Bugs And Critters

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As painful and as large as the welts they give you are when they bite, horseflies have really interesting eyes.

Depending on the species, they have various patterns of iridescent colors and patterns.

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More bug, video edition because glorious farms site is now ooperational at 2/3 ahead.

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An unusually-large male brown crab (Cancer pagurus)

Normal size is up to 6 inches long, but this individual is around 21 inches long as he is estimated to be older than most individuals caught in the wild.

I am sure that if he caught you in his claws he could fuck your shit up.


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I love little critters very dearly. Honey bees often come to my garden because I have many flowers. When the year gets colder and the flowers wilt or have to be pruned, the bees still come to visit and are confused as to where the food has gone, so I like to bring out snacks for them to help them along in late fall. Beestreat.jpg We feed bees here sir.jpg Look at them.jpg
I like to think they appreciate it even though their brains are much too small to understand appreciation.
 
These ladies get a bad rap because they have a projectile attack and a nasty sting (and they don't let up once they get going) but they're actually pretty chill and helpful if you know they're there to avoid the nest. They're commonly called hornets but they're just bigger, badder paper wasps and they love to kill yellowjackets. At the end of the season the queen will overwinter and then go find a place for her new colony in spring. I tried to rescue one earlier this year that wasn't doing well because I wanted my own little hit squad of wasp assassin ninja bitches out in the greenbelt, but even though she seemed to get more active and gobbled up sugar water and thinned honey like a fiend once I brought her inside she sadly didn't make it. Never even tried to sting me or escape. Supposedly they can remember faces, and I think she started to realize that I was doing her a solid. Watching her get excited and grab the skewer each time I'd lower it to her with a new treat was surprisingly cute. I'd never seen how they eat close up either, weird little fascinating mouths. I tried to give her a little plain chicken once she had some energy, but she chewed on it for a second then washed her face and walked away.

Bald-faced Hornet

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The Acteaeom Beetle, more commonly known the Rhinoceros Beetle, is the heaviest insect in the world. As for length specifically, Arthropleura, the earliest known ancestor of centipedes and millipedes is the largest, but it evolved at least 400 million years ago, and died out some 235 million years ago. It grew to eight feet long, but despite them being monstrous in size, they'd be harmless to us, as they ate wood off logs, and tree bark.
 

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Japanese on Twitter make good bug videos




 
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