More copying old FA art onto Weasyl.

This was a response to a challenge by Thumbclawz on Earth. When picking species, many people go straight for either the standbys such as domesticated pets, or the things from the African savannah. The challenge was to think local and show some love to the wildlife in your own area. I live in New Mexico, so I threw this rough little doodle together. (You can tell it's a rough little doodle because I couldn't even be bothered to get rid of the construction lines.)

Copy/pasting my left-to-right rundown from FA:

A...um...thing. My parents call them chicken-killers, but I know for a fact that that's a local invented term and that's absolutely not what they're called. It took me years to find out what they really are. I think they're the males of the species labidus coecus, the New World Legionary Ant. All I know for sure is that they look like some sort of male ant/wasp hybrid (wings, can fly, stinger) and act like moths (incredibly stupid, attracted to light to the exclusion of all else, will just stupidly buzz around any random light source so long as it's there.) Obviously, this one is more refined than his non-anthro brethren and is quite the gentleman.

(I fail at his legs, but there's a reason for that. I had a perfect reference for the real-life version and drew the six legs it has coming from the top section exactly where they really are and everything, and then suddenly realized that if you anthropomorphize it to the point where it has the ability to stand up vertically, only having the six appendages from what is now suddenly the top section introduces the sudden problem that he has absolutely no legs. So I just sort of threw two on, so now he has a total of eight and two are coming from the bottom section, neither of which are even close to accurate, but oh well.)

A Texas Horned Lizard. AKA Horned Toad or Horny Toad because they're fat and round and basically frog-shaped, but covered in horns, and are lizards. Most notable for the ability to squirt high-pressure jets of blood from its eyes as a defense mechanism. (Presumably they bleed all over a predator and then run away the same way threatened squids use ink.)

A poster of a coyote. Coyotes are one of the local species that have caught on enough in the fandom at large that I probably don't need to plug them any more, and I was out of room after drawing the other four and needed a fifth just for the sake of the meme, so I just threw a random coyote poster on the wall. He's wearing a bandana because a lot of howling coyote sculptures I've seen have bandandas for some reason.

A roadrunner. Roadrunners are huge, usually walk (they can fly, but almost never do,) have extremely low fear of humans compared to other birds, and act curious and exploratory. They go on adventures.

A packrat. There's a reason people who hoard things are called packrats; the actual real-life animal has quite a reputation for it. Specifically, they burrow into the ground and are known for making the world's messiest nests by dumping anything they can find around the entrance of their burrow to try and deter predators. They love using broken-off pieces of cactus for this, for what should be obvious reasons. I think the packrat here took the horned lizard's shirt and the roadrunner's pants.

Epilogue: the original submission's description included some whining about how I like these guys and this local wildlife idea but I'm sadly stuck in my Siberian husky form and it's too late to change, so I had to use random throwaways instead of actual recurring characters. This picture happens to include a coyote and a woodrat. Oops.