Entomology

This blog is to help me and others learn about insects and related that inhabit North America. I currently have a Bachelor of Science in biology.

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Fabric Insects

Molly Burgess on Etsy

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Guys do centaurs have to eat both horse food and human food?

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Centaur, eating out of a burlap sack of hay like it’s potato chips: So do you guys wanna get Chipotle later?

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Centaur: *kneeling on the ground, ripping up bits of grass and eating it*

Nearby horse: *neighs*

Centaur: Well it’s easy for you to bend over, isn’t it?

Horse: *snorts*

Centaur: *through a mouthful of grass* Well goody goody for you, but some of us have two spines.

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Human: Hey does somebody want the rest of my burger?

Centaur: Oh I’ll have it. I am starving.

Human: Didn’t you just eat like an entire barrel of hay?

Centaur: *snatches the burger* That was for the horse stomach not the human one. Don’t be racist, Carl.

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DON’T BE RACIST CARL

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That spine comment made me reevaluate my life

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Two spines, two ribcages, and six limbs baby! And a tail! Four shoulders!

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This picture makes my intellectual half happy but also causes me great pain

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is your intellectual half the horse half or the human half

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Head, Abdomen, Thorax. 6 limbs. Insect.

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That last comment hit me so hard I felt like Plato when Diogenes plopped a plucked chicken down and declared it a man

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So @ohwyrms is a parselmouth. And my inner Potter nerd is freaking out! Also @prehistoricsilverfish brought up the family Belostomatidae, also known as giant water bugs and toe-biters. Thank you for reminding me of these horror creatures! They are predators and suck bug juices. Yummy! Listen. Juvenile antlions and dragonflies are horrifyingly cute, but adult water bugs are even more so imo.

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Do u have any advice on becoming an entomologist like yourself?

I’m mostly just a hobbyist, but go outside and look! The best thing to do is just head out and look for critters (wear gloves!). I strongly encourage “capture & release,” btw. There so many websites, and books, and videos, and Tumblr accounts like mine. I don’t spend all my free time researching, but I am subscribed to several science channels on YouTube that I listen to at work, and actually rn! There are also honeybee classes, which is on my to do list!  You really just need to do hands on work, and explore, and try to figure out what it is you have found. Like always any advice below to help our friend here is awesome!

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WHAT!?!

@smackins YOU TRAINED A FLY!! WHAT!?! Everybody go home. Nothing tops this. Not even Mr. Miyagi and his chopsticks. That is beyond wicked. True Disney Royalty here. Need to bow to you and @helen007900. Not gonna lie, y’all’s powers made my day! :D

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Hey, I’m currently a freshman I’m college and a marine biology major but while taking an invert zoology class I fell in love with Arthropoda and even more with the superclass insecta. I really love the idea of being an agricultural entomologist but I’m wondering if I could do with with a marine biology undergrad degree and go to grad school for entomology

I am not honestly sure how to help you. I only have a Gen. Bio. undergrad, and I do this as a hobby. I would speak with an advisor and look at the requirements of Grad Schools entomology major to see if you have to take any additional classes. If anyone has any advice, please reply!

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When you handle true bugs, are you ever concerned that they’ll try to bite?

Nope! True bugs have a stiff proboscis that are used to suck plant juices. You are not a plant, therefore you are not tasty to them.

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Can you think of any reasons that wasps would let a human pick them up and land on a human willingly? Because Idk how to explain it I just know that for as long as I can remember wasps have really liked me. And it’s just wasps, bees and other insects don’t like me at all they have normal reactions of fear/agitation when I attempt to interact with them.

You are the newest and coolest Disney Royalty. Mammals and birds are overrated. In all honesty though? *shrugs*  You just have the magic touch I guess. Which is an awesome super power. Too bad The Wasp is taken as a superhero name.

:( If anyone has any similar experiences or info to share, please do so! I’m super curious who else has Royal Disney Blood. LOL!

