Forums:

Post Cool Bug Pics

Patricia Boley

Posts: 48

Location: Sterling, OH

I like...

posted 5 years ago

3
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Ryan M Miller wrote:Does anybody have an idea what insect this is?

It looks a little like an antlion. Honestly, when I don't know, I email someone at entomology department since I work on campus.

https://www.insectidentification.org/insects-by-state.asp?thisState=Ohio

This is a helpful web site.

Pat B.

Hester Winterbourne

Posts: 502

Location: West Midlands UK (zone 8b) Rainfall 26"

140

posted 5 years ago

9
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

For a split second I thought this was an Asian hornet (which would have been bad news). Then I realised its face and the way it flew and everything about it was saying "fly" so I went and looked it up. It is Volucella zonaria, the hornet mimic hoverfly.

hornet-hoverfly-volucella-zonaria.jpg

Irene Kightley

pollinator

Posts: 480

Location: South West France

177

I like...

posted 5 years ago

8
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

It certainly looks like a hornet Hester, how strange.

Here's a selection of some of our bugs.

Scorpion Fly - Panorpa communis (look at its tail)

scorpion fly Panorpa communis look at it's tail

Convolvulous Hawk Moth Agrius convolvulis (Wingspan Range - 80-120mm - This is probably a male)

Black-headed Cardinal beetle Pyrochroa coccinea on a Tayberry

White spotted rose beetle (Oxythyrea funesta) Called Drap mortuaire in France (Translates to "Mortuary sheet" in English!)

White spotted rose beetle (Oxythyrea funesta) Drap mortuaire

A Hummingbird Hawk-moth stuck in a Star Jasmine (I ripped the flower open to release the moth once I'd taken the video)

La Ferme de Sourrou : Our PROJECTS

Ryan M Miller

pollinator

Posts: 430

Location: Dayton, Ohio

129

I like...

posted 5 years ago

9
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I went outside this afternoon to a favorite patch of milkweed to find monarch caterpillars. I found more insects in addition to monarch caterpillars:

C66C1AB0-584D-4ADF-B3AD-3EF898E29918.jpeg

Besides monarch butterflies, milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) also specialize in eating milkweed plants for food. The younger nymphs look like they might make good food for ladybugs.

4562A710-6B19-4CCC-A3C3-2E2A9412F315.jpeg

Eastern black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) on wild Queen Anne's lace

244049CC-DAF1-4BDC-B6CE-327949D612CB.jpeg

AEDC21DB-DA40-4CAE-9761-542BD319C4B1.jpeg

Mandrake...takes on and holds the influence
of the devil more than other herbs because of its similarity
to a human. Whence, also, a person’s desires, whether good
or evil, are stirred up through it...
-Hildegard of Bingen, Physica

James Freyr

steward

Posts: 4837

Location: West Tennessee

2438

I like...

posted 5 years ago

6
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I was out cutting some black locust today, and after cutting up one tree, I go back where I started and crawling out of a small hole in the trunk was a slug! I was quite surprised and a slug is probably the last thing I ever thought I would see crawl out of the interior of a tree.

IMG_20190910_105128440.jpg

"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht

Ed Belote

Posts: 102

posted 5 years ago

6
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

This Hercules beetle was found in a parking lot a few weeks ago.

20190629_135635.jpg

Ryan M Miller

pollinator

Posts: 430

Location: Dayton, Ohio

129

I like...

posted 5 years ago

10
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I've been taking photographs of all the black parsley swallowtail caterpillars I find in my garden. I don't really see them as a garden pest like cabbage butterfly (Pieris sp.) caterpillars. If they pose any real threat to my parsley or carrots, I simply move them to a new host plant. The adult butterflies are beautiful anyway.

625BF4EC-742D-4767-9D12-7A7DD4D3E82E.jpeg

F8A6FEB2-0F52-478B-8B5B-F6A507177484.jpeg

7BFBA600-F3CE-4CE6-9B80-D231D4257608.jpeg

Amy Arnett

gardener

Posts: 499

Location: Nara, Japan. Zone 8-ish

373

I like...

posted 5 years ago

7
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Whenever I see this grasshopper, it cracks me up. Look at it's stupid face! I feel like it needs a monocle.

