The bugs channel

[WillyCKH]

It's spider time!

Sony A6000 + Sony 90mm F2.8 Macro

 

[WillyCKH]

Soil mites, I think.

 

[plantant]

Brought some giant silkmoth coccoons to the show today!

 

[barvinok]

They are masters to hide

 

[dewy]

First babies from my armadillidium maculatum！

 

[WillyCKH]

Jumpy Spider

 

[dewy]

A very weird looking harvestman, Related to the common daddy long legs.
Dendrolasma mirabile

 

[Muckydoo]

Porcellio Flavomarginatus

Porcellio Scaber Lava

 

[Muckydoo]

Move a patch of leaf litter, and dozens of baby Japanese magic potions were under it! Oops!

 

[WillyCKH]

Watch out for the plant vampires, they love to pest on indoor plants especially during winter.
Thrips and Aphids

 

[WillyCKH]

Haven't seen this one before

 

[Smilodonichthys]

Here is an interesting insect species I saw recently. The Oregon ant cricket (Myrmecophilus oregonensis).

It lives as an obligate kleptoparasite in ant colonies and gets food from ants via trophallaxis (where the ants regurgitate food to feed each other or in this case the cricket) or from eating the oily secretions the ants produce.

They are able to blend into the colonies by mimicking the way the ants move and by taking on the scent of the colony.

 

[dewy]

Here is an interesting insect species I saw recently. The Oregon ant cricket (Myrmecophilus oregonensis).

It lives as an obligate kleptoparasite in ant colonies and gets food from ants via trophallaxis (where the ants regurgitate food to feed each other or in this case the cricket) or from eating the oily secretions the ants produce.

They are able to blend into the colonies by mimicking the way the ants move and by taking on the scent of the colony.

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If I get back into ant keeping I’ll definitely try introducing these to one of my colonies to see if it works.

 

[Smilodonichthys]

Neat longhorn beetle that ended up in my grow tent. Likely Plectrura spinicauda (Thorn-tail longhorn beetle).

 

[WillyCKH]

a curious jumpy spider

 

[Stini]

this was chilling on the screen up in northern ontario. North America's largest moth, apparently. Cecropia moth. maybe 5"-6" wide , body around 3"

wish I had my macro lens for my iPhone . did a little post edit .

 

[Muckydoo]

Not sure what butterfly it is, but it's on some silverweed.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Spring azure?

 

[Muckydoo]

I checked iNaturalist and it says it's a "Silvery Blue" .... They really took the time to come up with a good name for that one

 

[Muckydoo]

I see these red mites all summer on my flower pots. They have to predatory because they are fast, like zooooooom, fast.