nev , to random

I hope everyone is having a weevil-worthy Wednesday! Here is a bluegrass billbug (Sphenophorus parvulus). (Don't worry, it flipped back over and was fine.)

observation: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/217932114 :inaturalist:

The same weevil tipped over on its back, legs splayed. Its underside is shiny. You can see the clubbed tips of its elbowed antennae better here.

18+ Alice_Swaggen , to random
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Go outside
Find cool bug
Have a good time

18+ Alice_Swaggen OP ,
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I followed my own advice and it worked. 10/10 am having a good time 👍🏼

#stagbeetle #bugstodon #insect

nev , to random

Bonus : this hollyhock weevil (Rhopalapion longirostre) is literally sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.

nev , to random

Happy , everyone! Post 'em if you got 'em.

A recent new species for me: Grypus equiseti, the horsetail weevil. Found in boggy meadow next to a creek where there was, indeed, a lot of horsetail (Equisetum).

observation: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/221974398 :inaturalist:

The same weevil lying on its side in my hand, playing dead. (It was released shortly afterwards.)

18+ Alice_Swaggen , to random
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Oh my DOG look at my new best friend!
First stag beetle I’ve seen this year and I found it in the garden :blobaww:

#stagbeetle #insect #bugstodon

A side view, the stag beetle is reared up in a defensive pose and you can see his shiny eyeball on the side of his head, and little ridges on the back of his head like he has cat ears. He is shiny and glorious

18+ Alice_Swaggen OP ,
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I found another stag beetle, she’s trying to climb me like a tree with the determination of a lady on a mission for uppies, her claws are scratchy and I love her :blobaww:

#StagBeetle #bugstodon #insect

A macro closeup of her face with a blue background, she is looking up at the camera desperate for uppies and it’s adorable. Her antennae are shiny and detailed with little 4 point clubs on the ends. There’s also a tiny band of yellow fur where her head meets her thorax
A side view closeup focusing on her abdomen, she is shiny and covered in tiny pores and her underside has lots of little fluffy hairs. The three segments of her body have a thin band of yellow fur between each one. She also has some thick, strong-looking thighs. She’s perched on some tree bark and the background is a green blur
She is clinging onto my blurry fingers and looking into the camera, her front right foot is in focus and it looks so glossy and shiny, if you zoom in you can see how sharp those two hooks are and there’s a little short one in between that forks into 2 much smaller hooks

A black female stag beetle standing on a bright pink hydrangea flower cluster with blurry purple flowers in the corners. Her mandibles are proportionate to her body compared to the male’s and her abdomen/elytra are deep red. Her little face is looking up at the camera, antennae out to the sides and there’s a little tuft of orange fur under her chin
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    nev , to random

    It's ! Post 'em if you got 'em.

    Oh to be a little weevil snooting around in a green leaf…

    A little round grey weevil methodically chewing a hole in a leaf.

    18+ Alice_Swaggen , to random
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    Here we have the reverse caddisfly larva… cattisfly

    #cat

    18+ Alice_Swaggen OP ,
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    Smol worm, live in a moss bag 🎶

    Coincidentally I found this critter earlier today next to some bird poop, who I think might be a caddisfly larva?

    #bugstodon #ID #caddisfly #insect

    A shaky video of green moss tube with a little brown worm inside walking on my finger. There are sounds of trickling water, sirens and if you listen carefully you can hear the cat asking for her dinner (don’t worry I fed her right after)

    18+ Alice_Swaggen OP ,
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    Here’s a “help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” montage

    #bugstodon #insect #caddisfly

    The worm is slightly further out, leggies outstretched reaching for something to grab onto. There’s tiny whiskers on its face
    Stretching a bit further, throwing its head back
    The word has turned sideways now, 6 little legs reaching out to hold onto my finger, only a millimetre away almost got it!

    nev , to random

    : the striking Rainieria antennaepes. Spotted in a parklet during a neighbourhood yard sale day. A wasp mimic perhaps?

    observation: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/219780247 :inaturalist:

    nev , to random

    It's #WeevilWednesday, you know the rules, post 'em if you got 'em.

    Check your Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) for Larinus carlinae, the Canada thistle bud weevil. Note: it's actually a Eurasian plant, I have no idea why it's called that.

