Flireflies, where flashing is a turn-on, not a reason to call the police. ;D 

This is a ... you've guessed it ... Forest Shield Beetle. For those of you who have seen "Respect the Beast" (http://www.hitrecord.org/records/232605/forum) , this was recorded at the same location in the space time continuum. I may also have scared the crap out of this little fella too. Totally coincidental I swear.

To mix with anything :) 

heres a pic hope u like :)

This is a photo I took of a flower in my dad's garden. That bug came out just for the shot and went back into hiding.

Snail after the rain :)

I saw this species while in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru... I met the uncle at a park slide inside of a bus complex in India.

Cicada

Santuario Huishtin, Amazon, Peru

June '10

Yeah so I thought it didn't upload the first time, tried again, forgot to attatch the file, turns out the first one did upload so now you have three of the same photo to look at :) Enjoy. Sincere apologies.

self-explanatory. can i use foul language on this thing? :)

no photoshop ( a rarity for me!)

A warm afternoon in Shanghai, dragonflies skim across the harbour bathed in the glow of sweet sunlight.

Ants in BC are pretty big.

I am doing little drawings (platns and creatures) for the creation myth as resources at the moment (they will end up in an album later so they are easier to find)...

my friend Norine's backyard.

A peaceful friend stops by to say high. Chillicothe, Illinois.

This is literally my pet praying mantis. Here he is saying hello. RIP Mantos. Round Lake, Illinois

Burning house, artsy flower. Can you spot the ant..? Round Lake, Illinois

akaka state falls park in hawaii.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicole-annette/5460259490/

Just a pic I snapped a few years ago, of a cute fuzzy caterpillar. ^_^

I found this on my garage wall today and immediately thought of Bloemday!

au naturale' 

no programs whatsoever were used in the making of this record

via was kind enough to offer the link below

mystery solved!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryocampa_rubicunda

(unedited, original quality)

Things you find

I think I read this in something sBo wrote: own your shit. It prompted this image, and I am so not an illustrator but thought I'd try it anyway. It'd be cool if someone who can illustrate just re-recorded this.

A shoot I did after seeing a collection entitled Flughumor by Magnus Muhr. Loved the concept, wanted to give it a go myself. Was a load of fun to do :D

Unfortunately I am not yet trainned in the art of fly hypnosis so as you may have already guessed, these flies are infact dead...but I assure you no flies were deliberately harmed for the making of these photos (all died of natural causes).

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I'm planning on writing a 'not' tiny story called mantis sermon... there's a reason why priests in this community are not married...

I apologize for the lack of records lately; I went to a casting call to be an extra in a huge film (I can't say it's real name, but it's called Magnus Rex ;D) and have been distracted by the prep for that as of late.

or just a moth....but i personally think he looks rather like a mythological creature.

Bees and ants, In Pitt Meadows we dont know anything about the birds and the bees, its all bids and ants,

*insert witty comment here*

Synopsis

In the city called FILTH things are bound to get messy!

My idea is they live in the city of FILTH, thinking all their problems are really big but they're all just flies and occasionally get swat but full size people or cars or whatever.

Two of them are buddies, one is the secretary, our main hero is trying to impress her alot, and their boss just smokes all the time and can't believe how stupid they are.

The head DA/boss is infact a spider, I really want Robert Vaughn to voice it, but doesn't everyone, and he kinda wants them to fail, as he runs a GRIME sydicate. He sort of works out and recieves phone calls, doesn't really get directly involved.

Characters

FITZ - Bumbling ugly idiot, but partner and friend to Bug, eats a lot.

BUG - A charming kind, thinks he's smarter than he is, but not very brave, and clumsy.

Insectretary - Wants BUG to realise he doesn't need to prove himself and all the energy he puts into trying to show how cool and brave he is, could be better spent just asking her out.

CHIEF COOTY - Their BOSS always putting them on assignments that could go wrong and they invariably do.

DON ARACNID (DA) - Runs FILTH CITY'S "GRIME SYNDICATE" and all that that entails

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I did a theme song too

Messing around with animating the character designed by AliPow3rs. Not the best animation skills seeings how this is my first real attempt at making an animation but I have some ideas for short clips to start off with. I'll record these later so others can have a whack at it!

I wanted to get those ants in focus so badly. And I failed. Still like the result though.

I haven't had much to contribute to HitRECord lately. So, just to stay in the loop, I've got some pretty photographs. Or at least I think they are pretty. I'm fond of bugs, so I have lots of cute bug pics. :)

this great beauty can still fly with her broken wings (cant remember her name)

apparently she's been laying her eggs around but they still havent found them yet

Illustration for deeasherself's tiny story, the fly.

'Today I saw a fly in my soup, but I didn't tell anyone and I ate it."

Illustration for deeasherself's tiny story, the fly.

'Today I saw a fly in my soup, but I didn't tell anyone and I ate it."

Illustration for deeasherself's tiny story, the fly.

'Today I saw a fly in my soup, but I didn't tell anyone and I ate it."

No flies were hurt in the making of this picture, he was already dead.

Illustration for deeasherself's tiny story, the fly.

'Today I saw a fly in my soup, but I didn't tell anyone and I ate it."

No flies were hurt in the making of this picture, he was already dead.

