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The wheel bug, Arilus cristatus (Linnaeus) or assassing bug is a scary but beneficial bug that preys on pest insects. However, its bite can be more severe than a bee sting, and both nymphs and adults should be avoided or handled with caution. (It looks like a killing machine)
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I just bought myself a Surface Pro 4 and tried tethered macro photography for the first time.
These aphids on the underside of an ornamental plant were all the wildlife I could find in our garden. In all seventeen images under artificial light, focus stacked using Helicon Focus 6. Hopefully I can find something more exotic as it gets warmer.
Tectocoris diophthalmus, commonly known as the Hibiscus Harlequin Bug or Cotton Harlequin Bug, is a brightly coloured convex and rounded shield-shaped bug with a metallic sheen that grows to about 20 mm. Adult females are mostly orange and males are both blue and red or orange. The colours are quite variable. It lives in Northern and Eastern Australia, New Guinea and several Pacific Islands in habitats ranging from urban to agricultural and coastal areas.
The Hibiscus Harlequin Bugs feed on many species of the Hibiscus family (Malvaceae), as well as cultivated cotton. They will also eat Illawarra flame tree flowers, grevillea and bottlebrush saplings.
They are also known as "stink bugs" as they have scent glands which produce a bad smell which, when it is emitted by one bug, triggers others in the group, multiplying the bad smell.
Pitcher plants... meat eaters
These plants can grow in the Pacific Northwest, just give them a 'swampy habitat' and light so the flies and bugs see them and are attracted....and pang.... they will be eaten!
Wren - Troglodytidae
Yeadon Tarn - Leeds
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A vintage automobile in the ghost town of Lake Valley has headlights like bug eyes. I bet this car was a beauty in its day!
I found this critter feeding on the Black-eyed Susans.
Our gardens are teeming with insect life if we just take the time to stop and observe...
Happy Labor Day everyone!
I'm not sure what this guy is-- he resembles a milkweed bug but I'm pretty sure he's not. [edit: subject looks like Lopidea, possibly L. instabilis, and the bomber is perhaps some sort of Lygus bug] At the time I took the photo I didn't notice the other unidentified critter hiding in the old bloom. The flower is from culinary sage. Glendale, Missouri
Red-headed Woodpecker visiting my rear yard. A first...
Uncommon year-round resident. Numbers are greatly reduced in winter. Some say it's one of the most handsome birds in North America.
Spined soldier bug (member of the stink bug family) sucking the life out of a black swallowtail caterpillar. This event took place on a dill plant that the caterpillar was feasting on.
From my archives. I must have wanted to be a bug that day, given that I crawled around on the ground trying to see how an insect might see its world.
Do they feel a sense of accomplishment after they climbed to the top of a blade of grass?
Looking straight up a wall mounted glass display case at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, full of bugs on pins.