Montage Mode

today I found a Sad Bug Friend flipped on his back and flailing his little leggies in a puddle after a torrential downpour

so I picked him up and put him on a tree outside my building because cicada nymphs only come aboveground when they’re ready to complete their final molt and enter the adult instar

I came back an hour later and he’d done the thing and I’m so proud :’) he’s tired and drying off but he should be up and flying soon!

anyway this is a reminder to Be Cool to bugs because they have tiny lives and work really hard and I love them

i keep trying to think of how you could make the phenomenon of cicadas Weird And Surreal but like

you cant. cicadas have already reached that point all by themselves

“every 17 years hordes of insects emerge from the ground. all of them are screaming”

this is Real and it Happens

The buff tip moth has some impressive camouflaging skills, blending right into its twiggy habitat.

Image credit: Serge Karpeykin

VIA: yukayura

CUTIE FLUFF

When fish creep and crawl!

This Sea Robin, or Gurnard, is crawling around on fin rays modified into 6 creepy legs.

I’m almost completely certain its underwater rather than in a desert or on your ceiling waiting to pounce 

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Turquoise cicada (Zamarra sp.) (by pbertner)

Can we all just appreciate this fancy spider

Faerie wing jewelry by Under the Ivy.

A phone case that looks like a gigantic isopod. I have no words.

Arguably the most beautiful insect, the wings of the the Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) actually don’t have any pigmentation! The colors that you are seeing are actually the result of optical interference and the refraction of light at different angles from micro-ribbon in the wings.  (images x,x)

(via 500px / (re)Birth by Roeselien Raimond)

The Textile Moths of Yumi Okita

from tabletopwhale

Broken wings

Spiders with water droplet hats are something I really needed to know about.