#Florida bugs

[whatnext10]

Colorful Little Shield-Backed Bugs are True Bugs, Not Beetles

Colorful Little Shield-Backed Bugs are True Bugs, Not Beetles discusses the beautiful shield-backed bugs, often also called jewel bugs. It shows several photos of one particular species of these insects.

Black and Gold Last weekend the weather was quite pleasant in the early evening, so I took advantage of that and went on a short hike in the Gothe State Forest behind my house. When I returned home, I took a little time to pick some of the blackberries that had started to ripen early. In the process of picking berries, I came across this pretty little shield-backed bug (Orsilochides guttata). It…

[greenwallflower]

[platycryptus]

Phrynus marginemaculatus babies have molted off their mother’s back and I counted 34 of them! That’s a lot for this species, usually they’re reported to have more like 10-25.

Here’s the eggsac and hatchlings, which only spend a week or so clinging to mom but may continue to cluster near her for several months.

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’

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[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @malarkey42

"Florida Ivory Millipede - Chicobolus spinigerus

(his name is Cecil)"

[hollow-head]

there was a creature on my floor yesterday

and then i sang a song about it

[onenicebugperday]

ok for some reason tumblr is not letting me submit a bug the normal way so here it is in ask form

found this little guy near Miami, FL just chilling on a wall and ive been wondering ever since what kind of moth this is. the legs and antennae made such a weird shape that it looked like a sticky hand from far away lol

Sticky hand lol. This lil friend is a Florida fern moth!

[celestialmacros]

Butterflies seen in Florida

Yes, some of these are very common, but all seemed new to tourist me.

Fulvous Hairstreak (Electrostrymon angelia)

Cassius Blue (Leptotes cassius)

White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae)

Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae)

May 12 and 14, 2024

Manatee County, Florida

[catfindr]

[maudiemoods]

I doodled some of those bugs you all were telling me about!! Yayayyayy

I still want to do a few more but I need to sleep AAA

[whatnext10]

Milkweed Assassin Bugs are Great Hunters and Pest Controllers

Milkweed Assassin Bugs are Great Hunters and Pest Controllers features a milkweed assassin bug that was found hunting in a patch of tickseed flowers. It describes the bug’s range, diet, hunting styles, and the author/artist’s feelings about the bug.

Searching Inside I really love the abundance of tickseed flowers that we have all over the place right now. Not only are the flowers themselves really pretty, but the pollinators adore them. So if I want to see and photograph bees, wasps, butterflies, and heaven knows what else, all I have to do is find a patch of these flowers. The other day I stopped at a bunch of them and as well as…

[gushism]

geeple (gator people)

[platycryptus]

My florida amblypygid (Phrynus marginemaculatus) that I’ve had since early 2021 has been alone since he mated with a female owned by my friend a few months ago, so I collected a female (on the right) from the same barrier island where he was originally found and introduced them:

Phrynus are territorial and their initial reaction to encountering a potential mate can appear aggressive, threatening and wrestling each other with their raptorial pedipalps, but I believe the quick vibrating movements of their whips in this video taken minutes after introduction indicate mating interest or other non-aggressive communication. The next day they were sitting side by side in the same crevice.

It’s common to see mating pairs of amblypygids in the family Phrynidae coexisting closely in the wild, sometimes with groups of offspring present alongside them. Some people recommend against keeping captive amblypygids together due to the risk of cannibalism, but in at least some species including marginemaculatus mating pairs seem able to live together long-term with little risk, though things can anecdotally get more dicey when the female lays eggs. Amblypygid offspring also remain near their mother for a long period of time and groups of P. marginemaculatus siblings coexist peacefully until they reach sexual maturity and become more territorial.

[zetterbabe]

chews calculatingly (11.02.23)

[rubyroboticalt]

i rambled a lil previously on the normal morning crew with funky eyes, and finally got around to drawing it out. fit has a third eyelid, pac has yellow sclera and vertical pupils, tubbo has tapetum lucidum, and bagi has compound eyes! 28.02.2024