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A blog dedicated tothe love of bugs.One featured bug post per dayplus lots of submissions.Submissions do not count towards the one (1) nice bug per day!
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Run by: Taylor (ex0skeletal-undead) (he/him)
Luna moth header/background by Clara McAllister.
Hi!! I wanted to share when I found a fresh batch of baby mantises last year. I lived in central Indiana at the time. They were still in the process of hatching and after a couple of hours they were all gone!! It was a wonderful moment to witness. :) I wanted to share it with you. I have a couple of videos of them running around if you're interested.
They are VERY cute and precious and I definitely want to see a video
There was one time a couple years ago, I didn't get a picture, but I found a golden tortoise beetle right in my back yard, it was wonderful! I never thought they were in my area
Next time I find one I'm definitely gonna get a picture
@greasiest-larry submitted: Found this little guy indoors of all places, I know he's an assassin bug but idk what type, I'm in [removed] (delete location please) if you're able to ID, if not that's okay, just wanted to share them!
What a cute guy! It's one of the spiny assassin bugs in the genus Sinea :)
these delicate nocturnal flyers from Costa Rica aren’t moths, but derbid planthoppers, relatives of lanternflies and flatids. derbids are often quite oddly shaped for hemipterans; these three (all in the subtribe Derbini) have strikingly broad, flat wings always held open and coated in a waxy powder.
their wispy texture and glowing halo when illumated by a flashlight gave them an ethereally angelic appearance as they fluttered through the nighttime rainforest.
regrettably this is a much understudied group and I couldn’t find a good source for identification for any of them.
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Pride pods!!! I’m a queer artist and I love bugs so I gotta combine the two with some cute isopod pride acrylic pins! ✨ Along with the pins there’s going to be two stretch goals, one for isopod washi tape and another for isopod sticker sheets!
Had an unexpected guest in the shower! 🤣 House centipedes are much more common, this is only the second time I see a scolopendra in my house. Could it be that it was using its antennae to drink from the condensation droplets inside the glass?
I suspect this is not an adult, what do you think? It doesn't have that many legs yet, plus it doesn't look quite like the most common species in northern Italy. Body size is about 2–2.5 cm, I'd say.
What a cutie! They wouldn't use their antennae to drink, they'd just use their mouthparts for that. I'm afraid I can't tell you much about this fella, though, as I'm not familiar with Italian species and I don't know a ton about centipedes anyway! @crevicedwelling would likely know more than I would.
I used to be sad all winter long since the pretty bugs of summer die off or only exist as eggs, dormant pupae, or slumbering adults… but with my camera I can now appreciate the little bugs that stay active even through the cold!
a bouquet of mites—if you have never taken time to appreciate mites, you are missing out.
springtails are classic charismatic mesofauna, with the cute globulars being a staple of the cool season, but I also saw some entomobryomorphs and a neelid just a fraction of a millimeter long!