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Everyone who reblogs this before April 1st will get a personalised colour in their inbox based on the vibe I get from their blog

(no this isn't an April fools despite the date lmao, yes I will genuinely do one for everyone unlike some of these posts)

data collection 2: electric boogaloo

Parece que dijera “a la vaina, ¿ahora qué hago yo con este conejo?

Rabbit girl

I have wanted to see a tiger beetle larva my entire life, but never did until @revretch suddenly spotted one scurrying around by the river yesterday. They normally spend all their time hiding in a tunnel like a trap door spider, so I never thought I'd see one out and about in broad daylight! I recognized the big, flat head and the little hump on its back instantly!

Just noticed this diagram has it hunting a velvet ant....can they really do that? Are they THAT tough???

I also wasn't sure they could be raised easily, because I heard they're particular about the density and moisture level of the sand they tunnel into. What if it was running around because the sand wasn't quite right in that spot?! I scooped some up anyway, and I used a twig to poke holes in it, just to see if MAYBE it'd deem one a suitable house. The next morning I found it like you see in the following video, and I wondered if it felt comfortable enough to eat the way it does in the wild, so in the clip I also drop a pantry moth caterpillar into the jar: