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@jancasavant.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 11:55 AM

A large #Bumblebee enjoying one of many #PurpleAster flowers at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill (Boylston, Massachusetts - 9/19/26) 🤩🐝💜

#insects #bees #pollinators #bugsky #InsectThursday #bloomscrolling #ECK #nature #photography #OM-1

A large black and yellow bumblebee sipping nectar from one of many Purple Aster flowers, a daisy like flower with purple petals and a bright yellow-orange center. There are more Asters and green leaves in the background. Seen in a garden at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston, Massachusetts.

@juliwils.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 11:07 AM

We have a new neighbour

#bugsky
#yellowthur
#insectthursday

An orange-yellow ambush bug with brown markings clings to the stem of a potted snapdragon near my front porch

(It makes me laugh that this mini predator has made a home out of the plant with the fiercest sounding name)

@maireadd100.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 9:40 AM

#Photography
#ECK
#InsectThursday
#ColorADay
#YellowThu
#Macro
#Bugsky
#Yarrow
#Wasp

A close-up view of a Common Aerial Yellowjacket Wasp atop the golden flowers of a Yarrow plant.

@rickmartin.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 9:35 AM

Marmalade hoverfly on kniphofia (red hot pokers) 🌱

#InsectThursday #BugSky #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #ECK

@rickmartin.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 7:27 AM

A 'Batman' hoverfly (look at the markings on the upper side of its thorax) sipping nectar from the ever popular calendula flowers.

Have a fantastic #InsectThursday sky-folk 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #BugSky #YellowThu #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday

Yellow and black bee mimic hoverfly on a bright yellow flower

@juliejam.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:42 AM

A Paper Wasp on the boneset for #WaspWednesday. Polistes fuscatus. #WorldWaspWeek #bugsky #nativeplants 🌱

Four different views of a male Northern Paper Wasp (I think) feeding on white boneset flowers. Here we see the back of the wasp. The curved tips of the antennae identify him as a male. He has a black thorax with one white horizontal stripe and two vertical stripes below it. His abdomen has curved tan stripes alternating with black stripes. The black stripes have concentric circles of rust and tan on each side that get smaller and disappear near the end of the abdomen. The wings are a dark rusty brown.

The wasp seen from one side. His head is black on the side and his legs are a reddish-gold color.

The wasp has his face in a wispy white boneset flower, his antennae folded down in front of the flower, the tips curved like shepherd's crooks.

The wasp grips a flower and drinks from it facing the camera, showing his pale yellow face and khaki tan eyes. Tall Boneset, Eupatorium altissimum. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

@gardenwizard.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:08 AM

Spotted this Thyreodon Atricolor Wasp today while I was outside. Beautiful creature! This is my first time getting a photo of one. They are a parasitic wasp that lays eggs inside Sphinx moth caterpillars. They prefer woody edges which makes sense, because that’s exactly where I live. #bugsky #nature

@jtkindt.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 12:46 AM

It’s #waspwednesday - last week I saw my first female giant ichneumonid (genus Megarhyssa) - so cool! Was hoping she had found a target to drill into the wood with her ovipositor but she just flew off.

Pretty sure I saw another one in flight this week, I better keep an eye out…

#bugsky #insects

Wasp on tree trunk amid bracket fungus. Mostly red with yellow and black bands, narrow dark wings, arched abdomen, red eyes. Needle-like ovipositor sticking straight back is longer than she is.

@grays.art Sep 24, 2026, 12:29 AM

Louisiana Painted-dark Bee
(Stelis louisae)

on false sunflower
(Heliopsis helianthoides)

Andersonville neighborhood
Chicago, Illinois 7-11-25

Re-edit reminiscence from when still lived in the city.

#InsectThursday #YellowThu #eck #macro #nature #yellow #art #threewordgenre #native #bees #bugsky

@botanylicious.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 12:06 AM

Blue-winged scoliid wasp on late boneset for #WaspWednesday

#BugSky #WorldWaspWeek2026 #Scoliidae #Bloomscrolling

A black wasp with shiny black wings that look dark blue in the light, with a long abdomen that is mostly medium brown with gold fringed hairs between each segment and two pale yellow spots on the top brown abdominal segment. The wasp is walking and feeding on the flowers of boneset, which has compound corymbs (branched clusters of flowers arranged so that the top of the cluster appears flat) of small heads of many tiny white flowers.

@ngerlach.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 11:56 PM

A new-to-me species! Found this slightly battered but still beautiful Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea) this afternoon, despite being many miles from the nearest salt marsh. #bugsky