Anisomorpha - Wiems

compilation

sorry I love this painfully mid media so much I could throw up

I was there at the first ever Powerwolf show in the U.S.! Were you?

Powerwolf - North American Crusade 2023 (NEW YORK CITY)

Despite everything the bug scuttles on

queck

You're gonna let somebody with an outside cat talk to you that way....?

a meeting of creatures…

i don’t like how endings in real life come on so suddenly without making sense, without much warning. one minute you’re in the middle of something and the next it’s all a very long time ago and you’re a different person and none of it is ever coming back

Fun fact: The diabolical ironclad beetle traded away the ability to fly in order to become essentially unsquishable.

Driving a car over them would just push them down into the dirt, still whole. Trying to stick a pin through wouldn't be successful without a drill. These guys are tough.

Every part of the beetle's exoskeleton seems to enhance its armor. The flattened body shape distributes pressure to even the load, the multilayered material is strong yet flexible enough not to crack, and the unique interlocking seams between wing cases function better than most joins designed by humans:

It'll be exciting to see what new materials might be possible using these concepts!

Sources: Jesse Rorabaugh, Po-Yu Chen, & Jesus Rivera et al.

the start of a comic i was making in 2023 about a mosquitos point of view