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I'm Jade (She/They), and I take photos and videos of arthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans, myriapods, and related species) both out of interest and for the sake of sharing, documentation, and information!

All creatures in my photos and videos were found out in the free open of Mississippi, as that's where I live, and are returned to the wild safely if handled, unless otherwise stated!

Observations seen here can also be found on iNaturalist under the same username, jupiterswasphouse! (The backlog is still in the process of being added at the time of this update)

⚠️ Photos and videos taken by me should, preferably, not be reuploaded directly without my express permission, however, they may generally be used under the same rules as a standard CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-Sharealike license, that being that they may be used in your own works provided that the used photos and/or videos come with proper credit to "jupiterswasphouse" or "Jupiter's Wasp House" (For questions regarding the use and distribution of my media, feel free to message me or direct the questions to my ask box)

Wasp Reviews (On Hiatus)!

Blog specific tags include: 'Wasp House Buzzing' (Text only posts), 'Wasp House Sights' (Photos and Videos), 'Wasp House Answers' (Asks), 'Wasp House Art' (Art), 'Wasp House Review' (Reviews), 'WHR: Wasp Review' (Wasp Reviews specifically) and 'Not Wasp House Related' (General posts that aren't related to arthropods, such as reblogs for particular causes or text posts that just happen to be unrelated)

Asks: Currently always open!

You can also find me at: @theelectricdreamsofddx , and my music channel!

DNI if: You dislike bugs, or are homophobic/transphobic/racist/ableist/otherwise bigoted (TERFS and Nazis can fuck off)

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Help my husband and partner out!

Also check out these people I know!: @dying-myosotis @thelastprimedemon @kllisto @cavestory @bugsmoocher @shock-micro @metallix85 @iced-uppancake

Mayhaps I should go out at night more this year, get a chance to see nocturnal moths, adult antlions, and more giant millipedes...

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MARCH 25TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Two photos of a black and orange wasp of the family Braconidae on a white metal surface /End IDs.]

A Braconid wasp, possibly of the genus Atanycolus!

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 5TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Five photos of a black and white, male southeastern blueberry bee feeding from and pollinating the white and pink flowers of a wild blueberry plant /End IDs.]

Habropoda laboriosa, the southeastern blueberry bee! A male to be specific. This species is specialized to, amongst a couple other species, Vaccinium blueberry (and related berry) plants, the flowers pictured being from a wild plant from a species within said genus! They're active early in spring and are VERY important for the blueberries.

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MARCH 25TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Two photos of a brown and grey butterfly feeding from and pollinating a white and pink wild blueberry flower /End IDs.]

While I do feel kind of bitter over the fact that there are biases even in science where, for example, biologists and other people interested in animals will be more often drawn to a limited range of generally accepted and appreciated animals more than others—These biases should be addressed and I hope for people to be able to create a scientific future where they are significantly lessened or, through some miracle, outright don't exist—I do think it's very important to keep in mind that neither those that choose to go for the popular subject over a more obscure one, nor said popular subject in and of itself, are the enemy.

For one, going back to the biology example with some entomology flavor this time; If you start ragging on those interested in Melittology, or on bees themselves, for the crime of it being a popular subject, you're creating a bias in the opposite direction, and potentially creating a barrier between the people on that side and the prospect of them reading your actually quite fascinating paper on native parasitoid wasps, or antlions, or scorpionflies.

There is a thin line between wanting to reject the negative aspects of certain cultural biases and just straight up gatekeeping; If you find yourself bitter about this kind of thing, channel that into opening people's minds to science and sharing fascinating knowledge/discoveries with the world, rather than letting it fester into negativity.

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MARCH 23RD, 2025 | Image IDs: Six photos of a red, orange, and yellow eastern red centipede hiding in compressed piles of leafy detritus under logs /End IDs.]

A beautiful Eastern Red Centipede, Scolopocryptops sexspinosus!