pixiv forest drawn by jon_henry_nam

Danbooru

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【pixivの森】プチィラ族設定

入らなかったこいつらpixiv #1008503 »の設定などをつらつらと…　■ロゴ使わせていただきました→pixiv #1003054 »

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GotLag

about 16 years ago

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Looks more like a wasp to me

Gah!

about 16 years ago

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lol'd @ Forest of pixiv

LaC

about 16 years ago

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BTW, 触覚 is a typo for 触角. Perhaps there should be a tag for kanji misspellings. Translator guys, would anybody else be interested in that?

10half

about 16 years ago

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Adorably nauseating.

Which we now can see is quite different from nauseatingly adorable (http://www.nauseatinglycute.com/) or acutely nauseating ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup_of_ipecac ).

berrier

about 16 years ago

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naked mankillink beebabys it's awwright

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Egg

Larva

Feed meeee

The larva has no eyes or limbs. She just cries out for food.

External view of the hive. The hive also extends underground.

The abdomen is connected hanging down from the thorax, and protrudes forward.

Inside the nursery

fooooood

The interior of the hive. The nurseries and living quarters are arranged like shelves.

Foooood

The queen lays the eggs with her ovipositor. (The queen has no sting.)

The eyes in the forehead are ocelli. The eyes in the face are compound eyes, but evolved.

The additional arms are normally folded, as if to hold the abdomen.

Worker bees have a sting. It's not a lethal poison, but a powerful paralyzing agent.

Comparison with an ordinary insect. It shows how the part that looks like the hips is actually an extension of the thorax.

When the eggs laid inside a prey paralyzed with venom hatch, the larvae gnaw their way out. Worker bees chew the corpse and feed it to them from mouth to mouth.

Reciprocal communication is mainly based on pheromones. Things like friend identification and warning are also perceived via pheromones, and they can be sensed from quite a long distance using the antennae. The attack-stimulating pheromone that is released when a comrade is killed is extremely dangerous, and attracts a huge number of worker bees in attack stance. In battle, they mainly use javelins and small bows and arrows. Both are covered with paralyzing poison and have the same effect as a sting.

The honey sacs are in the thorax. After the bee has gathered nectar/honey, they are swollen. Transfer of nectar/honey is performed mouth-to-mouth. 蜜 can mean either "nectar" or "honey", depending on the context, and need to be combined with other kanji to remove ambiguity (namely, 花蜜 for "nectar" and 蜂蜜 for "honey"). Real-life bees collect nectar from flowers, store it in the honey stomach, and then use the majority of this nectar to produce honey back in their hives, the remaining minority being consumed by the bee to sustain them on the way back.

tasty~