Curiosity & Wonder

This blog will follow my journey through collecting information and objects, working through ideas, making things, and dealing with my senior thesis project.

[quilbug-cam]

I'm so used to bugs running away from my camera, so imagine my confused excitement when this gorgeous planthopper crawled out of its hiding spot and started posing for the camera instead!

Curious lil peepers~

Look at its beautiful emerald green abdomen!!

🪲ID Guess: Green and Black Planthopper (Desudaba psittacus) 🌿Date: November 2025

[razehider]

a rare case of two Charaxes jasius on a single leaf, owing more to their lack of awareness than any sort of social tolerance, although a fight would surely break out if they realized one of the siblings is a whole instar ahead of the other. you'll have to excuse the poor lighting as this photo was taken on a beautiful autumn night at the pitch black hour of - let me check - ah yes, five pm

(October 29th, 2025)

[samanthaquartz]

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Wilhelm Kuhnert (German, 1865–1926), "Rock Dove, Wood Pigeon, European Turtle Dove, and a Pouter Pigeon"

[herpsandbirds]

 Andaman Day Gecko (Phelsuma andamanensis), male, family Gekkonidae, Andaman Islands, India

photographs by Narendra Athnikar

[photogdenography]

Stream Sipping

Arizona Sister - Embudo Canyon, NM

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 1282

[jadafitch]

HAPPY NATIONAL MOTH WEEK! Celebrate with moth ART and STICKERS! Moths of North America poster Saturniid Moths of North America poster

[buggle-404]

The creature

Since this post is very popular now, I will edit to add a little more information! This bug is Calyptocephala attenuata, a species of tortoise beetle. It lives in Central and South America.

Further reading: Wikipedia , iNaturalist , and ResearchGate

Anti-trans and TERFs stop following us. You aren't welcome here.

[alliescuriositycabinet]

Fuck Terfs. Long live beetle.

[celestialmacros]

Oblique Longhorn Bee (Epimelissodes obliquus)

July 13, 2026

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[wintercorrybriea2]

juvenile springtail

[littleorangemushrooms]

Azure damselfly Coenagrion puella. Dead but still looking at you.

Meadow pond, Wales

[sellos]

[lauraciello]

I made a pride flag out of free bug stock photos.

Feel free to use it! 🌈🌈🌈🌈

[bug-lovers-island]

Tasty strawberry jellyyy

[onenicebugperday]

Orange and black tiger moth, Asura sp., Arctiinae, Erebidae

Photographed at Airlie Beach, Queensland, by Steve & Alison1

Shared with permission; please do not remove credit or re-post!

[apsciencebylyn]

*clack-clack of tiny teef*

PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙

(they're parasitoids of parasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)