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One Nice Bug Per Day
**See pinned post at the top of my blog for submission guidelines and other info.** A blog dedicated tothe love of bugs.One featured bug post per dayplus lots of submissions.Submissions do not count towards the one (1) nice bug per day! Hover over photos and click the chain icon to view photographer credits. FAQ Run by: Taylor (ex0skeletal-undead) (he/him) Luna moth header/background by Clara McAllister.
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Me and mom found these eggs on a dill plant.. we dont know what they are… perhaps u could help ? In southwest missouri :)
BUG EGGS!!! - SW MO, USA: They look to me like ladybird beetle (ladybug) eggs. @onenicebugperday , what do you think? I agree, ladybug! Couldn’t say species, the common ones mostly look the same.
did you see they made jane prentiss from the magnus archives real
this is the correct way to feel about having a wasp's nest in your house. manyblinkinglights : grimark : oh fuck you were not kidding #Two months on‚ Rothney is in a co-working arrangement with the nest‚ #which is now more than a metre tall and swallows an entire bookshelf of ring binders. #owns. of course they feel safe around her bc she is a queen
The first half of my Mutillidae mini print set! Dasymutilla sackenii, Dasymutilla klugii (a number…
hazerl : The first half of my Mutillidae mini print set! Dasymutilla sackenii, Dasymutilla klugii (a number one on the Schmidt sting pain index!), and Hoplomutilla spinosa, all digitally illustrated and printed at 3.5" by 2.5". Stay tuned for the second half!
Emerald moth, Cathydata batina, GeometridaeFound in Central and...
Emerald moth, Cathydata batina , Geometridae Found in Central and South America Photo 1 by stephenluk , 2 by carrollperkins , 3 by desertnaturalist , 4 by damontighe , 5 by julianbiol , and 6 (for scale) by smejiadu
So far as I can determine this is the 2 extremes of my local Robberfly species, quite small Common…
alcnfr : So far as I can determine this is the 2 extremes of my local Robberfly species, quite small Common Micropanther and giant Red-Footed Cannibal Fly.
Don’t think i posted these yet? Loosey watercolor sketches of some inverts from my recent east coast…
bedupolker : Don’t think i posted these yet? Loosey watercolor sketches of some inverts from my recent east coast trip
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Green Silverlines Moth (Pseudoips prasinana), family Nolidae, Poland
herpsandbirds : Green Silverlines Moth ( Pseudoips prasinana ), family Nolidae, Poland photograph by Kacper Knychalski
Please note the dark oval spot just below the “knee” joint on the front leg! That’s the tympanum or…
thesingingbullfrog : Katydids are pretty cool. Please note the dark oval spot just below the “knee” joint on the front leg! That’s the tympanum or tympanal organ, the organ katydids use to hear! Gotta hear those lovely mating calls.
standing out among most other local tachinids thanks to their size, bright colors and relatively…
razehider : standing out among most other local tachinids thanks to their size, bright colors and relatively leisurely disposition, Ectophasia is almost always a fun surprise. i say almost because there must have been some sort of mass emergence from several nearby hosts as a small area of only about a dozen square meters was covered in them and with each individual i found i was less and less…
Tasty strawberry jellyyy
bug-lovers-island : Tasty strawberry jellyyy
@namu-the-orca submitted: No ID needed! Just wanted to share...
@namu-the-orca submitted: No ID needed! Just wanted to share this absolute delight of a lesser stag beetje WEARING A HAT. I also have a video of her doing her silly wiggly walk but alas tumblr would not allow it 😔 That’s so sad I’ll just have to imagine the video. Incredible hat, though!
@floridianfireflyfaith submitted: This lady and I spooked the...
@floridianfireflyfaith submitted: This lady and I spooked the heck out of each other the other day at work when I accidentally disturbed her corner. She’s a BIG girl; I’d say her leg span was about the length of a golf ball. My guess is a huntsman spider, and a gravid one at that! Found in Northeast Florida. Big woman! I love her. Either she’s gravid or she just had a BIG meal. Good for her either…
From a web inside a garden planter wither several large flowering plants. She’s my pest control in action
She's doing an amazing job!!
@jambrandwich submitted: A Swedish Weevil.
@jambrandwich submitted: A Swedish Weevil. A Sweevil. Unbesweevable!
@ookaookaooka submitted: A “bee” I saw the other day on the...
@ookaookaooka submitted: A “bee” I saw the other day on the calendulas Location: [removed] (please remove) Very sneaky!! This one is a drone fly in the genus Eristalis .
@unnecessary-feelings submitted: pleasing fungus beetle is a very fitting name for these guys. it’s…
@unnecessary-feelings submitted: pleasing fungus beetle is a very fitting name for these guys. it’s a beetle that eats fungus and pleases me :) Wow! It pleases me too :)
I’m in the Adirondacks of NY for a thingy and there are so many lovely bugs, my favorite so far being this White Spotted Sawyer Beetle! (Atleast according to iNat)
Yup, looks like a white-spotted sawyer beetle! Very long, luxurious antennae......fashionable......sometimes their antennae are black and white striped also :)
bee in my bee balm :)
I hope she enjoyed it :)