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typhlonectes · 2 days
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And now, a song about summer.. "AAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH!" - Cicada
Cicadas aren't just all, "hey girl, hey," they are an important source of food, especially for birds. They help aerate lawns, improve water filtration into the ground, and add nutrients to the soil as they decompose.
Photo of a prairie cicada by Ashley Riedel/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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crevicedwelling · 10 months
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flatid planthopper nymph, Singapore. hemipterans (true bugs) like these have mastered the art of covering oneself in weird waxy filaments, which are shed along with their last juvenile molt, revealing a sleek, gossamer-winged adult
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ecoamerica · 19 days
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thedisablednaturalist · 5 months
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FUCKING
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ANGY
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(A planthopper nymph in the family flatidae)
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herpsandbirds · 21 days
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Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia
photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)
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glowlowo · 3 months
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me when im a bowling alley carpet
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hemelytra · 9 months
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oh tylozygus geometricus, you little rascal…
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bugsoupforthesoul · 5 months
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I have never been more jealous of ANYONE!
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ryancat · 18 days
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this guy :)
reference photo by shanelle97 , posted by @onenicebugperday here !
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ljsbugblog · 30 days
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'brown' insects are criminally overlooked, but are some of the most aesthetically pleasing creatures out there.
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No common name (Poecilometis histricus).
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jupiterswasphouse · 5 months
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[PHOTOS TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Four photos of a grey, brown, and black cicada on the end of a brownish grey wooden post /End IDs.]
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cnestus · 6 months
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to make up for all the recent rambling on here, please accept this preposterously tiny pentatomoid nymph
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apsciencebydan · 9 months
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Meet Gnat Bug. Gnat Bug fills a unique niche Nature has: Nature needs a bug which looks like this, and Gnat Bug fills the void perfectly. Thank you, Gnat Bug.
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crevicedwelling · 3 months
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I’m quite fond of scarlet and turquoise together, and Edessa rufomarginata displays them both in the form of a gorgeous stinkbug!
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seen in Costa Rica, alongside an equally beautiful juvenile of the same species. they are quite common in this habitat but no less pretty for it!
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rattyexplores · 9 months
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Giant Scale Insect
I got a bit of a shock when I saw this thing.
At first I thought it might've been the larva of those big leaf beetles I found. Was very surprised to discover it was a scale insect.
Unidentified, genus Monophlebulus
28/03/23
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herpsandbirds · 3 months
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Picasso Bug aka Zulu Hud Bug (Sphaerocoris annulus), family Scutelleridae, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa
photograph by @naturebydanielrosengren
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colorsoutofearth · 3 months
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Australian green grocer cicada (Cyclochila australasiae) in yellow form
Photo by Chris Mattison
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