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Look at this adorable chonky tomato!!!!!!!! Who knew milkweed leaf beetle larvae were so CUTE?
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I HAVE QUESTIONS
😲
(Herpetogramma, 1.25 of them anyway)
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This Oblique Heterocampa caterpillar (Heterocampa obliqua) was being SO DRAMATIC in front of the camera...
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Probably can never get this past genus Diathrausta, but dang this thing is so cute that I just had to post it!
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Did a mini BioBlitz at a friend's house during National Moth Week, here are some of the highlights (130 species, not all were moths :-)).
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These chonkbeasts. Will. Not. Stop. Eating.
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The bait was ON FIRE this weekend!
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I HAD A REALLY GOOD WEEKEND
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Thought it would be fun to pull something from deep in the archives. I photographed this shield bug (Elasmucha lateralis) almost 20 years ago, in July of 2004. I don't think I knew the difference between stink bugs and shield bugs back then...
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If you throw up a light and a sheet in a field, you're gonna get Orthopterans. This was one of the more interesting ones that I saw last weekend. Somehow, still just yet another Melanoplus sp.
(Thx to @eumorpha-dream for throwing up the light and the sheet)
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The Three Amigos!
Three Asiatic garden beetles (Maladera formosae) in my yard, which is three too many of these awful pests. If you are at all familiar, you know how many hundreds of these I must have to be able to find a group of 3 clustered together on one leaf...
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We are in peak bug-finding season - I have taken over 800 photos so far this month! At least this horrible hot and humid weather is good for something...
(From top to bottom: Say's mantidfly (Dicromantispa sayi), marsh fly (Tetanocera sp.), and firefly (Photuris sp.)
Hello! I am from Chicago and for this lil guy on my coffee cup. I've never see anything like it, do you know what it is?
That is the larva of a green lacewing. Green lacewings are graceful fragile-looking creatures. Their larvae are fierce predators of other insects!
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...That jerk at the party who keeps photobombing all of your shots
:-D
(painted lichen moth, Hypoprepia fuscosa, and then top to bottom: unknown Tortricidae sp., oak besma, Besma quercivoraria, Xestia c-nigrum complex, and Northern pine sphinx, Lapara bombycoides)
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A small grape Colaspis (Colaspis brunnea) on oak-leaved Hydrangea.
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Gorgeous maple spanworm (Ennomos magnaria) from last October.
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The bad-wing (Dyspteris abortivaria), just chilling.