You call a big fat cockroach “Cute” as you gently carry it out of your dining room at 8:00 AM to your compost bins while it crawls all over your hands You think sharpshooters are some of the most adorable animals in the world Your new best friend is the paper wasp that chews your plants’ wooden sup…

[image] mkanimallover: [image] sedgequeen: calls you to deal with a spider/bug/critter in the house and you show up with a camera That is exactly me!! :laughing: I sometimes pocket them for safekeeping. ex: cucumber beetle on plant. i go to take it off. someones probally going to freak…

Me with tomato horned worms: put them in this little mesh environment, they can have all the bird-bitten tomatoes they want (Apparently those caterpillars love it), add a branch every now and then, but no way am I killing it! I am naming it and growing it to a moth (I actually succeeded once with a …

You finally fell asleep after a rough night, only to be woken up again by your screaming brothers, who have a little emergency for you: they found a cockroach. You try to tell them to take it out, you try to make them wait (The poor little thing doesn’t want to go anywhere!!). It doesn’t work. So yo…

…you feel personally offended when someone calls all bugs “just bugs.”

…you are crouched on a sidewalk at sunset, carefully photographing a tiny beetle crawling across a patch of moss between the bricks, whispering encouragements while nudging a stray pebble out of its way, when a jogger slows down, glances at you, and gives a slow, unimpressed side-eye, followed by a …

Is that for real?? Those ideals are just not right. And stomping on ladybugs, for the record, is not a good idea, even if you are feeling selfish. Especially if you are feeling selfish, because they are very helpful to gardeners, and even those who just don’t want nasty aphid issues around them. I…

I’m with you. That is a Western morality but it certainly is not global.

Just think of all the seafood that would suddenly be off the human menu!

Just make sure you don’t pat it on the head!!

You Know You Really Love Entomology When:

Nature Talk

broacher December 29, 2025, 1:10am 90

You’re hurt by the section titled invertebrates, on this comic (Tom the Dancing Bug) that I spied a few days ago.

Appropriate response? C’mon!

Topic		Replies	Views
Crazy (or strange) things you'll do for observations Nature Talk cool-story , mostly-humor	88	5072	October 14, 2020
You know you're seriously into iNat when Nature Talk musings , mostly-humor	2294	107151	August 16, 2026
What's on your bugcket list? Nature Talk	46	1782	July 10, 2023
Discussion about pinning insects Nature Talk question	56	6265	May 22, 2021
May I listen to your internal iNatting dialogue? General question	42	988	August 29, 2024

You Know You Really Love Entomology When:

Related topics