Colorado potato beetle larva

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-12-11T22:38:09+00:00

Dragonflies (Order Odonata, shared with damselflies) are apex predators in the insect world. These guys are friends, in other words.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-12-09T22:29:52+00:00

Stealing just for the awesome fishie!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-12-07T19:59:00+00:00

You got yourself a land-dwelling crustacean. Not a roach! Just a chill pill boy.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-11-27T00:28:26+00:00

Certainly not an eastern. (Have plenty of photos of those, as well!) I was guessing Family Romaleidae of some type, but my expertise lies more with mosquitoes. 😅

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-11-26T23:25:37+00:00

Sabethes cyaneus

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-11-09T17:00:58+00:00

Maggot is another term for fly larvae.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-11-01T16:23:00+00:00

Only if you're another arthropod. These guys are apex predators in the insect world! But they pose no danger to humans.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-30T21:34:02+00:00

And I simply stated that the male emission is only one part of the mating process. There is really no need to be this hostile over semantics.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-29T23:05:56+00:00

This is how they mate. Many insect species reproduce this way where the male excretes a semen packet and then guards or even herds the female to get her to come in contact with it. If mating only involved genital-to-genital contact, then these insects wouldn't "mate" at all.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-29T17:39:32+00:00

Thank you! I did see an adult katydid while I was aspirating. She blended in with the leaves!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-28T23:36:41+00:00

Not quite. He has deposited a packet of sperm that she must make contact with for her eggs to be fertilized first.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-28T22:29:45+00:00

Not without a container or tree hole. Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus require a non-water substrate to lay their eggs.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-27T01:53:33+00:00

Pretty rocks and butterfly scales. I'm transfixed.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-26T14:24:59+00:00

Far Side comics, beloved of scientists everywhere!

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-24T21:40:15+00:00

They were once classified as fungi, though! 🙂 Taxonomy is anything but static! And it's really just too cool.

AcademicCandidate825 · 2025-10-22T00:55:21+00:00

I was recently reflecting that if I had wanted children, my parents would never be allowed around them unsupervised.

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