This is a watercolor painting that I did a while back based on this giant dragonfly that I have in my room. I think that this guy is just looking for a story... The splatters and swirls, too. :) 

"It's called the world wide web," said the spider to the fly.

An illustration for rayperez's tiny story :)

"The little lightning bug couldn't figure out why she was always spotted first when she played Hide and Seek with all the other bugs."

The mayfly, totally oblivious of her destiny, planned a trip around the world. Little did she know - she wouldn't even make it to the airport...

[Tiny Stories - Mayfly by CrashAndBurn]

Artwork for "Like Ants, We're Marching: A Tiny Story."

I did a little soul-searching on a stroll through the sidewalks of the surreal city.

Walking beside me was an ant, presumably on the same existential journey.

And I wondered if we were listening to the same song on our headphones.

"I want to be a shutterbug", he said.

this is my take on the tiny story by mushr:

When the praying mantis fell for the Venus Flytrap... he met his match.

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isn't it a tragic

to die in the arms

of his one true love

This is what I saw when I read Mushr's tiny story. A silhouette of a praying mantis inside of a heart shaped venus fly trap. I'm a really shitty illustrator but I mocked up a quick illustration of my idea for the picture. I hope this helps spark some ideas in some legit drawers and illustrators. Remix!!!

Ink drawing

creepy beautiful little things.

The year of the Cicada here in the South y'all. 

he tried and tried 'til his tail lit up

he told her, "your lips look like cherries"

she said, "your eyes look like blueberries"

Florida, United States June 2010

at a botanical garden

yeah. just chillin

looks like i'm running out of names already...

For wirrow's tiny story bah humbug.

A Whip Scorpion, Owl-eye Moth, and a Death's-Head Hawkmoth.

Some scratchboard illustrated cut-outs I did for a "Insect Collection" themed school project. Posting them on hitRECord for a new creepy crawly life of your design - GO!

Stag Beetle, Monarch Butterfly, and a Dragonfly.

Some scratchboard illustrated cut-outs I did for a "Insect Collection" themed school project. Posting them on hitRECord for a new creepy crawly life of your design - GO!

Housefly, Small Whit Butterfly, and a Whitespotted Sawyer Weevil Beetle.

Some scratchboard illustrations I did for a "Insect Collection" themed school project. Posting them on hitRECord for a new creepy crawly life of your design - GO!

Thanks saintmaker..seems to be ok...?

today's alien encounter. monster movie, anyone?

i took the sound out due to ambient (me) noise, but here's our resident insectoid alien in motion. i like the way he decides to nonchalantly groom himself after sizing me up. think how weird i am from his perspective!

She wishes the other bugs would play with her.

december 3rd. a tiny doodle for a tiny story on a tiny advent:

Just once, she'd like to see December.

Yin and yang

Love and Hate

Life and Death...

This large roach was on a "bead" in the middle of a waterfall/fountain display in a prominant building. I loved it!

Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar (Phoebis sennae) that was eating a plant in the backyard.

B-)

d'oh... jpeg compression.

Un bebé nació aquí

Una joven se casó aquí

Un anciano murió aquí

Ahora sólo recuerda la cucaracha

- Story by Saintmaker

Saval Park, Valdivia, Chile

Chalk Pastel

Tucson, Arizona

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Horrorscopes for today:

The Stinkbug (March 9 - April 15)

You bugs really love to travel, so if the opportunity presents itself to fly away to warmer climes, go for it! Your pioneering spirit will see you through.  And while others may call you "invasive" or a "pest species," stand tall.  You know when the shoe comes down, you will have the last laugh.  Today's lucky numbers are 7, 16, 75 and 92.

Dongmeng L.

This is a part of the Challenge Collab. Check out Schnauzie's Horrorscopes, btw! Oh, and the actual challenge result will be up in a few seconds. :D

Hey, Schnauz! I don't know if you'd see it, so I turned the moth around. I used the dog in your portrait photo as part of the moth's body (since I suck at drawing bugs and the details of bugs are lost on me ,and there it was, your portrait shot as inspiration!). :D

Oh and I used via's red moth icon as basis for the actual moth (not its markings, though. The markings were fairly random.)

There have been a lot of tiny stories being written recently about fireflies that I have noticed, so I decided to RECord one. Maybe someone can write something based on this? and then RECord a voiceover? or even add effects to make it look like the light bulb is flickering? (except that wouldn't really make sense since its not in a fixture) Just some suggestions.

*NO fireflies were injured or harmed*

"For once," the ladybug thought, " I am going to step on you."

Dragonfly my sister made when she was in kindergarten.

I. 

A handsome bee.

A glance,

a bee that sits, looks around and leaves

to sex a different flower. 

The flower cannot 

leave. 

II. 

The fly is not

a bee. Not rich

with pollen like the bee.

Not handsome.

Ugly eyes and thick

rimmed glasses. 

The fly has nothing

to offer, and yet 

he lands on the petal.

(A new thought.)

III. 

A glance

a fly that sits

on an abandoned flower 

looks around and leaves

a mark.

his vomit on a petal.

Embarrassed, a fly leaves

to fly 

far from flowers and bees, 

to retch on less beautiful things.

It is nobody’s fault! said the man 

whose fault it was at dinner. 

** I feel the characters of this piece are strong. If anybody wants to take them further, either in the character collab or as an individual record that would be really fun for me.

Drew this before bed last night...