Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 16, 2025
Eggplant horned planthopper
Leptocentrus taurus
Hemiptera: Membracidae
By Vijin Varghese, Kerala, India
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography
Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 16, 2025
Eggplant horned planthopper
Leptocentrus taurus
Hemiptera: Membracidae
By Vijin Varghese, Kerala, India
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography
This is why you should allow the dandelions in your garden to grow.
This is one of the most beautiful hoverflies, Eupeodes luniger.
diese ackerhummel war so emsig, fast unmöglich da ein gutes bild zu bekommen. ich hab so an die 20 geschossen, auf der hälfte war sie schon wieder nicht drauf, nur die 3 sind was geworden, und auch die nur fast :3
A tumbling flower beetle, Mordella sp., feeds from an aster at UT Austin's Stengl Lost Pines Field Station. #Beetles #Mordellidae #Coleoptera #Pollinators #Insects
ganz anders dieser winzige #WeevilWednesday - blattrandkäfer der gattung sitona, dessen bild braucht wirklich nicht viel speicherplatz ...
ich mag rüsselkäfer, auch die denen man es gar nicht so ansieht dass sie dazu gehören :3
zwar "nur" schon wieder ein tagpfauenauge, aber dieses ließ mich mit der handykamera so nah ran, dass ich einen 1700² pixel messenden ausschnitt herausbekommen habe :3
danke dafür, schönes tier
@FotoVorschlag
#FotoVorschlag
'zum quadrat'
naja, nicht ganz quadratisch, aber doch erstaunlich rechtwinklig, findet ihr nicht auch?
Vierzehnpunkt-Marienkäfer
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
A Moore's Ace (Halpe porus) spotted on the Wallace Trail at Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore on 21 Dec 2024. I rare butterfly, this one choose to settle on the hat of a birder. Poor chap had to stay still while we took photos of it.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255752277 ].
This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones are on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy
Two Belgian teenagers were charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species.
@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/RnLBW2
The Madagascan moon moth also known as the comet moth is native to the rain forests of Madagascar. The adult moth cannot feed and only lives for 4 to 5 days.
https://theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1870107696
#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#Moth #insect #insects #InsectArt #InsectDrawing #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop
Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/16/wildflowers-absorb-toxic-metals-bees #Wildflowers #Environment #Pollution #Wildlife #Insects #Science #Cities #Bees
Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra made a surprising finding while examining museum specimens: caddisfly larvae from the early #1970s were already incorporating microplastics into their protective casings.
These #underwater #insects normally build tubes from pebbles, sand, and plant matter. Finding plastic in 50-year-old specimens from non-urban streams shows how long these pollutants have affected even relatively pristine ecosystems.
Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/microplastic-pollution-found-in-a-caddisfly-casing-from-1971
Ik zal later de rupsen wel van de aardbeiplanten plukken om aan de kippen te voeren. (foto's van vorig jaar)
#aardbeibladwesp #rupsen #insecten #insects #insectodon
Deze beesten zitten eitjes te leggen op m'n aardbeiplanten, waarna rupsen de bladeren beginnen op te vreten.
En wat doe ik in plaats van die beesten dood te slaan? Fotootjes maken om op Waarnemingen.be te plaatsen.
#aardbeibladwesp #insecten #insects #insectodon
"“The thing is, when you see a healthy forest, like Ngong forest, you don’t think about what is making it healthy. It is the relationships all the way from the bacteria to the ants to the bigger things,” he said.
Muruthi warned of the risk of trafficking species and exporting diseases to the agricultural industry of the destination countries."