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More Engrish! Also from a kid's shirt. Why do I take such crappy pictures? It says, "I like watching insects. My hobby is to collect insects."
Melissodes sp.
Hymenoptera : Apidae
Raleigh, NC USA
August 14, 2009
Long-horned bee.
There are many species and subspecies of Melissodes, and ID to species is difficult.
References:
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)
For more of the Conservatory West Wing House's:
...from this gall on a seep willow at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in NV.
Photo: USFWS
A refuge staffer tells more about this March 1, 2012 photo:
A female insect will lay her eggs on the branches, which causes a chemical reaction that interferes with the growth of the plant stem and a gall is created.
The eggs stay in this protective chamber all winter, until spring when they develop into larvae, chew their way out, then fall to the ground and transform into an adult. This is a great photo of the gall and the exit hole where the larvae chewed its way out. The gall doesn't harm the plant.
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.
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.
A Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea), and an ant, 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:
Found on my Bottle Brush plant.
Someone ID's these as Florida Predatory Stink Bug nymphs - Euthyrhynchus floridanus.
Two walking-stick insects mating in a garden in McDonald's Corners, Ontario Canada. The small brown one is the male and the much larger green one is the female.
much thanks to my friend Harry who held this insect while i took shots of it.
technique used was reversed lens macro or cheap man's macro as some like to call it. what you're looking at are two of the insects legs...
there's more to come but i'm dead tired cause it's 3:04 am here right now!
good night and kul aam wintu bkheir!
May you all have a blessed and happy eid.