#wheelbug

[bowelfly]

can i offer you some bugs in these trying times

[cuttledreams-bugs]

#Invertefest is still going and I've been very happy to be able to finish most of these guys in time!

Mole Cricket, Gant Ichneumon Wasp, Wheelbug and Pink Dragon Millipede!

[staticfinch]

The one thing I miss about Florida is all the bugs I would find in my own yard throughout the year.

I’ve found some really great critters in Vermont so far, but I am absolutely itching for it to heat up so I can start looking properly this summer

[inthedarkdarkforrest]

nature journal page from a couple weeks ago.

[small-witch-big-hat]

Wheelbug gets a Humanformer design!!! Love the jetpack and the spiky boots and the cyborg tummy-window armor look.

... and she made a friend. >:3c

Art by the amazing @howgalling , who is the BEST!

[ratbugs]

funny guy got a snack

so excited that i got this on camera

[katyazvonkovna]

wheel bug 11/13/2021

[calosoma-amitch]

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Wheelbug (Arilus carinatus), Mindo, Ecuador. January 2009. 

This species is the tropical relative to our North American wheelbug (A. cristatus), both of whom possess a large, wheel-shaped structure on their pronotum (”shoulders”). Wheel bugs are slow-moving predators that prefer to ambush other insects, notably soft-bodied prey like caterpillars, sawflies, and other larvae. Its mouthparts are modified like a heavy syringe, able to pierce exoskeleton and siphon fluids from its prey.The articulation in its head is somewhat flexible, allowing the head to swivel around and try to bite things from behind (in case you try to pick it up, for example...). 

Likely year-round in the tropics. (In contrast, its North American counterpart has one generation a year).