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Velvet mite, unknown species, Microtrombidiidae

Photographed in Thailand by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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ohhh I love baby mosquitos so much...I wish I could just look at them wiggle and give them little treats forever. I wish we did not need to fight them for public health. little wiggly fuzzlets guilty of nothing

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OP is an entomologist. This is exactly how you should hold a butterfly, especially one this large. Losing some wing scales won't affect their ability to fly but getting stepped on sure will.

small bird was VERY offended that I picked him up off the sidewalk like a potato chip. don't fall asleep on the sidewalk then

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@pizzaisgo submitted: Huge locust (? grasshopper?) I found chilling at night in an underpass. Was at least 5cm long, closer to 7-8. Found in Northern Italy

Large lad! It's an Egyptian bird grasshopper aka Egyptian locust. "Locust" is just a term for any species of grasshopper that has a swarming phase. This species can swarm but usually doesn't.

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Found this v e r y little guy while cleaning outside and was wondering if you could identify him

From Northeast Texas

It's a butterfly caterpillar, and I think one of the hairstreaks. I'd put my money on the soapberry hairstreak, Phaeostrymon alcestis. But mayyyybe a banded hairstreak? Their markings are variable.

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small bird was VERY offended that I picked him up off the sidewalk like a potato chip. don't fall asleep on the sidewalk then

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Certainly looks like it was based on one of the bee flies! There are a lot of species.

Bombylius species like the one above may be cute but they're hardcore - females lay their eggs near the nests of solitary bees where the bee fly larvae hatch and consume the bee larvae in the nest. Yum :)

Greater bee fly, Bombylius venosus, Bombyliidae

Photographed in Belgium by Gilles San Martin

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Felt Bugs and Tutorials // MiniMi

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Greater bee fly, Bombylius venosus, Bombyliidae

Photographed in Belgium by Gilles San Martin

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@takexthisxlight submitted: What do you do when you no longer have any carpet beetles that you tool care of over the winter but have a lot of extra beetle jelly?

Put some of it outside and see what gets to it first.

I'm not surprised by the result, and I'm happy there's an ant colony out there whose eating well tonight. 🤗

Beetles are my favorite insects now, but ants were my favorite when I was younger.

I'm not surprised at all! Glad these fellas enjoyed the tasty snack :)

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@zinderant submitted: At the start of this and the previous spring, these little guys started showing up near my windows, trying to get outside. They’re very tiny, about a centimeter long. I’m assuming it’s some kind of bee, but I can’t find which. Any idea? This is in the Netherlands.

I am bad at IDing bees! There are so many that look exactly the same to me. Maybe a furrow bee or mining bee? If anyone else is good with IDing bees feel free to suggest a species but please no random guesses if you don’t know. It’s not helpful.

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@taiisdelusional submitted: Who is she???

I'm in Argentina, northwest and she is BIG

A large and perfect woman! Who has woven a beautiful golden web. She is a golden silk spider, Trichonephila clavipes :)

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@hishap submitted: Little spider friend hanging upside-down under a heater!

The heater is off but Spider seems to like it just fine ^^

It hid away from me when I tried taking more pics, so I left it alone.

(location : France)

Whatever the discord link was, it didn’t work. Either way, very cute little cobweb spider!

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small bird was VERY offended that I picked him up off the sidewalk like a potato chip. don't fall asleep on the sidewalk then

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@buggotime submitted: I rediscovered this photo of this lil' guy curled around some grass from several months ago in [removed] (please remove location, thank you!) I've never seen this kind around before, do you know what species it is? (sorry if the photo quality isn't good enough for an ID!)

Without a better photo I can't say for sure but I would think either an American dagger moth or a Virginian tiger moth. Both are yellow and fuzzy with small differences a clearer photo would help distinguish.

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Plague doctor vibes

@onenicebugperday wanted to show you the haunting visage of a fucked up weevil i saw once and couldnt snap a pic of. weaved ill