7 Critical Questions You Should Ask Before You Choose a Pest Control Company: May 2020

Sunday, 31 May 2020

Does anyone have any pictures of dragonflies???

Dragonflies have always been so special to me and I haven’t seen any around my house lately and I’d love to see if anyone on here has any cool photos or interesting factoids about them!! Thank you in advance 💕

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I've been trying to catch this guy...

Please help me identify this wasp. I've been trying to capture it but have only caught it on video.

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How to prevent wasps from entering house?

There's no nest inside the house but they keep getting in and I want to prevent them somehow. I've closed all doors and windows. How do they get in still and what do I do to stop it?

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Found these bees in a strange position. They didn’t move even when I touched the branch and got close. Does anyone know what they’re doing and why? They are holding on with their mouthparts.

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Female lucanus cervus

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Successful day of hunting!! 12 insects and spiders all in the span of a couple hours on a rainy day! Haven’t fully ID’d yet but will have to once in the freezer for a couple weeks. :)

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Found a male and female lucanus cervus in two days, I think I'm gonna try to breed them (male in photo)

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Twomarked Treehopper (Enchenopa binotata Complex)

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Making a lid for my painted lady caterpillars: is cheesecloth okay?

So, I just recently bought painted lady caterpillars from Insect Lore, but there’s one problem: SO many of the reviews say that the material on the lid causes the chrysalis to fall off. I want to make sure this doesn’t happen, so I’ve started to craft a lid.

My idea is to take a ring of cardboard (that fits around the cup) and stretch cheesecloth on it. That way it covers the cup and offers a better place to form chrysalides.

My question is: is cheesecloth a good material for them to make chrysalides on? Are there better materials - paper towel maybe? And, is this a good idea in the first place? It says on Insect Lore’s website that opening the cup can introduce bacteria, but I think this lid will still keep them safe. Any information is helpful, thanks

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Wish I had a better shot of the eyes. Any ID help on this fella?

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Can anyone tell me what kind or caterpillar this is? Connecticut

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What is this?? UK

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Runaway mustache

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Hi guys, first time posting in this subreddit, but can anyone help identify what kind of insect or larva this is? If it is any help, I am from Malaysia. Sorry for the blurry pic, if I got any closer it’ll be more blurry. Thanks! :)

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Hi guys, first time posting in this subreddit, but can anyone help identify what kind of insect or larva this is? If it is any help, I am from Malaysia. Sorry for the blurry pic, if I got any closer it’ll be more blurry. Thanks! :)

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Hi guys, first time posting in this subreddit, but can anyone help identify what kind of insect or larva this is? If it is any help, I am from Malaysia. Sorry for the blurry pic, if I got any closer it’ll be more blurry. Thanks! :)

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Hi guys, first time posting in this subreddit, but can anyone help identify what kind of insect or larva this is? If it is any help, I am from Malaysia. Sorry for the blurry pic, if I got any closer it’ll be more blurry. Thanks! :)

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Mosquito company says these pesky little bugs aren’t mosquitoes but also can tell me what they are...and they claim these aren’t covered, so no repeat service and no money back. Help!

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Allotopus rosenbergi - Golden stag beetle couple.

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Help me ID this spider. Location Kerala. Size about 7cm long

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Sweat Bee [6000x4000] [OC]

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Books on hymenoptera

Hello there, I'm looking for good books on the biology and natural history of hymenoptera, and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations.

Also while I'm here I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for books to do specifically with the biology of wasps (social and/or solitary).

Cheers.

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Phalera bucephala

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Saturday, 30 May 2020

Does anyone know what this might be? Sorry for the bad photo

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Question about some strange little white worms

I found about 20 of these small white worms in my kitchen earlier that were curling up before launching themselves up. Not sure what they are, any chance someone could help me out?
(note, never posted here before, not sure if it's the right place to ask)

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Caterpillar into moth (Part 1)

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Lil stevie

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Lady Beetle

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My David Bowie looking moth

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Can anyone tell me what this insect is? We seem to be overrun in our backyard.

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This caterpillar was very interested im my phone camera, and so this is result:

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My son found a "butterfly" (private hawk moth)

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Why does it seem like we have way more spiders in our house, this spring?

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Walking down my street tonight and found this guy, Location Yokosuka Japan. lucanus cervus japanicas known locally as Miyanma Kuwagata. found him on the road, he is alive. not sure why he was at sea level when these are high mountain stags.

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Played with this cool June bug (Cotinis nitida) I found today

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Velvet Ants

Cool article that came up on my Facebook feed.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151014-superpowers-of-the-near-invincible-velvet-ant?fbclid=IwAR1xS9TzO348wo-blyEPdLbiNteRNhN0qSBPpKEBVdZA5WWKGOrqUhfeNvM

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Mating Asian Beetles II [6000x4000] [OC]

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Air-breathing Limpets | Catalogue of Organisms

For many people, the most familiar members of the gastropods are the terrestrial snails. Gastropods started their evolution as marine animals, breathing through gills, but members of one lineage would instead evolve their own version of a lung, a large hollow in the mantle cavity opening through a hole alongside the head called the pneumostome. Possession of this lung cavity would enable slugs and snails to thrive in the terrestrial environment but the structure had originally evolved in a marine context, and even today one may find marine lung-bearers occupying habitats along the coast. One such group is the siphon limpets or 'false limpets'* of the Siphonarioidea.

