How mimicry happens, explained in simpler terms.
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How mimicry happens, explained in simpler terms.
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!
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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.
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。
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Clawing at you | source
Asking for Advice.
相談を持ちかける。
捕まった!
Emerging dragonfly at 1am
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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).
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.
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