Family road trip - New Orleans. Went to the Audabon Insectarium. Bug art at the Insectarium

These two little love birds (bugs) are several that are slowly eating all of the new squashes that are setting...ugh!

bUg dod buču vējam

VW Bug Show à Spa-Francorchamps - 05 & 06 aoûit 2017

VW Festival in Belgium.

bugs patch

Plenty of rooms available at the bug hotel in the grounds of St Peter and St Paul Church at West Mersea on Mersea Island in the County of Essex (UK).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_hotel

Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.

milkweed bug in my kitchen

If it is, it's a pest, accidentally imported from China or Japan, likely as a stowaway in packing crates, and first documented in the U.S. in 1998.

It is a "true bug," characterized by sucking mouthparts -- with a "beak" called a rostrum. Stinkbugs feed on plants; assassin bugs and ambush bugs feed on insects. This one appeared in my house suddenly -- maybe a stowaway in a pot of tulips from the grocery store, or having simply snuck in to get out of that 9 degree (F) (-12.8 C) chill we had a couple of days ago.

Fortunately I brought home half a dozen bug books from the libraries while researching ambush bugs and bees for an drawing in progress. It took a photograph and several books to get me close, and then the internet to get from one not-quite-right bug to another. Finally a nearly identical photo showed up under one of the false leads, and voila! I think I have it.

Thanks to Dr PhotoMoto I learned that many insects have ocelli -- simple eyes -- along with or instead of compound eyes. This one has two tiny round red ocelli just to the inside of his/her big "bug eyes." Also a pair of mostly invisible wings that overlap at the rear; parts of them show up slightly pinkish in this photo -- from the light, or a reflection from the red cap in there holding a plant I offered him. He's just under 1.5 cm long.

photinus pyralis

Plant bug on marguerite flower. Focus stacked using zerene

taken at the walled gardens in grappenhall

Fun Bug Cupcake Cones...great for Earth Day or a Birthday Party

Directions here...

hoosierhomemade.com/bug-cupcake-cones-for-earth-day/

Bug Light lighthouse in South Portland, Maine

My feeble attempts at being a photographer...some of the photos I've seen in some of these groups are so incredible...I'll never measure up :(

Stink bug

On damp mud in short damp grassland next to a reed-bed in Jersey. An uncommon UK spp

.Shield bug with morning dew. Natural light, tripod, timer, live view: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2010/10​/tips-on-shooting-wit...

ID: male specimen of Mucanum sp., most probably Mucanum patibulum Vollenhoven, 1868.

Plant bug (Coreoidea?)

Size: ~0.5 inch (12 mm)

June 11, 2015

Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

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VW Bug Show à Spa-Francorchamps - 05 & 06 aoûit 2017

VW Festival in Belgium.

reflecting one another, these two green VW bugs were parked outside my apartment…

this ones a bit blurred

RIP Bugs - Phoenix Theatre

The Grove, Woodland trust, Felixstowe, Suffolk

I don't know the name of this bug. It's very small, it's climbing the grass.

BUGS!

Mirrored selection of Bug Light, South Portland, Maine, USA

feelcook.blogspot.com/

Bug on a bucket

Don't know his name, but he is very shy.

Met him today early morning.

1973 vw bug

ich weiß nicht wie er heißt, aber er hat stillgehalten.... don´t know his name, but...

please enlarge

This little bug was neat, he reminded me of something from Star Wars, for some reason. I searched the Rosemary for others but didn't see another.