they make the best aliens because little girls are fucking bizarre, nobody else can match that energy
In an interview he said that the boys always ended up breaking their costumes bc they would fight each other, but the girls Got. Into. Character. and were amazing creepy little aliens.
PHOBIA SAFE (no real creatures shown in post itself) with clickable source links for every single fact!
Arthropods are wonderful amazing living things, but often poorly appreciated. This post dispels some common arthropod myths, but also collects some generally cool, fun or surprising facts!
Some people don’t like looking at arthropods, and I won’t pretend to get it, but they still deserve cool and (to the best of my ability) accurate facts, so there will be no real photos in this post. It’s also extremely long, so I’ve put a cut after the first few items! I apologize if any links change or go down, and will fix them when possible.
First: “Bugs” ARE animals.
An animal can really be as simple as a jellyfish or a sea sponge, but
Arthropods are on the more complex side of the animal kingdom with such familiar adaptations as legs, eyes, muscle tissue, neural cells, egg-laying and more. Possibly only rivaled by nematode worms, they may also represent the majority of animal life in terms of both species and actual biomass, making arthropods the foremost representatives of what constitutes an animal.
Wasps are at least as important as bees. Wasps
can pollinate almost all the same flowers, even if it’s with slightly
less efficiency, but many plants also attract wasps alone for
pollination, and wasps pull additional duty regulating every food web
that involves insects at all.
Mosquitoes are also necessary, sorry. The
viral claim that “scientists” have “proven” them to be useless is a
misunderstanding of one researcher’s opinion that it would be safe to
eradicate one variety of mosquito from a limited area. All over the
world, mosquitoes are a massive part of the nutrient cycle, and little
else could multiply as rapidly in the same range of conditions if they were to go missing.
Ants and bees are effectively just specialized wasps themselves, together forming
the order Hymenoptera along with the less famous “sawflies.” You can
think of ants as super-social, super-successful subterranean wasps for having evolved from the same ancestors.
Fireflies are carnivorous beetles,
which feed primarily on slugs and snails during their larval stages. In
some species, adult female fireflies also prey on the males of other
fireflies, imitating their light signals as a lure.
Termites are cockroaches. Totally
unrelated to ants despite their very similar lifestyles, termites were
always considered closely related to roaches but were more recently
proven to actually just be very oddball roaches themselves.
There are even some highly social wood-eating cockroaches that bridge the evolutionary gap, still alive today.
HI TUMBLR i’ve erupted back into your life to show you 🍓 HOOCHIMO 🍓
she’s a funny bunny who wants to be just like hello kitty and be on kid’s backpacks and pencil cases everywhere! unfortunately her cheeky looks and dopey face don’t book her a lot of gigs…but i’m rooting for her!!
Okay so Kemono Michi is an anime about a man transported into a medieval fantasy realm where he befriends some monster girls but instead of being a lonely high school gamer he’s a professional wrestler and instead of being a harem anime hejust wants to befriend monsters
