Hickory tussock moth caterpillar 🤍 on a recent walk in the woods.

Hickory tussock moth caterpillar 🤍 on a recent walk in the woods.
Cotton stainer bug
(Dysdercus suturellus)
on a Caesarweed leaf
(Urena lobata)
CREW pen flint strand lake trails
Bonita Springs, Florida 9-24-26
A red bug for red Wednesday.
Happy hump day.
#ColorADay #redWed #eck #macro #nature #red #threeWordGenre #art #macroPhotography #native #bugs #bugsky
Bumble bee on New England aster, bumble bee on smooth aster.
Are the rumors true? 🦋👀
#bugsky #sciart #vultureculture #papercraft #paperart #steam #entomology #butterflies #moths
Clouded Yellow at Lakeside at lunch time. Also nice to see Speckled Wood, Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Tufted Duck and Great Crested Grebe on walks there today. #Bugsky #UKWildlife
Pruinose squash bee, Xenoglossa pruniosa and beetles in a hedge bindweed flower, Calystegia sepium. Unlike the invasive field bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis, hedge bindweed is native in the United States. It hosts many native insects on its leaves, especially beetles.
I normally think of Golden Silk Spiders (Trichonephila clavipes) as "back-to-school" spiders, but this year I hadn't seen any of the big ones until this weekend... and we're already 1/3 of the way through the semester. #BugSky #SpiderSky 🕷️📸
Now we've been bombarded with Leptoglossus occidentalis, a well-established travelling species here in #Germany. Never a dull moment in the life of a bug monitor
#ecology #bugsky #anthropocene
Constantly giving myself jump scares realizing I am looking at one of these enormous grasshoppers because they are so still that my eye initially does not recognize them as a living thing. 🦗🌿 #bugsky #invertebrates
If you have a big enough bumblebee population you will eventually see European hornets hunting them 😢
Given I'm out with the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social state insect monitoring project as part of @frontiersmedia.bsky.social, it's pretty appropriate I've encountered this gargantuan ant nuptial flight.
It's always #flyingantday somewhere.
Lots of vibrant Green Scarab Beetles (Diphucephala colaspidoides) around at the moment, making the most of the abundant spring wildflowers 💚
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetles #Coleoptera #bugsky #inaturalist