My first bee rescue of the year I scooped it off the pavement with my scarf and let it climb onto these flowers

I’m so glad I had my macro lens with me today

#BREAKING: the witch hazel flowers are fully unfurled. These flies are taking advantage—I was surprised to see them out and about!

A long-legged Ichneumonid wasp with multi-colored stockings for #WaspWednesday

Manitoba, Canada.
#wasp #insect #Manitoba #Hymenoptera #Ichneumonidae #bugstodon

Baby got back.

American Pelecinid Wasp (Pelecinus polyturator).

Manitoba, Canada.
#wasp #insect #InsektenSamstag #bugstodon #insectodon

The Death's-head Hawkmoth (or Acherontia Styx) is iconic. In antiquity, moths and butterflies were said to represent a person's soul. Today they often represent rebirth, and cycles of life and death. In this design I've tried to incorporate some of those themes with the inclusion of a Latin language riddle (also known as an Aenigma).

Getting really into #cocoons lately. #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon

#WeevilWednesday

Two species of Clown Weevils, genus Eudiagogus, members of the short-nosed weevil clan. This group is very diverse and often brilliantly colored and patterned. These two are dull compared to other short-nosed weevils. Many species are flightless. Adults eat leaves and larvae roots.

I miss you (hummingbird hawk moth outside my doctor’s office in early November). #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon

oh shit it's #WeevilWednesday

BEHOLD: this majestic _Poteriophorus imperatrix_ observed in the Philippines by Claude Chavand: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38706476

#iNaturalist #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Dryophthorinae

Here’s a recent “Year 3” Perpetual Journal page of mine featuring my 2022-2024 art of a Cloudless Sulphur butterfly, a Queen Butterfly larva, an eclipse & a recent comet!

#WeevilWednesday: i'm out of weevil pictures of my own so here's an image with an incredibly powerful aura by Kai Squires (squiresk on iNat). Species is _Parasalcus latissimus_, seen in Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218587854

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Cryptorhynchinae

I like how my Perpetual Journal pages are filling up in Year 3! Here’s a recent page of my PJ art: Fall foliage; White-lined Sphinx larva; Cactus Wren.

I miss you (usu-tabi-ga moth I saw on the fence at work last November) #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon #moths #mothstodon

You know you’re running out of bugs to observe when you start to get excited about aphids. But look! Aphids! Specifically, these ones are Lachnus tropicalus, the Great Chestnut Aphid. They’re way up in the branches of my work’s lone chestnut tree, where I think they’re getting ready to lay eggs. #bugphoto #bugstodon #insects

Amid everything else, it's #WeevilWednesday. Found this tiny one under a log in the park.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

Tiny scene from the garden: a _Prenolepis imparis_ ant carrying aphid(?) prey. These cold-tolerant ants are the rulers of the garden, but despite their numbers they have never given me any trouble.

#bugstodon #insects #ants • #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

At the urging of @nev I'm contributing to #WeevilWednesday with a metallic green Polydrusus (formosus?) weevil.

Today, more than ever, you deserve a weevil. That's right, it's #WeevilWednesday. Post 'em if you got 'em.

Found this striking little metallic blue weevil yesterday in High Park near oak savannah. Likely _Aulacobaris lepidii_ (https://bugguide.net/node/view/945003), an introduced species from Eurasia.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Baridinae