#insect

[herpsandbirds]

Godman's Sarota Metalmark (Sarota myrtea), family Riodinidae, Costa Rica

photograph by José Alberto Cubero Guevara

[humblegrub]

how do flies bite?

[addicted2wasps]

Yellowjackets - a short story.

I root for them because I think they're awesome. This took a lot of time and effort (I draw everything by hand), so if you hate wasps, that's fine, but just move on. I don't have the energy to deal with irrational hate.

I'm aware that some people are allergic and afraid, and that's totally valid. You don't have to love wasps, but try to understand their place in nature.

[redslug]

Mail girl

[new-bug-ideas]

A bug who lies about having a PhD to brag at parties. Nobody believes him because he is 7 bug years old

[barksbog]

Leaf Bugs are back in the bog!!

all legs are magnetic for the ultimate grabby

super soft mochi minky

crinkle layer sewn in for the perfect leafy crunch

handmade by me!

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grab a fresh leaf right from my shop

barks-bog.com

[pallanophblargh]

I’m so blessed to meet this little lady, the first of my 7 cecropia caterpillars from last summer to emerge. I wasn’t counting on her to come so early! I’m hoping to find her a mate, but I don’t know how good her odds are in this neck of the woods. I found her mother in the suburbs about 5-7 miles from here, so I don’t know how many cecropia find their way close to the urban (but still residential) core.

For those wondering: she is every bit as soft as she looks and she sounds like a bird when she beats her wings. Also she has a strong smell; kinda like musty chocolate and old leaves.

If I am fortunate to get fertilized eggs out of this group, I would love to raise the next generation of caterpillars. They have brought me so much joy and I missed them so much during their long pupation.

[typhlonectes]

These caterpillars may anticipate wasp attacks using electric fields

Finding could be the first known use of “electroreception” for predator detection in land animals

An ability to sense electric fields may help some caterpillars detect predatory wasps, a pair of ecologists reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The observation may be the first known instance of land-dwelling animals using an electric sense to protect themselves from predators. “It’s a new example of how a fairly recently discovered sense is used, and it’s probably the tip of the iceberg,” says Eric Warrant, a neuroethologist at Lund University. Gregory Sutton, a biomechanics scientist at the University of Lincoln, notes the authors of the new study found the novel behavior just by examining the common insects around them. “They didn’t have to fly to some cave in Abu Dhabi to find this weird new thing,” he says. “They went as far as down the street.”...

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/these-caterpillars-may-anticipate-wasp-attacks-using-electric-fields

Photograph: In a flower, a cinnabar moth caterpillar (Tyria jacobaeae) demonstrates its defensive behavior: coiling into a tight ball. (SAM J. ENGLAND)

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

requested by @missvgrant

[everydaymacro]

5/23　胎内市　「trick art」 ムラサキシャチホコ 一度見てみたかった蛾　丸まった枯れ葉に見えるが 平らな翅の模様である。実に見事な立体感。

[bug-kisser]

Went antiquing today and this was all I bought

Very important

[herpsandbirds]

Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia), male, family Saturniidae, Ohio, USA

This individual was collected as a caterpillar, and released after emergence as an adult.

photograph by Luke Chapman

[seabeck]

Sluggo

[53v3nfrn5]

cabochon amethyst and diamond bumble bee brooch, c. 1890 + rose diamond and colored stone butterfly brooch, c. 1907

[beausbugbiome]

This made me SO insanely happy ✨

Took home a male and female. Named the male Twig and the female Branch, because she’s larger. 😌

[beebuus]

they're girlfriends.....

(photo i found on a reddit post asking what species the big girl was, she's a female dobson fly)