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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐛🛡️ Dr. Adrian Smith captures #NorthCarolina #caterpillars in #macro detail as they defend themselves, prepare for transformation, and eat their way toward metamorphosis. These #larvae convert plant matter into protein that feeds #birds, #wasps, and other creatures up the food chain – but their diverse defense strategies help some survive to become #butterflies and #moths.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-do-these-north-carolina-caterpillars-defend-against-predators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=nc-caterpillar-defense

#animals #insects #biology #nature #entomology #wildlife #predators #ecology #ecosystem #plants #Raleigh #silk #tksst #video

Close-up macro photograph of a dark caterpillar with orange spots and defensive spines resting on a green leaf against a purple background.

🐛🛡️ Dr. Adrian Smith captures #NorthCarolina #caterpillars in #macro detail as they defend themselves, prepare for transformation, and eat their way toward metamorphosis. These #larvae convert plant matter into protein that feeds #birds, #wasps, and other creatures up the food chain – but their diverse defense strategies help some survive to become #butterflies and #moths.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-do-these-north-carolina-caterpillars-defend-against-predators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=nc-caterpillar-defense

#animals #insects #biology #nature #entomology #wildlife #predators #ecology #ecosystem #plants #Raleigh #silk #tksst #video

The #rosechafer #Cetonia #aurata (#Scarabaeidae) is distributed from Europe to Asia. The #saprophagous #larvae develop over about two years in Central Europe in #soil substrates often under #deadwood. According to R. Beaven et al. (2025), #rectalcomplexes as in C. autata (larvae only) are recycling systems of the #gutcontents and #evolved #independently within Scarabaeideae.

Ref
R. Beaven et al. (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2024.101406

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth 2025

Larva of the rose chafer Cetonia aurata found under deadwood in a forest area of urban park Rehberge in Berlin together with another specimen.© Stefan F. Wirth, October 2025

Typical way of locomotion in the larvae of that beetle: in backwards position. Larva of the rose chafer Cetonia aurata found under deadwood in a forest area of urban park Rehberge in Berlin together with another specimen.© Stefan F. Wirth, October 2025

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal #wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, #worms, #larvae and #plankton

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms

#142holdheap #nature #ecology #Environment #WildLife #Plants #ecosystem #peat #marsh

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/10/08/two-great-turnarounds/
A look back at yesterdays and todays matches at the #WomensWorldCup and a #photo gallery.
#cricket #WODI #WomensWorldCup #BangladeshvEngland #AustraliavPakistan #photography #birds #insects #cormorants #egret #larvae

#Identification #Inquiry found on berries.
I suspect it's some kind of #Moth #larvae but not 100% sure

(Edit: #Solved #Evergestis #Rimosalis)

Galls on hardhack leaves. And the larvae that hide inside. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/09/cute-little-orange-crawlers.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Larvae #Plants #Wildlife

4 midge galls on the underside of leaves, built under the central vein. Long, fat, sausage-like packages, the ones in back green, the one in front a bluish red. On a white countertop.

And with the red gall cut open, several little caterpillar-like larvae crawled out. They are bright orange, with one rounded end, the other end coming to a point with a black dot on it. There are two larvae still on the ruptured gall, two in front on the countertop. Subfamily Cecidomyiidae, they say on BugGuide.

Galls on hardhack leaves. And the larvae that hide inside. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/09/cute-little-orange-crawlers.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Larvae #Plants #Wildlife

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/09/20/some-sporting-highlights/
A split medal in the Heptathlon and the world athletics championships, the women's rugby world cup semi-finals, an #AutismAcceptance just a cuppa morning at King's Lynn Library and a photo gallery.
#athletics #WorldAthleticsChampionship #Heptathlon #rugby #WomensRugbyWorldCup #CanadavNewZealand #EnglandvFrance #Autism #AutismAcceptance #photography #birds #insects #bees #butterflies #moths #PlumeMoth #bugs #larvae

Flott larve av syrekveldfly har rulla seg sammen #nature #SilentSunday #moths #larvae

Larvae of Acronicta rumicis, rolled up on a green leaf on top of a lunch box, forest floor in the background. The larvae is black with a white and red dots down the body

Horrifying screwworm infection confirmed in US traveler after overseas trip https://arstechni.ca/hMsB #screwworms #infection #parasites #Maryland #Health #larvae #texas

LARVAE (Xile) presenta nou àlbum: "Anatomy of Chaos" #Larvae #DeathMetal #Agost2025 #Xile #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

Better together: sibling cooperation matters! Burying beetle larvae consistently benefited from growing up with siblings — both with and without parents. This study by Huber et al. shows that sibling interactions can play a key role in the evolution of family life. Read now ahead of print!

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736816

#sibling #beetle #larvae #evolution #familyLife

Dung beetle and larvae taken by Huber et al.

The next awardee that we hear from is Rochelle Chan, who was awarded this year's Huntingford Medal, which is awarded to the most impactful paper in the Journal of #Fish Biology last year. Rochelle's paper utilises minion #sequencing and COI barcoding to identify species from #larvae in a high throughput manner #FSBI2025 #JFB Read Rochelle's paper, here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15920

What you can see here is a seed in the palm of a hand. The half-translucent worm crawling on it is the larva of a fungus gnat. The seed has been hollowed out by these little insects. That's catastrophic if you try to grow food and it gets eaten before it could even sprout.

#photography #agriculture #fungusgnats #blackfly #larvae #seed #canon #canonphotography #eosr6markii #ef100f28lmacroisusm #darktable #darktableprocessed #macro #macrophotography

A brown seed, covered in dirt in the palm of a hand. The photo has a high magnification, so that a small larva is visible, crawling on top of the seed.

... this city is in remission... #neoplasm #growth #larvae #worm #tumor #biohorror #lovecraftian #lovecraft #horror #analoghorror #weirdcore #strange #surreal #creepyvibes #ihopeyoumissme

Today is day 10 of #30DaysWild and during our #garden #hedgewatch we saw this 🙀 #Pupae (fig 1)from a #ladybird Before we did know only about the #larvae (fig 2).
Again something learned thanks to
@30DaysWild 😻

Today is day 3 of #30DaysWild 😻 During our evening #hedgewatch in our garden we discovered many #ladybird #larvae 😻
They are very welcome in our place because they love to eat #aphids

#InsectThursday #insects #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography