Insect Species

Kory0822 · Kory0822

I have found a rare unknown speices that i never seen before that was laying on my wall outside the house at night it seem be very different speices and i want to find out what kind this is insect is. please take look this pictures and tell me what u know this is thanks.

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Photo: Ryan Wick/Flickr There are very few situations where female royalty is encouraged to have multiple sexual partners. Okay, that probably never happens. But in the case of honeybees, it's key to their survival. At least that's what some researchers hope to prove. Scientists from the Univers...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

I always thought that a fly's face looks like a baseball being pulled apart at the seams. In fact, I get so distractd by that split and those eyes and that mouth that I've failed to notice the fly's sideburns. Shame on me. So Steve named this fly Logan (of Wolverine fame, for you non-nerds). Aptly named, t...

Ranade · Ranade

Roaches are insects of the order Blattaria.This name derives from the Latin name for the insect, Blatta. There are about 4,000 species of cockroach, of which 30 species are associated with human habitations and about four species are well known as pests Among the best-known pest species are the Ame...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

What do you do if you're an ermine moth larvae and you and your horde have run out of trees to defoliate? If you're in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, you turn to automobiles. Photo source: NGM Blog Central This is the scene the Dutch woke up to one late Spring day. They immediately thought they were under sie...

Ranade · Ranade

A moth that can be deadly to humans and strips the leaves off oak trees has been found breeding in Britain in what scientists are saying is the result of climate change.yea they do look big i guess =\The Oak processionary moth is believed to have arrived in oak trees imported from Tuscany and planted on a...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

You're looking at a close up of a crane fly, though you may know it as a mosquito eater or a mosquito hawk. The fear center of my brain knows them as flying spiders. I'm here to dispel a myth, a myth that I have believed up until about five minutes ago (I'm an office monkey, not a biologist, so cut me some slack...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

I'm still consistently amazed at how often I'm directed to a new species of ugly, and this after almost four years of daily blogging. It's the trilobite beetle of Asia. Photo source: ExoBeetles.de These rare and endangered beetles can sometimes be spotted undulating in rotting wood after a rain. Bu...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Daniel Tate, an English schoolboy, was looking for grasshoppers at a wildlife event he attended with his great-grandfather last week. But the 11-year old boy and his companions at Seaton Marshes Local Nature Reserve had no idea what a huge surprise they were in for. Tate saw something pink that he th...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Don't we all at times feel constrained by the rigidity of our exoskeleton? Perhaps we feel a simple need to grow, or perhaps an urge to metamorphose into something entirely new. Either way, we must go through a painful, yet necessary ecdysis(wiki), the moulting of that old skin in favor of a new, plian...

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Infestation

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Watch this video of a velvet worm (great band name!) and be thankful that you aren't a diminutive arthropod. source -- Edited by Jollyjo on Friday 28th of August 2009 08:53:37 AM

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

How does the jeweled beetle manage to look green despite not having any green pigment in their exoskeleton? Magic, that's how. Quick, someone go tell Traditional Chinese Medicine peddlers: they can cook up a new aphrodisiac. Actually, there' a less magical, but still fascinating explanation: th...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

It's high time we had another dobsonfly post. Enjoy this video of a dude handling one. And getting squirted by it. Enjoy your lunch. source

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Warmer winters have led to some interesting developments. Take the image below, for instance. An Alabama man decided not to eradicate the yellow jacket nest that had blossomed in his old '55 Chevy truck. He let it run wild, and this was the result. If the average yellow jacket's nest houses 3,000 wasp...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Ants really are amazing creatures, as seen here when they form a life raft to float their colony to a new spot. I can't imagine what it would be like to go for a swim in the ol' watering hole, only to come up for air in the middle of this. I don't think it'd go well for you. [video=http://www.youtube.com/wat...

