7 Critical Questions You Should Ask Before You Choose a Pest Control Company: March 2021

Wednesday 31 March 2021

Fondant Grub to Prank My Daughter's Teacher

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Tarantula discord server

A place to share and learn about tarrantulas https://discord.gg/6hTQeZfa

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Found on NSW coast. Just stumbled upon three really weird insects all close together. One of them is a spider, the other two I have no idea what they are. Found on a Silver Wattle (acacia dealbata) Good luck identifying!

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Bed bug or weird spider??

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Found on NSW coast, Australia. Looks like a beetle of some sort. About 5cm. The only other red, dome shaped beetle I know is a ladybug. Found on a Silver Wattle Tree (acacia dealbata). I hope this information helps.

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Found on NSW coast, Australia. About 8 - 10 cm wingspan. Looked like a brown leaf on the floor, but it's a moth of some sort. Tried googling it, but found nothing like it.

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Found on NSW coast, Australia. Looks like a beetle of some sort. Has beautiful iridescent spots along its sides. About 3cm long. Found on a Silver Wattle Tree (acacia dealbata). No idea what it is.

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I’ve read this so many times and I just don’t understand what it’s saying like isn’t the jar full of rubbing alcohol how do you put paper between bug and jar paper will get wet????

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You guys seemed to like the WIP so i'm posting the finished thing!

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Is this a desert centipede?

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Anybody know?

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The termite's corner: Macrotermes bellicosus - see comment section for pic description and crediting.

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Spotted a lovely wolf spider mama with babies in tow

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Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and the next decade), in one map

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What is the name of this insect in your language

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Software/websites simulating insect visual spectra?

Hello,

I am looking for software on which I can input a readout from an ERG and see an approximation of the colours the insect may actually perceive. Does anyone know of something like this?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

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Can anyone help with an ID? Wide Bay, QLD, Australia. Picked up in wet grass. See second pic with thong for size. Thanks!

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Tuesday 30 March 2021

Help ID! Seen in Clemson,SC March 30th

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Found in backyard in SoCal, is this a carpenter ant?

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I went to check on my tomato plant and this is what I found...

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What crawled out of my bathtub

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Hickory Horned Devil Moth

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Does anyone know what this bug is? NE Georgia.

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The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson from Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Pieris Brassicae

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Bronzed Tiger Beetle (Cicindela repanda)

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I recently started collecting insects and decided to put my firsts into a frame. Top to bottom. First wing(Australian cicada), first bettle, first bee (apis mellifera), and Last but not least my first favourite (I’m a bee, cicada and moth Person)

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Is this a dung beetle? Midwest USA

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Help with identifying this butterfly. Thanks

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A robust Laphria saffrana in Statesboro Georgia USA.

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Rhinoceros beetles are the strongest animals on the planet, proportionally. They can lift up to 850 times their own weight. To put this into perspective, if a human of average height and weight had the strength of the rhinoceros beetle, it would be able to lift a 65 ton object.

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My H. cyaneus😍

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The two side of a Honeymoon

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Is this an aggressive wasp or can I leave it be? (in North Texas)

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A Phalanta phalantha butterfly up-close

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Is this a false widow? Either way she’s pretty cool.

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Monday 29 March 2021

Found this new friend in Seattle Washington. What is he?

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Found these tiny (flying?) black beetles all over my apartment! NA location, approximately 3/4mm long

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Some sort of springtail?

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An often-overlooked pollinator: Bombylius spp.! Felt so special when this little guy decided to land on me today.

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My first try at mounting some specimens.

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Bulk ordered some [ethically sourced] butterflies for art. Would love some help with identification! Anything is great!(: numbered to make it easier.

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Sphenarches anisodactylus taking a rest on my snapdragons

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Giant African Millipede monthly obligatory inquiry

It seems like once a month someone is asking for a usa cb AGM. This month its me! Anyone lucky enough to have a litter recently and willing to part with one or two?

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I don't have the photo since it flew away with the wind when i squashed it but it was a mosquito and it's chest was black-white and its legs were completely black. I fear this may be an Aedes mosquito but idk for sure. Can you help me please? If this is an aedes mosquito this may mean an invasive mosquito in my town and country(I live in Belgium where there are some spottings of aedes mosquitos but they are not established here)

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Can you guys help me identify this? Has horizontal line down back and smaller darker head

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Wasps? My friend keeps insisting we throw something at it

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Who is this lil guy? Central VA. East of the mountains.

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Help figuring what this little guys are (Pescadero, La Paz, Baja California Sur)

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Tarantula discord server

For anyone wanting to learn or share about tarantulas come to https://discord.gg/jhJBnKWH

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Found this bug around the house a couple of times. I don't want to kill them, should I be worried about them?

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Help Identifying Insect (?) Eggs? Found in Mandaumin Wetlands, SW Ontario.

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How are you doing, Class of 2021? Brood X Magiciada spp.

Peeking out from his escape tunnel, this little Brood X periodical cicada nymph will soon join billions of his brood mates above ground for a boisterous party in the treetops.

During the past month, Bug of the Week’s peregrinations have visited Chilean chinchemolles, Peruvian beetles, Costa Rican arachnids, and Floridian tiger moths. This week we hop-scotch a thousand miles north to the DMV to check on the progress of Brood X periodical cicadas. During the past several weeks the Cicada Crew at the University of Maryland has been busy reassuring journalists and the public at large that, yes indeed, Brood X cicadas a.k.a The Great Eastern Brood, will appear in 15 states and the District of Columbia in the eastern half of the USA this spring. While issuing these claims, a little voice whispers something like “What if climate change or some yet unknown manifestation of the insect apocalypse has intervened in the last 17 years and cicadas don’t appear?”

To quell a bit of rising panic that prognostications of a spectacular cicada-palooza might prove false, last week we visited our favorite Brood X cicada patch to see how those rambunctious teenage cicadas were doing. The first strike of the shovel unearthed a fully grown cicada nymph. Already under construction was his escape tunnel, the passageway from the realm of darkness where he sipped xylem liquid from the roots of plants for the last seventeen years to the world of light where he will join legions of brood mates in a rambunctious mating game. This discovery is strikingly similar to a dire account published in the Annapolis gazette on April 3, 1751. An anonymous colonist wrote the following “We are informed … in some Places the Locusts have been found in great plenty, just under the surface of the Earth, almost at their full growth. May God avert our impending Calamities!” This ominous report most likely refers to Brood XIX, a brood of thirteen-year cicadas found in what is now St. Mary’s County, Maryland, the former colonial capital of Maryland and still an important agricultural center 270 years after this account.

Seventeen years ago in the spring of 2004, periodical cicadas laid eggs in treetops. In summer, the eggs hatched and tiny nymphs tumbled to earth and burrowed down to feed on tree roots for the next seventeen years. Fast forward to 2021. Brood X periodical cicadas are now poised to exit their subterranean crypts and make a boisterous entry to the world above ground.

So, if you are concerned that periodical cicadas may not show this spring, put your fears to rest. In parts of Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, the vanguard of Brood X periodical cicadas will make their presence known in a month or so. We will explore much more about these remarkable creatures in upcoming episodes.

Acknowledgements

The wonderful book “Periodical Cicadas: The Plague and the Puzzle” by Gene Kritsky, and the source of all things cicada, the Cicada Mania website, were used as references to prepare this episode. To learn more about Brood X periodical cicadas in Maryland, visit our 2021 Cicada Brood X information clearinghouse at https://cicadacrewumd.weebly.com/