IT’S FLYDAY AGAIN

Long overlooked by the scientific community, the transparent wings of insects such as flies and wasps actually have elaborate color patterns visible when photographed against a black background - no special equipment necessary - which are unique to each species like the colors of a butterfly.

A giant centipede cradling her babies :)

They look so perfectly like rubber toys! They’ll get their colors as their shells harden over many days.

(Source: nert)

By Blepharopsis

They’re talking about how tasty that big one-eyed fly looming over them looks.

(robber fly photographed by Thomas Shahan)

I know the human race varies wildly in taste (that rhymed!) but I always have and always will think something is completely wrong with anyone who thinks insects are creepy, ugly or disgusting in appearance. When I think about just how many people display this arbitrary revulsion I’d swear I’m living in some kind of mixed-up Bizarro world. There’s no logical reason why the highly ordered shapes and textures of insects shouldn’t set off the same positive responses as daffodils, diamonds, rainbows or goldfish - if there is any scientific, mathematical measure of beauty, insects by all accounts should qualify. They exhibit nothing but elegance from antennae to tarsi, and I fully believe that the predominant disapproval of their form is just another contagious mental quirk accidentally enabled by modern society.

We are simply not meant to think that bugs are yucky.

I encourage reblogging if you agree, or blog your own appreciation for arthropoda with an image you find especially beautiful!