#insectThursday

Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-12-18

Twice-stabbed stink bug (๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข) cozied up inside an obedient plant (๐˜—๐˜ฉ๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข) flower, from August:

#InsectThursday #BloomScrollingWIthInsect #Hemiptera #insects

A tiny black insect with red lines crossing in a "t" shape on its back, hiding away inside one of several tubular lavender-colored flowers. If you look carefully, you might spot another insect tucked away inside the flower behind the first.
2025-11-02

On croise de drรดles de trucs sur son pas de porte un dimanche matin de Toussaint. (et Tom qui rentrait du semi-marathon, aussi)

C'est la premiรจre fois de ma vie que je vois une mante religieuse (autre part que dans un reportage ou dans un terrarium, bien sรปr), on l'a dรฉplacรฉe du seuil de porte au jardin.

#InsectThursday #InsectsOfTheFediverse #insects

une mante religieuse d'environ 5 cm,  couleur jaune olive, qui prend la pose sur mon avant-bras (couleur jaune olive aussi)une mante religieuse d'environ 5 cm,  couleur jaune olive, qui prend la pose sur mon avant-bras (couleur jaune olive aussi)Toujours la mรชme mante religieuse d'environ 5 cm,  couleur jaune olive, qui prend la pose sur mon avant-bras (couleur jaune olive aussi), cette fois avec vue du bordel utilitaire qui traine sur les meubles de l'entrรฉe en arriรจre plan : un casque de vรฉlo, une bombe de rรฉpulsif pour les poubelles et une petite lampe.Derniรจre photo de la mante religieuse (5 cm, couleur jaune fanรฉe, toujours pas super contente d'รชtre lร  mais qui fait avec) avant qu'elle ne soit relachรฉe cotรฉ jardin oรน ses chances de trouver des trucs ร  bouffer et de ne pas finir รฉcrabouillรฉe sous une semelle sont quand mรชme plus hautes que sur mon seuil de porte.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-10-23

There was still a goldenrod (๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฐ sp.) in flower at our last Thompson Park hike, and it had a little eastern bumblebee (๐˜‰๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด) friend:

(Check out the proboscis!)

#BloomScrollingWithBee #InsectThursday #ItsThursdaySomewhere #bumblebee #bees #apidae #hymenoptera #insects

A bumblebee, black and fuzzy yellow and filigree wings. Look closely and you can see its little yellow mustache and its proboscis probing the bright yellow flowers of a goldenrod.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-09-25

Ground cricket (family Trigonidiidae) on a common mullein (๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ด) leaf, from Thompson Park:

#InsectThursday #cricket #orthoptera #insects

Closeup of a little black cricket on a green leaf covered with pale fuzziness.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-09-18

You can't tell from the picture, but this woolly bear (๐˜—๐˜บ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข) was a speedster (for a caterpillar), zipping across the sidewalk faster than any I'd seen before:

#InsectThursday #caterpillar #WoollyBear #lepidoptera #insects

Closeup of a woolly bear (a cute little fuzzy caterpillar in shades of black and brownish orange) on the sidewalk.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-09-11

Porcelain gray (๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข), from the Wiley Trails:

#InsectThursday #PapillonPaparazzi #geometer #moth #lepidoptera #insects

Closeup of a little gray moth with dark markings perched on leaves amidst grass and a few drops of dew.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-09-04

This friendly little citrus flatid planthopper (๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ง๐˜ข ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ข) landed on my arm and communed a while during our hike on the Wiley Trails yesterday:

#InsectThursday #planthopper #Hemiptera #insects

Closeup of a cute tiny insect, mottled pale with dark spots and gray with white spots, perched on my arm.
2025-09-04

There she is. Dressed in green. In all her glory. The Queen ๐Ÿ‘‘ #InsectThursday ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ“Tim Regan's bees in Killarney #Kerry ๐Ÿ“ธme #nature #photography #bees #honey #apiary #Ireland #autumn

Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-08-28

We were looking at the wildflowers in front of the house today when I felt something crawling on my leg. I reached down to brush it off but stopped just in time when I saw it was this adorable little eastern bumblebee (๐˜‰๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด). The bee crawled down onto my sneaker and proceeded to groom itself, very chill, before eventually crawling down into the grass.

