#Insecta

[autisticplants]

i found lots of different Eumorpha fasciatus caterpillar color morphs today!

[snototter]

A tuliptree silkmoth (Callosamia angulifera) in North Carolina, USA

by Jim Petranka

[rattyexplores]

Measuring caterpillars is a pain...

[life-on-our-planet]

🦋Danaus plexippus🦋 ©BBC Earth

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

How about Xylocopa violacea (violet carpenter bee)?

Of course!

Photos thanks to the John Russel Honey Company & Steven Falk.

[creatureimages]

anti-wasp sentiment is going to turn me into the joker. "oh i hate wasps >:(((((((( but i love bees!!!!!" L + ratio + bees are wasps + name more five species of bee + honeybees are an ecological nightmare even within their native range + the overwhelming majority of wasps are non-stinging parasitoids + the majority of insects might be non-stinging parasitoid wasps? any hymenopterologists/coleopterologists/biostatisticians know how realistic this paper is? (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-018-0176-x) + have you ever actually been stung by a wasp?

anyway heres a whimsical ichneumonid

[internetdruid]

Ummmm.... can I get 1 🐌 please?

Shiny leaf beetle!

(Lamprosoma sp.)

[rainsroaming]

lil guy

[reanimateobjects]

[collemblogging]

Lophocampa maculata (Spotted Tussock Moth)

[acarinarium]

I was in the mood for some bug doodles

Feel free to give suggestions for more

[coffeenuts]

[snototter]

An orange huntsman wasp (Cryptocheilus bicolor) paralyses a wolf spider to parasitize later

by John Anderson

[rattyexplores]

Beautiful Macarostola moth found on the glass window of a Kmart.

24/11/23 - Macarostola sp.

QLD:WET

[life-on-our-planet]

Kallima inachus (oakleaf butterfly)