#bug babies

Because the rest of the blood colors grub are normal looking for insect grubs

oh, my god, i really want to draw this. that's absolutely SO silly and very cute. 'sir you cant just put your pet spider in a cradle and bring it into this resturant' 'a-are you talking about. my beloved infant. my baby' 'i dont care what you call it it says on the door no pets allowed'

OR WORSE. 'this isnt a doggy daycare it says on the front we do childcare' 'E. EXCUSE ME'

tbf, grubs are mimics of other alternian species larval forms. but still kind of depressing!! discrimination against troll bbs isn't good, though i could see there being legitimate reasons not to keep specific infant troll morphs with human infants--teals grubs aren't even allowed around other grubs, they're FEROCIOUS. and ceruleans are no doubt nippy as hell. bitey little babbies. but a rustblood grub is just a fat happy useless baby, let them sit!! let them do baby things!!!

I want to talk about my cute lovely bug babies, the triplets.

Small headcanon about them Summer on the very right, she used to cut her hair to look like Garnet and Ruben. She hated being different from them. She also didn't like that her hair wasn't a little bit red like theirs. Eventually, she got out of that feeling.

Summer and Ruben are the only siblings who can tease Garnet as much as they do, the one in the middle.

Everyone and I mean everyone besides Ruby can not tell Garnet and Ruben apart. Unless they are truly talking, you can't tell, not even Summer can. Ruby knows a small way of how to tell them apart, and she keeps it to herself. (Ruben has a small scar on his ear that is barely noticeable, but if you're looking for it, you can see it.)

Ruben is the happy one out of Garnet, Garnet just generally doesn't care about most things.

Garnet is the oldest one out of the three. Does he use it against them? Never.

Summer and her younger sister Iris sometimes like to play pranks on everyone. Given the right light and colored contacts, those two look almost identical to each other.

Ruben also always manages to convince Garnet to play pranks on guess who it is, but of course, because Ruby knows she always knows who is who.

Ruben and Garnet share a similar semblance to each other, and it's like Blake's. While Summer has a semblance like Ruby's. Summer also later on picks up having a white cloak like her grandmother, who she's named after. Iris doing the same with a partial piece of white to show for her grandmother.

I'll be doing more of showing bug babies later! If people are interested! 🫶 🐞

Hottest boy band of the century, the four bug rangers

No joke I didnt realise till the other day just HOW MUCH these four have in common. A few traits they share include;

all based off of various bugs (the only bugs in the franchise)

two sets of “non-traditional” brothers (Blake and Hunter are adopted, Steel is an ex-robot with Nate’s DNA)

they were the fourth and fifth members of their respective line ups

a brother from each season has a canon relationship with the only girls on the team (and they both share hue’s with the girl in question. blue and navy for Blake and Tori, yellow and gold for Nate and Zoey)

This has to be the biggest coincidence ever you cant tell me they planned this shit

Ocyptamus fuscipennis hover fly

The larvae eat aphids, and I found these ones chilling on the milkweed the latest batch of Queens were eating. I had brought the whole potted plants inside (complete with hundreds of oleander aphids who made a sticky mess), and the handful of hover fly larvae were enjoying themselves.

Most of the hover flies were the Four-spotted Dioprosopa clavata, but a couple were these weird bird poop-lookin things. When I saw one had pupated, I put it into a container to see who it turned out to be. And it was this beautiful dark lady!

In order: Gabriel, Liliana, Ruben, Summer, Garnet, Iris, and Delilah.

They are part of my Unexpected series I post on AO3 for Ladybug.

Link to the artist all credit goes to them 🫶