#Flying insect

[several-flies]

Lil lady havin a snack

@onenicebugperday

[dragonbleps]

Rosy Maple moth i saw earlier today :)

[thiscountry]

Got to let it go

[macroramblings]

Adieu

[lilafeuer]

Hyalophora cecropia, alternatively known as the Cecropia moth, is North America’s largest native moth species, and are a member to the family Saturniidae, or giant silk moths. The females of these beautiful creatures have a wingspan of up to seven inches or more. Typically found during the spring or summer, perched on a maple or birch tree. Unlike most other caterpillars with bristles, the larval stage of this moth lacks venom. Like several other species, the Cecropia moth is born without a mouth and thus unable to feed, as such they have a short adult life of ten days or two weeks at most.

[gerry-walden]

Common blue damselfly by Gerry Walden LRPS Via Flickr: A common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) at rest (Southampton, England)

[girldickman]

[ikemoths]

A slightly miscoloured giant leopard moth showing the blueish tint more than usual!

[onenicebugperday]

Mosquito on western rainbow boa

Photographed in Ecuador by Matthieu Berroneau

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

(Negative comments about mosquitoes will get you blocked.)

[wolf-pearl]

Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.

Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.

Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.

And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.

Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.

[several-flies]

Soggy little creature

@onenicebugperday any clue what this big guy is?

[dragonbleps]

I wanna say they're probably Southern Tussock Moths because I've seen a ton of the caterpillars around and those are unmistakable. But idk for sure

[creative-chaos-apparently]

I made a little friend last night

[ms-scarletwings]

Never thought I would see a fly rocking a double mohawk before

Not exactly sure what this beaut is, but Strauzia genus was about as satisfactory as I did narrow it down.

[lilafeuer]

Vespa mandarinia aka the Asian giant hornet; and by its less affectionate Internet moniker “murder hornet”, is the world’s largest species of hornet! Native to temperate and tropical East Asia, South Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and parts of the Russian Far East. First two photos courtesy of @aaiZveGu1X7nWwX (Twitter) who has a wide variety of photos and video clips of giant hornets he tends after. When isolated from a hive body and handled with care they aren’t the monster most make them out to be. All hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets. In the U.S., we have no native hornets. Our main hornet is the European hornet which was introduced into New York in 1840. It looks like a large yellowjacket—about ¾ to 1½ inches long—and nests in the ground or in hollow trees.

[creepymutelilbugger]

i present to you: the beefly

what a lovely little fellow