I'm sorry XD This design looks great, though!!! I love conehead mantises, and you did their beautiful colors justice with her!
My reaction to this one post by @revretch🥲 I love learning new bug facts, but this one did hurt my soul a little bit. However, since I like to try for accuracy, I decided to redesign my OC Florence!
Here she is!! Isn’t she gorgeous? I might add wings to make it clear that she is based on an adult conehead mantis (Empusa fasciata) instead of an earlier instar, but I don’t want to clutter her silhouette too much, so we’ll see. I decided to use a conehead mantis so that I was in the same color wheelhouse as the juvenile orchid mantis. I think the colors turned out quite different, but they’re pretty, so who cares!!
every time I look up anything about annelid worms I end up learning about some ridiculous creature that I now cannot imagine life without. this is a freshwater worm called Pristina that looks like a sock puppet mixed with a moray eel
One of six species of Rutiline bristle fly, found along the eastern coast od Australia if the Atlas of Living Australia map actually reflects their distribution. Not the first time I've found an enormous Tachinid fly on top of a Caberra mountain - I wonder if they were hilltopping in the search for mates.
I don't have any informtion on the host species, but given the family and subfamily, almost certainly caterpillars.
Mt. Ainsley, ACT
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