#weird insect

[creepybits]

Creatonotos gangis

This very real moth found in South East Asia and part of Australia has been making the rounds on the internet thanks to a viral video made popular by The Independent.

The “thing” on its abdomen is called a coremata and is used to produce a pheromone called hydroxydanaidal to attract mates. Some males can produce up to 400 milligrams of the pheromone. The size of the coremata and the amount of hydroxydanaidal produced depends on the diet of the insect in its caterpillar stage and if the diet included pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

[tigerjeff]

Camouflaged insect....

[berpost]

ups i forget about this so before this month ends, here all this stuff i forget becouse life.

[weirdpictures]

A wasp looks like it is doing a daring trapeze act while being dangled from a blade of grass by four red ants. The insects lifted the wasp by his wings as they carried him back to their nest. Photographer Uda Dennie captured the team work outside his home in Batam Island, Indonesia. He said: "I love taking close-up photos of insects because it reveals things you rarely see. I went outside to look for insects and found these ants working together to carry the dead wasp back to their nest."

Picture: Uda Dennie/solent

[lincolnneal]

i found one of these last year... i hadn't even known they existed until i caught one of these giants. they have no mouth.