#BeeBuddy #bumblebee #bee #hymenoptera #insects #InsectThursday

Closeup of a cute little fuzzy yellow and black bumblebee perched on the back of a blue sneaker. You can just see the beginning of the cat motif on the sneaker's side, and a sliver of purple sock and bare leg.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-08-28

Japanese beetle (๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ซ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข) on pokeweed (๐˜—๐˜ฉ๐˜บ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ข ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข), from Thompson Park:

#InsectThursday #beetle #scarab #Scarabaeidae #coleoptera #insects

A shiny metallic beetle, dark green but with coppery colored wings behind which are many little white spots like teeny weeny cotton balls. The beetle is perched on one lime colored leaf amongst several, with a conical cluster of developing flower buds in the background.
2025-08-28

The girl can dance! ๐Ÿ’ƒ The worker bees' waggle dance, telling the others where pollen & nectar can be found Can you spot her? #InsectThursday #joy ๐Ÿ’ซ ๐Ÿ“ฝ #Killarney #Kerry #bees #nature #communication #hive #dancing

2025-08-28
Leaf ๐Ÿƒleaf@sunny.garden
2025-08-21

Something poignantly beautiful about flying until your wings fall apart and then flying some more. #Butterfly #Insects #InsectThursday

A closeup of a tattered monarch butterfly resting on a cluster of closed flower buds among pale green foliage. The monarch is a large butterfly with deep orange wings veined in black with delicate white spots along the scalloped fringes. The monarch is missing half of its right wing, and the tip of its left wing is also battered to near translucence. Nevertheless, I watched it fly away after I took this photograph.A closeup of a mourning cloak butterfly resting head-down on the striated grey bark of an elm tree. The butterfly is a deep maroon that appears nearly black, with scalloped white edges along its wings and a border of iridescent blue spots between the white and black portions. The edges of its wings are very tattered and worn, I took this photograph in early spring and this butterfly would have just arrived after migration.
2025-08-21

A bee working the heather in the Wicklow mountains last w/e ๐Ÿ’œ In folklore it was said that bees sought out heather-laden areas, knowing that it made especially flavoursome honey โœจ๏ธ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ซ #insectthursday #folklorethursday #nature #photography #hiking #spรฉirghorm #wildflowers #pollination #ireland

2025-08-21

Two for #Insectthursday

Small skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
and a collection of Red Admirals Vanessa atalanta, Peacocks Aglais io and a Painted lady Vanessa cardui on some knapweed.

An orangey brown, small skipper butterfly  resting on a pale grass seed head, blurred background with some yellow flowers apparent.A patch of lesser knapweed (purple flowers) with lots of surrounding greenery. 
there are a number of butterflies Red Admirals (red and black), Peacocks, red, purple and big eyes on wings and a Painted lady all oranges and black patterns.
2025-08-21
A spider has wrapped a bee in its web and bee is seen hanging lifeless from a web thread
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-08-21

Eastern phantom crane fly (๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด), from the Wiley Trails:

#InsectThursday #Diptera #insects

An insect proportioned a bit like a dragonfly and a mosquito had a baby. Its clearly visible wings are relatively small, but its legs are long and gangly and it has one leg raised behind it which might be mistaken for a long tail. The insect is dark colored save for white "socks" and white stripes at the joints. It is perched on a green lanceolate leaf which is hanging vertically tip-down.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-08-14

Adult and pupal variegated ladybugs (๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข) on Queen Anne's lace (๐˜‹๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ข), from this morning's hike on the Wiley Trails:

#InsectThursday #ladybug #beetles #coleoptera #insects #BloomScrollingWIthInsect

Top down view of a flower cluster consisting of many tiny white flowers. In the center are a pair of ladybugs. The one on the lower left is a classic adult ladybug with black head with white markings and a black-dotted orange back. The one on the upper right looks more like a curled up orange and black pill bug, because it's in its pupal stage. Clinging to the left edge of the flower cluster is another pupa.
Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:wplalonde@lgbtqia.space
2025-08-14

It was finally cool enough to hike again this morning, and we found this little oddity hiding in the goldenrod. Looking like the product of a mad scientist who was assembling centaurs but ran out of human and horse parts and decided to substitute mantis and wasp bits, this is a brown wasp mantidfly (๐˜Š๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข):

#InsectThursday #BloomScrollingWIthInsect #Neuroptera #insects

A closeup of some goldenrod flowers, on which is perched an insect whose front half looks like a praying mantis and whose back half looks like a wasp.

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