don’t get mad at me for my categories, listen i’m not an entomologist i just like bugs im doing my best.
i’m sorry if i forgot your bug!!
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Y’all, I am SO excited about this new beetle that was just discovered!!!!
The freshly-discovered new species of longhorn beetle, Excastra albopilosa. Image credit: James Tweed
Detailed photographs of the Excastra albopilosa specimen found by James Tweed. Image credits: Lingzi Zhou, Australian National Insect Collection
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I saw a velvet mite today! these big mites go through a bizarre series of growth stages before ending up as predatory mobile plush cushions.
this one had butt cheeks
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This is absolutely wild.
Two populations of ants (Cataglyphis hispanica) in the deserts of Spain, the same species but separate genetic lineages. All workers are hybrids of both populations but in both cases, through social hybridogenesis the reproductive queens and males are only of one lineage or the other.
Queens of both species must mate out to produce workers (hybrids) but the workers never in turn reproduce.
They show it's been like this for a long long time!
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World's most beautiful girl looks at you with her huge autistic eyes while she stings you to death
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.
Internet Archive
1.) European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)
2.) European stick insect (Bacillus rossius)
3.) Anchiale maculata
4.) Seychelles leaf insect (Pulchriphyllium bioculatum)
5.) European mantis (Mantis religiosa)
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Moth family redesign
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Can anyone make a pawpillar and is there a species guide to do so?
Yes!! anyone can make one!!
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John Mulaney moved in next door and kept gifting me bugs (this was wonderful because I love bugs).
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BUG OF THE DAY
BotD 4 - 03/25/24
This is the Blue net-spinning caddisfly
While these insects don't have much information about them, this is an aquatic species that spends a majority of their time in lakes, rivers, and streams. Caddisfly larvae are known for spinning up pebbles, twigs, and plant-life into their silk cocoons. Occasionally, these structures can be mobile, instead of being fixed to one spot. Most notably, Blue Net-Spinning caddisflies are a beautiful cyan color, and are incredibly unique!
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2024-03-05
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do you have any favorite beetles?
Lots! Too many to name so I'll just share one
African woolly chafer, Sparrmannia alopex
Photo by rjbasson
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big pet peeve when spidermonsters in movies and games and such have feet that just end in a footless spike. sure there are some spiders that have very pointy slender tarsi that don’t really look like a padded foot, but that often means they’re the type of spiders that sit in a web all day and would cry if they had to walk around and chase screaming movie protagonists around. and even then these guys have teeny little claws used to clamber around the web. give your fantasy bugs normal bug feet please
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Stemonitopsis sp. by funginordic
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