Insect appreciation thread - You WILL love the bugs

[Android raptor]

Wow this is a really humanizing character trait

Take the roach pill

 

[DeutscheKatze]

OOOOHHHH HELL YEAH LETS GO!!

I love Bugs and Moths, Jumping Spidies etc..
i often discover new ones especially from nice photographs of japanese bug friends.
prolly even more that i will love but don't know yet! Excited for this thread!



Maikäfer
(Melolontha melolontha)
Soon it's Maikäfer time again.
PPl used to eat them back in the day... poor buggie friends.

Nii-nii Cicada
(Platypleura kaempferi)

Golden Stag Beetle
(Lamprima aurata)
Animal Crossing Fans rise up Big Mula

Springspinnen
(Salticidae)
no specific ones, they are all super nice!

Hummel // Bombus
(all sorts of ones)

Schwebefliege aka Wiggle butt
(theres also this really fluffy one a Pokemon is based on i think, but i know the exact name atm)

Schwimmkäfer
(Dytiscidae)

Fangschrecken/ Gottesanbeter
(Mantodea)

& die üblichen Verdächtigen/Schnuffelschnorchler/ Nektar schlecker
(All sorts of Moths & Butterflys, Tagfalter, Nachtfalter)

 

[PonderosaPete]

I, unfortunately, have to think less of everyone who didn't vote dragonfly. Team dragonfly 2strong.

 

[Android raptor]

Love these guys

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Orchid mantises are the best mantids

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[Crocodylus Acutus]

Take the roach pill

I never thought I would see Android Raptor share something that's pro-life, even if it is cockroaches. It was an oddly cute video admittedly.

 

[Android raptor]

I never thought I would see Android Raptor share something that's pro-life, even if it is cockroaches. It was an oddly cute video admittedly.

I just don't like humans, worst primate

Roaches are chill and important decomposers and food for other animals.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

I, unfortunately, have to think less of everyone who didn't vote dragonfly. Team dragonfly 2strong.

Dragonflies are the animal kingdom’s equivalent of living stained glass and crystals. The beauty of these insects is severely under appreciated.

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

Take the roach pill

Well I certainly wasn't disagreeing with you. I had no idea that the giant cockroach was so k-selection pilled though

 

[Android raptor]

Well I certainly wasn't disagreeing with you. I had no idea that the giant cockroach was so k-selection pilled though

Yes! There are a few species of roaches that care for their offspring. Roly poly roaches also do it iirc

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

In addition to the obvious, I really like dragonflies. They're even prettier to me than butterflies because they look more delicate. Mantises are also really cool. When we lived in Hawaii, there were these huge ones that I'd catch then hand them a cockroach or something, which they would grab with those claws and devour.

 

[Crex Crex]

Yes! There are a few species of roaches that care for their offspring. Roly poly roaches also do it iirc

Interestingly, parental care in some wood-feeding roaches is probably what led to the evolution of eusociality in termites.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Petition to OP to include arthropods to the thread, so isopods can be appreciated as well.

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

This Bumblebee is fat and I would not have sex with it.

 

[Android raptor]

Interestingly, parental care in some wood-feeding roaches is probably what led to the evolution of eusociality in termites.

That tracks, especially since we now know termites are just a very weird type of roach.

Mound building termites are keystone species in their ecosystems.

 

[Maratus volans]

Springspinnen
(Salticidae)
no specific ones, they are all super nice!

Hey man, you're pretty nice too!

 

[not william stenchever]

Petition to OP to include arthropods to the thread, so isopods can be appreciated as well.


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When I was cutting down some saplings around an outbuilding and spraying herbicide on them yesterday I accidentally tagged one of these guys with the tree killer. He probably didn't make it

 

[Digital Snow]

Silverfish and Firebrats are cool, they're some of the most primitive insects in the world and still going strong. Some of them are so chill they can live in fire ant nests.

Spoiler: cool bug pics

 

[Crex Crex]

Oh by the way, I almost to forgot to post my ant colonies

Spoiler: Camponotus nylanderi

This is a ground-dwelling carpenter ant. They're huge, with the queen approaching 2.5 cm, but quite timid and nocturnal. I mostly feed them honey and finely chopped mealworms, they have very weak jaws despite their size and prefer soft food. This colony is three years old and grows slowly.

Spoiler: Pheidole pallidula

They've badly fogged their test tube and it's hard to take a good pic of them. Anyway, they're my second favourite species as they have cool soldiers and breed fast. This colony is nearly a year old and I'll probably move them out of this tube soon. They eat like pigs lol.

Spoiler: Tetramorium sp.

Pavement ants. Don't know which species this is exactly because they are reclassified every few years lol (most likely they're T. caespitum). Also a year old and growing fast. The queen is hidden under the brood at the far left. I'll probably move these too into a nest.

Spoiler: Camponotus lateralis

A small arboreal carpenter ant. They mimic another, more aggressive species of ant (called Crematogaster scutellaris) in order to raid their foraging columns and scavenge dropped food. This colony too is a year old, and their first major worker (at the center of the pic) was born just a few days ago.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

You know, I'd like Dragonflies even more if they didn't fly so clumsily. Everytime i see one it's like they're drunk and might hit something with their head.

The way they fly is what makes them cool. Unlike most insects, they have direct flight. Which means that their muscles control their wings directly, while most insects use indirect flight, which works by oscillating the thorax. Because they have direct control over their 4 wings, they can move them independently of each other. Dragonflies can fly 4G and even 9G for sharp turns. They can even fly backward: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0102
What you see as drunken flight, is actually very powerful and tightly controlled flight. They have to have good flight because they hunt other insects.