#thunderbug

❤️Scritches, Headbutts, Horn Nuzzles, Tiefling Touches❤️

His birthday party where he invited a bunch of mascot friends (buoy also did this!) ((wouldn't be shocked if more did but those are the ones i know of))

When Tusky (utah's mascot) visited! (This vid specifically makes me giggle)

When Buoy (seattle's mascot) visted!

This ad for the Feb 25th game (he missed hockey and made it everyone else's problem)

No posts for this bc it actually says this on his webpage BUT he actually will participate in other sports around Tampa Bay! He even has different little outfits :)

Speaking of. He got into "curling" during the olympic break

He does ride around on a motorized bike! It's used in a commercial for a parking app in-arena (source: ive seen it with my own eyes), but he HAS been caught riding around Tampa on it (don't feel like going onto tik tok to try and get to original vid sorry)

He also (partially) got dressed up in the dreamsicle outfits for the stadium series!

He went swimming! In the, uh. Tampa Bay Aquarium (as part of stadium series promotion)

Another insect shaken out of the trees in front of the hotel.

Fairly average in appearance for a Thrips (singular and plural), although perhaps towards the larger end of the spectrum. Note the conical head, short and somewhat clumsy legs, and feathery wings. The name of the Order, Thysanoptera, refers to the fringe on the wings.

Common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, thunderblights, storm bugs, corn fleas, corn flies, corn lice, freckle bugs, harvest bugs, and physopods (the later refers to the bladder-like tips to the tarsi of the legs).

Some 3,400 species are described in this family, and many are tropical fungivores. Most thrips eat fungus, some are predatory, but a few are agricultural pests, and some are gall-formers.

The largest thrips - Idolothrips marginatus - is in this family and can reach a bodylength of up to 14 mm.

We also saw these other thrips in abundance, doing what thrips are well-known for doing - descending in swarms on anything yellow. These other ones are probably in the other suborder of thrips, however.

We performed & then I went out to lunch in my cosplay costume. I also went to Sephora because how could I not? This is also where I got ThunderBug, the Tampa Bay Lightning mascot, to dance with me. Video of that is included.