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Damson 🌿

We had a lovely morning at the nature reserve despite the heat, and we saw lots of insects and arachnids! Here are four of the lovely insects we saw today (I'll do a separate post for the spider photos).

#insects #beetles #bugs #flies

A fly that looks quite a lot like a beetle at first! Its wings are black with golden brown spots, and they're slightly rounded so at first glance they look like the hardened eletrya of a beetle. iNaturalist says this might be a Sieve-Winged Snailkiller (Coremacera marginata), named for the snail-eating lifestyle of the larvae.

An iridescent pale green weevil, with a long snout and large black eyes, sitting on a green leaf. iNaturalist says this might be a Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus).

A longhorn beetle, spreading its middle pair of legs wide for some reason. It's got a long body with gold and black markings, and very long antennas.

A Forest Bug, which is a brown shieldbug which a striking orange-gold spot at the tip of its scutellum, and shimmery black pointy bits on the pronotum that look like shoulder-pads.

Crystal Mountain Records

A Common Whitetail Dragonfly. Edit: I thought this was an immature male, but the zig zag pattern on the abdomen indicates they're an adult female! Mosquito time for the girls 🦟🦟🦟

#insects #bugs #nature

Palm sized, black dragonfly resting on a white wall. It has black/white striped wings.

amandamakepeace

Back on the road home today but here’s my first lake butterfly. The Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius), the only carnivorous butterfly in North America.

#butterfly #nature #NaturePhotography #insects #bugs

kernpanik 🐾

A couple of snout beetles / weevils, mating on a flower. I couldn't tell which species, as there are hundreds.

#photography #nature #wildlife #insects #beetles #bugs #weevils #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF90mm

(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Photo of two beetles with elongated snouts, mating on some sort of thistle flower.

Loren

did someone say it was snout beetle o clock??

#insects #bugs #weevils

an iris weevil peers out from between the petals of an iris flower. they are looking directly at the camera with their large black eyes. their long snout is obscured by the edge of a petal. they look like they are peaking out through the gap as if to see what i am doing. the petals are green on the bottom and light purple on the top, a yellow stripe runs down the center of one of them. the weevil is mostly light brown and one set of legs can be seen over the top of the petal

Plazi Species

#NewSpecies!
New long-jointed beetle from #china just snuck in:

Donaciolagria xui

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B8B821-FFDF-FFE1-FF11-FF12FEF3F87B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.1.7
#Zootaxa #DonaciolagriaXui

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs

Sabine

Discovered a new species in the garden: the Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle, looking for aphids on the plum tree.

#beetles #bugs #nature #macro

Closeup of a small beetle on a green leaf. It is brown in colour with black spots on the wings. The face is black and white.

Ari Gardens as a Verb

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Saw my first #firefly (lightning bug) tonight whilst taking out the recycling! One even landed on me!

#Bugstodon #Bugs #LightningBug #Aaaaaaaaaah #AutisticJoy

Alfredo Blatta

🪲 Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus) decided to pay me a visit today

#weevil #insects #bugs #entomology #bugstodon

Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus) on a human hand

A Sweet Gentleman

I live very close to the "White Privilege Wonderland" of my city.

These people spend thousands of dollars poisoning the environment with "lawn care" then waste hundreds of gallons of drinkable water on their dead poisoned lawn.

And they're proud of it.

Let's remind everyone these "perfect" lawns are nothing more than glamorous toxic wastelands.

#savethebugs #bugs #wildlife #gardening #garden #lawn #climatechange #water #pollution #pesticides #taxtherich #usa #insects

A Sweet Gentleman

SAVE. THE. BUGS!
Not just the bees and butterflies!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

#climatechange #science #pollution #insects #wildlife #extinction #health #bugs #bees #fossilfuels #tech #green #garden #lawn

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

Another cool find in my garden today: the weirdest looking ant I've ever found.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/286181482

A new species for me, and a new species record for my garden, now at 13 Ants, 149 Hymenoptera, and 514 Insect species/taxa.

cc: @futurebird

#iNaturalist #Ants #Formicidae #Hymenoptera #Insects #Bugs #HabitatGardening #Brooklyn #NYC #MasterNaturalist #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #NaturePhotography

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

I discovered this spectacular thing in my garden on Tuesday. I didn't post it until now because I wanted to upload a high-quality photo that did it justice.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/284584753

#iNaturalist #MasterNaturalist #Insects #Bugs #Diptera #Syrphidae #HabitatGardening #Brooklyn #NYC