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how long will it take for him to find his food?

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Also, I took a most perfect picture of a bug yesterday

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Absolute unit of a robber fly found by eldoia87 on Reddit (posted with permission)

This beauty is a Beelzebub bee-eater, Mallophora leschenaulti

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COME GET YA’LL JUICE

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just gonna take this if you dont mind

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Flame Leg Millipede (Trigoniulus macropygus), family Trigoniulidae, Singapore

photograph by melvyn yeo

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Can I interest anyone in some cheese burgers 🍔 🦀

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Millipede under UV light. Many species of arthropods fluoresce, or glow, under ultraviolet light due to due to fluorescent compounds in their exoskeletons. At least one millipede genus, motyxia, is actually bioluminescent, meaning it can produce light on its own.

🐛 b.seahphotography on IG

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Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis, Lycidae

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

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

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i want. a cicada on one arm and a crayfish on the other

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you should post your millipede

HOW DID YUO FIND OUT ABOUT MY MILLIPEDE

anyways here it is

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Hairy pie-dish beetle, Helea perforata, Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)

Found in Western Australia

Photos 1-3 by jmwatson and 4 (for scale) by cal-wood

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today's bug things are these metal pill bugs by Matt Noris!

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in tears rn

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Sorry for posting so little as of late! Life has been quite hectic, and the insect hobby has fallen a little bit to the wayside, especially with such a rough year of seeing near zero wild ones.

I will eventually start posting again because there's been a couple of developments in the bug room