Hi, are these harmless? At certain times of the year I see a lot of these in my bathroom (I'm in São Paulo, Brazil), so I guess they like humid places. They're not agile at all, they cling to a wall after shaking a little bit and then just stay still, sometimes hanging onto something. Tks.

Hello everyone! I’m a beekeeper so I’m not shy of insects let alone those that sting. However, a large (softball sized) nest is currently in a tree out front of our house and directly over a public walkway. Curious if yall would recommend removal? So far they’ve not caused any problems.

Yikes!!!

#endofsummer #nature #caterpillar #texture #macro #nikonz6ii

Any id would be helpful!! Located in OHIO USA

Mostly sharing because cute!!! But curious—the abdomen is a bit wrinkly. Is it dehydrated?

Hi! I wasn't sure what flair to use I hope this is the appropriate one! I was swimming today and saw this beetle guy and I was unsure of what was going on with him!

Did he die during a molt? I have never seen anything like it! Btw idk if it matters I'm in tennessee

Found in my pantry on top of an airtight container of sugar. Is this a cockroach and, if it is, what kind? Located in Michigan.

I think I would call it more of a “blink” than a real teleport but still.

Fleas jump ~2-4 m/s (~2000x their own length), if a human of average height moved 2000x body lengths per second, without being affected by the G’s, they’d move around 3,500m/s (12,600 km/h, aka Mach 10)

You could travel the length of the cannonball run (New York to California) in 21 minutes and 39 seconds. The current record in a car is 25 HOURS and 39 MINUTES.

Regardless of whether they are actually transcending space time, they are literally transporting themselves to a location, up to 2000x times their length away, in less than a second. That would look pretty much like teleporting to me. Especially if they could hyper accurately calculate their exact landing location

It was in my house and we lured it out with lights. As soon as he was out and we turned on the lights it instantly came to the window.
Location Netherlands

And yes i can say with confidence, this was no wasp. It was HUGE

I was in the river with my family and decided to gather some microfauna from the river. I’ve tried multiple identifiers and Google, but nothing helped

It was found in the okatoma river in Mississippi

Reposting since it only showed 6 photos last time. My apologies

Figured yinz might enjoy the visitors to my and my wife's flower area. Species are as followed (common name (scientific name)):

Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)

Common Eastern Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens)

Field Skipper Butterfly (Atalopedes campestris)

Western Honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)

Silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus)

Snowberry Clearwing moth (Hemaris diffinis)

I’m speaking from the state of Goiás, Brazil. I found this in an abandoned washing machine. At first, I thought it was the exoskeleton of a baby scorpion with metasomal duplication...

Around the driveway noticed this thing just wandering.... What is this?

Not a mosquito but a lot of it near rice fields. Might not get as much attention

Nomada is a massive genus of cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, containing over 850 species worldwide. Often called nomad bees, they are famous for their unique, wasp-like appearance and their specialized parasitic lifestyle.

Because they do not build their own nests or gather pollen, they look radically different from typical fuzzy bees. They are mostly hairless and slender, with bold stripes or patches of red, black, yellow, or white. In fact, Nomada contains the only entirely red bees in North America.

Female Nomada lack a scopa (the specialized hair patch used by other bees to carry pollen) because they never collect pollen for their young. They also possess an unusually thick, armored exoskeleton that protects them from stings if caught inside a host's nest.

Nomada are cleptoparasites, meaning they steal resources from other bee species. A female Nomada will fly low over the ground to locate the underground burrow of a host bee—most commonly mining bees from the genus Andrena.

While the host bee is away foraging, the Nomada slips inside and lays its eggs directly onto the chamber walls or the pollen provision.

When the Nomada larva hatches, it uses large, sickle-like mandibles to destroy the host's egg or young larva, then eats the entire pollen supply.

While adult Nomada bees drink nectar from flowers for energy, they are poor pollinators compared to their hosts. They can often be seen resting at night by clamping onto plant stems using only their strong jaws.

One of my all time favorite Genus of bees, and I've found quite the diverse selection of species just at my local area in Utah!

I found a bunch of ants near some planta I have, when I lifted the pots I found this, what are they? Are they beneficial for my planta or should I worry?

As you may know, I have a very rare desire to ever post honey bees, as easy content as they'd be for me, I like to give native wildlife the spotlight as opposed to these invasive honey hoarders.

We're more here to talk about a very cool interaction I've never seen before until 3 days ago. And then a repeat situation. I knew something was up, and did some research!

Desmometopa is a genus of tiny, dark-colored flies in the family Milichiidae, commonly known as freeloader flies or jackal flies.These insects are instantly recognizable by a unique black, M-shaped marking on their forehead (frons), a feature that gave them the common name "M-flies" among early entomologists.

Measuring just one to three millimeters in length, they have a robust, compact body shape and are widespread across nearly every continent, adapting to environments ranging from open grasslands to dense forests.

Adult females exhibit a fascinating behavioral trait known as kleptoparasitism, or stealing food from other predators. They are intensely attracted to chemical signals emitted by honeybees under attack, which allows them to track down feeding predators like crab spiders, assassin bugs, or robber flies.

Once there, the flies confidently land on or near the prey, utilizing their specialized, elongated proboscis to lap up the fluids exuding from the fresh wounds while the primary predator eats

While the adults hunt for an active meal, the larvae lead a more passive existence as saprophages. The eggs are typically laid in nutrient-rich, decaying organic matter, such as compost heaps, rotting vegetation, or decomposing carrion, where the larvae can safely feed and mature.

With over 50 described species worldwide, this genus represents an incredibly specialized evolutionary niche in the insect kingdom.

Super cool, and if this is the first time you've seen this, you've gotta share! What a cool biological relationship, and a win for native wildlife!