#neoptera

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Two photos of a black, brown, and red earwig protecting its white eggs on top of a reddish brown leaf /End IDs.]

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[sonohban]

“The winged insects are traditionally divided into the Paleoptera and Neoptera. However, recent discussions have brought to light that the Paleoptera, or ‘old wings,’ may not be a natural group, that is to say that Paleoptera may be paraphyletic with respect to Neoptera. If this is the case, which is still not certain due to the unresolved state of basal insect phylogenetics, this now brings up the question of whether Odonata or Ephemeroptera are more related to the Neoptera--”

insect evolution was my favorite subject in school but i would not be paying the most attention to the lecture if gohan was my professor tee bee ayche

#sorry sorry sorry #gohan #dragon ball #dragon ball super hero #dbz #dragon ball z #my art

[istherewifiinhell]

METAZOOA HARD MODE

no drop down menu. WELCOME TO BUG WORLD

[ID: metazooa, the cladistics puzzle tree, guessed in 9. The tree splits at bilateria, two guesses under gnathostomata: horse and tiger shark. And the rest under neoptera: locust. Two under endopterygota, ladybug and mosquito. Two under aculeata: honey bee, fire ant. And two under vespinae: wasp, and finally the answer, hornet. END ID]

this too is a kind of creature to me

#some shit #wifi at the zoo

[hyephyep]

@joelletwo bug strategies!!

i have made this possibly too complicated so let's start with the most important thing, and save the others for second half optional reading.

(sidenote, most of these groups i remember not by their names, but by their summary and pictures)

the big bug group to remember is neoptera! neoptera is not every bug, but it covers a huge amount of them. it has two main branches: bugs that have three life stages (larva, pupa, adult), and bugs that do not. most neoptera bugs have wings.

to rule out the group with three lifecycles, i guess fire ant. if it splits off from fire ant at neoptera, i can write off every kind of three stage bug. that's [butterflies & moths], all beetles, [bees & ants & wasps], [mosquitos & flies], and maybe some others i dont know of.

everything in brackets together is in a subgroup together. you only need to guess one bug within that group to rule out all of them. if guessing fire ant doesn't rule out the three-stage bugs, i go through these groups one at a time.

if fire ant does rule out the three stage branch, then i move on to the other one. there's two main groups here: [cricket & locust & grasshopper], [praying mantis & cockroach & termite]. earwig and stickbug are standalones. i think that's it, there might be one or two bugs in here that haven't come up in practice yet.

that was the big one! again, those two branches of neoptera include a LOT of bugs, so just keeping track of that covers a lot of bases. from here on out is the optional additional reading if you feel it's not too much info at once.

if guessing fire ant rules out neoptera completely, there's a few places to go. if it's something under pancrustacea but isn't neoptera, then im looking for crustaceans. crab, prawn, lobster, mantis shrimp. pillbug is with crustaceans too, as the land isopod.

if my fire ant guess splits off at protostomia (which i remember as the one that has pictures of a snail, a mantis, and a worm in its summary), then i'm looking for something among the snails and molluscs and octopi. those are all in a big branch together.

if it splits off somewhere other than crustaceans and snails, i start guessing the oddballs. arachnida (spider/scorpion/etc), centipede, dragonfly. these ones don't come up as often.

i hope this all makes enough sense to help! i can put together visuals later if you feel those are required

#metazooa #basically if i see bialteria my first thought is 'octopus or bugs?' #so i guess ant and go from there

[bidinosaurus]

neoptera, huru hara 2022, gbat 2023.

[rotationalsymmetry]

I have a normal brain.

[ID: a white foam board with pink and blue post it notes all over it. The pink notes have names of biological clades such as “Cnidaria” and “neoptera” and “euteleosteomorpha” and the blue notes have names of animals like “jellyfish” and “atlas moth” and “salmon”. The notes are meant to be arranged in a way that shows relations between different clades and the clades and the animals, but there aren’t any actual lines so it’s probably pretty incomprehensible. Think the conspiracy meme picture. End ID.]

I have been playing metazooa, a game that is intended to be played once per day, a normal amount.

[mossy-petrichor]

almost afraid to ask but how many, classes? of bugs are there?

