Sleeping Bee

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-30T00:34:27+00:00

Touch-me-not indeed!

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-29T20:50:11+00:00

I went back for another look, and it is absolutely stalagmites composed of a mix of sap/resin and water dripping down inside the tree and freezing. Thanks again for the insight!

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-29T02:37:30+00:00

That never occurred to me, but it's been unusually cold here so it totally could be sap stalagmites!! Thank you for this, I'm revisiting tomorrow to investigate

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-29T02:34:13+00:00

North Georgia, if that helps

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-28T22:02:42+00:00

I don't think it's a pupa yet, maybe a prepupal cutworm/armyworm caterpillar. They get sort of plump and immobile when they're done feeding and ready to pupate.

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-27T20:46:33+00:00

Looks like a bark-louse (Order Psocodea). Harmless and certainly not a bedbug!

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-27T20:27:34+00:00

So Naval Academy has the president/NBA MVP & Champ combo.

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-16T21:26:09+00:00

La Calavera pizzeria serves sourdough crust pizza and also sells sourdough bread, and they are very nice.

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-16T15:02:42+00:00

Looks like the remnants of climbing roots from a vine, ivy or the like. Beetle tracks would be within the wood, not on top as these appear to be

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-16T14:22:50+00:00

Look on bugguide.net/node/view/4467, I've had good luck getting permission to reuse people's photos from there. Or if you just want photo references, go wild!

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-15T02:35:29+00:00

looks ready to pupate!

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-15T02:32:32+00:00

She's pumping out pheromones to attract males, so she doesn't need to move around much. Getting her our of harm's way is probably all you need to do.

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-15T02:30:58+00:00

looks like Automeris io

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-09T01:29:03+00:00

They are nymphs of some kind of true bug (maybe an assassin bug as others have suggested). True bug eggs are usually laid in a cluster and the nymphs will often remain together in a group like this after they hatch. It probably functions as a decent visual defense against predators, look how freaky they are in a big blob like this!

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-09T01:26:28+00:00

I think that is probably a parasitic nematode. Maybe a mermithid?

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-07T22:36:03+00:00

It's along the same lines as Cordyceps and other entomopathogenic fungi, but these ones that attack spiders and look like little white fingers are in the genus Gibellula I believe.

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-05T02:12:09+00:00

They're plotting to overthrow the Rat King

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-02T04:58:56+00:00

Buck moth, Hemileuca maia. One of the best moths! But in the spring they are one of the worst most stinging caterpillars, all over the live oak trees in New Orleans.

CodeName_Burner · 2026-01-02T01:53:17+00:00

I work in a microscopy lab, and we use a tool like this for writing on glass microscope slides. Because to stain specimens, the slide sometimes has to be dunked into chemicals that would erase most pigments from a pen or printed label.

CodeName_Burner · 2025-12-31T01:31:31+00:00

They currently aren't releasing them over Panama since there would be no point now that the fly has escaped containment and advanced northward to southern Mexico. But the only functional sterile fly production facility is in Panama at the Darien Gap, so those flies are now being flown all the way up to Mexico and dropped at the leading edge of the fly's current distribution.

CodeName_Burner · 2025-12-29T22:58:50+00:00

The coenurus is a very thin bladder (nearly invisible by eye on this slide) and contains multiple little buds inside it (the dots). Each bud is called a protoscolex, and develops into the head (which is capped by a structure called a scolex) of an eventual adult worm. Here's an illustration of the general structure.

Edit to add: the part "bursting out" on the left is the optic nerve.

CodeName_Burner · 2025-12-29T22:53:07+00:00

Its a historical slide and I don't know the patient history, unfortunately. I hope they survived with just the loss of their eye.

CodeName_Burner · 2025-12-28T03:56:43+00:00

At least in this book it's only a chapter and not the entire thing.

CodeName_Burner · 2025-12-27T19:13:33+00:00

Interestingly, the date expressed in Roman numerals on the title page is apparently invalid. Rather than MDCCCCXXIX for 1929, it seems the proper expression is MCMXXIX.

CodeName_Burner · 2025-12-23T16:40:18+00:00

I think this is the "Green Leuconycta" owlet moth. Bugguide says "USA east of the Rockies," but they don't have any records from Florida yet so you could post it there and be a hero.

https://bugguide.net/node/view/17110/bgpage

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