Bug Friend

[sinobug]

Leaf Katydid (Phyllomimus sp., Pseudophyllinae, Tettigoniidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese grasshoppers, katydids and crickets on my Flickr site HERE…..

[realmonstrosities]

The Roslina Longicorn (Rosalia alpina) has the blues!

It’s nice to see a Roslina Longicorns out and about. It doesn’t happen often.

Adults like this are only around for 3 to 6 weeks, hanging out in forests from the Alps to Poland and Slovakia.

The rest of their time is spent as larvae munching through dry, decaying wood. They spend some three years like that!

Dead wood makes for a pretty shoddy diet, so it takes a long time of dedicated eating before a grub is big enough to metamorphose into a beetle that can easily be over an inch long.

…Images: Lammert Hilarides/David GENOUD

[typhlonectes]

Two Tiny Emerald Moths (family Geometridae) observed in Northern Australia

T - Comostola laesaria; B - C. pyrrhogona

photographs by Ian McMillan | Flickr

[buggirl]

Why be social? The costs and benefits of sociality in spiders

Sociality in spiders is extremely rare, but it has evolved several times. This begs the question: why be social? I aim to answer this by using social spiders found in Ecuador. I will determine the benefits and costs of sociality by measuring prey capture rates and parasite loads for four...

More cool research you can support!!  

Help Sam reach her goal, every dollar helps and experiment.com is a great way to directly affect scientific advancement.  

[louis-flx-07]

Pisaura mirabilis, araignée qui se trouve souvent à l’affut sur les orties.

[zivankira]

“Hi there!” Just a very photogenic spider.

[tarantulacuties]

We need to know.

[the-enchanted-mermaid]

Typhochlaena seladonia

[animals-animals-animals]

Saltmarsh Plume (Agdistis bennetii) (by nutmeg66)

[shyspottybug]

Please look at my cool legless beetle, I love him so much I found him like this 3 months ago on my way back from the grocery store. Assuming he's dead and being the vulture I am, I picked him up so he can go to my collection. I'm so glad I ended up doing that, because it turned out that he was alive, and here he is, these photos are recent and he's still with me, named Arvin by my friend I really don't know what happened, me and @salticibae think that something went wrong in the process of grub to bug, because even his wings are damaged. He is loved and he's managing though! He eats a variety of fruits, and has a nice house. He loves you all and he knows that if any of you are having a hard time, it will be getting better soon, he knows this and I trust him! ❤️ - On the identification part, I think he's some kind of rose chafer? If anyone knows please let me know!

[pinesmoke]

what a striking moth! what a feast of flowers!

[entophiles]

What is this beetle? I found it near Kamena vourla in Greece.

[shyspottybug]

I’m not 100% sure, but they are probably from the Chrysolina genus

[shyspottybug]

@salticibae is the best bug pal

[deadblog1321423]

Unkown Homoptera

I’m actually so upset about not being able to ID this one that I need to take a break from the computer for a bit. 

I literally have no idea what he could be at the moment, but he definitely looks like a mature specimen from the homoptera suborder. 

17/7/16

[shyspottybug]

A cute checkered beetle!

[hara-kiri]

my friend just sent me this i want to die

[shyspottybug]

A very shy orb weaver :0 everyone says he looks like pastry and I agree