Good question! Infodump under the cut

Insecta is the class (though other arthopods could also be considered bugs - like centipedes, millipedes and spiders). Inside it there's the subclasses apterygota (primitive wingless insects - silverfish and so) and pterygota (most have wings, some.. it's complicated)

Inside pterygota there's the infraclasses paleoptera (can't fold wings) and neoptera (foldable wings). Inside neoptera there's most notably exopterygota (incomplete metamorphosis - grasshoppers, roaches, etc) and endopterygota (complete metamorphosis - mosquitoes, butterflies, etc) and another superclass nobody talks about LMAO. Those things change easily so it's hard to find a source on what the current nomenclature is

I don't know all the orders yet, but hopefully i will soon! It's why i want to grab that book from our university's library about arthopod taxonomy and write down all of them

#ilya's bug rambling

[valsyr]

@misaentropy​ :  ❝ your strength breaks men’s bones. i have the cunning to break their minds. ❞ from the skrunkly ex husband, odin 😎

   𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄  𝐈𝐒  𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒  𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓    —    𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐒  𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄  in  the  way  he  ferries  his  words  :    punctuating  each  syllable  like  a  mason  upon  stone,  deliberate    &    slow,    as  delectable  as  they  feel  powerful  in  his  mouth  :   as  standing  here  must  feel  powerful  to  him.    weaving    &    spindling.    she  is  neoptera  to  a  web,    unable  to  stop  the  repugnance  from  creeping  on  her  mien,    into  the  corners  of  her  mouth    &    the  tautness  of  her  jaw    ( down  to  her  hands,    to  the  flesh  between  each  finger  begging  to  be  drawn  by  her  sword    ).    if  winter  had  not  yet  bled  to  the  roots  slumbered  in  soil  his  presence  has  wilted  them  instead.    a  vermiculate  mapping  crafted  by  idioms  lost,    blueprint  of  an  ancient  world  repudiating,    self-annihilating  lest  they  be  deracinated    &    barbarized  in  a  mad  man’s  pursuit  of  knowledge.  

    ❝  then  you  know  ❞    —    she  begins,    her  voice  low,    like  soles  dragging  on  gravel.    ❝  you  know  exactly  what  you’re  doing.    what  you’ve  done.  ❞    requited  with  venom,    lifetimes  of  accusations  in  her  words.    she  has  risen  from  where  she  sat  before  the  fire.    the  wind,    yet  labored  by  the  cries  of  her  grief,    tug  the  flames  north  to  a  horizon  serrated  by  mountain  reefs,    crafting  brutish  shapes  on  her  visage.    ❝  whatever  it  is  you  have  to  say ,    i  do  not  wish  to  hear  it  .  ❞

#misaentropy #ic. #inbox. #hello !!! i got so excited when i saw this hehe

[animalids]

Ant (Formicidae)

Photo by shikhei goh

#unidentifiable #formicidae #formicoidea #apocrita #hymenoptera #hymenopterida #endopterygota #neoptera #pterygota #insecta #hexapoda #pancrustacea #arthropoda #ecdysozoa

[faunalregion]

#Tabanus atratus #black horsefly #horsefly #insect #fly #animal #wildlife #nature #creative commons #tabanidae #brachycera #diptera #neoptera #pterygota #insecta #arthropoda #USA

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2023 | Image IDs: Two photos of a brown and yellowish green stickbug on a grey surface, the first being close up to its head while the second is more of a perspective shot, focused on the body from the far end of the front legs /End IDs.]

#phasmid #phasmatodea #stick bugs #stick bug #stick insect #insects #insect #bug #Insects #Bugs #Bugblr #Neoptera #entomology #invertebrates #inverts #arthropods #photos #photo #Wasp House Sights

[stephanocardona]

grasshopper by norlies

#szöcske #Grünes Heupferd #Tettigonia viridissima #Heuschrecken #Orthoptera #Neuflügler #Neoptera #Fluginsek

[huilamagnifica-blog]

Siempre nos han encantado los insectos, su perfección, sus detalles y sus colores. #escarabajos #escarabajo #insecto #insectstagram #insectsworld #insects #insectsphotography #insects_pics #insectsofinstagram #insects_of_our_world #insects_perfection #insectsoftheworld #insectoshuila #insectos #coleóptero #coleoptero #koleos #pteron #insecta #neoptera https://www.instagram.com/p/CCOzw0dgpbd/?igshid=1r4oaeb32o2yy

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[vtolpatrol]

#evtol #neoptera #tailsitter

[mike13mt]

Libelloides coccajus by ernstpluess

#IFTTT #500px #insects #Libellen-Schmetterlingshaft #Libelloides coccajus #Neoptera #Pterygota #Neuroptera

[mossy-petrichor]

does lepidoptera include dragonflies?

nope! dragonflies are actually not only a different order (odonata), but a whole different infraclass (both belong to the class insecta - lepidoptera are part of the biggest and more modern group neoptera, while dragonflies are part of the most ancient group paleoptera because they cant fold their wings, in short)

(excuse the shitty image quality)