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.
Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature ( www.nature.com )
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: https://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 )
https://twitter.com/EerikaSchulz/status/1749782576875622785...