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(I'm wasp-with-a-computer with a rebrand XD)
We live in a world inhabited by strange, yet wonderful creatures called BUGE. 🐜🪲🐞🦗
Some are big, many are small. But all of them have their own quirks and can be damn fun to watch. Let's watch bugs together!
Yeah so I realized that I need to do more 'propaganda' besides from wasp propaganda. I'll be doing more bug propaganda in general, so I'm posting more cute bugs doing cute things.
Today's wasp of the day is Hemipepsis tamisieri!
This fiery colored tarantula hawk likes her arachnids big n meaty, such as the gecko-eating rain spider (genus: Palystes) or baboon spiders (family: Theraphosidae). Mama wasp will provide each of her individual larva with it's own spider so that they can grow up big and strong.
Queen of prickly legs
THEY'RE HERE! I'm so happy! What you see is only a sample, there are a lot more! Feel free to private message me if there are any questions or interest! ^_^ I will make more stickers of my other wasps in the future, I've just drawn way too many to make stickers of all of them at once!
Today's wasp of the day is Zagrammosoma multilineatum!
This wasp is so cool, its entire genus is referred to as the "tattooed wasps". They're known for being parasitoids of leafminers— be it beetle, moth, or fly. Basically if it lives and feeds between the layers of a leaf's tissue, it's all fair game to this sliver of caution tape.
I recently noticed that the wasp around my house LOVE the overgrown mint in our garden. And subsequently made me realize how much i love wasps (i have just been sitting by the mint and watching them and whoever else come by work, its so fun)
This is my first go at trying to draw wasps so forgive me if they look a bit wonky. Aside from the drummer wasp these are all guys ive seen irl (though i swear the mud daubers ive seen where all black)
On the one hand, anthropomorphizing any animal comes with risks, especially in the case of arthropods, whose cognition took such a vastly different evolutionary pathway than ours. On the other hand, in the year 2026 we are combatting anti-wasp propaganda with cutesy pro-wasp propaganda like we did for bees man this is getting ridiculous. Look at her!!!
So anyway this is a yellow-legged mud dauber, a type of solitary (read: less aggressive) wasp that allowed me to start getting over my own wasp fear years ago. They look so dutiful scraping up mud to build their nurseries and I like to imagine they're proud of their dirt as they fly away with it <3
[ID copied from alt: A cartoony drawing of a wasp with curly antennae and a long thread-waist. She has a mostly black body with yellow markings on her legs and reddish brown wings. She cheerfully holds a dripping ball of mud in her mandibles and forelegs as she flies. An arrow points to the mud with text reading, "MUD mud for my mud house dirt mud ball of mud #myballofmud." The background is light green. End ID.]
DO BUGS EVER STRETCH THEIR LITTLE LEGGGIES IMPORTANT QUESTION URGENT PLEASE
im no expert and idk abt stretching but ive watched many bugs and spiders groom themselves!! i think the closest thing ive personally witnessed to stretching is a wasp grooming its antennae. they kinda grab and pull them downward over their face
similarly, i imagine a dehydrated spider getting a drink would feel just as good as stretching does to us, considering they require fluids for locomotion. other than that i dont imagine a bug needing to stretch since they have no muscular system
