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gonna go ahead and associate some elderscrolls elves with certain arthropods: altmer - wasps, mantids, dragonflies, mayflies, damselflies, cicadas, moths, butterflies, centipedes, beeeeees (social and solitary), lacewings, dunmer -ants, termites, ALL sorts of beetles, millipedes, isopods, fleas, bosmer - crickets, grasshoppers, centipedes, weevils, 'true' bugs, shield bugs, orb weaver spiders, tarantulas, termites, whiptail scorpions, flies, earwigs, orsimer - centipedes, trilobite beetles, scorpions, whiptail scorpions,
maormer - crab, deep sea giant isopods,
a carpenter ant just minding its own business triggers my peripheral vision. i could squish it.... but that would require getting a tissue or some hard surface to do the squishening, and i don't waaaaaaaaant to....
solution: pick up beeg ant like the boog it is, open door, yeet boog into the wilderness.
#small ants are easier to deal with (aka squeesh) lazily#just a single finger'll do it#too small to leave guts behind#but carpenter ants? they're big enough to pick up and let crawl around on you#like a beetle#so i prefer to just grab and fling#boogs#tw: bugs#buggies#fling because i don't feel like going out just to re-house a sturdy ant#because they're fast and won't care where i put them and are difficult to keep still in your hand#woe ant be upon ye
i don't actually know what boog this is
adorable beetle bubby. my first thought was some sort of predatory beetle (like tiger beetle adjacent) because of the overall body shape, but now I'm not so sure.
#i'm flumoxed#looked through a site that has a collection of beetles in nfld#nothing matched#if i go for patterning with the shape: the closest are longhorn/tree-eater beetles#but they all have prominent antennae which this bubby doesn't#maybe some sort of stinkbug? clicker beetle? don't know#boogs#buggies#buggie boos#i mean all that said i just realized this might not even be an adult#and could be some instar beforehand#which would make up for appearance discrepencies#bug identification is so wild#might not even be a beetle! fffffff#newfoundland insects#newfoundland beetles#newfoundland arthropods#arthropod photography
okay i'm putting my foot down. i'm officiating it.
my new favourite beetles are trilobite beetles.
i'm sorry giant diving beetles, junebugs, tiger beetles, and others I used to love in my childhood that i've absolutely forgotten over 3 decades of life... trilobite beetles (especially female trilobite beetles) are my new besties as far as beetles are concerned.
#i keep forgetting they exist#much to kait's annoyance#she's like 'you KNOW about these bugs goddammit'#and i'm like 'but... i FORGOT OKAYYYYYY'#i love them#boogs#bug talk#buggies#buggie boos#i put down waterboatmen in the list of beetles i love... but then i was like#'wait... they're not beetles are they? they don't look like beetles... hang on'#nope they're not beetles#but ye i like them too
more bugtalk
warning title for those who don't like bugs. I'm waiting for paint to dry, my adhd has latched on to the topic of 'bugs' and has ran with it, so here we go (an inside look into the adhd train):
- yeah termites are cool, like ants, and i personally love the spires they build, but fuck termites. Really it only comes down to aesthetics: ants are cool, segmented, armoured, while termites are grotesque monstrosities with silky-pearly-squishy-looking bits. Nah. No thank you. Very cool, but ugly.
- Do i have a favourite species of ant? Hmmm. I have a love-hate relationship with carpenter ants, so not them. Bulldog ants can be used as sutures and I adore that. Leafcutter ants farm fungi. Honeypot ants are adorable and silly-looking... so yeah there we go, those three.
- I really shouldn't blame kait for hating ants, considering all the bullshit she's been through with them over the years. Oh also, if you hate ants? Don't move to Nova Scotia... certain areas of that province are just pure anthill. ALL the anthills. No unexcavated earth to be found. Let's just say living there has reprogramed our brains to be hypervigilant of ants... especially carpenter ants.
- Honestly, and past-me would think I'm nuts but, I prefer Newfoundland's abundance of wolf spiders to living in ant-central. Wolf spiders don't form colonies, being solitary hunters, they take care of any and all other pests (except for mosquitos and blackflies >:I ), and instead of being a constant presence they only really pop up for specific reasons: high moisture attracts their prey and thus brings them out, etc. All in all, easier to control.
- I still hate wolf spiders though. give me garden spoods any day: they at least stay in one place and don't roam... I do love all the zebra jumping spiders in this province though. I haven't seen so many jumping spiders since living in ottawa ouo
- I do miss nova scotia's moths though. That's one thing NS has over other provinces: you wanna see a bunch of different LARGE moth species? Visit nova scotia. Here in nfld we get large versions of like, every other bug (flies, wasps, bees, DRAGONFLIES, beetles, butterflies, true-bugs, also non-insect other arthropods: many myriapods, kreb-adjacent boogs like allllll sorts of woodlice aka isopods, etc) but I haven't seen nearly as many moths as in ns.
- spring is here, the bugs are coming back! YEEEEE!
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Insectes - Émile-Allain Séguy - 1925 - via Paris bibliothèques
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