Insect appreciation thread - You WILL love the bugs

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Favorite insect order

  • Thysanura (silverfish)

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Odonata (dragonflies)

    Votes: 28 16.3%
  • Ephemeroptera (mayflies)

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Blattodea (roaches and termites)

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Mantodea (mantis)

    Votes: 28 16.3%
  • Orthoptera (crickets, katydids, locusts etc.)

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Dermaptera (earwigs)

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects)

    Votes: 4 2.3%
  • Hemiptera (true bugs and cicadas)

    Votes: 7 4.1%
  • Psocodea (bark lice and true lice)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Siphonaptera (fleas)

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Mecoptera (scorpionflies)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Trichoptera (caddisflies)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)

    Votes: 28 16.3%
  • Diptera (flies and mosquitoes)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Thysanoptera (thrips)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Hymenoptera (wasps, sawflies, bees and ants)

    Votes: 33 19.2%
  • Coleoptera (beetles)

    Votes: 31 18.0%
  • Neuroptera (lacewings)

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 3 1.7%

  • Total voters
    172
From today!
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Any asshole that doesn't like bees deserves nothing in life. God created bees to give us honey and bust my ass shoveling shit that becomes a botanical garden.
 
Another spider to post, though you can’t really tell she’s there except for her giant abdomen poking out lol She’s been here since last summer and I’ve lovingly given her title of Big Booty Judy
Trying to figure out what type of spider she is but I’m assuming a type of orb weaver based on her body type…her little cocoon is interesting, I’ve been wondering for a while where exactly she hides during the day
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#1 soyjack has uploaded his black widow video
if this is your first exposure to him beware of low level cringe
 
Flies in the family Pelecorhynchidae are found in Australia and Chile, but are extremely elusive.
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Pelecorhynchus nigripennis.

22.webp
Pelecorhynchus fulvus.
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Pelecorhynchus eristaloides
 
According to my phone this is a Boyeria vinosa…whatever he is he’s the biggest dragonfly I’ve ever seen lol
Currently guarding one of my outdoor cameras and preventing me from taking it down IMG_1448.webp IMG_1446.webp
 
Termites have likely failed to swarm this year. It's actually so fucking joever, I'll never get a termite farm. Time to hero myself.

Anyway here's some of my ants with their brood.
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