The Flesh Will Persist (graphite & Digital, 2023)

here have another pile of critters

Woolly Beetle! a bug found in the drylands.

when was the last time you saw a weevil this big

The largest weevil in North America, the palmetto weevil (Rhyncophorus cruentatus) lays eggs in the crowns of palms, where the grubs feed and often kill their host in the process.

In Florida it’s considered a major pest due to its habit of destroying ornamental palm trees, but native palmettos and sabal palms (the weevils’ natural hosts) are rarely harmed unless they’re already stressed or damaged. It’s mostly date palms and other exotic species planted along city streets that can’t take the heat and need to be drenched with insecticide to ensure survival.

(Florida, 10/31/23)

- welcome to our native bee garden! over there you can see leafcutter bees slicing leaves to line their nests, and that’s a carpenter bee hard at work chewing a tunnel for her larvae!

- oh, what’s that little green one?

- that’s a swear bee!

- don’t you mean sweat bee?

[Bee]: fuck!

[ you meet god and she is mostly dead fish. ]

a comic based on this post:

here is our local sturgeon sculpture. he is shaped like a friend and i love him :)

Acorn weevil ! (Rb>likes, click for fighter quality!!)

Orange Oakleaf aka Dead Leaf Butterfly (Kallima inachus), family Nymphalidae, India

photograph by rajesh_kumar_photography 

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