Creepy Crawlies!

Entomology (from Greek ἔντομος, entomos, "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented", hence "insect"; and -λογία, -logia[1]) is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology. Though technically incorrect, the definition is sometimes widened to include the study of terrestrial animals in other arthropod groups or other phyla, such as arachnids, myriapods, earthworms, land snails, and slugs.

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Please guys, look at my favorite bug

it’s called a trash bug and it’s the cutest thing ever they just collect pieces of stuff off the ground to disguise themselves from predators 

SO TINY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

LOOK AT THIS LIL PUFF 

HE’S A LIL GARBAGE MAN AND I LOVE HIM

then they turn into this adorable lil bug called a Lacewing

it’s so pretty!!!!! I’M SO PROUD!!!!! MY TRASH BUG ALL GROWN UP!!!!!!!

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Baeus sp. of the Hymenopteran family Platygastridae AKA the cutest little wasp in the entire world.

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🐌🐝

lesbian bugs

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snails aren’t bugs they’re molluscs and even bees aren't ‘true bugs’ but they’re much closer to it 

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as long as they’re gay you can call the bugs whatever you want

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giving birth

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Centris decolorata.  Puerto Rico!  

What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees.  How lovely too that this is a bee found in agricultural areas…a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don’t exist.  Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees on the island.  

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sam droege, bee servant

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Met this small friend today too. She’s a goldenrod crab spider!

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I’ve been trying to photograph these gray bees (Mining bee, Andrenidae?) for a couple of seasons now.  They are very fast and very wary and don’t stay on any flower for long. Luckily this one decided to hang out on a Japanese pieris leaf and groom itself.

April 3, 2017, southeastern Pennsylvania

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Bug of the Day

Can’t wait til tomorrow to post this, two of the Cecropia I raised from eggs last summer emerged today, here’s the male. I’m so excited!!!!

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Tortoise beetle, Cassidinae by Andreas Kay Via Flickr: from Ecuador: www.flickr.com/andreaskay/albums

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Flower Chafer, Narycius opalus, male, ~ 2.5 cm, endemic to the Whestern Ghats of India

photograph by Sandilya Theuerkauf | Wikimedia