Cereal leaf beetle on ice crystals( and spot the green mite!)

Oulema melanopus. I got quite excited with this find today. When I put the photos on the laptop I also noticed I had again missed yet another green mite!

Oulema melanopus. I got quite excited with this find today. When I put the photos on the laptop I also noticed I had again missed yet another green mite!

The colors at the beetles of family Curculionidae are highly variable depending on species, as well as size. The largest and most colorful vivlarna found in the tropics.

That’s what today has been about. Started out my morning on the treadmill and managed 5 miles in 58 minutes 11 seconds. Would be thrilled about that if not needing to do 13.1 miles soon. But followed that up with a wonderful lunch out with Hadley. Then an afternoon on …

Just for fun … this female pondhawk landed on my flipflop as I was walking in the yard this summer. Pondhawks will often follow me around like cattle egrets do – hoping I’ll stir up a bug they can pounce on. These small dragonflies are fierce predators. I’ve still got …

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I think nearly every plant must have a gall-maker. This cottony mass is made by a fruit fly in the genus Aciurina (family Tephritidae). The host here is Rubber Rabbitbrush.

Just practicing macro and there seemed to be an endless supply of ladybugs… Also, I am aware that there is a typo with an extra ‘n’ XD I was typing in the dark.. I’ll fix it when I feel less lazy, ahaha.

I had my bug for almost 12 years but the time came when, because of it drinking petrol like it was going out of fashion, we had to sell it.
last saturday was such a sad day, I will miss it, but it still has a little place in …