DSC_0427_HORIZON.JPG

DSC_0465.JPG

DSC_0469.JPG

Come visit! https://permies.com/t/130399/experiences/Casual-work-stay-stay-cation

Scott Foster

pollinator

Posts: 888

Location: 6a

283

I like...

posted 5 years ago

3
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Amy Arnett wrote:Whenever I see this grasshopper, it cracks me up. Look at it's stupid face! I feel like it needs a monocle.

So cool. I love Japan!

Scott Foster

pollinator

Posts: 888

Location: 6a

283

I like...

posted 5 years ago

6
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I've grown accustomed to my morning routine. Coffee, dogs out and standing by the Mexican sunflowers loaded with Bumbles and Monarchs. This A.M. 11/13/2019 I noticed that there is no activity and two of the flowers have dead bumbles on them. Frost I think but very strange. I though Bumbles nested at night?

IMG_1171.JPG

Jan White

pollinator

Posts: 1455

Location: BC Interior, Zone 6-7

511

I like...

posted 5 years ago

3
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Scott Foster wrote:two of the flowers have dead bumbles on them. Frost I think but very strange. I though Bumbles nested at night?

They'll often hang out on flowers overnight so they have a food source first thing in the morning. Are you sure they're dead? Might just be waiting for the sun to warm them up enough to get going.

Scott Foster

pollinator

Posts: 888

Location: 6a

283

I like...

posted 5 years ago

2
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Jan White wrote:

Scott Foster wrote:two of the flowers have dead bumbles on them. Frost I think but very strange. I though Bumbles nested at night?

They'll often hang out on flowers overnight so they have a food source first thing in the morning. Are you sure they're dead? Might just be waiting for the sun to warm them up enough to get going.

Jan, I actually touched this guy. He is dead for a sure. One other I touched actually moved. I think it was a gentle frost that did him/her in.

Jan White

pollinator

Posts: 1455

Location: BC Interior, Zone 6-7

511

I like...

posted 5 years ago

7
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Scott Foster wrote: He is dead for a sure. One other I touched actually moved. I think it was a gentle frost that did him/her in.

Poor bumbler! I'd still pick her up and breathe on her for a bit before I gave up, but apparently I'm pigheaded :)

Here's a red emperor from earlier this year. Don't remember what the second caterpillar is.

IMG_20190722_094138304.jpg

IMG_20190912_134120419.jpg

Jan White

pollinator

Posts: 1455

Location: BC Interior, Zone 6-7

511

I like...

posted 5 years ago

7
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

These guys hang out in my tomatoes (among other places) and make a fantastic racket. Louder than a cricket and usually more of a sustained trill.

IMG_20190901_092414707.jpg

Huck Johnson

gardener

Posts: 411

Location: Monticello Florida zone 8a

137

I like...

posted 5 years ago

5
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Banana spider and some sort of butterfly larva

0829191654a.jpg

0829191652.jpg

Jan White

pollinator

Posts: 1455

Location: BC Interior, Zone 6-7

511

I like...

posted 5 years ago

9
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Found this praying mantis in the rye straw this morning and it reminded me of the baby mantis picture I took in the spring.

IMG_20190917_073937902.jpg

IMG_20190528_113000977.jpg

Ryan M Miller

pollinator

Posts: 430

Location: Dayton, Ohio

129

I like...

posted 5 years ago

8
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

I tend to leave spiders alone outside since they often eat insect pests. This image reminds be of a poem by Robert Frost I once read.

https://poets.org/poem/design

492C4495-0029-4BA8-A9C4-A0D76DD706CE.jpeg

Dale Hodgins

Posts: 9002

Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada

707

posted 5 years ago

5
Number of slices to send:

Optional 'thank-you' note:

Send

Whenever a piece of food is left out, in Cebu Philippines, the ants come after it by the thousands. This group stretched from the lower floor to the attic. The smallest ants I've ever seen.

They don't bite and they do a super thorough job. You could spill corn syrup, and a few hours later there would be no evidence.

20190828_055302.jpg