BACK
Bugs, or rather, insects and allies: all lifeforms small, crawling and maligned
🐛
🕷️
🐜
🦋
🐝
🪲
🪳
🦗
🦟
🐞 July 14 is BE NICE TO BUGS DAY... but be kind to insects everyday!!
Link roundups on specific topics:
Media about how this world is killing insects: massdeath.html
About insect inner lives: feelings.html
Things I wrote and not just links to other sites:
On non-interference
Fuck pesticides
Questions and answers about fearing and respecting insects
DIY - alter the environment, distribute materials, appreciate...
Booklists I made:
animalsyeah on LibraryThing - Growing a collection of books on Insects and Allies
Links to resources about loving, appreciating and understanding insects as well as creepy-crawlies generally.
Fan sites, blogs, insect appreciation:
Identifying and learning about insects:
Texts:
Podcasts:
Videos:
Publication archives:
Art, photo galleries, collections:
Focus on specific types of insects:
Coleoptera - Beetles
Diptera - Flies
Hemiptera - True Bugs
Hymenoptera - Bees, Wasps, Ants, Sawflies
Lepidoptera - Moths, Butterflies
Neuroptera - Net-winged Insects
Odonata - Dragonflies, Damselflies
Orthoptera - Dragonflies, Damselflies
- The Orthopterists' Society - "We’re an international organization dedicated to connecting people interested in Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, etc.) and the other 9 insect orders that comprise Polyneoptera (“orthopteroids”): Blattodea (+Isoptera), Dermaptera, Embioptera, Grylloblattodea, Mantodea, Mantophasmatodea, Phasmida, Plecoptera, and Zoraptera."
Not insects and still precious anyway
My favourite insects? Hoverflies, certainly.
I rather like geometer moths... Nemoria genus has a place in my heart.
And, I am partial to shiny green (smaragd-coloured) beetles...
Based in Turtle Island on stolen land. UNTIL ALL CAGES ARE EMPTY...
BACK