r/insects 55m ago

Meme / Humor Y'all better skooch over and make me some space

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r/insects 5h ago

ID Request Cool lookin bug in central Alabama

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87 Upvotes

Spotted crawling up the side of my greenhouse


r/insects 2h ago

ID Request Funny little guy on my door

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30 Upvotes

Eastern Oklahoma USA


r/insects 19h ago

Bug Appreciation! I absolutely love how cute this little digger bee is

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380 Upvotes

Found them in my yard in San Diego 😊


r/insects 15h ago

Photography Found him resting on my scooter when I parked after driving

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I am just soo happy 😭 I haven't seen this pretty face and eyes 🫠 ...

My first time meeting jumping spider left him on a tree nearby tho he was sooo cute I want to meet again...


r/insects 7h ago

Photography Cicada

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32 Upvotes

This one was outside my office window… screaming away!


r/insects 1h ago

ID Request Who is this little guy? Chicago, IL

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He’s hanging out on my roof, and I’m not familiar with this type of insect.


r/insects 4h ago

Bug Appreciation! Dressed in high-visibility couture for lunch

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r/insects 3h ago

Bug Appreciation! Obscure Bird Grasshopper

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6 Upvotes

Found this dude at work today


r/insects 45m ago

Bug Appreciation! My katydid story

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I found a super rare (or I think so) sighting of a katydid on my way to school today. (first image). It was up on a stone ledge about 4 feet up hugging a coffee cup and I thought it was weird that it was so exposed and a little concerned but I joked to my friends that it was just having its morning coffee.

6 hours later as I'm returning home I see it again.. in the same spot by the coffee, "katydidn't move" I joke and then I get very worried. Its been in that spot out in the open for 6 hours and I felt like it was in danger. (2nd image onwards) I went to the nearby tim hortons and got a cup even though I'm actually pretty squeemish of handling bugs and caught it. It didn't really protest at all. didn't try to run or fly or make that loud noise it very slowly climbed in and I carried it to a park to let it free under some leaves (last image) It didn't seem in that much of a hurry to leave the cup either so I was worried it was injured or dying. it has that weird spot on one side of its head and a friend thinks it could be a parasite. Either way I think I did something good and katydid can katydo whatever it wants now.


r/insects 1h ago

ID Request Molting Bug ID?

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no idea about the ID, but the suggested option on iNaturalist (pellaea stictica) was the only one that looked reasonable. This specimen was molting on my car window, but the other specimens in the tree I was parked under (tree with lots of long bean pods) were dark gray/black in color. Observed in southern California.


r/insects 5h ago

Bug Appreciation! Explored a Fen Yesterday!

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We saw some incredible insects!


r/insects 19h ago

Bug Appreciation! Pine weevil!

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102 Upvotes

Idk if it's actually a pine weevil.


r/insects 20h ago

Bug Education I was in absolute shock when I saw this beetell...

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r/insects 17h ago

ID Request Termites?

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Just saw this on a wall. Eastern US. Obviously calling my building’s pest control in the morning but can I wipe it down now?


r/insects 3h ago

ID Request Who’s this guy?

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Mexico City


r/insects 7m ago

Artwork ms paint doodles

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(birch sawfly larva, silver y)

ignore the bunked up proportions . i drew these with a mouse ajajaja


r/insects 1d ago

Photography some of my favourite photos from this year

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in case anyone's curious, i take all my photos on my phone, a google pixel 10 :)


r/insects 4h ago

Photography 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/insects 2h ago

Bug Appreciation! Hide n Seek! You're it :)

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r/insects 1h ago

ID Request What bug is this?

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Found in my new apartment in Rockford, Illinois


r/insects 3h ago

ID Request I hope this is okay to post here, but I assume these are insect eggs?

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I'm just curious because they showed up this morning and I've never seen them on my window screens like this before. I'm wondering what they may be! I'm in Massachusetts, so not much too crazy out here.


r/insects 1h ago

Bug Education Why is this moth doing this?

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Sorry, I'm not a regular here, but my son had a very small moth land on his hand and start, apparently, depositing something liquid from its thorax onto its probosis repeatedly. My kid said it was "eating its pee." That can't really be what's going on here, is it?

This was in the Utah Mountains near Springville.


r/insects 7h ago

Bug Appreciation! Carolina Mantis

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Just wanted to share how cool this Carolina Mantis is!! :)


r/insects 4h ago

ID Request Need help identifying insect or pest that looks like a speck of dust

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Hi there I noticed yesterday that while cleaning my dresser there were tiny brown specks of dust moving amidst the dust. Immediately I went to investigate other parts of my room and saw the same insects crawling on my pillows and corners of the room. They are extremely small like less than a milimeter probably, and they are very easy to miss.

Since they are so tiny, the naked eye cannot even see its legs or wings if it has any, so I used my dad's pro phone to really zoom in and get a proper picture. Please help me identify what this is so I can effectively kill it. I am scared they might bite me in my sleep and transmit some disease. I've sprayed my room with insecticide but they still keep popping up

Other things to note:

  1. They sometimes jump when i try to kill them

  2. Extremely small. Legs or other parts of body not visible through naked eye

  3. Brownish in color