DUDE!!!!!! I LOVE SCOPRIONS......youre so awesome and epic. OMG. i was literally thinking of and drawing scorpoions Just the other day they are so CUTE. you are making me so envious and wanting to have a pet scoprion. But i wish you and your beautiful baby the best<3
bug time baby
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Bugs are cute, some of them just spook me. Roaches for example scare me cause as a kid my mom told me so. Eventually I want to get over that fear!
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God I'll die to have a pet bug, I think those hissing Madagascar cockroaches would be so cool to have hanging around!
Does it make any sense that I find ants, ladybugs, mantises and a bunch of other insects absolutely adorable but cockroaches just bring so much displeasure? But I’m working on losing the phobia and general dislike that I have towards them, since they’re innocent and are only smol.
I like and I think they're cool but I don't like to touch them. Worms and butterfly's are my faves :3
IMO i think a lot fo the reason bugs are so reviled is cultural and i think th e dichotomy between how people view ants and roaches is a testament to taht. Both are insects that are completely harmless besides the possibility to carry disease (and even then, they aren't even thier own bug diseases - all they can do is transport germs that already existed in your house!) and mostly crop up in "messy" environments for lack of a better word, but despite their similarities ants are viewed mostly neutral to positive and even taken the cultural torch of being heroic "underdog" bugs in fiction (still waiting on "a roach's life"). So i think thats one aspect of it. The ironic thing imo about this phenomenon is that ants are arguably meaner than roaches, at least in the insect world; as colony insects ants exemplify "power in numbers" and they are also super territorial so they can get downright nasty when they're pissed off. Coupled with their tendency to bite hard and their cocktail of shit tasteing acid smaller predators generally fuck off when dealing with a group of the guys. So much so that a lot of bugs convergently evolved to pretend to be one in hopes that they can scare their actual predators off, like this jumping spider (ant on top, spider on bottom)
Which isnt to say that ants are EVIL, i realize this is kind of giving ants some bad press but really they're not any more territorial and nasty than any other tightly knit social animal worth their salt (for example the poster child of mammal lovers the wolf.) They are jsut as territorial as tehy are protective of each otehr, and they are known to both carry injured comrades back to the nest and nurse wounded ants back to health. Social behavior also necessitates a level of intelligence, and ants (much like bees) are very smart for animals with tiny tiny brains; they are extremely good at learning navigational cues and even learn from older ants teaching them how to find food and help the colony. So ants are kind of epic too.
Now roaches. DISCLAMER: roaches are my FAVORITE ANIMALS. so i migh be biased But i'm also right. Anyways roaches are probbaly the most hated insects up there with mosquitos and wasps (which i also love but thats a wall of text for another day). As i mentioned earlier roaches have a stigma of showing up mostly in unsanitary environments. While this is true roaches are really more of an indicator of unsanitary conditions than a source of unsanitaryness themselves; they're only attracted to your mess, you filthy mammal. and while they can and do carry germs, like ants its really only the germs that were already there; genreally the most they can do is take the germs and move it somewhere else. Ironically roaches themselves are fastidiously clean and are constantly cleaning themselves; they have to because their antennae have to be in top top shape to work. Those bugs taht have such a reputation of being grimy bastards are really just big germaphoes, which i think is both endearing and relateable. Also important to note, the main Pest cockroach is the german cockroach, which is just one (albeit numerous) species of cockroach. There are actually THOUSANDS of species of cockroaches, some of which are extremely cute and awesome looking. And althoguh they aren't eusocial like ants are they do tend to have tight knit social groups that they go out fto forage with, and are generaly understood to be "subsocial"; gregarious, but not with any fixed social Units. However, there is but One member of the roach order that long ago diverged from their brethren to be enlightened on the path to ultimate eusociality........but that's a conversation for another day.
TL;DR (because it is Too Long) Ants and Roaches are so awesome and i hope that my landfill of information makes them a little less scary 4 people because they are so awesome.
Which isnt to say that ants are EVIL, i realize this is kind of giving ants some bad press but really they're not any more territorial and nasty than any other tightly knit social animal worth their salt (for example the poster child of mammal lovers the wolf.) They are jsut as territorial as tehy are protective of each otehr, and they are known to both carry injured comrades back to the nest and nurse wounded ants back to health. Social behavior also necessitates a level of intelligence, and ants (much like bees) are very smart for animals with tiny tiny brains; they are extremely good at learning navigational cues and even learn from older ants teaching them how to find food and help the colony. So ants are kind of epic too.
Now roaches. DISCLAMER: roaches are my FAVORITE ANIMALS. so i migh be biased But i'm also right. Anyways roaches are probbaly the most hated insects up there with mosquitos and wasps (which i also love but thats a wall of text for another day). As i mentioned earlier roaches have a stigma of showing up mostly in unsanitary environments. While this is true roaches are really more of an indicator of unsanitary conditions than a source of unsanitaryness themselves; they're only attracted to your mess, you filthy mammal. and while they can and do carry germs, like ants its really only the germs that were already there; genreally the most they can do is take the germs and move it somewhere else. Ironically roaches themselves are fastidiously clean and are constantly cleaning themselves; they have to because their antennae have to be in top top shape to work. Those bugs taht have such a reputation of being grimy bastards are really just big germaphoes, which i think is both endearing and relateable. Also important to note, the main Pest cockroach is the german cockroach, which is just one (albeit numerous) species of cockroach. There are actually THOUSANDS of species of cockroaches, some of which are extremely cute and awesome looking. And althoguh they aren't eusocial like ants are they do tend to have tight knit social groups that they go out fto forage with, and are generaly understood to be "subsocial"; gregarious, but not with any fixed social Units. However, there is but One member of the roach order that long ago diverged from their brethren to be enlightened on the path to ultimate eusociality........but that's a conversation for another day.
TL;DR (because it is Too Long) Ants and Roaches are so awesome and i hope that my landfill of information makes them a little less scary 4 people because they are so awesome.
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Slams a big fucking revive on this thread bc I HAVE to show off the baby spiny flower mantis I got yesterday, his name is Tubbus and I'd die for him, he has tiny little heart spots on the back of his abdomen, he's also a ravenous fiend I fed him 12-ish fruit flies yesterday and he STILL wants more like my mans your tiny body is gonna explode from all the fruit flies
Wow he looks great.
Also snails ftw.
Also snails ftw.
I don't mind bugs too much, as long as they're not rummaging in my belongings, I'm too territorial! I hate spiders with a burning passion though, I think they're just gross and too creepy to forgive.
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Slams a big fucking revive on this thread bc I HAVE to show off the baby spiny flower mantis I got yesterday, his name is Tubbus and I'd die for him, he has tiny little heart spots on the back of his abdomen, he's also a ravenous fiend I fed him 12-ish fruit flies yesterday and he STILL wants more like my mans your tiny body is gonna explode from all the fruit fliesso precious!
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