Insect appreciation thread - You WILL love the bugs

[bug_ensneeded9000]

WOooooooaaahhhh buggyyy!!!!

 

[Justwandering02]

me and my sis gone apeshit when we found a philipus audax, and many took photos of it

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Caught some boxelder bugs In flagrante delicto:

 

[Positron]

Beetles love fungi, especially the polypore fungi that grow on rotten logs. There are half a dozen families or subfamilies of beetles being given the generic common name "X fungus beetles". Two of the most eye-catching ones are the Erotylidae "Pleasing Fungus Beetles" and Endomychidae "Handsome Fungus Beetles"

Erotylidae are round or slightly oblong, usually of good size (about 2 cm in length) and decorated with aposemic spots and waves.








Endomychidae belongs to the Ladybird Superfamily, and like many Ladybird beetles, they reflex bleed, secreting noxious hemolymphs from their leg joint to deter predators. They tend to be more sculpted in outline than Erotylidae, sometimes with ridges or even spikes on their bodies

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

That last one almost doesn't look real. Beautiful creatures.

 

[Positron]

 

[bug_ensneeded9000]

SCared the crab spider away by accident. No tiny elephant for you

 

[Justwandering02]

georgous dragonfly

where I work I found this swarm of stink bug nymph

 

[BIONICLE 10127 1]

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where I work I found this swarm of stink bug nymph

Those are boxelder nymphs in the second pic, not stink bugs. In their adult form they look like this:

 

[Yugica]

I love wolf spiders and want to breed them for intelligence and some other traits in the future. Ogre-faced spiders are really cool also and use their webs as nets to capture prey. Sadly neither of those are insects.

Hate roaches and their close relatives though. Only the mantids can be salvaged.

I don't know why, but I read "Incest appreciation thread", I feel relieved that I did an oopsie.

You're not the only one who has had this happen to them.