Nature is cool as shit, and the diversity of insects is wild. It's time you nerds started learning about bugs. So you better pick a bug you like and tell me about it.
Here are some of of my faves:
Also yes I know spiders aren't insects shut up
Cheaper wiretaps are useful for smaller scale surveillance and for following cars, but usually I use police or military grade equipment that I won't link here.
that I won't link here.
no more half measures walter
I was just about to say acorn weevils! Just look at that lil guy!
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I grew up in Indiana and read A Girl of the Limberlost over and over and over. Even now, it's a comfort read when I just want to feel cozy. CW: there is some wildly classist shit in there, if anyone decides to pick it up. But anyway, Gene Stratton Porter was an important naturalist and photographer at the turn of the century, and recorded a lot of native species in a race against time as people were draining the Limberlost for farmland. Her photography was particularly important, since she actually waited, sometimes for hours, to get just the right shot of a bird, while other photographers of the time would shoot the bird, have it stuffed, then take a picture of that.
Anyway, she also wrote a lot about moths, especially in Moths of the Limberlost, if you can get your hands on a copy. I got a deal on a really banged up copy because I can't afford a pristine first edition, like I'd like to. I really liked her description of luna moths and looked up pictures at the library. They are soooo pretty. I just love their color, and the long tails on their wings are so pretty and graceful looking. Later, I was in high school and on a trip somewhere with my church youth group when we stopped to eat at some rest stop along the road. There we were, in a Taco Bell or McDonalds or whatever parking lot, and all of a sudden, a little flock of luna moths started flying under the parking lot lights, and the totally mundane became magical. To this day, it's the only time I've seen a live luna moth, and it's a cherished memory. It even makes me long for my Indiana home a bit, though Lord, I can't go back there.
When I was a little one, spiders were my special interest.
I really like the sorts of moths with chubby, fluffy bodies and thick legs.
Chelifer cancroides is a kind of pseudoscorpion found in Ireland, its venom has been found to have some antibacterial properties.
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I saw a pseudo scorpion somewhere once. I was very confused about what I was looking at.
Pretty basic, but I like bees. Not just honey bees, but the solitary ones that dig their own little apartments too.
Bugs usually include other creepy crawly inverts, so you aren't just limited to insects and I won't be either.
Giant isopods are so cool. Just a big ol' deep ocean roly-poly.
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These are blue death feigning beetles, I'm sure you can tell why I like them.
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Jumping spiders in general are pretty cute, and there's tons of color combos. They often eat prey the size of themselves.
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Red headed centipedes get around 6-8 inches, there are also morphs that flip their coloring.
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Look at the horns on these guys (hercules beetle).
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And their larva are also huge
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not really a fan of bugs but i like ladybugs. they look nice and i can buy them at the store to eat aphids, which are bad bugs which i do not like
I like hummingbird moths. Leaf bugs are a close second, I love mimicry.
HUMMINGBIRD MOTH