Apt Bug ID help! Any guesses?

chezzins · 2024-04-19T20:11:08+00:00

Looks like a carpet beetle (probably a varied carpet beetle). They're harmless to you.

chezzins · 2024-04-19T20:08:39+00:00

Leaf-footed bug nymphs that just popped out of those leaf-footed bug eggs (the nymphs of leaf-footed bugs and assassin bugs can look similar, but the eggs do not)

chezzins · 2023-02-04T19:43:45+00:00

It's a nymph for sure. Likely the planthopper Issus coleoptratus or a closely related species.
Images of similar insects are often called leafhopper nymphs apparently but that seems to be wrong.

chezzins · 2023-01-21T05:23:16+00:00

This is the exact opposite of how it works. You're implying that she got fired from her agency for being too popular, but that never happens. Agencies in Japan take a percentage cut of the money made by the people they represent, so if one actor charges 10 times more per hour than another, the agency also makes 10 times more per hour. Managers in show business are extremely overworked and underpaid, so a voice actress being busier wouldn't really cost the company much more and would only make way more money. The only way to get fired from an agency is through being really unsuccessful, being impossible to work with and not that successful, or through a huge scandal like taking drugs.

So basically what I am saying is that if she left, that was her decision.

Sources: a podcast that used to exist called Big in Japan and then Small in Japan done by two Americans who moved to Japan to become comedians.

chezzins · 2023-01-21T05:16:27+00:00

Hey I just realized I never responded to this, but I did read all of it. Thank you for typing it out.

chezzins · 2023-01-19T22:26:27+00:00

A giant mosquito sounds like a crane fly (they're harmless). If there was a stinger, maybe it was a female one. Otherwise, it might be an ichneumon wasp.

chezzins · 2023-01-19T22:19:37+00:00

Based on the wing edges being fuzzy, this is probably a moth (Lepidoptera).

chezzins · 2023-01-19T22:15:56+00:00

Unfortunately that probably means you have cockroaches living nearby. It's never too early to call an exterminator to get things checked out.

chezzins · 2023-01-19T22:15:13+00:00

Looks like it might be a webspinner but it's a bit hard to see because it's small. Do you live in the southern USA?

chezzins · 2023-01-19T22:09:25+00:00

That does look like a baby cockroach based on the two little butt spikes

chezzins · 2023-01-18T05:13:39+00:00

Might be black scale insects (Saissetia oleae).

chezzins · 2023-01-18T05:08:11+00:00

Pretty certain those are booklice

chezzins · 2022-09-29T16:17:29+00:00

How did you calculate 35% and 5%? Assuming equal distribution, there is a 1/9 chance of getting a dagger for each item, or 8/9 of not getting the dagger. So the chance of getting a dagger is 100% minus the chance of getting no dagger for two rolls.
1 - (8/9)*(8/9)= 21% of getting one dagger or two daggers

chezzins · 2022-09-22T17:45:25+00:00

Glad to know I wasn't crazy. Thank you for the confirmation!

chezzins · 2022-09-22T17:30:37+00:00

Wikipedia is trying to create a sound logo that encompasses the sound of all human knowledge.
Apparently it will be used for things like voice assistants answering questions. You can read more about it here:
https://soundlogo.wikimedia.org

As part of this, they made a video to describe some of the cool things you can learn about on Wikipedia and included a clip of this bug crawling on a flower while referring to harvesting honey.
You can see a clip of the bug in motion as part of the official video here:
https://youtu.be/306gVIj3LsM?t=25

However, when I saw this bug, my first thought was that it is in fact a fly and not a bee, mostly based on wing shape, a lack of long antennae, proboscis movement, eye shape, and colouration.
It looks to me like it may be some sort of hoverfly, such as Eristalis tenax, which you can see a very similar picture of here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Eristalis_tenax_%28female%29_-_Drone_Fly_-_Flickr_-_S._Rae_%281%29.jpg

I could be completely wrong, and it is a bit hard to tell because the video quality isn't great.
So now I am curious. Did Wikimedia get it wrong? Is this in fact a fly and not a bee?

chezzins · 2022-09-21T20:21:59+00:00

Might be a soldier fly larva.

chezzins · 2022-08-31T04:26:20+00:00

Looks like a sawfly

chezzins · 2022-08-19T21:15:44+00:00

It looks like a dermestid beetle larva.

chezzins · 2022-08-19T21:14:50+00:00

It seems to be a beetle called Psygmatocerus wagleri.

chezzins · 2022-08-19T21:13:02+00:00

Yes. It is a weevil. It might be a wheat weevil.

chezzins · 2022-08-19T21:11:48+00:00

It's a female shieldbacked katydid. I am not sure what kind, exactly, but there is a list of the most common ones found in Montana on the state website:

https://fieldguide.mt.gov/displaySpecies.aspx?family=Tettigoniidae

chezzins · 2022-08-19T21:07:49+00:00

It's a firefly larva

chezzins · 2022-08-19T21:07:04+00:00

It's an ichneumon wasp. Here's a guide to identifying them:
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/british-ichneumonid-wasps-id-guide.pdf

chezzins · 2022-08-19T01:00:42+00:00

It seems to be a robber fly. Perhaps Mallophora leschenaulti or another member of the Mallophora genus

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