Post insect animals
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
>>5142268These are extremely easy to coax off a tree with a bit of sugar syrup, they have zero self-preservation instincts.
The swallowtails were all over our lilacs this year.
orthodera novaezealandiae
>>5142388Man, I should go out and look for some mantises this weekI've always thought they looked fascinating with how they turn their heads around to look at stuff, which is generally less common with insects
>>5142390apex predator reflexes
I love Silverfish.
>>5142316How do you know?
>>5142483I have done it twice (2x)
Found this guy on my walk. He was very docile.
>>5144013
>>5142390Came here to find an insect thread because some anon years ago was trying to catch a mantis.He was roaming through random fieldsHe couldnt find shit.And im sitting on my porch and some mantis is crawling down the porch swing.Or I walk over to the greenhouse and theres some tiny lillte nymph mantis on the door handle.Today I pulled some weeds (beggars lice) that i meant to pull a month ago but im lazy.As I was standing there this dude ran up my leg.
>>5144237>But wait...theres more!!I kept going and pulled some more Beggar's Lice and afterwards felt something in my hair and reached up and grabbed this.>(luckily I'm not the type to freak out and smash shit).So umm...Apparently Beggar's Lice has something that mantis are very interested in.
>>5144237>>5144239If the anon that roamed fields trying to find a mantis reads this-Post a throw away address and ill send verify pics of of the mantis i find constantly and ill ship you one overnight express mail (im rich, no charge) just so you can enjoy the random joy I encounter.Mantis are a different level of bug.I taught the grandbaby that we need to save beetles in the pool.And when I showed her the mantis today her response was "why is it staring at me?"I told her theyre a special kind of bug
>>5144422>tfw you're part of a species than can build microprocessors with a trillion nanoscopic transistors but you'll never feel this
>>5142266>Post insect animalsas opposed to insect humans?
>>5146360roth-schilds are not allowed in this thread
>>5146259is that one of them tiny bug spy robots?
my dear /an/ons, could you help me identify this caterpillar that has been devouring my gingko leaves as of lately? I only found 1 so far
>>5146881Inch worm of some type.Geometer moth family.
>>5146885ty anon
>>5142266Found this asshole sitting on my door frame two days ago.
>>5147002And this one a few weeks before that.
Saw this guy recently. Anyone know what he is? Was like the size of a thumb.
>>5147010Ya I know what it is.Fucking Evil Incarnate.
>>5147010https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jul/21/cool-critters-its-not-an-alien-its-just-a-jerusale/
Tons of hoverflies, wasps and bees around the garden
>>5147186Hoverfliea keep trolling me into thinking they're stingers when I'm out tending the garden. I can't stay mad at them though since they're so whimsical and like to pollinate my melons.
>>5147194I don't sweat the stingers, especially solitary wasps. Yellowjackets and paper wasps and all the eusocial ones can be aggressive when you're near the nest but solitary parasitoids want nothing to do with people.
>>5147195I saw some really nice eastern cicada killers last week but it was on the tail end of a long hike and I was getting sunburnt as hell so I didn't stick around to catch one.
>>5142266Saw this happy little guy a few days ago. He was very curious and really friendly.
Is it normal for them to hang around upside down?
>>5146394Nah he just grinded the battle pass for the gold skin
>find tiny ants in my bread basket>remove ants, clean basket>check 15 minutes later, more ants>remove ants, clean the inside of the cabinet it's stored in, sweep the floor around>wait, more ants>turn over the whole damn cabinet, empty and sweep every single drawer, manually pluck ants out of the bread>still more ants somehow appear despite the fact that i don't see any ant caravan going in the housethe fuck?at this point i'm beginning to think that these ants have learned teleportation.it's not like it's a billion of them, but i don't get where they are even coming front
>>5147471Same situation here, it just rained for 2 days straight and now they just show up.
>>5147479>it just rained for 2 days straight and now they just show upNot that Anon but yeah, literally the only times I've ever had ants inside was when it rained for too long
he tried
>>5147471>>5147479They’re in your walls of cabnitry dummies. You realize ants live in colonies and you’re only seeing foragers right.
>>5147981*or, now I’m the dummy
>>5147981It tried for sometime and only then left it, as if it had a brain of it's own to weight input time vs output food.
>>5147798It tried for sometime and only then left it, as if it had a brain of it's own to weight input time vs output food.
>>5148132Hivemind dictates that later foraging party use multi-ant technique to obtain Big Food.
what’s the largest insect you’ve ever touched?
>>5148425..My cockchafer......Also, some tarantula. At a zoo.They let one walk all day long over people's hands.What surprised me was how soft their feet were. They have toe pads. Thought it'd be prickly.Oh damn, insects you said.In that case i had some chunky Peruvian Stick insects. Just a little grabby feeling. They could instantly speed off when scared though, not to be underestimated.
>>5147981i've had a few more encounters these last few days.yeah, i realize it's just foragersthe problem is figuring out where the fuck they are coming from.presumably i should see a line of them coming/going but everytime i spot them, they are in a very limited area and i can't pinpoint the damn thing
You guys interested in pinning at all?
>>5148623Pins are expensive
>>5148623I just do superglue.
Taken from my balconyR8
Should i kill him?>inb4 petter parker explaining while sweating profusely how spiders aren't insects
>>5148752you from Brazil? Be careful m8, that spider might be of extremely poisonous jungle variety, better leave it alone or it might kill YOU
I wonder if this guy will make it.
I love finding beetles.
>>5147010I usually like bugs but man those things are grotesque.
fact: insects are the closest real-life analogue to whimsical and mischievous little faeries
The humble Spruce Zebra Beetle
>>5149610fuck my shitty nigger life
>>5149611And here is the “Hairy Necked Tiger Beetle”, they run very fast and apparently have a declining population.
>>5149612They blend in very well with the sand and grass.The world’s fastest tiger beetle can run about 125x its body length in 1 second.
And this very small weird grub
>>5147196I remember sitting under a tree at the park a few months ago and saw one of those bastards dive bomb a cicada right off the branch in front of me and drag it away while it was screaming its head off. Crazy stuff
>>5144237>>5144239I just walked out on my back porch and this guy (or gal?) was just chillin on the porch fence.San Diego county
>>5149868San Diego native here (that you linked).But im on worst coast now and my mantis are southern belle's. Rare find in SD. I probably saw 2 total in Santee in my youth.Weird you linked me.I miss home
>>5149613Dude is pretty cool looking. I heard the low pitch "vvbbbvv" tonight while sitting on the porch and drinking a beer in the dark and the rain.Little (big?) guy landed on me then fell off so I grabbed my phone light to find him.Not disappointed but was hoping for a male stag or rhino. I (think) its a female rhino so I took her over to a gardenia bush to let her go. So weird how these things dont want to be picked up but after theyre on your hand they dont want to get off.
