Apr 13
Finally got the motivation to draw again so have this snake fly person, based off the species Atlantoraphidia maculicollis. I haven't draw any new anthro bugs recently until now.
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Finally got the motivation to draw again so have this snake fly person, based off the species Atlantoraphidia maculicollis. I haven't draw any new anthro bugs recently until now.
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Carcino!!! What's the strangest bug you've ever learned about? Have you seen it irl? :0
OOOH OOOOH OOOOH OK OK SO.
Here's the weirdest bug I've ever heard of, AND seen for this one: The snake fly!
Well, it's not the weirdest I've known of, but it's the weirdest I've known anything about, and seen in real life.
Unfortunately, the only time I've seen one was dead in a spider's web. It was still amazing to get to see one in person, though!
Wow, that looks like a scary stringer on the end of its abdomen, you may say. But no, that is actually an ovipositor, a completely harmless organ found in female insects that is used to lay eggs. It does make them look fairly menacing, though!
Another detail you may have found bizzare about this insect is it's elongated 'snake-like' neck. I couldn't find any source that detailed what they use them for, but I assume it's an adaptation that has allowed them to more effectively eat the insects they prey upon.
Speaking of which, they are actually INCREDIBLY beneficial insects! They predators of aphids and mites, which, as you may know, are typically not very good for human society.
Say thank you to the Snake fly, one of nature's most elegant forms of pest control!
I discovered a snake fly today and now I know where the dragons went
My photo sucks so have a google image to show this majestic creature
(That’s not a stinger, it’s for laying eggs in wood, they’re harmless)
My insect app says this lady is some kind of mantis but it’s definitely not. The app has a pic of an identical insect in its database for some mantis, but all the other pics of that mantis look completely different so I have no idea who this lady is. Plus that mantis doesn’t usually hang out in Germany.
UPDATE: it’s a snake fly (venustoraphidia nigricollis) and it was insect of the year over here in 2022. Its German name is Kamelhalsfliege which means camel neck fly. Cause camels and snakes are so alike
The earth is full of magnificent creatures that never managed to overwhelm humanity. Among them, the flying animals are the ones that have always managed to
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SNAKE FLY Raphidia flavipes by ©nikolarahme
Creepy Snakefly Taxonomic Features: The morphological characteristics which distinguish the order Raphidioptera from other insect orders are as follows:
neck is lengthened.
head has protuding eyes, long antennae and mandibles (chewing mouthparts).
has two pairs of identical wings.
ten-segmented abdomen without cerci.
lengthened ovipositors.
Snakeflies are predatory, both as adults and larvae. They can be quite common throughout temperate Europe and Asia, but in North America occur exclusively in the Western United States, namely in the Rocky Mountains and westward, including the southwestern deserts. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakefly
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