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I hope the fact this is more personal will make it specific enough, what are your personal favorite wings on any insect? What wings are you just like "that is so cool, those are the ones I would want as a bug"
Ohhh there are so many. But I think I'd have to go with any of the brahmin moths in the genus Brahmaea.

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Grand Duchess聽(Euthalia patala), family Nymphalidae, Chiang Mai, Thailand
photograph by聽Antonio Giudici
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Adonis Blue (Lysandra bellargus) butterflies basking in the sun.
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Wallace鈥檚 Flying Frogs聽(Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), family Rhacophoridae, found in SE Asia
The species can use their extensive toe webbing to glide or parachute from trees, in their dense forest habitat.
photographs by聽Virescence聽and聽Rushenb聽
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citheronia regalis
regal moth
location: north america
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Milky cicada aka white ghost cicada,聽Ayuthia spectabile, Cicadinae (Translucent Cicadas)
Found in Southeast Asia
Photos 1-2 by聽Bernard Dupont, 3 by lungchris, 4 by yriassic85, 5 by jackychiangmai, 6 by nomascus, 7 by charliev, and 8 by liuguangyu
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Seven-spined crab spider, Epicadus heterogaster, Thomisidae
Found in Central and South America
Photo 1 by jeanmartins, 2 by聽nonoauriz, 3-4 by eduardo_chacon, 5 by nbareschu, 6 by cristinarestrepo, 7 by belweyermanns, 8 by rumeltr, and 9-10 by rogerriodias
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guys look at this lisa frank ass eupelmid wasp i found
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Better ask, w h a t are true bugs and w h y do they have venomous probiscuses? Probusci? Drinky tube that butterflies have
The word "bug" originally just referred to the insect order Hemiptera, just as "beetle" refers to Coleoptera! Bugs can be shaped a little like beetles, too, but they have only slightly hardened forewings, they have no larval stage, and they're almost the *only* insect group whose mouthparts are fused into nothing but a single straw-like tube.
They also share these traits with the closely related "homoptera," which are the aphids, scale insects, leafhoppers, and cicadas!
To get an idea of just how unusual their fused mouth-tube is, here's a closeup of an assassin bug's:
Literally JUST a spike! But other fluid-feeding insects still have complex multi-part mouths, like a mosquito's:
Many bugs are herbivores and just drink fluids from plant matter, but predatory bugs tend to inject venom and/or digestive enzymes into their prey first!
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jumping spider mama and her babies
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Encyrtid parasitoid wasp,聽Dicarnosis erythrocephala, Encyrtidae, Chalcidoidea
Some species of Encyrtid wasps exhibit a remarkable developmental phenomenon called polyembryony, in which a single egg multiplies clonally in the host and produces large numbers of identical adult wasps. Even more remarkably, some of the larvae are larger than the others and act in a similar way to the soldiers of eusocial insects, attacking any other wasp larvae already in the body of the host, and dying without reproducing (see: biological altruism).
Photographed in Arizona by froggy143
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