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I took a partial day off from running around like a crazy person, trying to get everything done. It didn't work very well, as I ended up working all evening on things, but... for a while in the afternoon, I relaxed a bit.
Outside, just outside my door, I saw this little thing... maybe a leaf? Maybe some stage of a insect's life? It was small... I touched it with a dead leaf and it moved! It was alive.
So, I used my id app to find out what it was, and then took this 50 photo focus stack of the creature.
I am leaving my original identification in the brackets, because there is so much discussion, in the comments, based on my original id. But, Wes Iversen correctly identified this creature as Isa textula, which DOES live in the USA.
[Original identification: Turns out it is the larva of a nondescript brown butterfly, with no name I could find, except its Latin name of Thosea sinensis.]
(The rest of the description fits BOTH creatures, who are almost identical looking.)
See all those little hairs.... especially those ones coming off what would be the spine area... if insects had spines? Those hairs are dangerous. If you just brush up against one of these critters you will instantly start to burn and sting with an allergic reaction. They even warn that some people might have a severe reaction and might have to go to the hospital!
Fortunately for me, I didn't touch it. After I photographed it, prodded it onto a leaf, and carried it to a patch of woodland, where the app said it lives. I checked later, and it was gone from where I left it.
So, a new critter for me, which I always find exciting. I had time to do all the stuff I have to do on the photo.... loading all 50 photos into my editing program and editing the raw images... then changing all the raw images into TIFFs, so they would be accepted by the Helicon Focus program, then putting them all into Helicon Focus and waiting for them to load, then waiting for Helicon Focus to put all the images together into what you see here, and then editing that image.
I have continued to enjoy all your photos, even if I am too rushed to comment. Thanks for looking at mine!
Cet insecte dont le nom m'échappe (une mouche scorpion juvénile ?) se pavanait dans les branches de thym au jardin. Je vous rassure, il vit toujours !
Il est grossi ici 21 fois (l'image à 100%) sinon nous n'y verrions rien. Sa taille approximative est, du bout de l'aile à l'extrémité des antennes, de 2 à 3 mm.
The mistflowers in the Pollinator Garden at the Fredericksburg (TX) Nature Center were very busy...queens everywhere...
Could use some help identifying this "insect" - I am assuming it is a moth ( thanks Visual Images)
An actias luna - merci Christian!
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I think this is in subfamily Anthracinae of the Bombyliidae "bee fly" family. Possibly Anthrax sp.
I was pretty happy with this - never caught a fly in flight before.
We spotted this spotted beetle wandering a passionflower. In Tulsa we walked The Gathering Place and the Botanic Garden - both had LOTS of these pretty little pests...
" Le Xylocope, Xylocopa violacea, ou "abeille charpentière", est l'un de nos plus grands et plus impressionnants Hyménoptères. Comme les abeilles domestiques, ou encore les "bourdons", cet insecte relève de la famille des Apidae. Contrairement aux espèces précitées, qui elles vivent en colonies, le Xylocope est une abeille dite "solitaire".
Comme tous les Hyménoptères cet insecte est doté de 4 ailes, par opposition aux Diptères (= "mouches" au sens large) qui n'en possèdent que 2, les postérieures étant remplacées par des "balanciers", organes liés à l'équilibration. L'insecte atteint 45 à 50 mm d'envergure, pour une longueur de 25 à 30 mm, et il est fondamentalement noir-violacé, le violacé étant plus nettement marqué au niveau des ailes, et perceptible sous incidence favorable.
Le Xylocope est un butineur, et sa "trompe" est particulièrement robuste et bien développée (ci-dessous). Ses mâchoires le sont tout autant, (ci-dessous également), ce qui lui permet de creuser le bois pour nidifier, étant entendu qu'il s'attaque le plus souvent à des parties plus ou moins dégradées.
article : insectes-net.fr