*You know, normally I don't overly concern myself with vernacular names. They are not regulated and not obliged to follow reason. But even so, the name 'false limpet' makes me grit my teeth. The name is presumably inspired by the fact that siphonariids are not direct relatives of the 'true' limpets of the Patellogastropoda. But the limpet morphotype, where the typical spiral gastropod shell is reduced to a simple cap, has evolved on multiple occasions. As well as the siphonariids and patellogastropods, there are the keyhole limpets of the Fissurellidae, the freshwater limpets of the Ancylini, and many others, all consistently referred to as 'limpets'. The name refers to a morphology, not to a clade, and by that measure the siphonariids are no more 'false' than any other limpets.

Flat siphon limpets Siphonaria atra, copyright Ria Tan.

Living siphonarioids are placed within a single family, the Siphonariidae, whose members with their cap-shaped, often radially ribbed shells are found in littoral environments in temperate and tropical regions of the world. A second family, the Acroreiidae, is recognised from the Cretaceous and early Tertiary; the inclusion of these smooth, thin shells in the Siphonarioidea is somewhat tentative (classification of limpets in the fossil record is always a challenge because their simple shell form renders them light on distinguishing characters). Siphonariids are readily distinguished from other living limpets by the presence of a groove on the underside of the right side of the shell marking the position of the pneumostome. In dorsal view, this groove is often indicated by an asymmetry in the outline of the shell with one side produced. The pneumostome is also associated with a broad gap in the ring of muscle holding the shell in place; the ring is more complete in other limpets. Seemingly as a result of this lower extent of muscle, siphonariids cling to their home rocks with less tenacity than other limpets and are mostly restricted to more sheltered locations (Simone & Seabra 2017). On the other hand, they do have a more flexible foot than their competitors, allowing them to potentially move more quickly. Like other limpets, siphonariids are grazers, scraping microalgae as they crawl about. Siphonariids have a weaker radula than patellogastropods and so scrape somewhat less forcefully; when members of the two clades occupy the same habitats, patellogastropods are generally the more abundant. The majority of siphonariids (where known) have planktonic larvae but some species are known to be direct developers.

Siphonaria lessonii, copyright Mikelzubi.

Obviously, the marine but lung-possessing siphonariids are potentially of great interest in understanding how the gastropod lung evolved. Many earlier researchers thought that the siphonariids may have evolved from terrestrial ancestors who had returned to the seashore but this is no longer thought likely to be the case. In most lunged gastropods, gas exchange is effected in the mantle cavity via dense blood vessels in the cavity wall but in siphonariids a gill structure is present within the lung (this lung-gill combination makes the siphonariids particularly well suited for moving freely both above and below the water surface). The gill of siphonariids is quite similar to that of the sacoglossans, a group of herbivorous sea-slugs. Though it was long presumed that the lung-bearing gastropods belonged to a single clade, more recent molecular phylogenies have confused the issue (Kocot et al. 2013). The sacoglossans are likely to be close to the ancestry of lunged gastropods as a whole, but it is possible that siphonariids are more closely related to the sacoglossans than the other lung-bearers. It remains an open question whether the siphonariid combination of lung and gill represents an intermediate stage towards the vascular lung of the terrestrial forms, or whether siphonariids and other lung-bearers each evolved their pneumostome from close but distinct ancestors.

REFERENCES

Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, B. Hausdorf, A. Kaim, Y. Kano, A. Nützel, P. Parkhaev, M. Schrödl & E. E. Strong. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61 (1–2): 1–526.

Simone, L. R. L., & M. I. G. L. Seabra. 2017. Shell and body structure of the plesiomorphic pulmonate marine limpet Siphonaria pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758) from Portugal (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Siphonariidae). Folia Malacologia 25 (3): 147–164.

A little close up with our resident praying mantis

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Please help me identify this spider-like insect around Seattle, WA

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Can you keep dung beetles? Anyone who knows how to care for them?

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What unholy bug is this? Western CT, USA. Appeared while raining.

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Friday, 29 May 2020

Camera Recommendations for Macro Insect Photography

I am interested in getting a higher quality camera for macro photography. Specifically, I want to photograph insects and slime molds. I was wondering if any of you have recommendations on equipment. I currently use clip-on 2x macro lens for my iPhone and it just isn't cutting it for the types of photographs I want to take. If anyone could provide any direction or advice, I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

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Should I be afraid? Harmless hobo or brown recluse?

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In-field photography?

What are the best strategies for capturing live insects and photographing? I'm going to be going out with a net and trying to photograph live, and I don't necessarily want to "collect" any specimens. I've heard that cooling them down (like in a fridge) helps with photography, but I'm obviously not going to have a fridge with me in the field.

Any tips and tricks? Is it possible to like spray them with those air cans to cool them down so they'll sit still?

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Looking to identify face-hugger spider...

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Question for the bug lovers/scientists. Bug leaves strangely familiar smell.

I didn't get a picture because this happened after I let it out outside.

I was working in my bathroom and there was a black (maybe very dark brown) beetle crawling around on the floor.. I let him be for awhile as the window was open so figured he'd find his way out. He didn't and I was worried i'd step on him, so I gently picked it up and put it out the window. Very shortly after I smelled a VERY strong odor that smelled very familiar..it smelled EXACTLY like medical tape (that "hospital" smell). Wife and daughter agreed. It also almost smells a little like burnt metallic sort of like welding also. I am shocked at how strong the odor is. I washed my hands for awhile and it's still in the air and on my fingers.

I am in SW VA. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? My daughter said there was one in her room the other day and said it smelled just like that.

Note, this is NOT the run of the mill stink bug. We definitely know what those are and their smell. This beetle had a harder-looking/shinier exoskeleton and it was bigger around on its back in.

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