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wiisagi-maiingan:

The thing about loving bugs and other little friends, even casually (as opposed to being like an entomologist), is that it’s very very noticeable when those little guys start vanishing. When there’s less bees and butterflies, when the spots that are occupied by spiders every year stay empty, when seeing dragonflies is a rare treat.

I’m a big, big spider lover. I used to be able to walk around my house and count a dozen orb weavers in different spots. The grass spiders knew me on sight. Now it’s special when I find even one orb weaver and the number of grass spiders has been more than halved. Just in the last few years.

Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy when I tell my sister about how many bees and butterflies and dragonflies there were when I was a kid compared to now.

zyzoda:

me: man my cock is so chafed. who could have done this.

the common cockchafer:

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me: the common what