Post your bug pictures!

[Joezilla]

I want to see 'em. They don't need to be pretty Audobon pictures either. A simple visitor on your pack or a beetle in your hand isa just fine.

Oh, and if you remember, your location please. If I happen to know any gee-whiz facts I'll try to look 'em up and post them, BS free if possible

 

[pitdog]

Not really got any bugs as in beetles, do these count ?

 

[mckrob]

Here is moth that I found in my house in Cajamarca, Peru. I thought it was a bat at first, it's wing span was just over 6".

Any one know the species?

 

[Joezilla]

Man o man is this fun. I don't know most of these off the top of my head but doing the research for them is like an easter egg hunt.

The top looks like a western tent caterpillar.

That huge shield looking thing on top of the slug's head is a mantle. With those dark patches and the keel on the back (that ridge thing), it should be a pacific banana slug. They don't have to have blotches, as that other one shows.

 

[stitchawl]

The Bug Wars near the Thai/Burmese border. (These guys are dead... I wouldn't go near 'em if they weren't. Not deadly, just ugly. )

This guy (girl?) was 20 meters underwater off the coast of Borneo near the island of Sipadan. Not a particularly sharp photo as the current was ripping!

... and this one I didn't shoot, but found one day on the net. I think it's fantastic! :thumbup:

Stitchawl

 

[Joezilla]

Thats a black witch moth. It looked like the white witch moth in the "amazon insects book" that Mike Perrin Recommended for the Peru trip. I just went backwards.

 

[BarberFobic1992]

 

[Joezilla]

... and this one I didn't shoot, but found one day on the net. I think it's fantastic! :thumbup:

Stitchawl

Thanks, now that is the new desktop on my computer hilarious!

 

[stitchawl]

Here is moth that I found in my house in Cajamarca, Peru. I thought it was a bat at first, it's wing span was just over 6".

Any one know the species?

I don't know much about bugs so don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure that your moth (is a myth a female moth?) is an 'Atlas' moth. I photographed a whole series of them one weekend. Someone told me that they don't move very much and only live a few days. They come out of their cocoon, mate, lay eggs, and die. I know that when I was shooting them, none move at all! The ones I was working with were more orange/brown colored.

Stitchawl

 

[fujita yuji]

Mantis eats mantis

 

[fujita yuji]

She's saying "Hello".

 

[Joezilla]

Barber, thats the eastern hercules beetle.

The males have a horn on their head, called sexual dimorphism. Even more fun word: their scientific name
Dynastes tityus

 

[T.A.DAVISON]

Not my photos, but I thought it was kinda cool..... :thumbup:


http://www.japanesebugfights.com/30.htm





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[Joezilla]

Atlas moth is a different critter. Pudgier body, plumose antennae on males (loook feathery)

We have a version here called a cercropia moth. The native americans used their cocoons as rattles. I was dared to chew on one, one time and I threw up.

 

[Evolute]

Freshly Hatched Monarch, Stretching and Drying Its Wings

Lustrous Coppers Mating on Pussy Paw

Black Petaltail Dragonfly

Stiletto Fly (?) Getting Caught and Eaten By A Roundleaf Sundew

Pacific Fritillary Nectaring on Pussy Paw

Orange Sulphur

California Sister

Clodius Parnassian Emerging from Coccoon

Silvery Blues Mating on Fiddleneck

Western Meadowhawk Female, Front View

 

[Joezilla]

evolute, are you in alaska or oregon?

 

[Evolute]

I wander around. I spend most of my time in the central coast of California, but I wander around.

 

[Joezilla]

is that roundleaf sundew common out there? I would love to see it some time. Ever fallen on one? ACK!

 

[Joezilla]

Here is my contribution. My calender bookmark.

 

[Evolute]

Not common. I had to go to some lengths to get the shots I was after. You know, they grow in bogs. If you fall on one, you'll be more concerned that you fell in six inch deep mud than that you fell on some sundews.

I've touched them as I've knelt; They're a bit sticky, but so tiny you hardly notice. (There other other species of Sundews that are bigger, and more noticeable when you touch them.) Besides, on a photographic mission, nothing stops me from getting my shot.