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26 Jul 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Bala
Even the snakes are afraid of Praying Mantis. I was watching some of the videos on YouTube on Praying Mantis and how they hunt their prey. I was so surprised to see how deadly they are in attacking their predators like Camelion. For the Cameleon, the...
18 Jul 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Bala
Mosquitoes are the most annoying insects in the world. When we are sleeping, they sing songs near our ears and they keep giving us injections and suck our blood out. Sometimes I realize that my elbow is fully numb because the mosquitoes sucked out a...
6 Jul 2022 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
This week, I would like to share a few photos taken while taken while walking through an old golf course that has since been reclaimed by a nature preserve to become a natural meadow habitat. With fairways that have become fields of native grasses an...
12 Dec 2021 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
Today, I'd like to share a few images taken of different insect wings when viewed under a microscope. While many insect wings may appear to be relatively similar to one another when viewed with the naked eye, once they are placed beneath a microscope...
22 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
This individual dragonfly named Chalcolestes viridis is a so-called "badly born dragonfly". Probably her abdomen was still hardened in the molt, and it could not straighten, hence the deformities. Its flight capabilities are quite limited,...
2 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments manoloC
A couple more pictures of the creatures that live on or have visited my balcony. Two-spotted lady beetle, we call them little Devils. Nourishing on lice on the Thyme. Bumble Bee on wild flower. Not sure which one of the over 30k wild bees on the wo...
24 Jun 2021 1 minute read 1 comment manoloC
On my small balcony i grow some Chili, Herbs and for the diversity there's a wild mix of flowers and even a little maple tree and some ivy climbing all over the railings. Good thing about most of the bugs crawling around here is, they feed on lice, e...
14 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
The European Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar dispar) is a species of moth introduced to North America in the 1860s and has since become one of the most notorious pest species in the deciduous forests of Northeastern North America. Unfortunately, the sp...
8 Jun 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Farah ikram
Many of us spend our lives watching the things that are most appearer but we never pay heed to these insects,and sometimes knowingly or unknowingly we kill them.There are millions of species of organisism,but we know nothing about them.They have segm...
2 Jun 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
Over the last couple of days, I had the chance to take a few hikes along the banks of a local river. On the way, I came across a variety of fascinating and colorful insects. I've done my best to offer identifications for each species I was able to ph...
