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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Pic from 14. May 2022

picked these pickles up few days back. ;)

The bug.

A hue processed macro.

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.

Aptly named, it is a large bug, and it eats milkweed. Taken at the NC Arboretum in Asheville.

Dead Bugs bunch of old VW's waiting to be salvaged in this group shot in North Carolina.

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.

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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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hello for monochrome bokeh Thursday!😸

*carl zeiss jena flektogon 35mm f2.4*

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

happy thursday from bug! 😸

*helios 44m-4 58mm f2*

graphosoma lineatum

Canon EOS M50

TAMRON SP 90mm F/2.8 Di VC USD MACRO1:1 F017

ƒ/14.0 90.0 mm 1/200 200

Spotted in the fields beyond Captains Wood on my walk this morning.

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.

Looking straight up a wall mounted glass display case at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, full of bugs on pins.

Pair of striped bugs (Graphosoma italicum) copulating on some umbelifer.

Para strojnic włoskich (Graphosoma italicum) kopulujących na jakimś baldaszkowatym.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

Canon EOS M50

EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

ƒ/7.1 45.0 mm 1/200 100

hand-held

Shield bug.

Canon R, Mitutoyo M Plan x5,@ x5.

ISO 200, .30sec.

Helicon focus ( method c ),P.S.

X3 Lume cube panels with diffusers.

Mjkzz Ultra rail.

209 shots,@ 20um.

Thanks for your comments and faves,they are truly appreciated.

This tiny bug was walking along the top of the brick and then went to the puddle that had collected in the middle of the brick, it’s a tiny bug but if you focus in on its back there’s tiny droplets on it, fascinating micro world.

Thanks for stopping

Spined Assassin Bugs are excellent at camouflaging themselves. Photographed in Maryland