Insects

[Tago Mago]

Lackey moth caterpillar according to google. Taxonomy class and animal identification was a long ago…

[Tago Mago]

And a soldier beetle fighting through UHR

[goosehd]

[SFMCfranky]

On the inside of my kitchen window this morning. About an inch long.

[Oaktavia]

@SFMCfranky snakefly

[SFMCfranky]

Quite a few around today.

[Oaktavia]

@SFMCfranky I love those tiger swallowtails. They are just so cool, and so big!

[Twistlock]

Found this little fellow at the doorstep of the house we rented for the week.

[goosehd]

@Twistlock beautiful

[Oaktavia]

@Twistlock Gorgeous

[Vik]

Little Cinnabar moth that decided to hang around the IHUK garden for a few hours on a sunny afternoon

[ConBu]

Alien Attack

[SFMCfranky]

IMG_4838.mov

[SFMCfranky]

Found this fellow hanging off my basil this morning. I don’t think he was eating it. I think he just overnighted on it.

[nurunuru]

This firefly larva caught my eye the other day.

[motojobobo]

@SFMCfranky very cool pic!

[Oaktavia]

@nurunuru woah that is wild, I haven't seen one of those before. Do you recall how long that one was? It looks pretty long compared to a firefly (at least the ones around here), but it is hard to tell the scale of it.

[Oaktavia]

@SFMCfranky that photo is so rad! Worth putting into a frame.

[nurunuru]

@Oaktavia I'd say it was maybe around an inch long. I'm big into bugs, but had no idea what the heck it was! Pretty confident it's a firefly larva after a bit of online sleuthing, though.

[Oaktavia]

@nurunuru oh yeah for sure, it looks like one. It's just interesting to me how big it is. So cool, so primal looking, and beautiful in its own right.