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If you look really close at the "A Forest Surrounding an Abandoned Sofa"-photo, you can see this little fella in the left on the very same couch. =)
This hoverfly (Rhingia campestris) is a common insect in woodlands and elsewhere. It has an extraordinary projection on it's face which houses it's long proboscis, with which it can feed from deep tubed flowers like bluebells. This has earned it the nickname of the Heineken Fly - after the advertising slogan "reaches the parts other beers cannot reach"
I'm sure this strange-looking insect is some sort of beetle, but have no idea what kind. It was floating in the water at the houseboat and when I lifted it out, it raised up it's antenna. Then it just sat all day in the sunshine on this piece of cardboard. Sometime during the night, it left. Any ideas???
I don't know what this is, other than an insect in my house. It makes a very faint whirring sound when it flies, and it is resting very close to the ceiling. (Yes, it has 6 legs; the rest of these are shadows.)
Scavenge Challenge: May #1) It has wings! - From airplanes to zebra finches, if it flies, it qualifies.
This multipede was seen along the pathway to Haew Narok Waterfall in Khao Yai National Park in Thailand in April 2013.
Chains breaking up. These I just caught! Only had about 1 minute from the time I realized what I was seeing until it was all over. These insects acually connect into chains. I nearly missed it. The images are just not very crisp but you can see what is going on.
Look at this in the original size to see what is going on.
A variety of insects found on vegetation along the White Oak Creek greenway, Chatham County, NC (USA) on 4 August 2021.
Little Blue Dragonlet - Erythrodiplax minuscula (female, ~25 mm length)
References
-Beaton, Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast (Univ. Georgia Press, 2007), pp. 274-5
-BugGuide: bugguide.net/node/view/590
-Dunkle, Dragonflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) p. 204, plate 37
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A macro shot of an insect that I found at our door step. It is true that people do stupid things when they get a macro lens.
A male Mycterothrips consociatus found in Great Wood. Additional picture below shows those distinctive antennae with their very long sixth segment.
Oecanthus latipennis, male. Gryllidae. 2716 Dutch Lane, Newark, Licking County, Ohio. Male singing by vibrating forewings.
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These guys were HUGE, at least 2/3 the length of my forearm. They are actually pretty neat! Now I've completely forgotten exactly what kind of insect this is, so I'll have to do some Googling and update the title later.
I had never uploaded this one for some reason, probably because I forgot what kind of insect this is. Anyway, it's orange day on my color my world daily group so.....
Seen at the Montreal Insectarium