    #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Lixinae

    18+ Alice_Swaggen , to random
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    Oh hey I got a visitor
    I’m not sure who they are but they look friendly

    A green insect looking at the camera from the outside of a window the front leg looks like it’s waving hello. Its body is a pretty pea green and has little round eyes, long antennae and 6 green legs with tiny red hairs, glowing as the sun shines through them. The background is a green blur
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    I heard it’s Fungi Friday so I got you this slug, and some tiny fungi

    Clusters of the same tiny white fungi along the edge of the fallen tree

    18+ Alice_Swaggen , to random
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    My first bug post here and also my first Weevil Wednesday! Today has been a good day for bugs :weevil:

    The weevil is on the very edge of the leaf and the weevil is standing with its head raised to the right. It has a cute little snout with antennae on either side

    alice_swaggen , to random
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    Velvet mite! I found one!

    (wrinkly little strawberry guy)

    18+ Alice_Swaggen ,
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    here they are!

    The mite is now facing right and walking towards a clump of beige fibers
    Two out of focus mites facing opposite directions. They’re walking inside a little crevice between the tree bark. Crevice-dwelling if you will
    Two mites facing the bottom left but one of them is flipped on its back playing dead because I touched it. Its legs are just unfurling to right itself again but its underside looks all squishy and lumpy and the legs have a sheen. There’s also a little diver that looks like it has a belly button

    nev , to random

    It's . Post 'em if you got 'em.

    A female hollyhock weevil, Rhopalapion longirostre. (The females are the ones with the long snoots, for digging into hollyhock buds.) There's a park with hollyhocks right near me so in season I can go and see these cuties whenever I want! And I do.

    nev , to random

    : Balaustium sidewalk mites feast on pollen from a fallen flower.

    nev , to random

    Always look at poop, because sometimes it's not poop.

    I'm not sure what the little guy in the second picture is but I think @jencmars posted something similar recently?

    observation: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/217931115 :inaturalist:

    Something that looks very much like a little lump of dark poop on a leaf, but it's actually some kind of beetle with short little yellow-striped legs, and it's holding onto a bit of something—food?

    nev , to random

    : Currently on every leaf you can find little golden-yellow globular springtails (family Bourletiellidae) milling about and dancing. It's just as cute and magical as it sounds.

    nev , to random

    Happy !

    The Spiraea × vanhouttei are blooming and attracting a host of insects that feed on them, like dermestid beetles—and this charming yellow thrips.

    The insect has gotten free of the pollen, revealing that it has a long pointed abdomen and round black eyes.

    nev , to random

    It's . You know the rules. Post 'em if you've got 'em.

    A pair of hollyhock weevils (Rhopalapion longirostre). The one with the long snoot is the female (the better to bore holes into hollyhock seed pods to lay eggs in).

    nev , to random

    I didn't expect to have content for , but here we are. Found on young maple leaves.

    18+ nev , to random

    so I found this tiny running crab spider with 4 legs in the park the other day and I took it home to keep until it molts them back, but it's so small it can't even have fruit flies, and seems intimidated by even the smallest of midges

    so here I am, freezing some fruit flies to death (or at least temporary-enough unconsciousness), with a mortar and pestle and sugar syrup standing by, to make the world's grossest concoction

    nev OP ,

    New blog post! I Can Put My Leg Back On You Can't: How Spiders Regrow Limbs https://nevillepark.ca/2024/05/24/i-can-put-my-leg-back-on-you-cant-how-spiders-regrow-limbs/

    For those of you who had no idea spiders could grow back missing legs, here's more about spider molting and limb regeneration!

    b_age , to random German
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    oh, right, it's

    ein Welliger Stängelrüssler
    (Lixus pulverulentus)




    nahaufnahme eines länglichen rüsselkäfers an der kante eines grünen blattes.er ist wohl eigentlich schwarz oder dunkelbraun, aber komplett gelb bepudert, etwas unregelmäßig, fleckig. die 3 körpersegmente hinterleib, brust und kopf gehen ohne deutliche fuge ineinander über, der kopf verjüngt sich zu einem recht dicken rüssel mit runder spitze. kurz vor der spitze des rüssels stehen seitlich die fühler ab, die auf halber länge einen knick haben und zum ende verdickt sind.
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    nev , to random

    Friends.
    Romans.
    Countrymen.
    It's . Post 'em if you've got 'em.

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