Ranade · Ranade

Someone i know are afraid of this insect >_> really Grasshoppers have antennae that are almost always shorter than the body (sometimes filamentous), and shortovipositors. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdom...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Parasitic wasps are always an easy target as sci-fi parasites. After all, they were the main inspiration behind the film "Alien" - clearly they're 'sci-fi worthy'. They all do terrible, mean things to their hosts while they eat them alive from the inside out. And, simply, they're just really, reall...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

There are a lot of parasites that cause strange changes in their hosts. Parasites turn hosts into zombiesgorge on the flesh of the host from the inside out, even assist a host's suicide. But one of the most interesting and extreme changes caused by a parasite is achieved by the mermithid nematode. Sim...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Here's a story of zombies, parasitic mind control, and livers. In the end, I take away a cautionary tale from it, one that I'll pass on to my kids (the smaller ones at least): don't eat snail slime. Prepare for some erudition on the liver fluke. Source -- Edited by Jollyjo on Saturday 15th of August 2009 0...

Ranade · Ranade

They look furry and can kill you :D if you touch them=| yep caterpillars can kill too or severely harm you lol It looks soooo fluffy O.O The caterpillars grow to about 1 inch long and are furry in appearance, being completely covered by thick tan to grayish-white hairs that taper toward the back end. Amo...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

It sounds like something out of science fiction: zombie fire ants. But it's all too real. Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound. Eventually their heads fall off, and they die. The strange part is that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M's AgriLife Extension Se...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. Via Uglyoverload See something similar with flies and fire- ants here [...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

A group of Amazonian ants have evolved an extremely unusual social system: They are all female and reproduce via cloning. Though their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, they have also gained some extraordinary abilities. University of Arizona biologist Anna Himler orginally beg...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

This is called a Serra-Pau, which I believe is Portuguese for a variety of longhorn beetle. But don't quote me. Maybe a Brazilian etomologist can clear this up. I've never thought to look a longhorn beetle in the mouth, but now that I have, I'm surprised. I've come to expect nasty mandibles and articul...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

It might not be readily apparent to you, but these are some of your favorite bugs. They've been featured in countless children's movies and books, they're on hallmark cards, and they're one of the many symbols of Spring. You're looking at ladybug larvae. More specifically, you're looking at Asian l...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

What's This? What's this? Perhaps close-ups of new fiber weaves or shots of this year's quilting contest runner-up? Is this what a teddy bear's hide looks like under magnification? Is it soft? Can I make a pillow out of it? Photo source: EnglishRussia.com No, you're looking at an obscenely large hor...

Dj Quiva · Dj Quiva

This article from the mental floss blog. It's a tale of six fascinating ant species. First we have a Madagascar specimen called the Dracula ant (Adetomyrma sp.). But I don't think Dracula did anything quite like these ants. You see, they feed on the blood of their own larvae. Here's how it goes: the lar...

