day three-hundred-and-fifty-five - ruby-tailed wasp

seeing as i have vowed to do no homework this weekend (and i kind of consider this home work), you will get no entertaining words. only these ones. words of doom...

oh and this drawing, naturally

© jem barratt

and in the words of david byrne: i kinda like that style*

thanks dave

xj


* these may or may not have been song lyrics, and thus may not directly reference my drawing. but i've heard good things

day three-hundred-and-forty-six - red-spotted trapeze crab

fuck fuck crab shit balls

whatever, i've got three minutes

© jem barratt

but what a happy crab. he's as happy as a bean.

i wish i was a happy bean crab.

huh? xj

day three-hundred-and-forty-five - honeypot ant

an ant with a tasty butt

© jem barratt

yum yum

these guys are basically a living pantry for the worker ants, who 'extract nourishment' from them (which sounds pretty bad, but not as bad as 'milking' them) as needed. despite the intrusion (and the inevitable feeling of being used), i think i might rather be a honeypot ant than a worker ant.

stashing food for later is not unusual, but stashing food in your friends is a little bit unique.

xj

day three-hundred-and-thirteen - happy face spider

another example of an animal with two cool names. their scientific name, theridion grallator (with 'grallator' being latin for stiltwalker) makes them sound like a prehistoric monster or maybe a gladiator from that most excellent of obstacle-course game shows...

© jem barratt

now that i've distracted you, please excuse my drawing.

and now i'm off to womad to see a guy play a can and stick (trust me, it's amazing)

xj