Bugs, Heteroptera. With about 40,000 species, a large suborder with wonderful diversity.

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Beauty in unexpected places! 😍 Our McGuire Center staff are working on organizing and digitizing parts of this large collection of more than 19,000 Lepidoptera genitalia slides. More about this collection from Deborah Matthews, Jim Hayden and team:
https://t.co/26wySpAAz9

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Alliaria petiolata, Garlic Mustard, associates: 69 species of herbivorous inverts, at least 24 of them coleopterans. It is found in woodland, in margins, rides & clearings, shady hedge banks, river-banks, wall bases, verges.

Lindeman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora, Pl 190

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Happy ! I wanted to do something a little different, so I’m drawing some faes and fairies this month! I chose to portray workers as a gorgeous 🥰 Based on .chiroptera

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Too many to name but definitely Lepidoptera is one of them!

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Hi. I'm Caproptera. Line-art (mostly) artist. OC's & some random stuff, sometimes fandoms

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Hi. I'm Caproptera. Line-art (mostly) artist. OC's & some random stuff, sometimes fandoms

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Hammerhead archangels, and indeed all angelopterans both predatory and herbivorous, reproduce via injecting their eggs into the bodies of deceased organisms.
They then wrap the carcasses in silk in order to protect them from the elements as well as to preserve it for as—
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Lepidoptera without the texture takes on a cartoonish look.

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Tiger beetle, Cicindela hybrida. Front leg of a Sprinter, one of the fastest beetles in the world.

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Minotaur beetle, Typhaeus typhoeus. The males are easy to identify by their horns, which can vary in size.

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Enkodo, of secrets and promises ☆

(Oc not mine!!)

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Chateramon- a fake for
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(fr.)Chiroptera -(en)bat
(fr.)Chat -(en)cat

(words with "Chicha", "Chachi" and '-mon' are reserved)

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a firebat family! i wanna redesign Pyroptera tho

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