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The League of Extraordinary Scientists and Engineers Science-ING workshop learning about all kinds of bugs.
www.stvincent.edu/wpnr | The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College hosted its annual Bug Camp for 5-6 year olds (with an adult). Campers search for butterflies, spiders, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and more!
I saw an early instar on a yew tree in the same area earlier in the year but this one was on hawthorn.
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“If I can fool a bug… I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs” – E. B. White
Charles Bradley – Love bug blues youtu.be/Yz32TrICo-A
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so i let the dog out, and he went right over to a tree! he was so interested, and from inside i could see that there was a bug there. we got him away from the bug, not sure what it was and if it could sting, and i immediately went inside to get my camera. again, another me becoming my mother moment.
so there i am snapping away at this thing...totally unsure of what it is and if it could hurt me. luckily, i came away with a few good shots and no pain!
i know nothing about bugs...anyone want to help me out? some people i showed think it is a hornet, but i have no clue!
Huntley Meadows, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. 27 May 2012. Host appears to be Dialysis rufithorax.
We went to the World's Largest Nachos event at SoMa Street Foods, which was put on by the folks at Chirps Chips. Chirps Chips are made with flour from ground up crickets, so there was a large "bug" theme at the event. Our favorite part was the Bug Zoo in the back. It was filled with hissing cockroaches, stinkbugs, blue death feigning beetles, and other insects.
The green shield bugs (Palomena prasina) are coming out if hibernation more and more, with several seen this morning; still in their darker overwintering colour.
www.stvincent.edu/wpnr | The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College hosted its annual Bug Camp for 5-6 year olds (with an adult). Campers search for butterflies, spiders, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and more!
This photo occurred purely by chance. I went to Forest Lawn Memorial Park and was taking random photos of statues and flowers. In the beginning I was trying to swat this bug away because from far away it was interfering in the overall shot, but on close inspection, I decided that it made for an interesting composition.
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Had the chance to talk to the man who bought this Bug back in 1965. He said he had it stored in a barn for 20 years and the mice chewed through the convertible top. It's amazing that they didn't get to the seats as well!
Spittle bug nymphs are also much less nimble than adults. Because of the weaknesses of these young bugs, they could be easy prey for predators. As a defensive mechanism, the nymphs produce these bubble clusters. The bubbles give the nymphs a moist environment to hide in as they suck on plant sap. Once they molt into sturdier, more agile adults, they no longer produce spittle.
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Here’s another pest that looks worse than it is, the aptly named Spittlebug (Cercopidae Family). There are some 23,000 species of spittlebugs. Yet most gardeners have never seen one. That’s because spittlebugs are very good at hiding. That mass of froth you see on your plant isn’t there to do your plant harm. It’s a very clever cover for the spittlebug. You don’t think so? Just try and find him.
Spittlebug nymphs can turn a liquid secretion into bubbles by moving or pumping their bodies. Once the bubbles have formed, spittlebugs use their hind legs to cover themselves with the froth. The ‘spittle’ serves multiple purposes.
It shields the spittlebugs from predators
It insulates them from temperature extremes
It prevents the spittlebugs from dehydrating