A new tribe for Pentamyrmex spinosus, (An extremely aberrant member of Pentatomidae), males still unkown.
Doug Yanega, David Redei and Jerome Constant contributed to identification.
Hundreds of these disgusting little things inside a dead Plain-Bellied Water Snake, and definitely the cause of death. One of them bit me, and now I’m freaking out. I can handle any snake, spider, insect, but parasitic worms are the one thing I absolutely cannot handle!
Female aphid giving live birth.
I spotted a small green thing jerking on the underside of a weed. I didn't realise she was popping out babies until I got home and loaded the pic.
A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
Cyphonia clavata. La Fortuna de San Carlos, Provincia de Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Host plant: Calliandra tweediei Benth. [Fabaceae]. The nympha is camouflaged with the leaflets.
Moss-bug Hemiodoecellus fidelis, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Australia, December 2018
Oryidae (Soil Centipedes). Photographed west of Balsas, Amazonas Department, Peru on 30 October 2015.
In sand was disturbed by digging.
What's going on here? Are the small red mites babies or parasites??
About 5mm. Common beetle around Korsman. Beset by microscopic mites.
To the right of honeybee on mangrove flowers. Optimistic spider!
Water boatman (family Corixidae). Can it be identified to genus or even species?
Caught in a dip net on the Clam River, Burnett County, Wisconsin. August 2015. This photo shows it in a clear plastic tank I used to get photos of the animals I collected. (It's sitting on the head of a crayfish in a couple of these shots--I doubt a lot of this sort of behavior happens in natural conditions.) (Some debris, bubbles, etc., removed in Photoshop; colors desaturated a bit and lighting adjusted.) (I have also posted this observation for the crayfish.)
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys) flying
United States: Alabama: Tuscaloosa Co.
Tulip Tree Springs off Echola Rd.; Elrod
17-Jul-2016
J.C. Abbott #2847
Someone in our party had stumbled upon these huge 'cave crickets' on an earlier trip, and took us to see them. I was expecting a cricket, and was delighted to instead see huge katydids. This female was 60mm with her ovipositor. With her long legs spread out, was 150mm, her antennae as long again. They move quietly in the dark chambers made by a water course passing through boulders.
Getting home and looking it up I was happy to see that they were described by Piotr Naskrecki. He says they aren't predatory but move out of the caves at night and eat plants. These are the only known cave-dwelling katydids, from his blog:
"they are highly gregarious, often found in clusters of 20-30 individuals of various ages. The caves they prefer are cold, maintaining the chilly temperature of 12°C (54°F) throughout the year. Their habitat cannot be occupied by bats or hyraxes, which probably quickly do away with the tasty, surprisingly very slow-moving insects, thus limiting the number of available caves (interestingly, when exposed to higher temperatures they become phenomenal jumpers)."
Found this green shield bug on a hoolyhock, but it was carrying a passenger embedded in its back. The bug is still alive, two days later, but the passenger was (and still is) dead. Is it a parasitic wasp having a go at the bug?
7,5mm on Alnus
Angriff einer Florfliegenlarve wohl Chrysoperla carnea auf die Eier von Elasmucha grisea
Attack of a lacewing larva probably Chrysoperla carnea on the eggs of Elasmucha grisea