete if i didn't talk about termite mounds - and while it's the fungus rather than the termites doing this part, i LOVE that the mushrooms stick out of the mound.
50) a bug that you want to be an emoji?
ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i want a better ant emoji first off. second i want a weaver ant emoji, and a megaponera analis ant emoji, and an acrobat ant emoji. and a leafcutter ant emoji. and a
well anyway other than ants, i want a termite, moth, wasp, centipede, and mantis emoji. i want most caterpillar emojis too. and an assassin bug emoji. and













