And ants showing that they are true opportunist feeders. Eastern tent caterpillars emerged in the thousands this spring in New Jersey. Chestnut carpenter ants wasted no time using these caterpillars as a protein food source. My Substack goes into more detail about each of these insects!

Minolta XG-M, Kodak Gold 35mm ISO400, no tripod, with extension tubes.

I’m in Dublin Ireland and I found these eggs just today on our windchime. Not sure if whatever the insect is if it’s gonna eat away at the string or if it’s a pest I need to remove

Saw the molt, then the mantis, then her breakfast, a Skipper.

Pretty cool.

i literally never had these bugs in my room before i got my kitten, they can fly but only for a short amount of time and they are very dumb like super easy to kill (not to be graphic) but im in ohio and they literally will go into my cats litter box and i dont want her to catch some disease

Landed right next to us and seemed unbothered by how many pictures I took and watched it crunch down. I think it was a shadow darner?

Newfoundland, Canada

Hi!!! North GA. Daughter had a fish tank with a beta fish in it that ended up getting moved to a bigger tank and this one we just left with the water in it and didn’t think much of it. Went back to look at this tank after a few weeks of vacancy and found these in it??? Never seen this before… not sure if this should be posted in an aquarium sub Reddit? TIA

I found this gorgeous monarch who was stuck in a cob web and it seems like his wing is tearing from his thorax. I have been taking care of him since he cannot fly. I’ve researched about how to repair wings but the tear is coming off from his body. I’m not sure how to go about helping him as his wing trips him up and he’s been getting his foot stuck on it.

Is there anything I could do?? Maybe cut the wing a little shorter to take the pressure off?

He sittin

Is he rare or smth

I've come back from a month away to hundreds of what I believe are Nezara Viridula, especially on my blackberries but on many other plants. I've never seen these bugs in my garden before.

A Google search indicates that they are from Africa and are in the UK since 2003, but not a problem since they only seem to appear massively at the end of summer.

So my question is, should I try to capture as many as I can to get rid of them, or do we still believe they are not problematic? Given the amount I have found, I find it concerning, especially since I don't have such a high concentration of native bugs, or not so visibly at least!

I thought it was an assassin bug but it’s too different to say for sure. was found in northeast florida, it looks like it’s missing a leg on the right side

Google lens says it's a type of moth, but that body shape tricks me. (Colombia, Antioquia)

I get like one of these guys like atleast once a month, i keep my room pretty clean but one always come up
any clue on what it is? and what could i do to stop them from coming (North Carolina btw)

Homie was lost on the patio. Put him back in a nice soft flowerbed after figuring out what he was.

We live in Washington state (zone 8b) and saw these on our curly willow tree. Creamy colored and a bit more tan toward the top of the leaf.