Saw this really cool bug post and wanted to draw some art of it! I love that it looks like it has goggles (its actually extra eyes!!)

(The second pic I also made into a redbubble sticker)

Hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

I love when arthropods have a pseudopupil. It's so whimsical and cute, and they come in so many varieties!!

little kitty cat eyes!!!

bombastic side eyes!!!!

cartoon character eyes!!!!

bigass anime eyes!!!!!

BE NOT AFRAID eyes!!!!!

Please enjoy this magical small emerald moth friend who visited me last year. I'm looking forward to mothing season starting again soon! 🦋💚

May your year be filled with all the soft beautiful moths you need to get through it, including this one.

I DID IT OK I MADE HIM A PROPER EXOSKELETON

its like his true exoskeleton or smthing the suit is a false one blahblahblah

Vessels born outside the abyss and therefore not containing any void is that anything

edit: to clear up any confusion this is my take on what Little Ghost would look like jjfhc

idk if anyone else has hit on this but i think i know the best way to commemorate tdov and easter coinciding: bugs bunny

Where'd all the bugs go?

A little comic thing based on someone's idea on discord 🤭🤭

I just realized I never posted photos of this really pretty harvestman i came across a while back. Note the green pedipalps and the dark and light spots on its back.

"it's so embarrassing you like that popular thing" "oh ew that geeky/strange thing is so cringe lol" "oh it's kind of weird you get excited about that harmless shit"

dude i love how ironic and jaded you are and that's so cool and sexy of you. and i am so so glad to tell you - you won!! we all had a meeting and we decided that you won, and we are writing your name on the inside of a burger king crown. the marker smeared, sorry, but we knew any form of real effort is ugly to you. but anyway. congrats! you are officially the coolest, most ironic, most jaded person in-the-world-right-now. we would throw you a party but you would think it was totally boring - and besides, we're weird so we wouldn't have been coming. we would have brought our love of beetles and of baking and of little canapes. we would have brought our artsy videogames and pages of writing. we would have written a poem with you, our hands covered in ink, and spread out a canvas to dance on, the night so lurid and pink.

but do not worry. we will not throw the party. we will just get you a ringlight and that crown i mentioned. it is a nice crown, except for where one of us dropped it.

the vote was a really hard one because we had so many cool ironic people to pick off the shelves. all of you have hands that rot fruit, how strange is that - you can't look at something without destroying it for other people. you like it when you can squeeze a person into a pinpoint - all us small ones scampering our little feet around our ugly joys. the vote was also a hard one because we kept our voices down because you don't like it when we talk too loud. you were on your phone at the time, talking to people other than us. you are a ghoul of every moment - half in, half out, you resent us for being here without shame or embarrassment.

so good news! we have invented an island for people like you. you get to go there and speak into the air things like if you still like watching harmless twitch streamers in 2023 you're fucking boring. you will say things like liveplay podcasts are fucking ugly and it's kind of awkward they try to make everything gay. on the island we made you, all of your words will have weight. they will form in the air like icicles, large white behemoth letters that will crumple in anvils around your feet. maybe we will send someone there once in a while to sweep, but honestly you might be there for a while, alone, waiting. we are busy being outside looking for mushrooms and flapping our hands and humming. we are busy kicking our little heels while we watch cringey tv. we are busy - sorry! as an apology, we have pre-filled the island with every bland, mediocre, unscented thing we could find. the island has the texture of american cheese. the island has an ocean that never gets angry. the island is perfect for you, trust me. you will be so happy there - as happy as you can be, ironically.

we want to say we are sorry for doing harmless things that you find annoying, childish, or unappealing - but we are not sorry. we thought we could help you, because we don't mind laughing at ourselves, but it turns out you are allergic to color and noise and atmosphere, so this is the best that we can do for now. we are all making a big shirt that says i voted in the ironic monarchy. we got you one that is just a fast fashion buttondown. i am so excited for you and this island and the big life you have won. you have a cool jaded grey life and miles of irony to roam. i love you! be well.

now leave us alone.

Checked out the new update of the WH website and….here are now my pride and joy…

Gosh I love bugs…

has anyone here concidered listening to whisper by jack staubers micropop on loop

I was inspired by the dolphin post to spread my anti-jellyfish agenda.

Y’know what the most confusing animal species is? JELLYFISH. They have no brains, no lungs, really no blood either and yet somehow they’re still alive?? Wtf. Not even sponges make this little sense. I want to pick their brains apart BUT THEY DON’T HAVE ANY. I don’t even know how they hold themselves together there’s nothing to mold its cells around because THEY ALSO DON’T HAVE BONES how do they do it

I am continuously confused by these creatures that should not be alive and yet have survived for millions of years

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I think a death's-head moth is way more fitting for her than a stinkbug but maybe that would've been too on the nose

lucky plants

Dermatologists hate her! two time corpse still looking fresh with this weird trick

Baby Knight??

I'll do you one better - baby knights!