#fungus weevil

[onenicebugperday]

Longhorn fungus weevil, Acanthothorax longicornis, Anthribidae

Photographed in Malaysia by albertkang

[herpsandbirds]

Fungus Weevil (Euparius tapirus), family Anthribidae, found in Central America

photograph by soulmademacro

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misc animal sketches

i was so tired that evening, but i really wanted to draw something, so i asked the corb server for some weird animal suggestions. they do not disappoint! i have more in a list that i'll draw next time i wanna tackle some funky critters

[bowelfly]

a wizard offers you a hit. wyd

[vilvermin-sqwirl]

ummmmmmmm ponysona!! changelingsona!!! technically its all the fungus at this point but i'm still counting it as a pony <3

i forget to post on tumblr i just do not use this site

[celestialmacros]

Marbled Fungus Weevil (Euparius marmoreus)

March 27, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

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[apocalyptic-dancehall]

speaking of my childhood oddities:

- i also put one of those little kiddy rugs you color with water and a pen thing on a lightbulb and.. it kinda burned out whoops (common idiot moment) and it also pissed off my parents hehe whoops x2

- my horrendous fear of cockroaches (and by extension 98-99% of bugs/arachnids/various arthropods) sprang up when i was but a little one playing on a white rug and unbeknownst to me a big fucking roach skittered onto my knee and i FREAKED.

mind you i used to live in a roach-infested apartment, and those fuckers were in a lot of places, and recently i've just learned that i cannot stand the hideous crunching sounds they make when you step on them IT GIVES ME SO MUCH DREAD I HATE IT EW EW EW

- my brother used to have a thomas the tank engine bed covering

- edit: oh yeah and i thought doohickey was a swear word because it hadn't occurred to me that hickey was 66% of the word itself

[onenicebugperday]

Bugs under UV light series by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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

1. Stick insect, Necroscia punctata 2. Archduke caterpillar, Lexias pardalis dirteana 3. Bird dropping spider, Pasilobus sp. 4. Katydid, Chondroderella borneensis 5. Fungus weevil, Acorynus sp. 6. Huntsman spider, Gnathopalystes sp. 7. Tortoise beetle, Aspidomorpha sp. 8. Harvestman, Acromares vittatum or Erginulus clavotibialis 9. Leaf katydid, Tettigoniidae 10. Millipede, Diplopoda

[mutant-distraction]

Close up of a Fungus Weevil’s face

📷 André De Kesel

[notahorseindisguise]

OH HOLY SHIT

@notahorseindisguise drew some weevils for u

[kagender]

wgatre your favorite bugs

GIANT KATYDID 💯

RHINO BEETLE 💯

ACORN WEEVIL 💯

ALL THE PARASITIC WASPS IN THE WORLD 💯

OIL BEETLE 💯

THE HUMBLE MANTIS 💯

NONSPECIFIC GRUB 💯

CREATONOS GANGIS 💯

DUBIA ROACH = LITTLE PUPPY

GREEN LACEWING 💯

ALL THE CICADAS IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING THE SEX FUNGUS ONES, INCLUDING THE ONE THAT GOES AWWWYEAH!

[mayamistake]

Fungus Weevil.

[zuzsenpai]

Zuzu's Bug-ventures: Home Edition!

I'm a bit late posting this, but I found a lot of friends last week! I couldn't ID a lot of these, unfortunately. First up, the "probably aphids trio".

Unsure of ID, possibly a pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum). A lot of the other things I found didn't seem native to North America

Unsure of ID, possibly also some kind of aphid. Bad photo, I know. My phone camera is becoming more and more dogshit every day

Unsure of ID, but this also seems like a pea aphid

Unsure of ID, a fly in the Condylostylus genus.

Unsure of ID, a mayfly of some kind. Saw this on my friend's car

Unsure of exact ID, but it's definitely a skipper butterfly, either Polites peckius (Peck's Skipper) or Epargyreus clarus (Silver-spotted Skipper). Still can't get a good shot of these guys, they're lightning fast

Unsure of ID, possibly an Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus). This butterfly was zooming around up near the roof. I just kept snapping photos until I got one that helped me sort of identify it.

Unsure of ID, possibly pseudoedophrys hilleri, which is a kind of broad-nosed weevil. It's dead and suspended in an abandoned spiderweb.

Unsure of ID, as it disappeared quickly. A black wasp of some kind

An assassin bug nymph (Reduviidae family). Kind of cute tbh. I haven't seen an adult one yet.

A White-striped Running Crab Spider (Philodromus rufus). Finally an identification I can be confident in! Crab spiders are so funny, I love them

An Eastern leaf-footed bug nymph (Leptoglossus phyllopus).

And finally, a lady beetle with a parasitic fungus called Hesperomyces virescens. It doesn't usually kill them, and honestly it looks kinda neat. I didn't notice it until after I took the photo.

Next week (or possibly sooner), we'll have a Zuzu's Bug-ventures Jersey Shore edition!

[ladybugoflove]

Nobody asked for my opinion, but here it is anyways: 'invasive' or 'aggressive' species are indictive of ecological disharmony

The occurrence of which IS natural, but always eventually balances out (unless artificially maintained)

Eventually, the plant/ animal/ fungi/ whatever will be predated on and population reduced in size, so it doesn't crowd out entire species or destroy entire ecosystems anymore. This can look like hogs eating large patches of fireweed, or black smut fungus infecting a cherry monocrop.

If left alone, garlic mustard takes approximately 10 years before it's population starts to die down (I'm not sure what leads to the degrowth), and I'm positive that with enough time, an animal or plant disease will move into or evolve to eat it in North America.

Every single species in every single ecosystem has been new or 'invasive' at some point in history. Why it's so important to manage them now is because civilizations have already caused ecological disharmony across the globe, and plenty of species are endangered. So instead of waiting for the destruction phase to pass, ecologists are attempting to artificially predate on these new species, and keep endangered and endemic species and ecosystems alive.

Because the food chain is being absolutely destroyed, and we rely on it for existence.

This is not to say that we should be cruel to invasive species- they are not doing anything wrong. They do not deserve to be curb stomped or shot or fucking tortured like too many people have proudly filmed themselves doing "for the environment".

And what a vast majority of ill-informed people are doing is falling into nazi ideology; they fetishize a specific "primordial" environment untouched by "undesirables", be it invasive species or select groups of people. Which is completely ahistorical.

Most humans have never seen an environment in harmony. Most humans have never seen real topsoil or rock lichen at work or 2000 year old trees.

Besides, the environment is always changing, it will always be changing. A swamp eventually fills and turns into a forest, which can be burned down by lighting, be colonized by primary species, and grow right back into a forest. It's called ecological succession.

Plants are supposed to be eaten and felled. When environments are overgrazed and exploited, they can turn into badlands and dust bowls, which are their own ecological niches, but ones that are hostile to mammals.

And whilst the tiktoker was slightly off, they were right that a lot of what is called 'invasive' actually just means "agricultural pest". Because we actively choose to poison the land with pesticides instead of eating insects like weevils and cockchafers simply out of habit, not bc we can't.

And we actively choose to use herbicides instead of companion planting because it's easier to harvest monocultures. It doesn't give us more food, actually it increases chances of famines

The system we have is fucking stupid.

If you wanna kill an invasive species, then at least eat it or use it in some way. Or kill to protect a specific plant or animal (not it's entire species; it's not possible or sustainable for such little people to do). If it's a plant, you should replace it (grow mycorrhizal fungi & mix it with compost + plant the seeds of a fast-growing native or naturalized species like dandelion).

Killing for the sake of killing.. well, it's really no better than European settlers shooting bison from moving trains.