#bug photos

[celestial-games]

Spiney stilt bug (Pronotacantha annulata). A very good bug :]

[ginsgarden]

Prometheus moth 🤎

[silly-gremline]

Yk how there’s Mother Nature

That’s me but for bugs

+bug photo dump beneath the cut!!

And a toad :)

The weevils were so cute!! It was my first time ever seeing weevils, and every time I put one down another would replace it loll. There were 3 total! Very cute :)

[ratbugs]

first live weevil i’ve seen in my life this is

the best day ever

[iamalittleufo]

If you need me, I'll be in the forest taking endless amounts of bee photos. <3

-imalittleufo

[oregon-birder]

anyways everyone look at this bug i saw yesterday

[rjalker]

Now rebloggable since we have wifi again for me to use my laptop to type the image descriptions!

beetle on grass

[ID: Five photos of a small, solid black beetle shaped like a ladybug, sitting on the stem of a small flowering grass. It is very shiny, with thin segmented antenna. It is shown from above showing its back, then the side, and with the grass tilted slightly to show its black segmented belly. End ID.]

webworms on black cherry

[ID: Two photos showing a webworm moth nest on a black cherry tree. The first photo is from further away, looking up into the tree, where the nest forms a thick white web between branches. The second zooms in, showing vertically black and yellow striped caterpillars all gathered in a cluster near the top. End ID.]

beetle on mulberry

[ID: Four photos of a long, thin dark brown or black beetle on the flowers of a mulberry tree. The first three photos are zoomed in, the last is further away. It seems to be solid very dark brown or black, with thin, medium length antenne. Its body is long and narrow. End ID.]

[isopogs]

Say hello to the Dimorphic Jumping Spider, or Maevia inclemens! These guys get their name because the males will typically have one of two body patterns, which each have their own courting displays.

This particular spider is a female, which you can determine because of her big orange stripes that go down the sides of her abdomen!

Photo location: Hunt County, TX

As for the males, here are their two morphs:

Photos by spidereyes2020 & David Hill, respectively.

On the left is the dark, "tufted" morph male, and on the right is the grey morph!

These two morphs were originally thought to be different species because their behavior was so different, but interestingly enough females will receive both types similarly.

In the video below, you can watch a dark morph male doing his courting display where he will stand on his 3 hind pairs of legs and wave his front arms around.

Compare that to the next video, which shows a grey morph male doing his courtship! He crawls low to the ground and taps his 2 front pairs of legs in front of him.

Interestingly, while females don't tend to have a preference between morphs, they do prefer larger tufted males (compared to smaller tufted males) and smaller grey males (compared to larger grey males) (Busso & Rabosky, 2016).

[nature-gonk]

Went to the zoo!

[cyberr-v0id]

It’s also useful for if you’re afraid of bugs!

For years I’ve been mildly afraid of some bugs. Not all, in fact there are some bugs that I have always adored, it’s just been a couple I’ve genuinely been afraid of, but seeing them as just small animals has helped so much with it! Over the past year and a half I’ve been able to get somewhat close photos of bugs and removed ones I’m afraid of from my room BY MYSELF!!!! Because they’re just small animals!!!

Granted I’ve had somewhat of an advantage on this, because there’s also always been bugs I’ve been a super big fan of all my life

Look!!! My insect photos!

A gorgeous green beetle I saw in a woods!

A pretty moth from the stream by my house! Its pattern and colours remind me of a snowy owl!! They’re just small very biologically different birds!

Friendly massive snail that was outside an aviary at the local animal reserve! I’ve always loved snails, me and my friend used to do snail racing

And a moth I captured in my room all by myself!

you guys Need to start seeing bugs as animals im not even joking anymore. the second u start seeing them as tiny animals the more your world opens up and the more you accept different types of life Into that world. youll begin accepting that even life you cant understand is still worth living. and itll legitimately make you a better person. fuck

[small-amethyst]

Berra with her little nymph friend that keeps her company.✨️

[hawkpartys]

Brachycybe rosea

[willow-dino]

Funky guys from last week :D

[aratinatophat]

@transs3xualmagg0t us when we hang

Do not invite me to the function unless this is the vibe

[ratbugs]

somebody decided to be a cannibal for halloween

[iamalittleufo]

I have named her Stooge.

-imalittleufo