My dear friend Enmos spent hours trying to find out the species of this longhorn beetle I posted this week.
Here’s what he wrote:
I’m pretty sure I got it down to the genus (the longhorn beetle with the green/yellow stripes/spots)
It has got to be of the genus Ambonus! :D
Images of some species from this genus:
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Hymenoptera is the order of all of those ant, wasp, bee looking bugs, including the weirder ones like wood wasps and sawflies. Then, inside of this order there is the superfamily Vespoidea. Both ants and velvet ants are in this subfamily.
BUT, ants are in the family Formicidae, and velvet ants have their very own [...]
I hate to post another insect that I don’t know much about, but I was looking through my pictures and couldn’t resist it.
I do know that this little bastard was chewing on my tomato plants!
I promise I’ll study in the future and find out more about this guy. I’ll keep this pic here as a [...]
“What, that’s a real spider? Are you sure it’s not made of plastic?”
Yes, I’m sure. I’ve seen it move. In fact, I poked at it myself (hehe).
This is a pretty amazing spider. They are also known as flower crab spiders ( from the Thomisidae family). They are specialized as making themselves look really attractive to [...]
This happy looking spider is one of the many in the Lycosidae family, also known as wolf spiders, or how we call them in Brazil, grass spiders.
This one is sometimes confused with the dangerous Phoneutria, the wandering spiders, because they also have red chelicerae, but they are not nearly as dangerous.
They have a painful [...]
