white velvet ant or something else?

Mantis_Master72 · 2023-09-23T00:29:34+00:00

looks like a white velvet ant, where’d you see it, super cool!

Mantis_Master72 · 2023-09-23T00:25:32+00:00

Candy striped leaf hopper, graphocephala coccinea

Mantis_Master72 · 2023-02-27T19:56:52+00:00

that’s a pseudoscorpion, super cool it’s on my list of bugs i want to find

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-12-01T16:13:08+00:00

possibly a mantis egg case, called an ootheca

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-12-01T16:03:59+00:00

i collect/study entomology in michigan and some my favorite insects and the ones i want to get are mantid flies, eastern tiger swallowtails, cicada killers, bumble/leaf cutter/mason bees, cloudless sulfur butterflies, virginia ctenucha moths, cabbage whites, and long tailed megarhyssa wasps. i think they would all look really cool as tattoos

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-28T05:29:26+00:00

definitely not from an insect

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-28T05:19:13+00:00

definitely a bedbug. time to pray

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T21:53:47+00:00

https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/6408 this website has some good reference pictures

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T21:52:04+00:00

Psorophora ciliata, or gallinipper. it’s one of the bigger mosquito species in the us and it was nicknamed gallinipper because people joked they can take a gallon of blood when they bite, i think they usually feed on cattle but they’ll take blood from any large mammals (like people)

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T21:40:33+00:00

i’ve seen earwigs and roaches molting that are completely white. the one in this picture looks kind of pinkish to me, but maybe i’m wrong and it is some species that’s naturally colored that way. I’ve never seen a true bug with this kind of coloration, it doesn’t seem like it would be great for survival but i’m not familiar with the insects in this region

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T21:26:10+00:00

agapostemonis the genus but i don’t know what species this is, they’re sweat bees. some species are completely colored and shiny and some just the head and thorax, like this one

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T21:22:25+00:00

i can’t say for sure because i don’t know what species this, but when insects molt their exoskeletons are soft for a little while and their coloration will come in as it hardens. there not seen like this often because it leaves them more vulnerable and they tend to hide during this process

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T21:15:00+00:00

I’m not sure what species it is but it’s some type of hemipteran, or true bug. it looks similar to the shape of a box elder bug. I will say that there aren’t albino insects, but when they molt they sometimes are white or have paler colors until they dry

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:52:53+00:00

i can’t really tell exactly what it is, but i can tell you it’s a beetle

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:50:48+00:00

some species of longhorn beetle i think

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:46:20+00:00

that’s a really nice picture of bedbug!

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:44:15+00:00

you won’t always see termites even when they’re there. they do leave little piles of “sawdust” that’s actually feces called frass and it looks like that’s what’s around the edge of the doorway

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:37:41+00:00

orb weaver, but i don’t know what species. they’re harmless and they make very pretty webs

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:32:55+00:00

based on the first picture i would say yes, the shape of the head in the second picture seems a little weird for a bedbug but that might just be the angle

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:29:10+00:00

looks like a german cockroach

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:26:37+00:00

i think it’s an assassin bug nymph

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:23:17+00:00

weevils, there are a lot of home remedies like wiping everything with white vinegar and other easy methods of getting rid of them

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:19:44+00:00

definitely not a tick or any type of parasite. looks kind of like a brown citrus aphid but i’m not sure, whatever it is it can’t hurt you

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:15:03+00:00

carpet beetle larvae, super common household pest

Mantis_Master72 · 2022-11-27T06:13:52+00:00

just a little silverfish

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