In case you are wondering, that is not a mini hand. This moths’ wingspan was of about 18 cm (7 in).
With butterflies and moths, it is pretty easy to tell if it is a male or a female. In this species, the female has a white stripe going from one wing to the other, and [...]
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 couldn’t keep myself from laughing when I was playing with it, and it kept throwing me gangster signs.
Also known as white-banded crap spider, this is another spider from the Thomisidae family (same as this one). The scientific name is Misumenoides formosipes, which apparetly is latin for pretty feet. Aww.
There are a few other genus [...]
My brother took this picture in our kitchen in Sao Paulo. (It was my camera, so it’s ok for me to post :p).
This is another one of those wood chopping longhorn beetles, whose exact species I am never able to identify.
There must be people out there who are much better at identifying beetles than I [...]
This is the same longhorn beetle seen in this video.
The mimicry is pretty cool, it looks just like tree bark.
