ALL bug themed pets - pls help!

[otterbug]

lookie here!

someone said the guinea pigs were based on grasshoppers? Has anyone figured out which ones?

I have a guess on a few of them but I don't know enough about them to be entirely sure. I'd love to know what they are based on also.

Oho It's My time to shine....

Grasshopper Nymph

Green Grasshopper

Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Black)

Male Desert Locust

Brown Locust

Rainbow Milkweed Locust

Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Yellow)

Because I don't want to trip people up too much with big photos of closeup bugs, you should def look them up if you're interested! Grasshoppers are fascinating and wonderful creatures. The Rainbow Milkweed Locust is ESPECIALLY striking, it was really hard to get it to translate to these lines!

[Yaeli]

an orb weaver I believe June 2009


archive/2015/August/Pony <<this litter is all based on beetles

<<ladybird spider July 2009

[the.paper.rabbit]

[conarcoin]

Actual bugs:


Significantly bug-themed:


Not insects, but bug-adjacent:


Some of these there's more in the same litter!!