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Best Bug Tourney Finale
which is the best bug?
American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
Cicada (Cicadoidea)
American bumblebee propaganda:
They're so cute, just a little guy.
Cicada propaganda:
[taken from the tags of their former poll]: I LOVE CICADAS I LOVE SCREAMING; VOTE CICADAS THEYRE LITERALLY BABIES; cicadas are the bugs that will outshine god, their cries are loud and beautiful, also nincada line is my favorite pokemon line and cain is my favorite ttrpg
Bombus pensylvanicus on Pycnanthemum muticum / American Bumblebee on Clustered Mountain Mint
Got in to work today and had many feelings I need to write about later but I saw this absolutely massive bumblebee on my way in so.
Like everything is gonna be okay, man
Have you ever looked into the eyes of a bumblebee? 🤍🐝
@give-bug submitted: I went to a nature preserve recently, lots and lots of nice bugs! I know most of these are too blurry to ID, but North Texas if you can recognize any of them.
Lol took me a minute to even find the bug in the first one. Definitely can't ID that. From there down, though: some kinda duskywing butterflies, I'll assume a mud dauber, tiger swallowtail,common whitetail dragonfly, parson spider, American bumblebee!
Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the American bumblebee, whose populations have plummeted by nearly 90%, may warrant Endangered Species Act protection. The announcement kicks off a one-year status assessment of the species.
Today’s finding comes in response to a petition filed in 2021 by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Bombus Pollinator Association of Law Students of Albany Law School. Only two bumblebees — the rusty patched and Franklin’s — are now protected under the Act.
The American bumblebee was once common in open prairies, grasslands and urban areas across most of the United States but has experienced a rapid and severe decline. Over the past 20 years, it has disappeared or become very rare in 16 states; overall, observations of the bee have declined by nearly 90%.
American bumblebees are highly recognizable across the eastern United States, where they’re most common; the largest remaining populations are in the southern Great Plains and Southeast. But the bees are also found in southwestern deserts and, historically, as far north as North Dakota and Maine.
They buzz across a wide range of open habitats, where they forage on a variety of flowering plants. The decline of this once-common species could have serious consequences for ecosystems: their varied diet makes them a highly important pollinator, essential for wild plant life as well as for the production of cultivated crops.
The species’ decline has been the result of multiple concurrent threats, including habitat loss, pesticides, disease, climate change, and competition from (non-native) honeybees. Pesticide use, especially the widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides, reduces survival and harms reproduction as well as bumblebee immune systems. And weakened immune systems make the bees more susceptible to diseases that are spread by domesticated bumblebees and honeybees.
Bombus auricomus
SHE’S A QUEEN!!!!!!!
Best Bug Tourney Semifinals Poll 2
which is the best bug?
American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
Glasswing butterfly (Greta oto)
American bumblebee propaganda:
They're so cute, just a little guy.
Glasswing butterfly propaganda:
It looks like something I made up as a kid but its real
