#Longhorn moth

[antiqueanimals]

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Leopard moth (Zeuzera pyrina)

Broad-bordered bee hawk-moth (Hemaris fuciformis)

Spurge hawk-moth (Hyles euphorbiae)

Pease blossom (Periphanes delphinii)

Magpie moth (Abraxas grossulariata)

Longhorn moth (Nemophora degeerella)

(Argyresthia brockeella) (no known common name)

[dougdimmadodo]

Green Longhorn Moth (Adela reaumurella)

Family: Fairy Moth Family (Adelidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

Common and widely distributed across temperate regions of northern Africa, Asia and Europe, Green Longhorn Moths are easily distinguished from any other moth species owing to their iridescent, metallic-looking wings and the extremely long antennae seen in males (potentially growing to be three times the length of the body,) which are believed to aid in finding mates through the detection of pheromones that indicate reproductive maturity. Found mainly in forests but also occasionally spotted in open grasslands, adult Green Longhorn Moths are unusual among moths in that they are active during the day, with males gathering in large swarms of up to 30 individuals on sunny days between April and June and awaiting the arrival of females, which can be distinguished from males due to their drastically shorter antennae. When a female passes by a swarm all of the males within it will take flight in an effort to impress and mate with her, and following successful mating (which takes place while still in flight) a female will lay her eggs among leaf litter on the forest floor. The caterpillars of this species live among the leaf litter they were born on, feeding on dead leaves and other forms of fallen vegetation while relying on a protective bag-like casing carried on their backs (made from leaf litter held together with silk) to both conceal them and protect them when confronted by predators. Caterpillars that survive until the late summer will seal the end of their bag in order to form a cocoon within which they will pupate over the winter, emerging in the following spring as winged, mature adults.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/56203-Adela-reaumurella

[onenicebugperday]

@robotzebra submitted: No id needed. Just thought i'd share some of the nice bugs i've seen recently while out on fieldwork.

BEE TONGUE. These are all really really good but I am especially in love with weevils!

[build-a-stim]

longhorn (2021) for @lovelypastelroses!

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[a-stale-croissant]

woe look at the antenna on this guy

[internetdruid]

My friend already calls me a 🐌 sometimes so 🐌? Thank you your contributions are wonderful!

Nemophora assamensis

[aliferousdreamer]

when i was on a walk today i found a big beetle, turned around to the person i was walking with and said "ooooh do you wanna see a big beetle???? 😃👉🪲" like a freaking 5 year old

[autisticplants]

im gonna go mothingggg 🥰 i will be so fucking sleepy tomorrow but itll be worth iiitttttt

[noroi-amaraciune]

Reorganised the little display case and put the leaf boy close to my dagger

[scarlet-harlequin-sketchbook]

Here enjoy all the stuff out of my garden and on the trails.

[pogomcl]

Horehound Longhorn, Nemophora fasciella Canon 5D 2 EF 100 2.8 f/5 1/320 iso: 250 Srbsko, Czech Republic 6/21/2019

[celestial-games]

As I've now made over 400 sprites I thought it would be fun to share the numerical breakdown so far :]

406 insects

- 309 beetles

- 65 butterflies/moths

- 13 true bugs + hoppers (Hemiptera)

- 12 wasps/ bees /ants

- 2 lacewings

- 1 mantis

- 1 grasshopper

- 1 stick insect

- 1 silverfish

1 spider

Among beetles, which is the most complete group I've made so far, the top families are

53 ground beetles (Carabidae)

31 longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae)

22 scarabs (Scarabaeidae)

21 lady beetles (Coccinellidae)

18 Metallic wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae)

16 click beetles (Elateridae)

I have also not made the leaf beetles yet (Chrysomelidae) which will eventually have 50+ species

[fallenclan]

sunnycotton has got me thinking about the "asking someone out with an insect" fallenclan tradition, and so i've decided to compile a little list of what insects i think have been used in the past... there are so many cool insects i WANTED to add but i'm going to try and be at least. semi-realistic. about what types of insects these mountain cats could plausibly have found.

antbite/lionsong = asian longhorned beetle

moorthistle/littleleaf = monarch butterfly caterpillar (specifically a caterpillar because of its soft texture - neither of them killed it. moor gave it to little for him to inspect and once he realized what she meant he instantly accepted. she later returned the caterpillar to the milkweed plant it had been on)

russetflare/cinderstone = eastern-eyed click beetle (russet was SO proud of catching one, cinder was reluctantly impressed)

willowsplash/bub = boll weevil

blizzardfang/crowflame = pill bug (roly-poly)

nettlestem/scorchstar = indigo duskywing skipper butterfly

newtscar/bluefern = spotted orbweaver (BEFORE evie joined the polycule)

newtscar/bluefern/evie = silver arigiope (after learning of the tradition, evie found one of these guys for his wives)

