#-milkweed bug

[postcards-and-postcrossing]

Animal Stamps

The Netherlands – 2011 Buffalo Germany – 2023 Cat Canada – 2023 Mother and Baby Sea Otter. Designer Meredith MacKinlay, of Halifax-based Egg Design, chose embroidery as the basis for the design because of the association that fabrics have with feelings of homeyness and familial love – and because needlework lends texture to the animals’ fur and feathers. Temagami Anishinaabe artist Caroline…

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Look at this adorable chonky tomato!!!!!!!! Who knew milkweed leaf beetle larvae were so CUTE?

[vandaliatraveler]

Summer has arrived, and with it, the single greatest proliferation of life in Central Appalachia. This is the time of great, ostentatious wildflowers, one more showy and resplendent than the next, each competing with the other for the swarms of pollinators that have emerged to drink from the earth's sweet nectar pots, find their mates, and plant their eggs in the all-too-brief span before their whirring energies have faded into oblivion. At no time do I feel more connected to life's urgent, relentless pulse than in the electric heat of summer; the rich meadows, bogs, streambanks, and hedgerows are my temples and the tiny creatures that come to them to feed and renew their kind are the only intermediaries I need to realize true spiritual peace and joy.

The photos above are from a late afternoon bike ride on Deckers Creek Trail.

[spiralshells]

Guy vaguely based on the aphids who used to live here until the milkweed died

[blessedscavengers]

kill your lawn save the pollinators

made in 2022

[onenicebugperday]

@honeydoe12 submitted: Red milkweed beetle on, you guessed it, milkweed

Milkweed always offers a treasure trove of pals!

[kiabugboy]

Bunga widuri, Calotropis gigantea on the side of a road.

I took some seeds, hoping they'll grow in my neighborhood. There were lots of Carpenter bees and I think those are red fire bug nymphs?

[calicoarthropodcrafts]

milkweeding

Found a brilliant jumping spider who I couldn't get good pics of.

This red milkweed beetle fell on its back to escape me. Look at it all scrunched up.

Here's a selection of milkweed fellows

and here are the bees (and one COCK CHAFER)

Mite on a buttercup

[herpsandbirds]

hi! could I get an ID for this little cutie?

(location is Southeast Arizona)

Bug ID - AZ, USA:

Henlo, yesss, I believe this bug is the nymph of a Western Milkweed Bug (Lygaeus k. kalmii), family Lygaeidae.

Species Lygaeus kalmii - Small Milkweed Bug - BugGuide.Net

Lygaeus kalmii - Wikipedia

[endivinity]

two of them

[ichneumoniid]

Milkweed beetles I love you forever

(Tetraopes tetropthalmus, 7/4/2024)

[jenfoundabug]

Small milkweed bug (Lygaeus kalmii) Northern California, US

[bigpappahope]

[ouzel-time]

A local BBB (Big Beautiful Bee) enjoying my swamp milkweed.

[raybeetle]

bug pictures i might’ve forgot to post

[onenicebugperday]

@lhinelle submitted: Hi! what kind of friend is eating my milkweed in Minneapolis MN? Thanks so much!

Hello! This is a red milkweed beetle, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus. Very common on milkweed!