#insects --

[onenicebugperday]

@bcauseofreasons submitted: This bug was hanging out on top of my car at a park in Los Angeles, California. I don't think I'd ever seen one like it before. Very speckly!

Cute! It's a dotted paropsine leaf beetle, which was introduced to Southern California.

[iturastwordblog-youdidntseethis]

Not a tk post. Despite what a loud critter they are, I always did and do find them very fun to find, especially during the summer and fall seasons. I always liked going outside, wandering aimlessly around forests or tree populated areas, circling trees and looking for cicada larvae molts. It's fun finding their molts, and even more fun finding a cicada mid-molt.

Here are some pics of last year when I was exploring last summer. I lifted up an old tree trunk and found a live cicada larvae! On my way home, I gave it a place to molt and at there for 2 hours watching and taking pictures of the process of a cicada's molt as well as it's darkened exoskeleton color after being freshly molted!

Following images could be a bit triggering seeing as a live adult cicada leaving its old skin.

Please be wary if this triggers you! I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable by my own images!

First image: Living nymph before molt climbing up my arm. (These little things do kind of pinch when climbing on skin, but it doesn't hurt at all!)

Second image: starting to poke out!

Third image: wriggling out. Look at those big buy eyes 🌘=🌒

Fourth image: halfway!

Fifth image: getting legs out, wings are finally free and start the drying process.

Sixth image: Almost there! Leaning backwards, wings are starting to unfurl!

Seventh image: wings are unfurling are unfurling and drying. Eventually, cicada does a sit-up and now finishes drying wings on the molt.

Eighth image: Cicada climbs off of the molt. (The metal grate wasn't very suitable so I held the cicada until it's wings stiffened and dried.)

Ninth image: Put the cicada on a branch on a walnut tree in my backyard. The exoskeleton and the cicada are still soft.

Final image! Came back some time later. Cicada is finally dry and ready!

Just a cicada rant today. Idk, I saw this post on my feed and wanted to rant as well as flex on my cicada images. (Now I wanna make a cicada oc)

Freshly molted cicadas are unreal

[ratbugs]

try not to get distracted by a bug challenge part two thousand and seventy hundred billion

[maggotmuncher0]

first work on the canvas, gouache

(ignore the oil paint stains, my sister did that)

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Wasp? Mantis? Fly? The wasp mantidfly is none of the above! This species is actually a member of the family neuroptera, or nerve-winged insects, which is also host to a range of other falsly named insects including owlflies (neither owls nor flies), antlions (neither ants nor lions) and lacewings (wings are not made of lace). However, the wasp mantidfly does predate on other arthropods, and will adopt a striking posture when threatened.

(Image: A wasp mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea) by Ken Childs)

[technicallyoneofakind]

@strayknight

one of the most impressive animals I met this year was a huge platyrhacid millipede, found chugging through some bamboo leaf litter in Malaysia.

he was a pleasant weight to hold in the hand, but spread out over so many gentle, graceful legs. the video offers a nice look at his eyeless face—all polydesmidan millipedes lack eyes.

I only hung onto this animated spinal cord for about thirty seconds before setting him back in the leaves, but I recall this encounter so vividly. a truly memorable creature

[onenicebugperday]

Fire-tailed bumblebee, Bombus ardens, Apidae

Found in Japan and Korea

Photos 1-2 (male) by nickvolpe and 3-4 (female) by whaichi and kirrr

[mollybeenoel]

Insects infected by Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis, otherwise known as cordyceps or zombie-ant fungus, fungus that infect insects such as ants and spiders — like other parasites, cordyceps drains its host completely of nutrients before filling its body with spores that will let the fungus reproduce.

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug thing are these underwing fingerless gloves!

[branchflowerphoto]

meet my new friend mx sparkles

[dualumina]

@beanswithbones

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Photos thanks to Ian McMillan & Martin Lagerwey on iNaturalist!

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 29TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Three photos of a black and orange net-winged beetle on the end of a thin brown and grey log /End IDs.]

[scooby-doo-exploration]

shanben5liu - Bees and honey

TAG themes on ‘Archive’: https://scooby-doo-exploration.tumblr.com/archive

[enchantedchocolatebars]

@pokeycub

Hungry bugs

(Want these bugs on a shirt?) | Inprnt