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Hey, guys! I saw a wheel bug for the first time the other night!! I stepped out on my porch...and there it was! Needless to say I'm a bit of a dork when it comes to creepy crawlies so I was pretty excited. Unfortunately, the only halfway decent picture I managed to get of it was with my phone. Regardless of that, I wanted to share it with you. :) If you see one, be careful, I've read that that big thing on their snout stabs...and really really hurts.
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Little Girl commandeered my new ladybug headband. It was purchased as a photo prop, so I suppose letting her be the first to model it isn't too bad a thing.
A vocabulary lesson...
Adj. 1. wooly - having a fluffy character or appearance
Adj. 1. woolly - resembling wool
"These colourful bugs feed only on the seeds of the Sea Hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus). Both adults and nymphs are often found in groups under the leaves or among the flowers of this plant."- www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/inverts/cotton_stainer.htm
Found this group at Labrador Park, Singapore. They were all over this particular tree. A very colourful bug indeed. :D
This is about 10 seconds before my brave wife picked up her slipper and mashed him into bug juice. So RIP bug.
PS: Bug juice does not come easily off the popcorn ceiling. Here is the after picture:
Not the normal insect sort, but from the look of it this is a baby Moreton Bay Bug. Found this inside a mussel we were eating! In fact, we found a couple of baby sized crabs and bugs inside the mussels. Might be spawning season and they're getting eaten.
Boo! For Halloween, I thought I'd go back to archives and find something scary from my many adventures. I'm still not sure what kind of bug this is, but I found it and many of its friends on agave plants below Hunter Peak, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, in June 2004. The scale isn't obvious, here, but they are at least two inches long, possibly more like three or four when all parts are included. They were, and still are, one of the creepiest things I've seen on any hike. This was one bad S.A.B. (scary agave bug)!
A view of the "Magpie Tendencies" exhibit at The Anderson Gallery. Artist Jennifer Angus, known in the art world as the "bug lady," mixes contemporary art and entomology in her works.
Ling posing with Bugs Bunny on the beach. Only after the pics were taken did we find out it costs 20RMB. The Chinese tourists seemed to take this approach pretty much in stride though.
I was at my computer looking at Flickr pictures when I spied this bug with the distinguished name of Vandenbark. His ancestry can be traced back to 1978. What a smart bug to be able to read and land on just the right part of the page.
Leaf-footed Bug )Acanthocephala or Leaf footed Bugs are distinctive, nearly inch-long stately insects in the Coreidae family. Leaf footed bugs are named for the leaf-like expansions of the hind tibia and femora. They have four-segmented antennae, large compound eyes and one pair of ocelli, or simple eyes. The Latin name Acanthocephala means “spiny head.”
All species of Coreidae are plant-feeders. Some Coreids live in leaf litter, but most nymphs and adults live above ground on their host plants where they may feed on seeds, fruits, stems or leaves. Many occur on an astonishing variety of plants, while some are restricted to a single host, such as the squash bug, known for its destructive feeding on cucurbitaceae.
These insects have a distinctive proboscis, a “hypodermic-like” beak. “Like all true bugs, the adults are equipped with a beak, or rostrum, a hypodermic needle-like device carried under the head, which it uses to pierce the plant tissue and suck out liquids. They do not simply "suck out sap" they inject a tissue-dissolving saliva and vacuum out the resulting slurry. Bugs cannot ingest solid food, and widespread damage to the plant is a result of these liquefying enzymes.
A "Bug E" electric motorcycle seen in downtown Springfield at the Second Friday Art Walk. More information at www.bugev.net.