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hi so im a teenager ive always been really interested in entomology and i would like to advance my knowledge of insects with a course or learning experience with structure that is more of a class. however, i dont have the resources to pay for an online college course on entomology so do you have any suggestions?

Hmmmmm…. Besides the obvious of buying insect books from a bookstore, which I recommend, go to your search engine and search “entomology” and “entomology taxonomy.” I know this sounds dumb, but! a lot of what I get in the search are university sites or nature sites, and hopefully you do too. You won’t get in depth info, however, I would start there, as well as websites like Quizlet. Some people, like myself, made my study notes public once I completed my test/semester. Any free articles are also a boon, and don’t be discouraged by big, unknown words, just search for a definition. The more you immerse yourself in the lingo/studies, the more familiar you will be. :D You can also learn the order and family names with Wikipedia, and use the references that are listed on the pages (don’t depend on Wikipedia, depend on the sources referenced in Wikipedia!) There is also a website that I love! 

https://www.insectidentification.org/ 

It is not just for insects either! The biggest advice I can give, is just go out and collect insects and use the website linked and other similar websites/books to identify it. Learn how each order has a differing body types/shapes, and you can start identifying families once you are comfortable with the orders I really hopes this helps, and I encourage anyone else with any advice to add on to this post. 

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Asks and DMs!

To help me get back on the bike, so to speak, I plan to answer the asks I received, sorry for the delay, which I will be doing on an actual computer once I get home from work. Also DM with basically anything insect/bug related, love to help people out with any questions!

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*Looks left, looks right, brushes the dust off*

So, it's been a while (4 years!!!). I have no excuse except living in an 3rd floor apartment these last years does not let me have as many bug exploring opportunities as living with my parents in the middle of nowhere did. I have also changed jobs and am about to move to a new apartment, so this isn't really a start up again, just a brief stop until I live in a place that allows me to continuously update on the insects I encounter. Thank you all for staying for so long!! It's kind of exciting and nice to see how many of y'all stayed around. But anywho, here's what I found at my work place earlier this week (which prompted me to brush the dust off this blog)! Look at this ferocious cutie!!

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Golden tortoise beetle transforming from gold to red

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What

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When your 24 hour premium skin wears off

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Alright, y'all. Bug nerd here. Yes, this is real. This is Charidotella sexpunctata. It’s able change color like this by filling and emptying its elytra (the wing covers) with water. The mirror-like gold effect is caused by it forcing water into separate layers of its elytra, smoothing them out to the point where they actually reflect light. By drawing the water out, the red pigment beneath is exposed. They do this whenever they’re disturbed as a defense mechanism, likely to mimic foul tasting lady beetles.

So, there’s a fun fact.

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A spy

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See the Unique Spiral Hives of the Australian Stingless Bee

February 2, 2018 - These spiral hives are the work of a type of Australian stingless bees. Tetragonula carbonaria is the only species to build upward, in a spiral pattern. Called "sugarbag bees," the insects are highly social, with one queen overseeing thousands of workers. A batch of 80 cells is built and provisioned at the same time, and after construction the queen bee will lay eggs in them. It's not clear why these stingless bees employ this unique pattern, but it may make it easier for the queen to navigate the hive.

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big boy is doing a little boogy and this tiny boy comes to attack him

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This is so funny 😂

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Entomology side of tumblr please tell me what’s going on here

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The bugs are Very scared and trying to Scare whatever spooked them.

Little guy is trying to climb on big boy and big boy is Spooked! once more by little guy.

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The Unlikely Survival of Bees in the Arctic

A new species has been identified in an archipelago once used for Soviet nuclear testing.

Insects always pop up in surprising places. 

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The fact that this joke can be made shows that English is doing fine

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Might as well pun with it.

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My backyard is awesome!

This was filmed in my backyard while my Dad was prepping for dinner. Sorry, if I sound like a totally dork. 

Also, I’m going on vacation, and I won’t be posting again until December fourth. Happy Thanksgiving, or any holidays you celebrate! :D