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Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae
No need to go to the Amazonas to find colorfull insects... they can be found in my backyard.
reference: bugguide.net/node/view/2970
BC: Labidomera clivicollis (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae). Another orange- red-black insect on Milkweed.
Last spring, some insect buried an egg inside this reed and the plant grew this gall induced by a chemical injected by the parent or formed by the larvae that altered its structural development protecting the larvae inside.
I liked its colour and texture, it looks like old leather.
The pupa has a strange process where cells of the caterpillar become different structures, and later the butterfly emerges. The DNA in every cell of your body is the same. How does each cell know how to behave? Methylation, or epi-genetics. In a pupa, it seems like everything gets redefined.
As soon as the sun appears, more and more insects start populating the garden / Zo gauw de zon verschijnt beginnen meer en meer insekten de tuin te bevolken
This "little" guy spent three days scaring the life out us by showing up in various places like the bathroom, above the boy child's bed and popping out from under clothing. Finally, today I got him out of the house. (he is still alive, he was just stunned and after taking these photos he scurried off into the garden.)
The evening was chilly, and the bee was barely moving, so the only problem was keeping the camera still and not bumping into the flowers. That proved to be quite difficult, though. Taken by Edgar.
Aka water slider, water bug, pond skater, skimmer, etc. Striders comprise the Gerridae family of true bugs. There are more than 1,700 species worldwide. Despite their delicate appearance, they are predators, attacking any insect or other small invertebrate on the water's surface.
Stick insect found in Cusuco National Park, Honduras, Central America. Summer 2009.
Large View On Black
A Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea) on a Common Milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca) at Distant Hill Gardens in Walpole New Hampshire.
To see more insects found on Distant Hill, go to:
A cocoon formed in a Scale Insect found on bay tree on 23rd March. The resulting adult wasp eclosed on 6th April and proved to be a Coccophagus obscurus of the Aphelinidae family. See next post.
Insects are everywhere. Photograph a bug in your environment (no spiders - they're arachnids). (@DeForestRanger)
I expected this to be an easy assignment but the winds today seem to have driven off the bees and butterflies that are usually in the gardens.
This little bug is the most hated pest in our yard. It destroys the grape leaves, the burning bush leaves and so many flowers. We've tried the traps but haven't found them effective. So when they get too bad we take a bucket of soapy water and just pick them off the plants and toss them in the bucket. Anyone have a better plan?
One of the rosebuds in my garden seems to have become a breeding ground for two different types of insects. I recognise the aphids (green) but have no idea what the white things are.
The insect wall I built.
Freshly chopped but mostly worthless wood. I filled the gaps between the logs with little hollow branches and straw.
Why?
Insects are a very important part of our ecosystem. We consider them mostly as creeps, but they are more than useful, rather necessary for our survival. Just like bees by the way.
The number of insects and species of insects has been negatively influenced by pesticides. Pesticides are hardly controlled or regulated by authorities and hardly discussed by science, because of the financial importance of the producers, the chemical industry.
All you can do as an individual is make circumstances for insects in your garden or even on your balcony as favorable as possible. An insect wall is one of the methods.
Several species of wood, drill holes in the logs on all sides, put grass and straw and hollow branches between them, and you'll be surprised how many creeps will visit you.
The birds love it, so the result is also more birds in your garden.
I hope it also results in beautiful photos of all sorts of insects.