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[gustafson]

Yellow-orange fly (on rosemary sprig) by p.g.photo.graphy, on Flickr

 

[Fortkentdad]

Dragonfly Love


Dragonfly Dinner

 

[Fortkentdad]

Bald-Faced Hornet -
Shot with my long lens - don't want to get close an annoy these nasty things.

 

[Fortkentdad]

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[Fortkentdad]

 

[Bob Blaylock]

 

[Needa]

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How did you get the double shadow?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

How did you get the double shadow?

In those shots, the mantis was on a car windshield. One shadow on the outer surface, and another on the inner surface of the glass.

 

[Kevin H]

 

[Blacktop]

 

[roger13]

In the garden

Sent from my SM-G903F using Tapatalk

 

[wev]

I'm assuming this is some sort of ant -- have to check with the department bug guy

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I'm assuming this is some sort of ant -- have to check with the department bug guy

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I started out also thinking some sort of an ant, but in closer examination, I think not. I can see that it has at least one pair of vestigial wings, which I do not think you would find on an ant. I think an ant would either have fully-functional wings (a queen or a drone) or else no wings at all.

 

[wev]

I started out also thinking some sort of an ant, but in closer examination, I think not. I can see that it has at least one pair of vestigial wings, which I do not think you would find on an ant. I think an ant would either have fully-functional wings (a queen or a drone) or else no wings at all.

Same for me. I got some other shots and one shows the folded back mouth tube of an assassin beetle, but I still haven't narrowed down which one -- it may be an immature form of the leafhopper that we see here, but with all the alien species showing up, who knows?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Same for me. I got some other shots and one shows the folded back mouth tube of an assassin beetle, but I still haven't narrowed down which one -- it may be an immature form of the leafhopper that we see here, but with all the alien species showing up, who knows?

I'm fairly sure that mayflies are the only insects in which wings appear at anything other than the final adult stage, and this definitely is not a mayfly.

 

[wev]

I'm fairly sure that mayflies are the only insects in which wings appear at anything other than the final adult stage, and this definitely is not a mayfly.

After looking at a whole lot of bugs, I finally found it (I think): Hyalymenus tarsatus or Texas bow-legged assassin bug. Our bug guy had never seen one here, so I have to go catch one now.

 

[wev]

I finally found it again and got a shot with its proboscis partially extended

 

[wev]

 

[wev]

 

[nickt]