the great thing about being really interested in bugs is that theyre everywhere. like a lot of entomology takes place near the equator since its more biodiverse but if i wanna at least just hang out and observe some of my favorite animals doing their thing i can just go outside, which has a leg up over my other Big Interest as a little kid (marine biology) (i lived a thousand of miles from the ocean)
I hate when there’s a big ass bug in the room and someone’s like “LEAVE IT ALONE!” … why are you defending the bug for??? I don’t know what kind of stroke game this bug got cause you must be fucking it??? is that it??
This is a game. About ants. In which you basically manage resources to maintain the population. There will be disasters, migrations, predators, I don’t know what else.
And combats. With acids. Exploding ants. It will be messy.
Science wasn’t actually certain how fungi like cordyceps “hijacked” their host’s behavior, and we always kind of assumed it was causing some relatively simplistic damage to the brain, but now it seems the truth is much more like all the dramatized versions of it in sci-fi horror.
These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the host’s tissues all throughout their body, actually seem to send signals to the host’s muscles and even alter the host’s genes with their own.
And all the while, it turns out THE BRAIN ISN’T TAKEN OVER AT ALL.
These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the host’s brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.
Another speedpainting of today. Was texturing an alien fairy for a school game project which reminded me a terrible lot of a mantis and I suddenly realized how weird it is that they look incredibly creepy and adorable at the same time.
Class Insecta (Insects) Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies) No Taxon (Aculeata – Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps) No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) – Bees) Family Halictidae (Sweat Bees) Subfamily Halictinae Tribe Halictini Genus Agapostemon (Metallic Green Bees) Numbers 14 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area, 44 spp. in 2 subgenera worldwide/total(1)
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