critterbug

Hello hi 'oOOo'/ 🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨

[ketrinadrawsalot]

How mimicry happens, explained in simpler terms.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Bees of Progress 🌈

Red - A leafcutting bee native to Vietnam Orange - The world's largest bumblebee is endemic to South America! Yellow - The Valley Carpenter Bee, my favorite bee Green - The Metallic Epauletted-Sweat Bee has a cool name Blue - The Blue Carpenter Bee lives in Southeast Asia Purple - The Mixed Orchid Bee is a stunning metallic creature White - The Ashy Mining Bee is often found in European parks, lawns, and flowerbeds Pink - There are no naturally pink bees, so here's an Alkali Bee covered in pink pollen Light Blue - The Blue-Banded Bee's buzz pollination is important for plants in Australia Brown - The Brown-Banded Carder Bee is the fluffiest bumblebee Black - Wallace's Giant Bee is the world's largest bee! Purple/Yellow - There's no bees that are both yellow and purple, so here's the world's smallest bee

We love honeybees, but the world is full of bees that also deserve our attention!

[lauraciello]

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

Feel free to use it! 🌈🌈🌈🌈

[ieafy]

mantises

[crazysodomite]

Basyas eating...

[onenicebugperday]

Surreal insect paintings by Nathiola on Reddit (Posted with permission!)

This artist on Instagram

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Ropalidia saussurei!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Most other wasps that have green on them are not a true green, and instead only appear green due to what is called "structural color"— the micro-make up and surface of the scales reflect light to make it appear that color as opposed to true pigment, which is a chemical mix that results in the color. This is why so many green wasps (and birds for that matter) have a metallic sheen to them, as the angle the light hits at will also effect the perceived color.

There are only a handful of wasp species with true green pigment, the majority of which can only be found in Madagascar.

[sheishine]

Insect Studies.

The print is available in my Etsy shop! 

*Please note* U.S. orders ship once a week on TUESDAYS due to limited access to a faraway drop-off location.

（ほぼA4）ポスターは Etsyショップで扱っています。

[floridensis]

made some great friends today

[etcstims]

Clawing at you | source

[wasp-with-a-computer]

[sheishine]

Asking for Advice.

相談を持ちかける。

捕まった！

[great-american-chapel]

Emerging dragonfly at 1am

[amesushu]

Team Chaotix week day 4 : Old friends

[penanggalan]

Thorax porcellana, a species from India, carries its young (i.e. nymphs) under its domed forewings for their first two instars. They stay in the brood pouch for about 7 weeks. The nymphs obtain a pinkish liquid or “cockroach milk” secreted by the dorso-lateral region of the tergites on their mother’s abdomen. They also pierce her cuticle with their specialized sharp mandibles and feed on her blood (haemolymph).

[onenicebugperday]

Rabbit botfly, Cuterebra buccata, Oestridae, Diptera. Found in the United States.

Bot flies are parasites of mammals; the rabbit botfly, as its name suggests, parasitizes rabbits specifically. Female botflies will deposit their eggs either directly onto the host or on a vector insect which then visits the animal and unwittingly deposits them. After hatching, the larvae burrow into the skin of the host and feed on living tissue. Over a period of weeks, the larvae mature, eventually emerge from the host, and drop to the ground where they burrow into the soil to pupate.

Photos 1-3 by meaddy, 4-5 by awells, 6-7 by janetatlock, 8 by newmexicobirder, 9 (larva) by aphanotus, and 10 (adult fly with pupal case) by peterwchen

**Photo 9 shows the larva of a related species, Cuterebra fontinella, the mouse botfly. I couldn’t find a photo to share legally of the rabbit botfly larva, but they look pretty much identical.

[mossworm]

today I learned fully about labouls, ectoparasitic fungi which are only found growing on live insects, but do not kill the host. they're just a kind of annoying small thingie that lives in the world and propagates