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Taxonomy Tournament: Insects

Lepidoptera. This order is made up of butterflies and moths. It is the second largest order (behind beetles) making up 10% of all described species of living things. They have large triangular wings and a proboscis for siphoning nectar.

Hymenoptera. This order is made up of wasps, ants, and bees. Their mouthparts are adapted for chewing, or in many species have become a proboscis for sucking nectar.

#they've been neck and neck for days #hymenoptera kill these fools

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Idioctis parilarilao: A new species of Intertidal Trapdoor Spider from Taiwan

One of only a few species of spiders known to live in marine intertidal zones

Info and images via: Yu et al, Journal of Arachnology on 6 October 2023

#holy shit

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ostracod laying on her side while casually eating fish flake like a classical roman noble reclining on a lectus

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fairy shrimp takes a moment to truly Consider the snail

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preening Scolopendra dehaani “Highland Cherry Red” baby

when they’re your primary means of sensing the world, it pays to keep your antennae clean! centipedes almost always clean both at a time, first one, then the other. it’s charming to see those deadly forcipules used to gently hook down an antenna

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POV you made a popular post about insects

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Close encounter of the third kind

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the crew, belowdecks

when observing hissing cockroaches, you might have noticed a few brown specks scrambling over their backs or gathered in the seams of their exoskeleton. they are Androlaelaps schaeferi, a species of mite that lives its whole lifespan onboard a giant cockroach host! the commensal A. schaeferi isn’t a parasite, though, and takes its meals from its hosts’ own. if the mite’s mooching helps clean where the roach itself can’t, the relationship might even be considered mutualism, where both species benefit.

on the white of a freshly molted roach, the mites are particularly conspicuous, and even the pale juveniles stand out.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Insects

Mantodea. This order is made up of mantises, elongated predators with enlarged forelegs adapted for catching prey.

Phasmatodea. This order is made up of insects that mimic plants. Members include stick insects and leaf-bugs

#wait let's put this one here too

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haha get vial’d dumbass

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if you’re curious about centipede sounds, here’s Agatha walking on some paper after her banana treat time.

42 little clicking nails ASMR? (well, really only about 38 are ever in contact with the ground)

(Scolopendra mutilans)

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Red and white debid planthopper, Saccharodite coccinea, Derbidae

Found throughout South and Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by simbason, 2 by tausher, 3 (mating) by cosmophasis, and 4-5 by ylsu

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Grabby-face Pancake (2022) was very, very large.

I had only seen newly-hatched owlfly bebbies beforehand, so this absolute unit knocking on the door of adulthood who turned up in some leaf litter gave me a good surprise. I fed this one a roach snack and released. 🤎

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I found a better photo of the brown Ancylometes bogotensis male on a leaf! I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard a spider get called ‘majestic’ before but he certainly was. king of that leaf

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Huntsman spider playing super smash brothers melee on the nintendo gamecube