konvict01 · konvict01

-- Edited by konvict01 on Saturday 14th of March 2009 07:45:39 PM

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	Unknown Speices of Insect ~ Moth (Preview) I have found a rare unknown speices that i never seen before that was laying on my wall outside the house at night it seem be very different speices and i want to find out what kind this is insect is. please take look this pictures and tell me what u know this is thanks.	Kory0822	0	3515	Apr 4, 2010 by Kory0822
	Lots of sex is key to honeybee survival (Preview) Photo: Ryan Wick/Flickr There are very few situations where female royalty is encouraged to have multiple sexual partners. Okay, that probably never happens. But in the case of honeybees, it's key to their survival. At least that's what some researchers hope to prove. Scientists from the Univers...	Dj Quiva	2	2096	Feb 26, 2010 by Shem
	Logan the Fly Insect Alien Animals (Preview) I always thought that a fly's face looks like a baseball being pulled apart at the seams. In fact, I get so distractd by that split and those eyes and that mouth that I've failed to notice the fly's sideburns. Shame on me. So Steve named this fly Logan (of Wolverine fame, for you non-nerds). Aptly named, t...	Dj Quiva	0	2073	Nov 21, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Roaches (Preview) Roaches are insects of the order Blattaria.This name derives from the Latin name for the insect, Blatta. There are about 4,000 species of cockroach, of which 30 species are associated with human habitations and about four species are well known as pests Among the best-known pest species are the Ame...	Ranade	0	2017	Nov 16, 2009 by Ranade
	Feasting caterpillars take over car Insect Pupate Web (Preview) What do you do if you're an ermine moth larvae and you and your horde have run out of trees to defoliate? If you're in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, you turn to automobiles. Photo source: NGM Blog Central This is the scene the Dutch woke up to one late Spring day. They immediately thought they were under sie...	Dj Quiva	1	2508	Nov 6, 2009 by Ranade
	Killer moths :D yes there are killer moths (Preview) A moth that can be deadly to humans and strips the leaves off oak trees has been found breeding in Britain in what scientists are saying is the result of climate change.yea they do look big i guess =\The Oak processionary moth is believed to have arrived in oak trees imported from Tuscany and planted on a...	Ranade	1	1862	Nov 5, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Crane Fly Myth Dispelled Inseccts Parasites Alien Animals (Preview) You're looking at a close up of a crane fly, though you may know it as a mosquito eater or a mosquito hawk. The fear center of my brain knows them as flying spiders. I'm here to dispel a myth, a myth that I have believed up until about five minutes ago (I'm an office monkey, not a biologist, so cut me some slack...	Dj Quiva	0	2065	Sep 19, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Trilobite Insects Alien Animals Bug (Preview) I'm still consistently amazed at how often I'm directed to a new species of ugly, and this after almost four years of daily blogging. It's the trilobite beetle of Asia. Photo source: ExoBeetles.de These rare and endangered beetles can sometimes be spotted undulating in rotting wood after a rain. Bu...	Dj Quiva	0	4311	Sep 18, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Boy finds rare pink grasshopper (Preview) Daniel Tate, an English schoolboy, was looking for grasshoppers at a wildlife event he attended with his great-grandfather last week. But the 11-year old boy and his companions at Seaton Marshes Local Nature Reserve had no idea what a huge surprise they were in for. Tate saw something pink that he th...	Dj Quiva	1	1950	Sep 17, 2009 by Jollyjo
	Ecdysis - Molting Insect Molting (Preview) Don't we all at times feel constrained by the rigidity of our exoskeleton? Perhaps we feel a simple need to grow, or perhaps an urge to metamorphose into something entirely new. Either way, we must go through a painful, yet necessary ecdysis(wiki), the moulting of that old skin in favor of a new, plian...	Dj Quiva	0	2752	Sep 10, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Beautiful Butterflies (Preview)	Dj Quiva	0	1855	Sep 6, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Bed Bugs (Preview) Infestation	Dj Quiva	0	1939	Sep 6, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Velvet Worm vs. Beetle (Preview) Watch this video of a velvet worm (great band name!) and be thankful that you aren't a diminutive arthropod. source -- Edited by Jollyjo on Friday 28th of August 2009 08:53:37 AM	Dj Quiva	0	1787	Aug 28, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	jeweled beetle (Preview) How does the jeweled beetle manage to look green despite not having any green pigment in their exoskeleton? Magic, that's how. Quick, someone go tell Traditional Chinese Medicine peddlers: they can cook up a new aphrodisiac. Actually, there' a less magical, but still fascinating explanation: th...	Dj Quiva	1	1895	Aug 26, 2009 by Ranade
	Dobsonfly (Preview) It's high time we had another dobsonfly post. Enjoy this video of a dude handling one. And getting squirted by it. Enjoy your lunch. source	Dj Quiva	1	2001	Aug 26, 2009 by Ranade
