Romances of the Wild. Written by H. Mortimer Batten. Illustrated by Warwick Reynolds. 1959.
An upside-down cicada on a branch from the Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1919.
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The rather large (by mosquito standards) elephant mosquito, Toxorhynchites rutilus, with jack-in-the-pulpit plants. Designed for a fellow lab member that works with mosquitoes. Though you may not be a mosquito fan, you might like this one - as larvae, they eat other mosquito larvae. As adults, they don’t bite but instead both males and females feed on sugary substances.
My research partner (the house centipede - Scutigera coleoptrata) with my favorite flower. House centipedes pay rent with labor, eating cockroaches and any other bugs they might find. They’re also clean little houseguests - they carefully groom themselves, one leg at a time.
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Idk how I’m supposed to sleep when I’m scared for no reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss my lizard :(
He’s settled in at my gfs house being a nasty little freak as per usual. This picture she took is so unflattering I’m losing my mind
girls with no car are the most specialest and everyone appreciates picking them up and transporting them from place to place in their car (affirmations for girls with no car)
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