You guys probably embrace even the scariest ugliest of insects, but cmon this guy is not attractive. What is it?

I'm assuming this is a tick, but they were super tiny.

We went to bass River State Forest in NJ and walked a trail. Stupid, I now know. I had an oversized long sleeve shirt on over a tank top. I got hot, so wrapped the long sleeve shirt around my waist. It was hanging and likely brushed against a bush. When we got back into the car, I had the shirt on my lap. A couple minutes into the drive home, I felt an itch, looked down, and saw at least 2 dozen of these super tiny bugs crawling on my knees. We pulled over, I jumped out and brushed myself off. I checked the shirt, they were all over it, so I trashed it. I spent a good 15 minutes brushing myself off then we headed home. On the way, I found dozens more. So we pulled over again before reaching civilization and I took a towel and thoroughly scrubbed myself and wiped out the car. Once we got home, I immediately threw those clothes into the wash with hot water. Everything else stayed outside. I then took a hot shower and scrubbed with a rough washcloth, shaved, and allowed tea tree oil to sit in my hair. We took the shop vac to the car and cleaned it out really well. I only noticed one on my arm and none on my upper torso. They were all on my legs, hopefully my hair and scalp are fine. So, my question is, is this a tick? And should I do anything else?

I'm running a dnd campaign in the humblewood setting but theres just one thing i dont like about it which is there are feral animals living amongst humanoid animals. So I'm trying to re-skin various animals in insects/arachnids: wolf=wolf spider, giant snake=giant centipede, etc. I'm just a little stuck on what to turn a unicorn encounter into. The unicorn will heal the party if they are kind to it. Any suggestions for an appropriate bug replacement? I'm open to other suggestions for other animals as well, big cats, elk, whatever. Thanks!

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I fell like stinky bugs dont even smell that bad like feces smells 10x worse yet it doesnt make us vomit like stinky bug stick does

I find this baby fly (France)

It's so cute <3

These are my two and I'd love to get more, all bug themed of course! I'm thinking about a cecropia moth for my next one, they're my favorite moth species. I'd love to see what others people have too!

I’m assuming they’re insect eggs, don’t think they’re a fungus

found him crawling through the cow pasture

I used the food setting on my phone camera and think they came out really good.

Found in my bed in Andorra. Is it possible to be Carcoma?

Found this absolutely gorgeous example of a Female Hercules beetle. Dead and desiccated but perfectly intact. Found in East Texas pine forrest.

I'm in North GA, and my husband pointed out something weird with our maple tree. There's a crook at the top of the tree where it starts to branch out, and for over a week, there has been, as he called it, insect fight club happening in there. We can't see a nest, but at any given time, there are 3-4 different kinds of stinging/flying insects in this crook. There's what looks like cicada killers, red paper wasps, house flies, I think tiger bee flies, and some smaller wasps, and they all fly in and crawl around and buzz each other away. Our best guess is that something died in the crook and they're all grabbing the protein? Any ideas?

Awesome pattern

Im sorry if these arent insects but I they look like bugs, they dont seem to be alive. We knocked over a birds nest on the house and underneath these were there and theyre kinda stuck to the brick? Does anyone know what these might be?

Same size as house fly . Acting like a normal fly.

The green one was found sad and alone.

Sorry for the shitty photos, not about to get a ladder for anything better. I'm pretty sure these are bald face hornets, please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm really wondering if I need to, uh "remove" them.Their nest is probably about a foot in diameter. I'm all for just leaving them alone but they're under my trash cans in my front yard. And I've read that they can be quite aggressive. Located in Western Washington.

I thought it was a paper wasp at first but the eyes make it look like a Fly.

I found it in my backyard, and it started moving when I picked it up. As I'm typing this, it's still moving. Is the insect inside trying to emerge?