LAS CINCO MUERTES — CARD 2/6

Meet Quillfang, the Crite representative.
Small. Hungry. Armed with defensive spines. Disturbingly good at turning available food into more Crites.

🎬 City Bugs Cinema: Creature Feature Fest

#CityBugs #Critters #Horror #80sHorror

Las Cinco Muertes — Card 1/6.
The Creature Feature Fest set begins.
Front: the full lineup.
Back: the October 2026 schedule.
Five creatures. Five Thursdays. One final night.
#CityBugs #CreatureFeatureFest

If humans discovered an alien world already full of life… what would we do to it?

We may already have an answer.

Hawaiʻi became an accidental experiment in introduced species, predators, vectors, and disease.

#CityBugs #BadBiology #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology #Hawaii #ScienceTok #Biology

🚨 Unpermitted food handler!

This umber skipper (Lon melane) was discovered inside during a restaurant inspection and escorted from the premises.

🦋 Threat Level: Health Code Violation
🏢 Habitat: Window Pain

#CityBugs #FieldNotes

👑🐜 Argentine ants invaded my bathroom… with queens.

So I made them dinner.

Low-dose borax bait lets workers carry it back and share it through trophallaxis.

Sometimes the best way to get rid of ants is to feed them.

#CityBugs #Entomology

West Nile activity is increasing.

154 positive dead birds across the nine counties and one reported Bay Area human case so far.

New WSKDA Cicada Radio eco update: how the bird-mosquito cycle works, why humans are dead-end hosts, and why dead birds matter.

#WestNileVirus #BayArea #CityBugs

Monsoon Swarms

Why are dragonflies suddenly swarming California?
Warm spring rains and monsoon weather helped, but the real story is the predator itself.
They begin life underwater, then emerge as aerial hunters capable of intercepting prey in midair.

#Dragonfly #Entomology#California #CityBugs

🍄 Field Notes #0010: Red Cage Fungus
No, nobody dropped raw meat in the wood chips.
This is Clathrus ruber, a basket stinkhorn using the aroma of decay to recruit flies as unpaid spore-delivery drivers.
Threat Level: Vegan Meat Salad 🥗
#CityBugs #FieldNotes #Stinkhorn #Fungi #Mycology #UrbanNature

Something beneath the sand is snatching flies. 🪰

American sand wasps hunt flies, paralyze them, and drag them underground to their growing larvae.

One larva can eat 20–30 flies before pupating.

#CityBugs #Insects #Wasps #Entomology #UrbanWildlife

📒 Field Journal #0009

Forbidden gummy lizard, revised edition.

This Ensatina salamander spends much of the dry season hiding in cool, damp places.

Orange salamander.
Milky-white defensive goo.
Threat Level: Reverse creamsicle.

#CityBugs #CityBugsFieldJournal #Ensatina #Salamander #Herpetology

The REAL Fly Trap

Your Venus flytrap is bad at catching flies.

There. I said it.

So why are these things sold as easy little houseplants?

And if you actually want a carnivorous plant for indoor bugs… what should you get instead?

#VenusFlytrap #CarnivorousPlants #Botany #CityBugs

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📒 Field Journal #0008

🚨 SMALL LIZARD AT LARGE 🚨

Name: Gram
Age: Basically yesterday
Last seen: Fleeing into the grass
Crime: Being suspiciously tiny
Threat Level: Bobble-head. 🦎

#CityBugs #CityBugsFieldJournal #WesternFenceLizard #Lizard #Herpetology #Reptiles #Wildlife