Bibio Enjoying Wood Before Scooting Back Underground Two Spiracles on Tail End Tell Us its Bibio Bibio Cleaned and Posing In Bibio Beauty Bibio Front End, Head It was neat to read an account today of a discovery, whereby someone wondered if the algae that is in some salamander eggs, might be doing more. It was already...
Love Me, Please Mantis With Great Leg Flanges Dead Leaf Mimic Mantid Dead Leaf Mimic Mantid Giant Mantis Stick Mantid Shield Mantis Shield Mantis Solitary Wasp at Light Long Horned Beetle at Light I can only wish for the number of mantis species that come to lights along resort trails at night in Costa Rica. We made good use...
Mystery 8 Giant Costa Rican Katydid Giant Costa Rican Katydid Giant Costa Rican Katydid I want to thank KYLE for his astonishingly great guess of KATYDID, which gives him the win for Mystery 8 (sorry Ms. Utrecht, really). These Katydids, which really are a knock-out animal, are just so unreal, like mechanical devices- or something...
Scavenger Flies Mating Bizarre little flies shot mating. These are Scavenger Flies, family Sepsidae (probably comes from a root for “Sepsis”=Septic, referring to their attraction to excrement). An elongated shiny black fly with strange heads, that lay their egg on excrement or decaying matter where the larvae...
The Golden Dung Fly The Dung Fly family, the Scathophagids, is a large family 0f “excrement-eating.” No save with the genus name “Stcathophaga,” which meas “dung eating” or the species name “stercoraria” which brings us t the Latin root meaning “of the dung.” ...
Dune Fly Even though many of the original inland barrens from Albany NY to Queensbury NY have been altered historicall, leveled, logged, the sands removed for use in making fine pottery- the major soils are sands from an ancient lake (Lake Albany) that drained aproximately 13K years ag0. The plants and animlas that live in...
Leaf Miner Fly This photo is a bit blurry, really was stretching my camera’s limits with this fly at about 3 mm in length. This came to my light during the summer, and I saw the outrageously pretty purple abdomen and bluish thorax right away. This is an adult of a leaf -miner larvae, the eggs of this group of flies...
Tiger Fly Tiger Fly This Dipteran, a fly, caught my eye due to its powder blue color. Mid-August, it stood out among many things flying about the sand on a warm day. Its movements seemed a bit purposeful, yet erratic, more of a ground hopping then a hovering as seen in most flies. So I waited to get a photo. That’s...
Interesting Spider, Interesting Capture Update The ladybird beetle is for sure the fourteen spot ladybug, Propylea quatuordecimpunctata, which got ensnared in a small web builder- possibly in the Spider Genus Theridion. While the web here seems small, we have to flash back a bit and think that this web might have been a bit...
Crab Spider with Stink Bug Prey Little Flies Following Spider After it Takes Prey!! Latest Post VERY COOL updates for this sequence I caught. The spider appears to be a Xysticus sps., don’t have the stink bug ID’d for sure yet. But here’s the thing. The little flies are there for a PURPOSE. They are...
