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Sideblog mainly for showing insect photography. Main blog: @oatpolka

[stickbugenjoyer]

Beautiful guy from 2024

[onenicebugperday]

Weaver ant mimicking moth, Homodes sp., Erebidae

Found in South and Southeast Asia and Australia

Photos 1-3 (caterpillar) by sohkamyung and 4 (adult) by prosenjit

[stickbugenjoyer]

Atteva aurea - Ailanthus Webworm Moth.

July 31st 2024.

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen the magnificent rainbow scarab (Phanaeus vindex)? This colorful dung beetle can be found in parts of the eastern and central United States. While most dung beetles are dull shades of brown or gray, this species is one of a handful adorned in striking iridescent colors. Males also sport large horns on their heads! Like other dung beetles, this insect rolls dung into balls to incubate its young. It also digs dung-filled tunnels nearby to ensure that the newborn beetles will have enough to eat. 

Photo: Thomas Shahan, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[addicted2wasps]

**Edit** It's FINISHED! :) An Ichneumonid genus of each subfamily! Keep in mind that there are THOUSANDS (if not more) species of Ichneumonid wasps, including those we haven't yet discovered, and extinct ones. There are many, many genera as well, but I picked one for each subfamily. Obviously, morphology is very diverse within a subfamily, so these characters don't represent the subfamily as a whole, but are genera that occur within their designated subfamilies. You can have two Ichneumonid genera/species from the same subfamily that look substantially different morphologically.

Idiogramma (Tryphoninae)

Diplazon (Diplazontinae)

Amblyjoppa (Ichneumoninae)

Campoplex (Campopleginae)

Therion (Anomaloninae)

Euceros (Eucerotinae)

Theronia (Pimplinae)

Metopius (Metopiinae)

Opheltes (Ctenopelmatinae)

Odontocolon (Xoridinae)

Coleocentrus (Acaenitinae)

Orthocentrus (Orthocentrinae)

Echthrus (Cryptinae)

Chriodes (Nesomesochorinae)

Melanodolius (Sisyrostolinae)

Oxytorus (Oxytorinae)

Banchus (Banchinae)

Hyperacmus (Cylloceriinae)

Megarhyssa (Rhyssinae)

Podoschistus (Poemeniinae)

Hybrizon (Hybrizontinae)

Arotrephes (Phygadeuontinae)

Lycorina (Lycorininae)

Lepidura (Mesochorinae)

Enicospilus (Ophioninae)

Probles (Tersilochinae)

Diacritus (Diacritinae)

Collyria (Collyriinae)

Labena (Labeninae)

Brachycyrtus (Brachycyrtinae)

Alomya (Alomyinae)

Tatogaster (Tatogastrinae)

Ateleute (Ateleutinae)

Microleptes (Microleptinae)

Pedunculus (Pedunculinae)

Clasis (Claseinae)

[thefloralmenace]

Can we boost this one until it reaches the Oklahoma City Tumblrites? This seems like something this website could rally and solve. Help save all this genetic information? I messaged them to offer to consult with the entymology lab near mine to see if they could store the bugs with us, but they are VERY far away and would have to drive long distance to us.

[headspace-hotel]

my sister got a book for christmas on how to care for tarantulas alongside the tarantula supplies (she's wanted one since she was 8, and she's 15 now) and basically it appears to have been written by an AI.

She realized quickly that the book was riddled with errors, repetitive and badly written, and after some investigation found that it was self published using a website that offers AI tools to "help" you write your book

What a disgrace.

[spinabifidaoccultist-deactivate]

Same but a wild foraging guide.

Misspellings and repeated paragraphs aside. It had poke berry listed as edible without the specification of it needing to be young plants. It also had chicken of the woods confused with Jack-o-lantern mushroom. The id pictures were a jumble of Jack-o-lanterns and Chicken of the woods. I am lucky enough to have grown up eating both of these so I could spot the problems, but this shit is seriously dangerous.

[headspace-hotel]

OH NO.

[stickbugenjoyer]

Xylocopa virginica - Eastern carpenter bee nectar robbing from scarlet bee balm. July 19, 2023

[stickbugenjoyer]

Lepturinae - Flower longhorn beetle. August 1, 2023

[apsciencebylyn]

Common names can be a bit hit or miss, but every time I see a giant katydid I think damn they got it right.

[moths-daily]

Moth Of The Day #249

Ghostly Silkmoth

Ceranchia apollina

From the saturniidae family. They can be found in Madagascar.

Image sources: [1] [2]

[crevicedwelling]

cute iNaturalist observations:

“hey! that’s me!”

Banana Cockroach from Calle La Trocha, Puntarenas, CR on November 14, 2022 at 10:31 PM by Joe crutwell

[headspace-hotel]

But I really do dislike how much veganism-the-ideology has taken over the discussion on climate change and how to fix our foodways, for reasons that include but are certainly not limited to:

people who believe that farming animals is innately bad and unethical attributing climate change to "animal agriculture" when most of the negative impacts come from beef specifically, which makes the problem seem MUCH less solvable than it actually is.

animal rights activists and organizations have been given a seat at the table discussing how to solve climate change and biodiversity loss, when they include people that believe things like "zoos are inherently bad" "domestication is equivalent to slavery" "it's never necessary to cull overpopulated species" and "hunting is always bad"

The way we grow plant crops is SO fucked as well—nitrogen fertilizer causes so much pollution, use of pesticides and herbicides is probably the main cause of the decline of insects, we are losing topsoil way way too fast— but we have people naively proclaiming that switching to "plant based diets" is the answer

the way "veganism as Solver Of Human Problems" puts the focus and responsibility entirely on individual choice instead of changing the way food systems work. I'm sorry but people cannot personal-choice their way out of a system that is fucked by design and that they need in order to not starve

the stereotyping of farmers as evil and sadistic people who love to watch animals suffer for a profit. Who benefits

rejecting outright the idea that farming or hunting animals could ever be sustainable or acceptable on any scale when indigenous people worldwide have done it for millennia, animals have been domesticated for 12,000+ years, and not everyone can even survive on a strictly plant based diet

anti-indigenous racism

anti-indigenous racism

entangling so much energy and effort to removing all nuance and advocating a personal lifestyle change that is not possible to accomplish and/or sustain long term for most people instead of literally anything specific and effective

^who benefits

[stickbugenjoyer]

Bombus sp. - bumblebee on Common Morning Glory

[stickbugenjoyer]

Dysdera crocata - woodlouse spider.

[herpsandbirds]

Tiger Moth (Areas galactina), family Erebidae, MCM Nature Discovery Villa, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

photograph by David Fischer

[strongermonster]

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

[strongermonster]

this is what i mean

[degenderates]

Via @bulbaderp

[itistimetodisappear]

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

[onenicebugperday]

Fireflies and other night-flying bugs also would benefit from dimmer, red LED lights that interfere less with their mating and navigation. Though with lights around your house and in your yard, darkness is much, much better for them whenever possible. Keeping lights on motion sensors instead of on all night is very helpful.