goldenstar/morningbloom = yellow garden spider

beefreckle/jaycall = praying mantis

cloudtuft/pondshine = green lynx spider (pond was like "cool thx!" at first and then cloud had to explain the tradition)

mossfrog/rustbee = green lacewing

ashblink/sleepydawn = checkered skipper butterfly

sleepycloud/ivybounce = two-striped grasshopper

yewberry/brambletuft = common scorpionfly

flyspots/wormshade = the spongy moth (wormshade didn't know about the tradition, being the kit of an ex-kittypet, and reluctantly accepted, confused. hence why flyspots thought they were mates)

pebblefreeze/human = brown centipede (these two aren't mates, and i see them as more of a QPR situation, but i feel like pebble would've given human a brown centipede anyway. he was horrified)

-🐉(i am in no way an insect expert, esp in regards to location so these still might be wildly impossbile. that's ok tho, fallenclan can exist in a pocket dimension with all the insects)

CUTE!!!!!!!!! all around very good choices (canonizing littlemoor monarch caterpillar & blizzardcrow pill bug bc AUGHHHH <3), i love the way your mind works... also pebble giving human a centipede really makes me giggle

also a few of these do have canon bugs here!

[onenicebugperday]

@mars0fthe5tars submitted: Hello! Here's a fresh batch of bugs for you from central Virginia, around the Chesterfield/Richmond area!

I've never seen any of before so I'd love to know what they are! Thanks!!

Hello! A lovely bunch of pals here! They are, in order: an eastern white-blotched prominent moth, a white-banded fishing spider, a longhorned beet Neoclytus scutellaris, and finally a larger elm leaf beetle :)

[bootzthebat]

(CW: BUGS)

BUG. ROBOTS. bug robots and yeah yuh aka redesign because I only gave them antenna and now they're all actually based off bugs and stuff hurray

(Bug drones below the cut!!)

Bug territory look out gang (click on em for better quality)

If it's not painfully obvious i like drawing robots really fluffy looking

THE SIBLINGS (bonus of drawing a man for the first time soz N) ((ALSO Cyn is my absolute favorite because I love her dearly and also the ref had a mustache and centipedes are scary))

V will be getting a redraw cuz I locked in after I drew her but ya (plus bonus Uzi because I love her)

BUGS THEYRE BASED OFF OF:

Uzi: White slantline moth

J: Woolybear caterpillar

Cyn: giant red-headed centipede

N: Golden Northern Bee

V: longhorn beetle

[patheticmosasaur1]

I'm thinking about making a bugs and other arthropods iceberg, just for funsies

here are the ideas I have so far!

LEVEL 1: isopod cultures, difference between butterflies and moths, springtails are not insects, true bugs, fireflies are beetles, harvestmen aren't spiders, funky treehoppers, carcinisation, dragonfly and damselfly nymphs

LEVEL 2: importance of mosquitoes, larviform females, venezuelan poodle moth is a hoax, barnacles are upside down crustaceans, fly diversity, horshoe crabs are related to arachnids, mysid shrimps and krill are not related to true shrimp, crustacean zoea, insects are crustaceans, terrestrial amphipods, ant trophobiosis, funny weevils, whip spiders, playful behaviour in bees, assassin bugs that cover themselves in their prey's corpses, honeybees are invasive, 'spider with wings' hoax, hotwheels sisyphus, scorpions are great mothers, pistol shrimp

LEVEL 3: cockroaches do not spread diseases, gladiators, tongue eating lice aren't that bad, tongue worms, flightless flies and moths, hangingflies, spider that feeds on human blood*, hematophagous moths, polymorphic butterflies, myrmecophil insects, ant mimicking spiders, sawflies, twig spiders, snout mites, rove beetle tongues, kermesidae, parasitic copepods, there's no point in killing spotted lanternflies, buoy barnacles, tar flies, protecting native bees, antarctic midges, butterflies are moths, harvestman clustering behaviour

LEVEL 4: ice crawlers, fleas are actually scorpionflies, mantises are related to cockroaches, ichthyurus, insane isopod diversity, flies are not the only insects with halteres, phytalmia, owlflies, cockroach trophobiosis, termites are cockroaches, ancyra, longhorn beetle that stings with antennae, saltwater skating flies, coatonachthodes, bioluminescent fairy shrimp, mr. arthrobalanus, primarily herbivorous spider, forcepflies, lake baikal giant amphipods, fruit fly covered in eyes, even weirder fly diversity, the other myriapods, spider mimicry in flies and moths

LEVEL 5: terrestrial ostracods, serolidae, ascodipteron, morostoma palpale

so what do you think? anything I should add or change?? should I just scrap this concept altogether???? I don't know much about bugs when it comes to facts or how well known said facts are so I'd really appreciate some help with this!

*it doesn't exactly feed on human blood like mosquitoes or bed bugs, it just eats blood from mosquitoes that are full of blood