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Delphinium and Nightshade

Idolomantis diabolica, Devil’s Flower Mantids (female left, male right)

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At least one good thing happened today; I got this boy in the mail 🥰 he was very excited to get out of the box and fly around my house immediately

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I’ll have to take better pics later, but here’s my beautiful boy!!!

(Attacus atlas, Atlas Moth)

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Actias luna, Luna Moth

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Actias luna, Luna Moths

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i can be your angle................or yuor devil

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First Rosy Maple Moth of the season 💖💛

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These are what I was most excited to show you all! I found these at my blacklight setup when I was in Florida.

This is a mantidfly! They are not related to mantises at all, and are more closely related to lacewings. Convergent evolution caused them to have the same raptorial forearms that mantises do.

Unlike mantises, these guys go through metamorphosis. What’s more crazy is that their larvae are parasites of spider eggs! They crawl in the egg sac and eat the eggs, then they’ll pupate in the egg sac and emerge as an adult. Very interesting creatures!

The last pic is a close up of the hundreds of eggs one of them laid in the enclosure I put her in.

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Handful of Bess Beetles! Their little squeaks are so cute

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Polka-dot wasp moth (Syntomeida epilais)

#sorry for ghosting y’all I’m gonna try to post more again #nature #entomology #bug #insect #mine #moth #wasp moth #polka dot wasp moth #erebidae #lepidoptera

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whenenver i save a bug in trouble its kind of like im their mr beast

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ANYONE ELSE IN THE BENTHIC ZONE INDULGING ON SOME DETRITUS THIS AFTERNOON

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Just restocked these two patches in my shop! 🎉🎉

For my EU/UK customers, you can find them on my Etsy.

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This photo has been shared with me from multiple sources, all claiming that it’s a macro photo of a bee. It’s not. It’s AI “art.”

There are all kinds of anatomy issues but the most glaring are the lack of compound eyes and antennae and wing coming from the wrong place.

Here’s a cool real bee macro to compare:

Photo by Nicky Bay // All rights reserved; do not re-post!

#I’m really so sick of AI ‘art’