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devour me (via)

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Cellar spider, Leptopholcus podophthalmus, Pholcidae

Female cellar spiders hold their egg sac in their mouth parts until they hatch - in these photos, the spiderlings are in the process of emerging. Also featuring a very tiny parasitoid Scelionine wasp visible in photos 1-4.

Photos by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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Pellucid Hawk Moth aka Coffee Bean Moth (Cephonodes hylas), family Sphingidae, Bhandardara, India

photograph by Nitin Prabhudesai

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Metallic Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha metallica), female, family Araneidae, Solomon Islands

photograph by Piotr Naskrecki

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Marina’s babies are here!!! they must’ve hatched just hours ago

I won’t count them yet since I don’t want to bother the little family, but there’s a lot, with babies hanging onto her back and her belly. so happy for her

(Phrynus whitei)

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Orchid Mantis

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Spiny handsome fungus beetle, Cacodaemon sp., Endomychidae

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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Euperilampus triangularis, a member of Chalcidoid Wasps

July 4, 2023

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

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Largeclasper cicada, Carineta diardi, Cicadidae

Found in Brazil and Paraguay. Photos 1-7 show normal coloration while 8-10 show coloration immediately after emerging.

Photo 1 by deniszabin, 2 by ricardomoyano, 3-4 by carlosalexandreraposo, 5 by rodrigo_m_ferronato, 6 by carlossch, 7 by joaopaulorosa, 8-9 by gabyfachinelli, and 10 by cbernz

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Firefly Glow-in-the-Dark Pin Set // Kili Midi

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Red chalcidid wasp, Conura rufa, Chalcididae

Photographed in Florida by aliandbrice

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I saw a picture of a sabertooth longhorn beetle and their markings reminded me of tattoos and that’s how the idea for this drawing came about…

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Artist: cz bugsart

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Milky owlfly, Libelloides lacteus, Ascalaphidae, Neuroptera

Photographed in Croatia by Nikola Rahmé // Instagram

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For scale:

Photo by jakovosdemetriou

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A la frontière du soleil