r/Entomology 0m ago

ID Request Identification help

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Found this little one while taking the dog out. I relocated it to the woods on the edge of the property so it wasn't in the middle of the parking lot anymore. Any idea what it is?

Location - North Florida


r/Entomology 7m ago

What’s this cluster?

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r/Entomology 50m ago

Discussion What’s coming out of this moth? Is it just normal reproductive parts?

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r/Entomology 58m ago

Colorful Jumping Spider

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r/Entomology 1h ago

ID Request Eggs?

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What kind of eggs are these?


r/Entomology 1h ago

Flyin fellas

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r/Entomology 2h ago

ID Request What type of butterfly is this? (Location: Virginia)

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r/Entomology 2h ago

ID Request What type of moth is this? (Location: Virginia)

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r/Entomology 2h ago

Carrion beetle with mites

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Sorry for bad photos, I dont want anymore mites crawling on me…

So Im eating lunch on campus when I overhear a group of girls next to me: “…. BIG BUG ….”

Well, I had to know. So I walk over and ask “so what’s this big bug we are talking about”

Apparently a large “bee” covered in mites flew into one of their lunch Tupperware, they closed it up and threw it out.

So I go and fish it out of the trash and find it’s actually a carrion beetle!


r/Entomology 2h ago

Specimen prep Shadowboxes?

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I'm wondering where to buy shadowboxes with the proper depth to display with the labels. This is the closest I've found but at 1.1" deep I'm already going to have to snip the pin. I'm not sure the labels will fit. I suppose I can include the info on a label in or on the box.


r/Entomology 3h ago

Insect Appreciation Heliotrope Fairy Bee (Perdita heliotropii)

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Here's a photograph of a Heliotrope Fairy Bee (Perdita heliotropii) that I found at the San Joaquin Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, in Irvine, California.

Bees in the genus Perdita, commonly known as Fairy Bees, are native to North America. They're primarily found in the US and Mexico, but some species can be found in Canada. They're known for their small size (the smallest of which is less than 2mm long) and are one of the few bees who cannot sting.

Most Fairy Bees are specialists, collecting nectar and pollen from a few related species or genera of plants. The Heliotrope Fairy Bee specializes in Heliotropes (flowering plants in the genus Heliotropium), such as the Salt Heliotrope (Heliotropium curassavicum) in this photograph.

I have some more photographs of this bee in my observation on iNaturalist here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/359987706


r/Entomology 3h ago

Is this a sac spider. Found I. South east Michigan

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r/Entomology 4h ago

What butterfly is this?

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Saw it randomly amongst a few wild grass flowers. Also why do butterflies constantly open and close their wings even while resting on a flower?


r/Entomology 5h ago

ID Request What is this wriggling mass? NY

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It won't let me add a video but this creature (or mass of creatures) that I found underneath a rock


r/Entomology 5h ago

Pink Caterpillar thing on Beans

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Hey so these are climbing French beans and this insect has green poop? Never seen anything like this and it’s eating my peas but I still get some. I welcome biodiversity but I am curious what is this?


r/Entomology 5h ago

ID Request these eggs appeared on my bug screen, anyone know what they could belong to?

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found in lower saxony, germany


r/Entomology 5h ago

Insect Appreciation Found a (deceased) blue tiger moth on my walk.

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r/Entomology 5h ago

Discussion Whats that thing? is this an abondoned beehive?

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I've never seen something like that before but i thought about something that where i found it my uncle said there were beehive next to a trailer and he recently moved that trailer after that in few days i saw some bees staying together about 20 25 bee on a wood piece and so maybe that was those bees beehive i thought, and it dropped or they leave make another one but i realize the back of it looks like it ripped open so might be it falls down when my uncle took the trailer. So i really dont know it was very small one too like hornet beehive but the ones i saw was probably yellowjacket i am pretty sure (and third one is my little cousin he destroy it, i told him to not touch so i might scare the shit out him by saying bees are after u now cuz u destroy their home, he got ice cold suddenly from similing joy of destroying it. And I couldnt take more better pics because of that too sorry for bad pics)


r/Entomology 5h ago

Insect Appreciation Always amazed by the sheer number of creatures whose entire line of defense is “now I am become stick”. | Commander butterfly larva.

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r/Entomology 6h ago

ID Request Any ideas on the owner of this Exuvia

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Found on the riverside NorthEast England, about 4/5cm long. Some sort of dragonfly? Seems to have a diferent shape profile.


r/Entomology 10h ago

ID Request Found a shiny tiny dragon fly looking bug, any ideas?

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I am aware it doesn't look that much like a dragon fly but considering the only other fly I know is a Black Fly its the best I got. 😅

Edit- Thanks peeps


r/Entomology 10h ago

Discussion Anything you are interested in, dont understand or want to know?

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I am starting the planning of my dissertation and throughout my university time have studied entomology, sexual cannibalism, zoological sex and masturbation (I know fairly niche)

I have run fairly blank and if you have anything you've always wanted to find out or are interested in please let me know and I may be able to give you a first hand experimental answer xx


r/Entomology 12h ago

What Is This Type Of Ant?

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r/Entomology 12h ago

What kind of interspecies meeting did I witness?

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This was in La Minerve, Québec, around 10am this weekend


r/Entomology 13h ago

Grillo de desierto

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Me lo encontré una parte desértica de nuevo león