Buge :)

O yaaaa

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Hay

This is my bug blog. "Bug" because there'll be things other than just insects

Feel free to correct any misidentifications

Fire attack🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[disease]

COBALT BLUE TARANTULA (CYRIOPAGOPUS LIVIDUS)

[lemonsweet]

I have been thinking about opiliones a lot lately such an underrated arachnid.. They don't have venom or fangs so they don't do a lot of crazy hunting like spiders or scorpions they love plants and mushrooms and decaying matter.

Their mushroom ^

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THEY FOUND THE WHITE WITCH CATERPILLAR! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

For context: the white witch is one of the contenders for the largest moth in the world (biggest *wingspan*--loses to the atlas in terms of wing surface area, and loses to the regal for weight). It has a huge range, and the adult is fairly common.

But no one had ever seen a caterpillar. At all. There were only guesses as to what it might look like and what it ate. until this year. These are some of the first images ever taken of it!!

[spidersdaily]

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WEEVIL!

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Cute bugs

[onenicebugperday]

Quiet-calling katydid, Arachnoscelis feroxnotha, Meconematinae

Found in Costa Rica. Photos 1-5 are male and 6-8 are female.

Photos by Frank Deschandol // Instagram - Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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Red-breasted green tiger moth, Chlorhoda metamelaena, Erebidae

Photographed in Colombia by alefox123

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common spiny flower mantis, as an apology for the hiatus🌷

[hawkpartys]

Mothing sheet highlight: this guy! Recently had the joy to contribute an iNaturalist first, meaning the very first observation of this species on iNaturalist worldwide was by me. There are now 10 observations of it, because I proceeded to post 9 more, these guys seem to love my sheet. Not my first worldwide first, but the first one I've had actually local to me. I've typed first so many times it doesn't look like a real word anymore

Zyginama dentata

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Eudryas brevipennis

another lucky find with only 21 observations worldwide on iNaturalist

[herpsandbirds]

Rose Myrtle Lappet Moth (Trabala vishnou), family Lasiocampidae, Johor, Malaysia

photograph by Varun Thangamani