@Gaertan@mastodon.social avatar Gaertan , to random

Back to designing an arthropod character! this time, a wasp monk/brawler :>

digital illustration depicting an anthropomorphic wasp, in a not very detailed stony enviroment,doing a martial art charge and dodging downwards toward the "camera", wielding a two handed blunt staff with a triple bladed bigger head, which is glowing green while it moves, in a circular motion above the character's head
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar benroyce , to random

Rather than some good news today to balance out all the nonsense in the world, how about some horror?

" nest discovered at nuclear waste storage site in

Wasp nest was destroyed and disposed of after discovery near tanks used to store liquid nuclear waste"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/31/radioactive-wasps-south-carolina-nuclear-waste

South Carolina Radioactive wasp nest discovered at nuclear waste storage site in South Carolina Wasp nest was destroyed and disposed of after discovery near tanks used to store liquid nuclear waste Radioactive nuclear waste storage at the Savannah River site near Aiken, South Carolina, in 2013. Photograph: Stephen B Morton/AP
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@mrpistachios@neatobuilds.com avatar mrpistachios , to Photography

little Wasp bouncing around our grape vine

@photography

a black wasp sitting on a green grape vine covered in a bit of pollen
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@gregsmith@pixelfed.social avatar gregsmith , to random

An Australian cuckoo wasp, Primeuchroeus sp. Like it's avian namesake, cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nests of unrelated host species.

A bright metallic-green Australian cuckoo wasp, Primeuchroeus sp., on the trunk of a eucalyptus tree.
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@alexwild@mastodon.online avatar alexwild , to random

A Sceliphron mud dauber wasp carries a glob of mud back to her mud nest, the weight of her load counterbalanced by her unusual petiolate abdomen. Texas.

Photo of a very slender black and yellow wasp in flight, her long legs dangling below her body. The wasp is holding a nearly spherical, shiny brown ball in her mouth and with her forelegs.
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