What is a bug? Strictly speaking, a bug is an insect in the group Hemiptera – it must have piercing mouthparts. Cicadas are Hemiptera, but spiders aren’t.
Eurypauropus japonicus from 日本、〒319-3704 茨城県久慈郡大子町上野宮 on March 7, 2021 at 12:51 PM by Ryosuke Kuwahara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MBozauk1M&ab_channel=iz
Brachycybe producta from Placerville, CA 95667, USA on February 26, 2022 at 04:39 PM by Grant Wang
This was a bucket-lister for me! I had seen images of this large staggering species before from elsewhere in SEAsia and it was a matter of whether it occurred locally. It remains unidentified but bears similarities to the only known immature stage of the genus Phocoderma. As usual, in the absence of an ID (and even then for ease of reference), I have issued a nickname - "Medusa" Pu'er, Yunnan, China
The advantage of mimicking red eyed flies is that predators such as birds do not waste time trying to catch such a swift prey. from Ecuador: www.flickr.com/andreaskay/albums
Bee Fly. The Bombyliidae are a family of flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae generally are parasitoids of other insects.
This resource provides labelled features and examples of various types of invertebrates including: insects, molluscs, myriapods, arachnids, annelids, crustaceans and echinoderms.
In our bug unit, we studied Insects, Arachnids, and Myriapods. (Note, the word bug has a scientific meaning (below) but we used it like kids use it - to mean any little creepy crawly things.) The Bug Factory On our biggest table we set out samples of multiple different kinds of bugs kids could make,…
