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 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 [...]
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 cute little moth was resting in our bathroom in Sao Paulo.
It is not a very usual moth to find over there, and I never knew much about it until last night when I was cropping this picture and decided to look it up.
My mother calls it “mariposa bundinha de pincel”, little brush butt [...]
