What happens to little black ants without a queen?
I have some little black ants in my motorhome. I’m pretty sure I picked them up at my last stop in upstate New York but I’ve since driven far away from there. Wikipedia says little black ants nest in the soil so presumably I didn’t take their queen with me....
Meet the Mad Hatterpillar aka Uraba lugens, aka The Gum Leaf Skeletoniser (lemmy.ml)
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Saga Ephippigera - the largest, carnivorous, bush cricket (www.insectour.com)
Sagas are part of the family Tettigoniidae, commonly called katydids or bush crickets....
Meet The Giant Wētā......The Colossus of Insects! Pictures and fun facts! (lemmy.ml)
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Idk if this is the right place to ask but I found these in my throw blankets. any idea what they are/what they belong to? (lemmy.world)
The Insect Tier List (www.youtube.com)
A ‘Double Brood’ of Periodical Cicadas Will Emerge in 2024 (www.scientificamerican.com)
Grasshopper (sh.itjust.works)
Sorry, no Lemming for scale (Wikipedia tells me a Lemming is ‘13–18 cm (5–7 in)’. So about the same size. I would imagine there are many about, but I only notice them when they are on doorframes or something....
A bug (sh.itjust.works)
A very interesting bug. Aside from the colouration it has fuzz on part of its antennae, and horns/ spikes on its back. Another photo from the side in comments.
Please, enough with the dead butterflies! - Emily S. Damstra (www.emilydamstra.com)
The Butterfly Redemption | Hakai Magazine (hakaimagazine.com)
The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/9346337...
Insects All Around Us (www.texasobserver.org)
A fly enters a virtual reality chamber, and insect science may never be the same (www.science.org)
Living inside your grandmother – the wonderful world of aphids (simonleather.wordpress.com)
BEST MOTHS FROM @EERIKASCHULZ THIS YEAR (?) (hexbear.net)
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Dolichomia amoenalis from Finca Heimatlos Eco Lodge and Farm, near Puyo, Ecuador. (hexbear.net)
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