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In case you didn’t know yet, I like insects, spiders and the like. So, bit of a themed post.

A short video I captured of an ant dragging a rather hefty lunch home:

Bits of my stuff:

Links:
Moths Use Sonar-Jamming Defense to Fend Off Hunting Bats
Dancing caterpillars put off predators (cute photo, found via neatorama)
a bug sculptures photoset on flickr

Origami arthropods found on deviantart, different creators:

That artist of the last one has a lot of other great models in his gallery, only with the thumbnail links disabled.

I uploaded a small bunch of photos. Some are already in my deviantart gallery, most are on my picasa account, but there are a few new ones, too.

I don’t really understand why some people (who are not allergic to them) are afraid of wasps and bees. Maybe there are more aggressive species elsewhere in the world, or are there other reasons?

I’ve found the ones around here harmless, as long as you didn’t give them reason, like flailing at them, or getting them under your foot. (That happened to me with a bumblebee once – it was how I found out they could sting at all.)

For example:

A bee that first crawled on my camera, then on my hand, where it alternated between crawling around and cleaning itself (shown here)

I shoved the lens of my camera into the hole in which those two wasps were building or caring for a nest, and they didn’t even take notice.

Insects are cute.