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Damn dirty fly... stop bugging me!
If you want to see some real great insect photography, check this dude: Lord V.
As I walked past a bush today, I noticed a section of it seeming to rhythmically vibrate. Closer inspection revealed that this was some kind of response on the part of whatever is in the cocoon to the presence of this wasp, who I believe was trying to lay its eggs in there. Amazing (although unpleasant) to see.
A Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea) on a Common Milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca) at Distant Hill Gardens in Walpole New Hampshire.
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Argia fumipennis (male, dark-winged form)
After a bad night at work this little guy showed up in my backyard and cheered me up.
very colorful specimen showing purple, green, and even a hot pink sheen when the light hit it right; Wells, York County, Maine
This large white butterfly was photographed at butterfly world in edinburgh, home to many foreign species.
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Hiding in the mountain alpine environments of the Rocky Mountains lives a flightless grasshopper (Melanoplus dodgei). It lives no where else in the world. It is not pretty or of any identified economic value. It goes unnoticed by nearly all humans that visit the mountain peaks and cared about by even fewer. Many of the current climate models show that Earth’s climate is warming at an alarming rate. If these models prove correct then those animals and plants that have no dispersal corridor for movement are likely to disappear in the next few decades. Two environments that offer no escape corridors (and thus most at risk) are the polar environments and mountain alpine environments. When these are subjected to a warming climate there is just no where for their specialized plants and animals to go. I do not know how bad global warming will get – but I doubt that humans will ever allow the Polar Bear to go extinct even if their habitat disappears. Even two-hundred years from now they will continue to be a draw at zoos. But what about Melanoplus dodgei and the countless other insignificant (from a human perspective) plants and animals that occur in alpine and polar environments? Female Melanoplus dodgei at 12,000 ft, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
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