These striking woman-insect creatures are from "Insectes," a series of photo composites by photographer Laurent Seroussi.
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The saber-toothed ground beetle can deliver a two-pronged attack. From the front its long, shearing jaws give it deadly weapons when this insect pursues prey; they also allow the beetle to stand up to predators several times its own size. In addition, this insect sprays an acidic toxin from its...
Family: Endomychidae Size: 9.4 mm Location: Thailand, Prov. Phang Nga, Khao Lak, Khao Lak Beach leg U.Schmidt, 29.IV.2015; det. A.Skale, 2017 Photo: U.Schmidt, 2017
One of New Zealand’s most well known insects is the wētā, of the Orthoptera order, but there are thousands of other insects species, some of which we know very little about.
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' Two EVE ' ....if God had intended man to be unfaithful, He would have created two EVE . Two EVE
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A spinal injury forced brave polar explorer and meteorologist Andrey Pavlov to return to his native St. Petersburg where he unexpectedly found solace...
Piotr Naskrecki's website, The Smaller Majority, is a treasure trove of natural history and photography, especially when they concern insects. Naskrecki has lately been in Mozambique, and recently describes finding what is perhaps the world's most beautiful katydid—and one of the rarest. It's Pardolata reimeri, and information about it is thin. (Katydids, you might recall,…
The high-pitched songs of crickets, katydids, grasshoppers, and cicadas are a prominent element of summer and early fall in most of North America. These wonderful musicians chirp, click, zip, rattle, and lisp from trees, shrubs, lawns, fields, woodlands — from just about all natural habitats, and sometimes from inside our homes. Finding and identifying a singing insect can be a wonderful challenge. These pages will expose you to over 70 common and widespread species, and will help you identify many of the singers that you will hear in your immediate surroundings and in the countryside far from home.
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Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before.
artist Wesley Fleming sculpts flameworked glass flowers, animals, and fantastical creatures.
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A take on the classic insectoid race. This is well trodden territory but it was fun trying to to figure out what a fresh take might be.
ArtStation - Headcrabs, Francine Bridge
