#mystery bug

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - A Wall in Alexandra

Examined a wall of rock next to where I parked, while @purrdence was off looking for the tourist centre. Quite an impressive range of species in a section about a meter wide. Probably would have recorded more if I'd looked closer.

[unbeweevablebugs]

Edit: it's a North American Wheelbug nymph!!!

Can anyone help me identify this cool bug I found? It was located in Humble, Texas if that helps! I'll update this post when I find out what it's called! According to iNaturalist it may be some kind of wheelbug but I'm not sure.

[cnestus]

a tiny (2mm) mystery i came across while sorting beetles today. it was right at the end of the workday so i didn't have too much time to mess around with it and couldn't even suss out what family it's in. it's cute as hell though whatever it is! i've never seen antennae like this on such a little guy.

[bugtoot]

It's been forever since I found a friggin bug

but today I found this... Thing? It moves like a maggot and is not shy about showing off its insides. I have no idea what it is. If YOU know what it is, please tell me, please please please

I'm in Oregon, USA if that assists anyone with ID

[ye-olde-tardis]

I have a local cryptid that I've seen about twice. Nobody who believes me can understand what it looks like, and everyone else just thinks I'm crazy.

Before you get super excited, I want to let you know that it's some sort of bug or animal. It's not extra terrestrial or monster-esc, it's just a really weird bug.

TW for vague descriptions of dead animals

Several things to get out of the way before I can describe it to you.... I live in Michigan, so anything that doesn't live around here is out of the question... and I collect bones from dead animals.

Ok, now the describing. About a year ago I was out tending to my maceration station (the place I keep my roadkill so that the bugs can eat away the bits and I can collect the bones once they're done) when I spotted this.... thing.

It was about four inches long, two inches wide. It had wings, and was flying like how a humming bird would do. Sort of hovering and dashing around. It's abdomin had two bright yellow lines and the shape of it reminded me of a wasp. It's face looked like a butterfly's face, with a probiscus and those weird shaped eyes. It had six legs, but when it landed the wings didn't stop flapping. The wings themselves were short and I couldn't get a good look at them because they never stopped moving, but they could have been a different color than the rest of it. I think it's main color was black but I can't quite remember.

I ran inside to grab a jar to catch it, but it was gone when I came back. I remember researching bugs, butterflies, humming bird moths, beetles.... none of them matched what I saw. And if they came close, none of them ate dead things.

That's right. It eats dead things. Today, I saw it again. I didn't have my phone (a mistake I'll try not to make again. I need a picture of this thing.) I watched it scout out the best place to land, and when it finally did, it unfurled its probiscus and started drinking.

I had a jar this time... (I wanted to catch some American carrion beetles to pin) but I was kinda scared of it. When it saw me trying to catch it, it CAME TWARD ME and started loudly buzzing. When I backed off of it, it flew away.

I'll update with pictures if I ever manage to get some. But it could be a year before I ever see the thing again.

[tubes-ann]

Possibly the biggest bug I’ve ever held. Could be a female rhinoceros beetle since I’ve seen (and held) one of those in the area before but from a different species. I’ve never seen a male tho.

She flew away later that night.

[autisticthings]

ATTENTION BUG LOVERS

this is a REALLY bad photo (sorry), but I found this guy crawling on my stomach rn

Any ideas of what kind of bug he is? he can fly and has been bothering me for the past 3 days

I am sorry to say he is now dead. I didn't know what was crawling on me, so I hit him. he couldn't fly anymore, so I put him out of his misery.

[avixthecat]

hey i found a weird bug outside yesterday and cannot find anything about it at all. do any of you know what it is?

it was colored like this

it looked sorta like this but not shiny

and there was either a discarded shell or a dead one next to it

[mundanalyst]

Who is she??

Lion Gulch Trail, Colorado; 7/27/2024

[numetalchemists]

tw// bug images and talk under the cut

hey hellsite!! i was just outside this afternoon and noticed a bunch of these little guys hanging off the leaves of our crepe myrtle tree, and i couldnt for the life of me figure out what they are :/ does anybody have any ideas??

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 7TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Two photos of some kind of orange, black, and white hymenopteran with mostly transparent wings on dead plant matter and a small green plant respectively /End IDs.]

Gonna be honest, no idea what species this is! Almost certain it's a wasp- Looks a lot like some wasps of the velvet ant family, but the females don't have wings and the males I've seen aren't nearly this colorful! Was certainly fast like one, however

[ongodakame]

found this bug on the way home, donno what it is but its fast af, it literally said~~~~~ when it moves

[rosemauled]

I found a cool bug!

[lilybug-02]

Oh gosh, how many humans are there?!

Bug Fact: The Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect are mostly female and reproduce asexually. The first wild male of this species was not found until 1994! Pictures Below.

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A,B,C and E are all males, they have visible and functional wings. D is a female and has no wings. Photo Source and Research Paper with more photos

They even have separate sub-species that have different leaf decay!!

[wackom]

Part 1 of 2! Who could it be!?

[time-woods]

EMOTIONAL WIN ! ! the bug lets his emotions make decisions for once !