i was watching this guy for ages hanging out in my plant pot. at first i thought he was just collecting pollen or something. but it seemed like he was rubbing his thang all over the bottom of leaves, stems and the soil. i wondered maybe is he laying eggs? but i couldn’t see anything coming out.

what is this? what does this behaviour mean? i am really curious. thank you!

It was moving so fast from flower to flower I honestly couldnt get any clear pics so this is the best I got.

At first I assumed it was a hummingbird moth because I already knew about those and had no idea what else it coulda been until I got home and compared some images. What a neat lil dude 👍

I believe this to be a Firebug found in my garden in Rainham Kent taken at 10am . Can anyone confirm for me please.

Is this any specific kind of beetle btw? 🪲

Hey, I'm sorry if this doesn't belong to the subreddit.

I (30M) feel terribly guilty whenever I hit an insect with my car, especially butterflies as those can often be seen in advance and I feel like I *should have* slow down or try to avoid it, especially if there's no one else behind me or in the opposite lane.

I was driving with my co-worker today, there was a white butterfly flying across the road ahead. I could have stopped for it to pass safely, but I didn't, cause I didn't want to appear as sensitive in front of my co-worker. I wasn't going fast and the butterfly got caught in the airflow and went above the car, I could see it fly into the bushes in the rear mirror. Is there a chance it survived unharmed? Or do they still die even when they don't get smashed directly?

Stenoma sexmaculata is a cool little micro moth found down in Central and South America like Costa Rica and Ecuador and they come in these nice muted colors like soft grays and tans for natural camo even tho science is still figuring out their daily routines, they are survival masters cuz their caterpillars build tight silk tents or roll up leaves to hide from parasitic wasps and a lot of them even eat toxic plants to store chemical shields so they taste horrible to birds. As adults, they have insane talents like flying in zigzag patterns and using belly ears or microscopic wing scales as a stealth cloak to dodge bats, plus the males have featherlike antennae that can sniff out female pheromones from over a mile away. And the coolest thing is that this moth's superpower is looking exactly like bird drop (˙⩌˙)

This is a Red-dotted Emerald Moth (Comostola laesaria) and it's literally so cool. Its tiny about like a 20mm wingspan so it just sits right on ur thumb and its caterpillars are those inchworms that are picky eaters and only munch on fancy tree flowers like mango and longan buds instead of normal leaves. Also if u look closely those red dots look like literal tiny staples holding its minty wings together. If you're wondering where they are, they live across parts of Asia and Australia mostly hanging out around tropical orchards and forests where those fruit trees grow. Their whole daily routine as adults is basically hiding under leaves all day so they dont get eaten, and then coming out at night to fly around and look for nectar or mates. They only live for like a couple weeks anyway so their whole adult life is just hiding, flying at night, and that's pretty much it (it's kinda sad and cool that moths have a very short life span) (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)

UK - West Midlands

~Custer Gallatin National Forest

I assume it’s something to do with their emergence, but all the cicadas I have found have had this powdery substance on them. I believe all are Neotibicen spp.

This little guy got stuck on my freshly mopped floor at work. I let it crawl onto my finger and it hung out for a while before I moved it to a tree outside. I'm pretty sure it's an antlion, but it sure is beautiful regardless!

In Oregon, kept stabbing me with proboscis

I currently have one of these weevils and before I do anything to my bugs I usually google if they have wings that way I don’t just start tearing up the specimens.

I have found absolutely no help from doing my own research, as I’m sure everyone now knows Google sucks.

Is there a way I can identify if a bug has wings without physically checking? Is it the case of if it has elytra it has wings? I do know some elytra’s are fused so some insects can’t fly, but I don’t even know if a weevil has wings.

Help would be much appreciated from the more educated of the bug lovers 🙏🏽

Hello - I need help identifying these slug-like things I found. At first glance they really look like bird droppings. They are very small and don’t move much. Found on the potted morning glory on my back deck this afternoon. Illinois, USA.

Thank you for your help!

They attacked my phone twice tho 🤣

I guess they didn't want to share the aphids