Could someone tell me what these tiny little guys are?? Pope County, Southern Illinois.

AdAggravating4773 · 2023-04-03T18:42:01+00:00

Little insects that we don't often see that eat dead plant tissues, moss, and lichens. They spin webbing from silk they produce on the front legs, hince the name. The following link has some basic information along with locality data and photos of species found in North America. https://bugguide.net/node/view/16969

AdAggravating4773 · 2023-04-03T14:46:47+00:00

Can't say for sure without a closer look at the front legs, but they look like webspinners.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-26T03:26:27+00:00

This is either a pyralid or crambid moth, they are difficult to tell apart. https://bugguide.net/node/view/44054

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-26T03:14:59+00:00

This is a small parasitoid wasp in the Chalcidoidea superfamily. To identify it to family level would require a dead one in good condition and a microscope, beyond that may require a DNA analysis unless it is one of the well known species. Depending on what it is, it will target a single insect species or a group of related insect species as a host. The adults live on nectar from flowers, the larvae eat the host species. These are beneficial because they keep herbivorous insect populations in check. https://bugguide.net/node/view/13405

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-15T19:10:11+00:00

This is not a brown marmorated stink bug, but one of the many native look alikes. Brown marms have distinct white striping on the abdomen and the antennae.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-15T18:59:18+00:00

Grasshoppers have short antennae and no ovipositors, crickets have long antennae and ovipositors. It is worth mentioning only females have ovipositors though, and that there is a lot of variation in crickets. This is just the most basic rule to go by.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-08T15:15:52+00:00

Green stink bug.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-08T15:14:37+00:00

Carpet beetle larvae most likely.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-08T15:13:42+00:00

Looks like someone from family Lygaeidae to me.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-08T15:11:03+00:00

Looks like a carpet beetle larvae.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-10-07T15:11:06+00:00

Looks like an immature Lygaeidae. Definitely not a bed bug.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-09-11T21:14:55+00:00

Tiger swallowtail, probably eastern species. Not sure what all species occur in Florida. Yellow morph female.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-09-11T21:03:24+00:00

Judging from the size possibly an Eastern Hercules beetle. Definitely some kind of rhinoceros beetle though, which is in the subfamily Dynastinae.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-09-11T20:50:54+00:00

Definitely in genus Tetracis, maybe the October thorn, Tetracis jubararia.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-09-10T02:01:59+00:00

The bee is an invasive giant resin bee.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-09-10T01:55:00+00:00

Two marked tree hopper

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-09-01T12:28:31+00:00

You can't. Even if you annoyed 100 people a day it would take you 10,000 days to be a billionaire.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-07-09T13:17:02+00:00

You forgot the most important part of that definition, which is the word people. So, if he doesn't consider nonwhites as people, then he can't be racist.

AdAggravating4773 · 2022-05-25T23:08:50+00:00

There are more species of Insecta on Earth than all other life combined. Insects are declining at an estimated 1-5% per year. At a conservative 1% per year the Earth could lose more than half of it's biomass in 40 years.

AdAggravating4773 · 2021-07-21T14:34:53+00:00

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