No.51452
>>50832is that jelly poison?
No.51457
I remember a time where a yellow jacket crawled on me, never stung me, it just wanted the sugar from a banana peel I was holding. Ain't no wasp neva did me wrong
No.51506
Nest grows every time I look away from it, wouldn't be surprised if we have an egg by the end of the weekend
This species is extremely polymorphic and I've been waiting for a good picture to show it, if you look closely at the wasp on the top left you'll notice she has bright red 'shoulderblades' while the rest are mostly black with or without red fringes
The body colors aren't all that different since these wasps are from the same region but as you can see with the pair on the right their faces are a different story, every wasp has a uniquely patterned face that lets them recognize colony members individually by sight
https://bugguide.net/node/view/14227/bgimage ← gallery showing wider range of colors and patterns across the continent
>>51476given the legal limitations of antkeeping in the USA importing those is out of the question
No.52939
>>52904dipped in honey
they left bits of its empty carcass strewn about the floor
No.53145
>>53144Yamame is a cutie but also a spider and this thread is for insects basically
No.53382
>>53145>Spiders are not insectnerd boooo
No.53410
>>53382more fun facts:
centipedes and millipedes are not insects
pillbugs are not insects
harvestman, camel spider and whip spider are not spiders
No.59190
a moth flew out of nowhere towards me in my house and I almost screamed
No.59197
noo can't find it anymore, wanted to take a photo
maybe it flew out of the window
No.59201
>>59197I kidnapped her sorry
No.59209
>>59201thank you for adjusting to my language (moth is female in polish and male in russian)
No.59212
>>59209Its also female in russian although im totally not fluent in it
No.62520
huh thumbnail makes it look like the desk is floor and paper is wall which gives illusion of it being huge
No.62558
Massive Jews ITT
No.62561
>>62559meet the pyro alternative intro
No.62577
>>62534This gyate whale is a miss
No.62594
>>62559soft crawly pillows nest
No.62612
>>62593nope i've never bred tarantulas before
No.62668
>>62642spiders love physics and math also those are objectively interesting go kill yourself
No.63149
i just found an adult female phidippus jumping spider with an egg sac and shes super cute so i took her home
pics + last months wasp footage i was too lazy to convert later
>>62642I can fix this
No.63464
>>63149these guys are chill but i hate the yellow ones you find in your house (if you live in the northeastern us especially)
No.64278
>>63149best photo i can do for now
She ate her eggs cause of my meddling, i think she'll lay more, looking for resources on how to overwinter her spiderlings if she has any
No.64295
>>64292I think a huge number of animals cannibalize their children when stressed
No.64317
>>64292tore apart her house and imprisoned her and her babies for my amusement
No.71142
I was thinking, is there a single person who has strong feelings about flies
they're such a mid boring animal and it's easy to forget their existence despite them being extremely common
No.71214
>>71142reminded me to upload this
i assume you're talking about houseflies and similar body shapes instead of the full taxon so i can't talk about robber flies, hoverflies, mosquitoes and such
personally i find the monochrome stripes & red eyes typical of sarcophagids very attractive and at least one species is a parasitoid of tent caterpillars whose massive aggregations of larvae can completely defoliate trees
all flies lack hindwings, they've been modified into little sensory organs called halteres which tell them their angular position among other things
No.71824
>>71779Is that larvae? Is that why you used the baby emoji?
No.74178
>>72549Insect stingers are repurposed ovipositors so moid bees don't have them
>Mating between a single drone and the queen lasts less than 5 seconds, and it is often completed within 1–2 seconds… …Once the endophallus has been everted, the drone is paralyzed, flipping backwards as he ejaculates. The process of ejaculation is explosive—semen is blasted through the queen's sting chamber and into the oviduct. The process is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound. The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen. The bulb of the endophallus is broken off inside of the queen during mating—so drones mate only once, and die shortly after.
i might adopt some scorplings soon so im gonna have +100 magic DEF
No.74186
>>71142i fucking hate flies i fucking HATE the buzzing noise they make when they fly around stuck in a room aimlessly
I HATE when they touch anything i HATE when they fly in my face i fucking hate flies fucking nigger bugs im disgusted by maggots only maggots i dont care about worms or caterpillars i hate FUCKING FLY MAGGOTS
No.74355
>>74178geeeeeeeg beesissies why are we so cucked?
No.78136
Imagine dying for pussy LOL
No.79826
>>79813Crustaceans have traditional 'meat' while land arthropods are almost always filled with fluid and muscular fibers line their exoskeletons instead
Also crustaceans are high in copper which most people are deficient in
Also they're not disease vectors
No.85704
even though insects are dying out, it seems there are more spiders than ever
what do they eat?
No.88914
>>88252This post made me have a dream about large arachnids being released in my room that I would have to locate in my sheets and under my bed and remove so that I could sleep without being bitten or stung
No.94991
>>94884I found a male paper wasp trying to get into my colony so hes gonna get laid too after their next feeding
No.96672
>>96012just found out scorpions have eyes