Actually, the beetle is so-named because cowardice runs rampant throughout the species.
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Glasswing
Another view of the glasswing from yesterday. Notice all the little hairs (probably not the right name) on the wings. You can see them on other butterflies if you look. On these though, since there are no scales, it’s a lot easier to see how the wing is constructed.
You can also see how, since they live much more placid lives than the other butterflies, they must play sports to keep things interesting and to demonstrate their fitness to mate. This one is playing the role of the hoop for Ōllamaliztli.
Water Strider (Gerris marginatus)
Waterstriders are gentle but highly protective. There are large, a whopping 12.7 millimeters long and are designed to float across the top of the water due to their long legs.
When waterstriders enter battle, they have an appendage-like stinger that comes out of their mouth. This stinger is well adapted to combat their mortal enemies, The Garthim. Once stung, they use their long legs to push The Garthim over so they sink beneath the waves and drown.
They are used as mounts throughout the world of Thra.
Butterfly
The long tongues that butterflies have are also used to keep their long shaggy fur in order so it doesn’t provide excessive drag on the long flights.
Butterfly Tongue
Butterflies have long tongues that they use to dig deep into the base of a flower instead of crawling all the way into the flowers themselves like bees do. This is because the butterflies have long spindly legs and, as the saying makes perfectly clear, only the bees have the knees.
Zebra Bug (Eurycotis dicipiens)
The zebra bug is so named because of its tendency to run from lions and that you can easily injure them when attempting to ride.
Swallowtail Butterfly
Swallowtails are named so because they are made out of chocolate and garnished with mint. Like bunny ears, most people swallow the tails first.
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
This Andean condor wishes you to make yourself perfectly welcome in his parlor. He is afraid that he must absent himself for a short time but assures you that all is safe and that it is best to ignore any unusual noises you may hear coming from the dark stairwell in the back of the room.
Atlas moth (Attacus atlas)
It’s easy to tell butterflies from moths because butterflies have straight antennas and moths have furry antennas. This is because butterflies communicate on the LF to MF bands (153 kHz to 1.6 MHz) and moths communicate in the HF to UHF bands (about 3 MHz to 3 GHz).
Bee
“Pie in the Face” jokes are popular in the insect kingdom as well.
Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus)
This camel thinks that if that’s the look you want, you sure have a good one.
Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis)
Like humans, snakes can go blind. Unlike humans, they cannot hold canes to find their way. Instead, they have developed a form of short-range precognition which they use for hunting.
Bat Eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis)
The bat eared fox can hear crime from many blocks away. They are, however, no good at figuring out riddles.
Bee
The wealthier bees will often buy wing extensions to hide and protect the tattered edges of their natural wings.
Tree
To save on energy, desert trees only grow leaves on the side facing the sun.
Dragonfly
Many people claim to appreciate dragonflies but they do no actual work, do not get along with other dragonflies other than trying to mate with them, take breaks in light to show themselves off to the world (sometimes flapping their wings to draw attention to themselves) and they’ve been doing it since before you were born.
Dragonflies are the ultimate hipsters.
Rhinoceros Viper (Bitis nasicornis)
The rhinoceros viper is so named due to it’s thick skin and large stompy feet (not pictured).
Bee
It’s going to take a while, but bees are very slowly evolving into bats.
Ground Squirrel
After transporting to the abandoned planet and removing his shirt, Captain Kirk looks for rocks from which to make implausibly explosive chemicals and defend himself from the native lizards.
Garden Snail
Due to the clockwise curl of the snail’s shell, you can tell from the Coriolis Effect that this particular snail grew up in the Southern hemisphere.