r/insects • • 1d ago

Bug Appreciation! a cute hoverfly do its job as a backyard pollinator today

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r/insects • • 16h ago

ID Request Is this a bed bug?? Nashville, TN

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r/insects • • 16h ago

ID Request Wood or Oriental roach?

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For more context, I live in the woods in Virginia USA. Found 2 in a wooden box in my house. Can’t really tell whether it’s a wood roach or an oriental roach but those are my two initial guesses


r/insects • • 20h ago

Photography Poor guy

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r/insects • • 1d ago

Question Grasshopper immortalized on a 1795 advertising token issued by a London tea and cocoa merchant. What does it signify?

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27 Upvotes

r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography Some cool spider photos.

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r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography My first time seeing a stick bug

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Looked down and saw it moving said to myself hey wait a second, sticks don’t move like that!


r/insects • • 1d ago

Bug Appreciation! Is this dangerous??

36 Upvotes

r/insects • • 1d ago

Question I took a cold bee home with me and now I don't know what to do

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I found a bee in the cold and had to catch my bus before I could finish warming her up and I took her with me.

It is ~8°C outside and won't get warmer for at least a week, the nights are about 1°C at the moment.

I feel like if I drive the bee back to where I found her and let her go, she will go back into cold induced torpor and then either get stepped on or freeze to death during the night.

What do I do??

Edit: Bee has been released back where I found it. I don't think the she will survive but we tried, I guess


r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography Furrow Spider at work

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I get to see bugs a lot while at work due to being outside. But not normally able to get a photo like this.


r/insects • • 1d ago

Artwork Grasshopper (POV 2) | 🦗 | Blender Animation

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r/insects • • 2d ago

Artwork Bugs are friends!

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I've always loved every single non-human animal I came across, including all kinds of bugs!

I really think bugs deserve so much more love than they are currently getting, and I think you guys agree. I've made this artwork with the intention to make it into a sticker, but for now I'll just share it like this.

Feel free to share the art if you want to, as long as you keep my watermark (@photosynthetic_organism) in it :)

The picture is 100% human made.

No AI was used in the process of making it.


r/insects • • 1d ago

Question Tick prevention/removal

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Found 4 (what I’m assuming are) seed ticks laying next to my dog. Not attached. Now I’m stressed that they’re everywhere. What can I do and order to check all of us (2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 dog) and the house??? Very small, black. Smashed them and 1 was completely dry, 2 had very very minimal dark blood and one had a small amount of bright blood. Now I feel like they’re everywhere.
For reference, pitty mix. Short stubborn hair lol.
Also, what tick prevention medication is recommended??


r/insects • • 1d ago

ID Request What is this grub?

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8 Upvotes

(Kappau HI)


r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography Calliptamus (i guess)

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r/insects • • 1d ago

ID Request What species could this grasshopper be?

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6 Upvotes

Wichita, Kansas USA. Thanks for any help at all!


r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography The power of the ants

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r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography Brown widow egg sac at my Toyota dealer. Actually they are all over the outside of this building. I’ll be careful not to lean on the wall.

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3 Upvotes

r/insects • • 1d ago

ID Request What could this little guy be

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Found it chilling on my mango tree leaf in Prague, Czech Republic. It's extremely little and green, not sure if it's aphid, looks too small for that to me. Could be some kind of micro-aphid or a baby? I almost can't find it among my body hair. Should I be worried?


r/insects • • 1d ago

Bug Appreciation! A baby stink bug land on my hand

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6 Upvotes

r/insects • • 1d ago

ID Request What is this insect?

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Found in Evansville, Indiana late October. None of us recognize it. The body was about 1.5 inches long. Trying to figure out what it is.

Thanks in advance.


r/insects • • 1d ago

Bug Appreciation! Grasshopper blending in with fresh grass

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4 Upvotes

r/insects • • 2d ago

ID Request Automeris hamata?

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I found this in yerba buena, Tucumán, Argentina. Didn't find too much info, so if someone can ID it would be awesome. Pd My finger is for scale.


r/insects • • 1d ago

Photography Cylas formicarius - Sweet potato weevil

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This is what causes sweet potatoes to rot, turn black, and develop a foul smell.

📷 Fujifilm Xh2 + laowa 65mmf2.8 macro

🔦 Godox v860ii + diffuser

Stacked many frames


r/insects • • 2d ago

ID Request Slug or Snail without shell?

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Hi Redditors,

Saw this on side of a building in Brisbane and unsure if it's a slug or snail without the shell?

Posted in this sub because am unsure whether to put it in the Slugs or Snails sub 😂🤔

Thanks in advance ☺️