#entomology

[fandolion]

Bugblr would love this diorama my coworker made me for secret Santa

[ordheist]

do you like my bugs????

[addicted2wasps]

My new earrings!!! 😃 (Everybody, act surprised)..... 🤯

For those interested, you can get them on Etsy!

[apsciencebydan]

Welcome back, weird, sculptured little friends 🖤 Kapala floridana wasps are just weird little guys. Males (like this guy) have fantastic antlers for antennae, and, uhh, that booty? Like that's a purse, that's a carry-on bag. He's a very silly gargoyle and I love him.

[beausbugbiome]

Hello its me again! found this female at work one morning Google kept telling me it was some kind of regal moth but didn't specify

Thought I ask you on this have a nice evening/night

Hi, friend! I think this lovely creature is a Syssphinx bicolor or Honey Locust Moth! I’m not terribly familiar with moths, not as much as beetles, anyway. So I had to do a tiny bit of digging, but it was fun!

Thank you for asking, I love these messages! Hope you also have a wonderful night!💖

[hallucinogeniusvmjp]

Real longhorn beetle terrarium necklace 💙✨️🌿

Linktr.ee/hallucinogeniusvmjp

[pistagio]

rosy maple moth 🍁

[lydiajoypalmer]

June Sticker Club - almost Monarch season! Join my patreon anytime this month for this guy as a sticker <3

[ljsbugblog]

had the pleasure of watching two Potter wasp ladies collecting dirt side-by-side. both are members of the subfamily Eumeninae, a cosmopolitan group of wasps containing over 3000 species across 198 recognised genera (over 300 species found here in Australia).

the photo below is a familiar face for the blog, the same species of Potter wasp that I photographed drinking from the pond last Summer, some of my favourite photos I've taken so far.

her dirt-collecting companion has also appeared on the blog before, and is the Yellow-and-black Potter Wasp (Delta campaniforme). this individual was seen taking her dirt-ball right into the arm of one of our lawn chairs to build her nursery :')

(middle) Unknown Potter Wasp, female (subfamily Eumeninae), April '24.

(bottom) Yellow-and-black Potter Wasp, female (Delta campaniforme), April '24.

[miyrumiyru]

Upperside wings of male is black, unlike tannish female

Females have orange half moon shaped spots on their upperside of hindwings but males aren't have or very faint orange half moon shaped spots

Male smells like 'deer musk'

It's pretty easy to distinguish them to other Swallowtail butterflies family as they have red furs on their thorax and abdomen!

사향제비나비 - Spring adults (Atrophaneura alcinous)

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[bugmuncherr]

[ratcandy]

we just keep naming bugs like this

[beausbugbiome]

So today I excitedly walked into work exclaiming that I saw my stick insects mating last night and, to my surprise, my coworkers wanted to see! We only had surgeries today so the hospital was fairly empty. So everyone gathered around and looked at these pictures of Branch and Twig doing the do. It was definitely the highlight of my day!

One of my coworkers joked that they were rubbing together to create fire… cause they’re, y’know, “sticks” lol