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This guy has been living on my monitors for a few days. I let some bugs in and he caught one but he is always in hunt mode.
Picked up a little resin bee egg case "jar" a few weeks back, and today this chonky little creature emerged. Gave her a sugar snacc and released. Love these sweet little nuggets ❤️
Also see, a relative of resin bees: Dianthidium curvatum, a pebble bee 💛
Yay! Yay for bugs!
i was randomizing on emoji kitchen & this came up 🤣 thought it went well with the recent cockroach posts
Me but I'm smiling not grimacing
I wish the woolly chafer beetle was as big as a rabbit and I could have one as a pet
-one bug or double it and give it to the next person?
-give me the bug.
Amphidromous, my man! (/Woman. You know how snails are)
Green Tree Snail (Amphidromous atricallosus), family Camaenidae, Sumatra, Indonesia
photograph by Pungky Nanda Pratama
Blood Python (Python brongersmai), family Pythonidae, Thailand
photograph by Justin Coburn
Peruvian Green Tree Snail (Drymaeus valentini), family Bulimulidae, Peru
photograph via:
(PDF) Mystery solved : a new Drymaeus species from northern Peru (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae) (researchgate.net)
Bhutan Glory (Bhutanitis lidderdalii), family Papilionidae, Arunachal Pradesh, India
photos: Hiroaki Takenouchi & Debanga Mahalia
(Ilargus pilleolus, via Salticidae.org)
In the end, Zhang & Maddison went with pilleolus ("little cap") rather than pileosus (perhaps intended as pilosus, "hairy"), but the name is just as apropos -- that tuft looks like it adds a good millimeter of height to the tiny male's head.
everything about this little dude screams magician. they call him the wandering violin and look at his slender body. and his latin name is a fucking spell you cant convince me otherwise
Longhorn Spiny Orbweaver (Macracantha arcuata), family Araneidae, Singapore
photograph by Janice Ang
Rare images of a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider:
These photographs were taken in Queensland, Australia, by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders.
The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside, allowing the bee to enter the nest, and then simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.
After inspecting the nest together, they return to their resting positions -- sitting side-by-side in the entryway to the nest.
The bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the spider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.
This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.
Sources & More Info:
Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'
iNaturalist: Megachile macularis