I’d like it to be the case that this international bug of mystery with so many hits on his belt is keeping its identity secret for stealthiness purposes.
But the fact it that I just don’t know what it is :D
You’d think that a bug with such striking features as this one would be pretty easy [...]
Here is one from Illinois!
I found this guy last fall when I was at the Shawnee Park. It was about the size of my hand. The legs are so long and skinny, it just looks like a levitating bug ball. Harvestmen are pretty cool little creatures.
If you’re one of my friends from Brazil, you might [...]
In case you were wondering what a wolf spiders eyes look like after reading my previous post, they usually look like this!
There are many different species of spiders which we call wolf spiders, and they vary a lot in color and shape. But when you see an eye pattern like this:
It’s usually a dead giveaway [...]
Aren’t these babies cute?
These are Fulgoroidea, or plant hoppers. When you’re walking on the grass, you can often see several of these jumping away at every step. They are very fun to play with.
They’re in the Hemiptera family, along with cicadas, aphids and true bugs. The characteristic that distinguishes them is that Y shaped vein [...]
I saw an article yesterday on Arstechnica about parasitic wasps. It’s a pretty cool article, check it out:
Parasitic wasp genome offers chance to study sex and death
It made me remember this picture I took, of a blue mud dauber. I think the species is called Chalybion californicum, but I’m not sure.
They make little tunnels of [...]
