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Anyone have an idea what laid these eggs on my native Mountain Mint? I've never seen anything like them.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/215786918

#nature #bugs #Insects #bugidentification #iNaturalist

semi transparent, orange, oblong eggs with red squiggly lines or tubes that look like blood vessels or blood worms.
different angle

Leaf-footed Bugs and Allies (Superfamily Coreoidea) observed by John Whitmore

Leaf-footed Bugs and Allies in May 2024 by John Whitmore. 2 eggs on Mountain Mint leaf
iNaturalist
#nature #insects #inaturalist #bugs #bugidentification

I got trapped into the microscope world....

Look, this 20-some million years dot trapped in the amber:

It's this fucking insect:

With this fucking digital microscope:

Ain't that insane!?

I spent all day today looking at 1kg of amber with millions of years old insects. I honestly could not stop. This is too fascinating. I want to make a video about it and I will! Whenever I have some time.

And this is my own blood (I can do better but I became a pussy while trying to cut my veins and pour some under the microscope - I'll do better next time!):

#nature #microscope #amber #insects

#nature #insects #amber #microscope

Another small mystery wasp, standing on my thumbnail after I coaxed it off my camera.

#insects #wasps #MacroPhotography

#MacroPhotography #insects #wasps

We should garden for insects as much as we do for plants. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240503-why-you-should-let-insects-eat-your-plants #gardening #insects #biodiversity

Why you should let insects eat your plants

Renegade gardeners across the world are embracing a new philosophy: gardening that prioritises insects, not plants.
Chris Baraniuk (BBC)
#biodiversity #gardening #insects

Rediscovering amber!

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#insects #amber #microscope

Went out to feed the birds this a.m. & saw something "mounted" to a back porch support beam. Closer inspection revealed it was a very large #moth. My ID app suggests Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) with an average wingspan of 6". It was just chilling during the a.m. storms. I hoped it would open up but it just stayed motionless. It was quite dark so the pics aren't the best. Antennae are very cool!
(05/02/24)

#pollinators #insects #nature #MacroPhotography #MastoArt #photography #AltText

Photograph of a large moth clinging to a vertical beam that is painted brown. An ID app suggests it is Antheraea polyphemus or the Polyphemus moth) with an average wingspan of 6 inches. The moth has large, tear-drop shaped, brownw antennae and a large body and legs covered by long brown hairs. Its wings are patterned and scalloped with grey and brown and it has a large brown "eye" on its outer wing that is surrounded by a narrow circle of light tan.
Closeup photograph of a large moth's antennae and tufted head. An ID app suggests it is Antheraea polyphemus or the Polyphemus moth) with an average wingspan of 6 inches. The moth has large, tear-drop shaped, brownw antennae and a large body and legs covered by long brown hairs. Its wings are patterned and scalloped with grey and brown and it has a large brown "eye" on its outer wing that is surrounded by a narrow circle of light tan.
Photograph of a large moth clinging to a vertical beam that is painted brown. An ID app suggests it is Antheraea polyphemus or the Polyphemus moth) with an average wingspan of 6 inches. The moth has large, tear-drop shaped, brownw antennae and a large body and legs covered by long brown hairs. Its wings are patterned and scalloped with grey and brown and it has a large brown "eye" on its outer wing that is surrounded by a narrow circle of light tan.
Closeup photograph of a large moth's antennae and tufted head. An ID app suggests it is Antheraea polyphemus or the Polyphemus moth) with an average wingspan of 6 inches. The moth has large, tear-drop shaped, brownw antennae and a large body and legs covered by long brown hairs. Its wings are patterned and scalloped with grey and brown and it has a large brown "eye" on its outer wing that is surrounded by a narrow circle of light tan.
#photography #nature #mastoart #AltText #MacroPhotography #insects #pollinators #moth

#52WochenFotoChallenge #InsektenSamstag #insects #insekten
Was für ein Schmuckstück, was für ein #Muster!
#muster #insects #52wochenfotochallenge #insekten #insektensamstag

Sevenspotted Lady Beetle walking on veins of leaves 🐞

#ladybeetle #ladybug #ナナホシテントウ #insects #bugs #japan

#japan #insects #bugs #ladybug #ladybeetle #ナナホシテントウ

Macro yellow (5/6) : Fly and coltsfoot

Tussilago farfara and Musca sp., Lanaudiere, April 2024.

Spring https://pixelfed.social/c/653583667580218547

#photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #coltsfoot #insects #yellow #macro #macrophotography #nature #entomology #fleuristonfil

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#photography #nature #Flowers #macro #MacroPhotography #insects #yellow #entomology #bloomscrolling #fleuristonfil #coltsfoot

Stopped by Christie Pits on my way back from a dentist appointment today. Wasn't really expecting to find much given how much foot traffic and how little "wild" space there is, but to my astonishment there were a few different kinds of bees making burrows in sandy patches on the sunny hillside!

There were fluffy white-and-black mining bees (skittish, hard to get photos) and smaller, more docile metallic olive-green sweat bees.

#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Andrenidae #Halictidae

The fluffy head of a mining bee emerges from a pile of dirt it's just excavated.
Full view of one of the mining bees. It's black with white fluff.
The face of a metallic olive-green sweat bee as it climbs over a tiny clump of dirt in search of a good burrow site.
One of the sweat bees as seen from above. It's a lovely metallic olive green with pale yellow fluff on its legs and around its head, but not quite as fluffy as the mining bees.
#insects #bees #nativebees #hymenoptera #bugstodon #anthophila #andrenidae #halictidae

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