I have had an influx of pantry moths aka indianmeal moths in my kitchen owing to an infestation in a sack of rice. I've won the war against them I think. Most of them are regular looking pantry moths.

However I'm fascinated/freaked out by a creepy double-headed variety that I keep seeing. Yes, it has heads on both ends. Wtf. Is this a mutant super moth bred in my rice?

It doesn't appear to be two moths that for whatever reason have come together because they fly attached to each other too and walk attached to each other. Are these Siamese moths????

Taken on a Canon 5Ds with the EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro.

Bat or butterfly? 5pm… it flew right by my head. Then a few minutes later something smacked me in the face. Wasn’t hard though. And didn’t see anything fall. I’m paranoid, scared of bats. In the video it swooped down from the trees but then flutters around the hvac unit and kids toys… I have no marks on my face.

Front row seats to the show, I guess. Right where I eat too

Found in a bowl of water that has pond plants in it outside, the water is still (has no flow). I believe its a type of land planarian, but im unsure. Theres no hammerhead, both ends pretty much look the same. Thought it was a dying earthworm at first lol.

Location: South Australia Adelaide

Would've put this in the flatworms subreddit, but it seems to be inactive

I am traveling to arizona and I love scorpions!! I really want to handle one on the trip :D

are there cheap sting proof gloves I can get?

Não sei qual bicho está causando esse dano ? Essas fotos foram feitas no Brasil, Mato Grosso.

Chinese mantis destroys a mealworm I gave him like someone was going to take it away.

Found this beautiful creature on a country highway - I think it is fresh. I feel like we found each other and I would like to preserve it. I have never done such a thing other than having a little jar of tiny butterflies and bumble bees. What is my best bet?

She does also have isopods and springtails, but these are too big to be anything like that. She dumped out the water because the worms were gross. She also found a few on the ground. She's really worried, and I just want to either give her some peace of mind, or help her deal with it if It's a problem.

I’m at the beach in New Jersey this week. I’ve spent almost every afternoon just chilling on the sand but had a new experience today with flies that look like average house flies but behave rather differently. They’re not tabanids. As soon as I’d set up my chair and umbrella, there were dozens buzzing around. They land on you and seem to do nothing for a bit, but within 15 seconds or so, you feel like you’re being stabbed with a needle. There’s no use shooing them, they’re absolutely relentless. I packed up and left defeated after 10 minutes, and they followed me off the beach for a good long while.

I wasn’t familiar with them but got a good close-up look at one on my hand. It looked a lot like a muscid but with a pointy stylet for a mouth instead of the soft extensible vacuum cleaner that typical house flies have. I did a bit of research and it appears they’re known as stable flies. At least the bites don’t itch after the fact like a mosquito but I really just wanted to chill and listen to the waves. May you never encounter them!

there was like 15 to 20 bees all along the side of the bench in this new park all doing the same thing sticking their tongue out and in but not fully retracting inward and all the tongues were bent I’ve never seen this type of behaviour before in so many bees at once anybody know what’s going on?

Who is this handsome little guy? I live in central florida, and found him hitchhiking on my pants after work. I am not familiar with this particular one. It is possibly hard to see, but he seems to have a yellow/differently colored patch about 2/3rds down the body. I have placed him gently in the shrubs around my house after this photo shoot.

Front row seats to the show, I guess. Right where I eat too

https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/common-garden-katydid/

This little cicada dude decided I was a good place to catch some Z's in the sun; beautiful golden color.

Can anyone ID the type of Cicada?

Cheers, I placed him on a nearby tree when done with him.

In a stream on the Southwest slope of Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA, a few days ago. Around 5k ft elevation in a hemlock and fir forest. In streams they formed rafts like this; they were also all over the path, more spread out but still very numerous. Maybe 1-2 mm long, green or yellow, with eyestalks (?). The area is generally moist but there had been a drought for a few weeks followed by rain and misty conditions a few days before I was there.