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The funny thing is that I never witnessed any insect in or around "hotels" like this. Insects seem to distrust such human initiatives...
Araignée crabe avec sa proie, un bourdon des champs, sur un épi de blé.
Il y a deux araignées dans l'image...
I saw the Cinnabar larva on this ragwort from some distance away then getting closer saw the ladybird, I had taken two or three shots then the shieldbug appeared from nowhere to make a trio. Ragwort is poisonous and the larva is able to cope with this and becomes poisonous itself hence the yellow and black colouring common danger warning in nature to potential predators. The ladybird would be in search for aphids and the shieldbug lives on plant juices, whether it can cope with ragwort I don't know. (See below for image of Cinnabar moth)
Date: October 11, 2018
Location: Burton Island Nature Preserve - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Description: I could not determine what was going on here. Looked like a wasp was assaulting another insect/wasp but it was intense!
Coleoptera ( /koʊliːˈɒptərə/) is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing". The reason for the name is that most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the "elytra", being hardened and thickened into a sheath-like, or shell-like, protection for the rear pair, and for the rear part of the beetle's body. The superficial consistency of most beetles' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.
taken at kodiang, kedah