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I souped up Week 7's SOD post and bumped it to the top of my blog, right above the humor post from earlier this week. Still playing catch-up with the next weeks' writeups, and also have some other stuff coming. For now, enjoy a gorgeous queen butterfly, captured at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
Check out all my Species a Day posts, with writeups, here.
The last cicada has stopped singing for this year -- just got too cold. Their song will be welcomed next year -- as they always are. Swamp Cicada (Tibicen chloromera), Mt. Pleasant, Maryland
This particular butterfly bears a clipped wing. Besides humans, lizards, birds, and spiders are the three main predators of this beautiful insect.
A collection of sketches and drawings of insects to feed into and inspire a year 12 textiles project.
My insect book came to my aid as I think I have correctly identified thia but admit to being a bit cofused by the dark patch on the end of the wings rather like a shield bug.
Please confirm identification .
It was stalking around on bramble flowers.
I've had mosquito bites in early spring. When flying insects come after me I take them out. I would prefer to leave them alone, but it's war if they want a piece of me.
Some insects are beneficial for crops and some are destructive. This researcher is rearing pest insects to find better ways to combat them.
Ctenium floridanum
Endangered in Florida
We saw this beautiful grass in full bloom now and then in the savannas in June. Our teeth were fine so we didn't test it out.
Apalachicola National Florest
Rhyssa persuasoria (meaning persuasive burglar) is one of the largest ichneumon wasps in Europe. The length of adults varies from about 10–20 millimetres (0.39–0.79 in) in males up to 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.6 in) in the females, plus about 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.6 in) of the ovipositor. They have a thin black body, several whitish spots on the head, thorax, and abdomen and reddish legs. The antennae are long and thin. The long stinger on the abdomen of the females is just an egg laying instrument (ovipositor), therefore these wasps are harmless to humans.
They can mainly be encountered from July through August, especially in paths and clearings of coniferous forests.
Female of this parasitic species drills deep into wood by its hair thin ovipositor (terebra) and lays its eggs on larvae living in timber, which become a food supply and an incubator for the progeny, until it is fully grown. Larvae overwinter in the wood, pupating the next spring and emerging from the wood as adults.
Main hosts of Rhyssa persuasoria are the larvae of Horntail or Wood Wasps (Urocerus gigas, Siricidae species, a type of xylophagous sawfly), as well as larvae of Longhorn Beetle (Spondylis buprestoides, Monochamus sutor) and Great Capricorn Beetle (Cerambyx cerdo).
(Inadvertedly posted publicly earlier while id-ing this species.)
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Een zeer grote sluipwesp met een legboor die langer is dan het lichaam. Lichaam zwart met gele tekening op de kop, borststuk en achterlijf. Poten grotendeels rood.
Niet zeldzaam in naaldbossen.
De sluipwesp zoekt naar de in hout levende larven van naaldhoutwespen. Om de gastheren aan te prikken moet ze diep met de legboor in het hout doordringen. Bij deze soort blijft de tweeledige legboorschede aan het eindpunt contact houden met de legboor en wordt in een krul naar boven geschoven naarmate de legboor dieper in het hout verzinkt.
Insect-Catching Plants
Four small display areas in two alcoves of the Fern Passage hold a fascinating collection of insect-catchers. In the wild, these plants grow in acid bogs where nitrogen is chemically tied up in the soil and is unavailable for nutrition. Leaf adaptations allow them to capture insects or secrete enzymes that break down animal proteins into usable nitrogen.
Pitcher-plants have a modified leaf structure (called a pitcher) into which insects slip and drown in trapped enzymes. Sundews seize insects on their sticky leaves, and the Venus' flytrap closes its leaves on prey when trigger hairs are stimulated.
Also found among the insect-catching plants are the Nepenthes, which are native to southern Asia, Borneo and the Philippines.
Since these plants are grown indoors without insects, they receive diluted liquid fertilization to satisfy their nutrient requirements (full strength fertilizer is harmful to these plants).
Noteworthy plants: pitcher-plant (Sarracenia), Venus' flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), sundew (Drosera adelae), tropical pitcher-plant (Nepenthes hybrids)
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This big ass wold spider crawled into my bedroom, then died in the middle of my bed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider
(after my wife sprayed it with a can of insect killer while I cowered in the other room like a baby)