#whatsthisbug

[zuzsenpai]

I spend so much time trying to identify the bugs in my photos on my own, totally not realizing that my iPhone has a feature where it identifies them for you!! Where’s the fun in that???

[onenicebugperday]

Spear-winged fly larva, Lonchoptera sp., Lonchopteridae

Tumblr has destroyed the quality on this video, so I highly recommending checking out the original via the link below!

Video by Gentlesteps_ via whatsthisbug on Reddit

Photo by gillessanmartin

[hungry-skeleton]

Someone accidentally posted to the bugsnax subreddit thinking it was a bug identifying subreddit like r/whatsthisbug and they were informed there anyway that they have fucking lice

[fallout-lou-begas]

i've been looking at r/WhatsThisBug and reddit is so funny because people will make posts like "(throwaway account) hey guys is this bad?" and it's a blurry photo of a rabid tiger literally mid-pounce toward them

[milliganopen]

some jane prentiss posting going on in r/whatsthisbug

[pondslime]

Can you imagine if Ambrose had internet?

100% Vincent is selling wax sex toys online.

vincent has an etsy storefront w/carefully curated sections. he sells saucy wax sculptures (but they're weird as all hell, w/spider legs and tentacles like his pieces in the wax museum) alongside a full assortment of stupidly ornate carved knives. he's also weirdly into website coding and graphic design. if any of them would have one of those super intricate tumblr roleplay blogs where they use wild tags & teeny tiny font. it would be vincent. he's a pinterest girlie.

lester frequents r/whatsthisbug and has a youtube channel where he posts 144p rambling vlogs of his roadkill wrangling & taxidermy adventures. they're super choppy and potato quality, but his enthusiasm is palpable and he's got a solid group of three subscribers who always comment on the videos.

bo's busy leaving rude comments under porn videos & clicking on hot singles in ur area ads. goes on craigslist and makes offensively low offers on things. chronic facebook meme enjoyer. he gets the family computer infected w/7372938948 viruses due to his horny insanity & now they've got limewire and bonzibuddy popups and every time u enter a new tab random words are underlined w/links to sketchy dropshipping sites.

[reaperseal-archive]

my favourite r/whatsthisbug posts

[fishingcatz]

This person posted their cats nipple on r/whatsthisbug

[crowtrobotx]

the only thing between me and a full on anxiety crisis rn is r/whatsthisbug and the people who upload photos of crawdads/lobsters/etc and very genuinely ask what kind of insect they’ve found

[fioras-resolve]

there's a talk i watched a couple days ago, it's really good go watch it, it's about game communities and why they so often become toxic. and one really interesting point kelsey makes is that... maybe "fandom for its own sake" spaces might be part of the problem? like, when you get all of these different personalities and political affiliations in one group, with only the tenuous connection of a shared fandom, you're going to run into conflict and drama a fair bit.

she frames this in opposition to purpose-led groups, stuff like r/whatsthisbug, or mmo communities for onboarding new players. if your community is made to Do something, then that causes people to invest differently into the community. you're a lot less likely to get detractors that way, you know? as a gamedev, i think a lot about this talk, specifically what kind of purpose-led group i could make for my own work, or even if doing that would be desirable.

[zuzsenpai]

As much as I love bugs, it’s horror story time. Found this guy at 3AM on the bathroom wall VERY close to the toilet where I happened to be. I'm having a hard time IDing it, and I’m not getting a response on r/whatsthisbug. I think it's a sac spider, but can't be sure what kind. It's possibly Trachelas tranquillus, the broad-faced sac spider. They apparently have painful bites, so I'm not super happy to have seen one in my bathroom. I wanted to relocate it but uhhhh it disappeared 😬

If anyone can ID this, I’d appreciate it! Its body, not counting legs, was somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of an inch.

[onenicebugperday]

The amount of posts I’ve seen lately on r/whatsthisbug of fly eggs deposited on food that’s been left out is WILD. Please...please. Cover food that is left on the counter or wherever during fly season. ESPECIALLY at outdoor picnics. It only takes a couple minutes for a fly to lay a huge cluster of eggs onto food.

They look kinda like clusters of tiny rice:

via this post on Reddit

[bugsofjapan]

hi! i was really really curious what websites/books/etc you use for identification and if you knew where I could find a longer or more complete list of specifically endemic Japanese beetles? thank you and I love the blog!

Good morning!

I am not an expert (sadly), just an enthusiastic amateur, so my identifications are best for common bugs-- because there just aren't a ton of resources about Japanese arthropoda in English, it can be a real slog to even find out what a particular insect is even called in English or Japanese. To that end, I use a variety of Japanese blogs, Wikipedia, and one great Japanese butterfly book. I'm happy to share my resources!

Above: "日本のチョウ” Field Guide to Butterflies.

Beetles (Koganemushi) - Same website, other insects here

Wasps (other insects found at links at top)

Caterpillars

Arachnids (photo blog)

Bug Dictionary

Butterflies (Kobayashi Mochimitsu's photos, with great descriptions in English)

Insects Organized by Family

Shield Bugs

Flies (other insects at top link)

Longhorn beetles

Moths - with Latin names

Sphingidae (Moths)

Caterpillars

And of course, when all else fails, ask the good people at r/whatsthisbug on Reddit. There are a lot of actual experts there and they're amazing at what they do!

[fallout-lou-begas]

genuinely i love how two back-to-back experiences with non-aggressive wasps and a new interest in the r/WhatsThisBug subreddit have made me so much more interested and endeared toward bugs. like i'll literally see a house centipede and i'll know it's my friend and keeping other pests away, or a yellowjacket outside and i'll know it'll be nice to me so long as i'm not near its nest, or a wolf spider with a swarm of babies on its back and think "awww it's a single mother supporting her family :)"

[reaperseal-archive]

i love r/whatsthisbug people post the most horrifying looking creatures like a spider-scorpion thing the size of someone’s face and the top comment is like “oh that’s just billy he’s harmless :)”

[amalg-em]

Late spring/early summer is such an annoying time to be on reddit. Every other post on r/whatsthisbug is a person who's never seen a tick before somehow, and every other post on r/whatsthisbird is someone who saw a grounded fledgling and decided to steal it from its parents BEFORE asking the internet if that's a good idea.