	Monster Wasp Nests (Preview) Warmer winters have led to some interesting developments. Take the image below, for instance. An Alabama man decided not to eradicate the yellow jacket nest that had blossomed in his old '55 Chevy truck. He let it run wild, and this was the result. If the average yellow jacket's nest houses 3,000 wasp...	Dj Quiva	0	1850	Aug 25, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Ants for life raft to float their colony to a new spot (Preview) Ants really are amazing creatures, as seen here when they form a life raft to float their colony to a new spot. I can't imagine what it would be like to go for a swim in the ol' watering hole, only to come up for air in the middle of this. I don't think it'd go well for you. [video=http://www.youtube.com/wat...	Dj Quiva	0	1901	Aug 21, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Grasshopper (Preview) Someone i know are afraid of this insect >_> really Grasshoppers have antennae that are almost always shorter than the body (sometimes filamentous), and shortovipositors. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdom...	Ranade	1	2074	Aug 21, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	This Week's Sci-Fi Worthy Parasite: Cotesia glomerata Insect parasite (Preview) Parasitic wasps are always an easy target as sci-fi parasites. After all, they were the main inspiration behind the film "Alien" - clearly they're 'sci-fi worthy'. They all do terrible, mean things to their hosts while they eat them alive from the inside out. And, simply, they're just really, reall...	Dj Quiva	0	2132	Aug 18, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Mermithid Nematodes:This Week's Sci-Fi Worthy Parasite Insect parasite (Preview) There are a lot of parasites that cause strange changes in their hosts. Parasites turn hosts into zombiesgorge on the flesh of the host from the inside out, even assist a host's suicide. But one of the most interesting and extreme changes caused by a parasite is achieved by the mermithid nematode. Sim...	Dj Quiva	0	2039	Aug 17, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Liver Fluke Life Insect parasite (Preview) Here's a story of zombies, parasitic mind control, and livers. In the end, I take away a cautionary tale from it, one that I'll pass on to my kids (the smaller ones at least): don't eat snail slime. Prepare for some erudition on the liver fluke. Source -- Edited by Jollyjo on Saturday 15th of August 2009 0...	Dj Quiva	0	1986	Aug 14, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Puss caterpillar (Preview) They look furry and can kill you :D if you touch them=\| yep caterpillars can kill too or severely harm you lol It looks soooo fluffy O.O The caterpillars grow to about 1 inch long and are furry in appearance, being completely covered by thick tan to grayish-white hairs that taper toward the back end. Amo...	Ranade	1	1798	Aug 7, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Parasitic flies turn fire ants into zombies (Preview) It sounds like something out of science fiction: zombie fire ants. But it's all too real. Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound. Eventually their heads fall off, and they die. The strange part is that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M's AgriLife Extension Se...	Dj Quiva	5	2019	Jul 30, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Parasitic Wasp Kills Aphids - Aphid Killer Insects Parasites (Preview) Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. Via Uglyoverload See something similar with flies and fire- ants here [...	Dj Quiva	0	1994	Jul 30, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	Scientists Discover All-Female Ant Species that Reproduces by Cloning Cloning (Preview) A group of Amazonian ants have evolved an extremely unusual social system: They are all female and reproduce via cloning. Though their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, they have also gained some extraordinary abilities. University of Arizona biologist Anna Himler orginally beg...	Dj Quiva	0	1465	Jul 2, 2009 by Dj Quiva
	longhorn beetle (Preview) This is called a Serra-Pau, which I believe is Portuguese for a variety of longhorn beetle. But don't quote me. Maybe a Brazilian etomologist can clear this up. I've never thought to look a longhorn beetle in the mouth, but now that I have, I'm surprised. I've come to expect nasty mandibles and articul...	Dj Quiva	1	1423	Jun 4, 2009 by Shem
	Lady Bug larva = cannibal (Preview) It might not be readily apparent to you, but these are some of your favorite bugs. They've been featured in countless children's movies and books, they're on hallmark cards, and they're one of the many symbols of Spring. You're looking at ladybug larvae. More specifically, you're looking at Asian l...	Dj Quiva	2	2051	May 5, 2009 by Ranade
	Giant hornet nest - Vespa affinis. (Preview) What's This? What's this? Perhaps close-ups of new fiber weaves or shots of this year's quilting contest runner-up? Is this what a teddy bear's hide looks like under magnification? Is it soft? Can I make a pillow out of it? Photo source: EnglishRussia.com No, you're looking at an obscenely large hor...	Dj Quiva	2	2447	May 3, 2009 by Ranade
	Dracula ant (Preview) This article from the mental floss blog. It's a tale of six fascinating ant species. First we have a Madagascar specimen called the Dracula ant (Adetomyrma sp.). But I don't think Dracula did anything quite like these ants. You see, they feed on the blood of their own larvae. Here's how it goes: the lar...	Dj Quiva	3	1690	Apr 24, 2009 by Jollyjo
	Strongest creature in the world (Preview) -- Edited by konvict01 on Saturday 14th of March 2009 07:45:39 PM	konvict01	6	2503	Mar 15, 2009 by Dj Quiva
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