Lia

The first one that comes to mind would be beetles that have larviform females and winged males. Trilobite beetles are a fairly well-known example of that. I think most people who saw these two bugs would not imagine they're the same species:

by Wislawa Szymborska tr. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

We are children of our age, it’s a political age.

All day long, all through the night, all affairs — yours, ours, theirs — are political affairs.

Whether you like it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin, a political cast, your eyes, a political slant.

Whatever you say reverberates, whatever you don’t say speaks for itself. So either way you’re talking politics.

Even when you take to the woods, you’re taking political steps on political grounds.

Apolitical poems are also political, and above us shines a moon no longer purely lunar. To be or not to be, that is the question. and though it troubles the digestion it’s a question, as always, of politics.

To acquire a political meaning you don’t even have to be human. Raw material will do, or protein feed, or crude oil,

or a conference table whose shape was quarreled over for months: Should we arbitrate life and death at a round table or a square one.

as promised, the owlfly (family Ascalaphidae) I found in Singapore!

if you’re familiar with antlions, these work similarly, except instead of building a pit they rely on camouflage to hide from predators and ambush prey. a beautiful combination of lichen-y fringes and wickedly sharp mandibles.

it blended in perfectly with the mossy rope railing, even tucking back its mandibles at a 270° angle so that they lay hidden beneath the head.

~ Necklace of assorted beads.

Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan

Period: Bronze Age, Middle Minoan Period

Date: 1800–1550 B.C.

Carne de mi Carne

Oil painting by Miguel Cruz

King of Pentacles  ⭐️ 

look at this dog