My boyfriend has been teaching me how to do vector stuff so I made this to show my love for my flesh eating beetle friends.
For those who don't know dermestid beetles are used by museums and taxidermists to clean skulls. I manage a pretty decent sized colony of them at the nature center I volunteer at and use them to clean skulls and bones for educational displays... and for myself. I seriously love them though, they do such an amazing job and I think their fuzzy larvae are adorable.
Debating actually getting these printed and putting one on my toolbox at work and maybe on my car.
For those who don't know dermestid beetles are used by museums and taxidermists to clean skulls. I manage a pretty decent sized colony of them at the nature center I volunteer at and use them to clean skulls and bones for educational displays... and for myself. I seriously love them though, they do such an amazing job and I think their fuzzy larvae are adorable.
Debating actually getting these printed and putting one on my toolbox at work and maybe on my car.
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 365px
File Size 55.5 kB
Ahh, because there are beetles all over this motel I'm in, and I have these awful bites on my legs that will just not go away. There are about 11 of them, they've swollen up,and gone really awful red and very painfully itchy. I've been wondering what decided to have my legs for dinner, but I don't know anything about beetles!
I did, they're far too big for bed bugs, and even though I sleep in the same bed, there've been no new bites at all, just the initial ones, and it doesn't go in the "breakfast, lunch & dinner" order bedbugs go in. I think it's an allergic reaction to a spider bite (my mother's allergic as well)
If you have a fairly steady amount of skulls/bones or just a ton to clean they are the absolute best method of cleaning, particularly with delicate specimens like birds and reptiles. There's a few places online that sell them but I got mine from the wild by baiting them with leftover food from the raptors at the center. I started out with maybe a couple dozen and it was slow and tricky in the beginning but I've had them a year now and their numbers are in the thousands. The only other problem is them and the dead things they eat have an odor most people take offence to, I have to keep them in a shed far away from where the other staff and volunteers go. But the smell is nowhere near as bad as macerating skulls. If you have anything you need cleaned and were willing to ship it to me, I could have my colony clean it possibly.
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