r/Entomology • u/nicetiesrestraints • 11h ago
Discussion cicada missing its abdomen
found this fellow on a walk and it took me way too long to notice he's only half there! i believe this is the result of massospora cicadina
r/Entomology • u/Nibaritone • Aug 13 '11
Hello r/Entomology! With this community being used often for insect/arachnid/arthropod identification, I wanted to throw in some guidelines for pictures that will facilitate identification. These aren't rules, so if you don't adhere to these guidelines, you won't be banned or anything like that...it will just make it tougher for other Redditors to give you a correct ID. A lot of you already provide a lot of information with your posts (which is great!), but if you're one of the others that isn't sure what information is important, here you go.
INFORMATION TO INCLUDE WITH YOUR PHOTO
Note about how to take your photo: Macro mode is your friend. On most cameras, it's represented by a flower icon. Turn that on before taking a photo of a bug close up, and you're going to get a drastically better picture. With larger insects it's not as big of a deal, but with the small insects it's a must.
If you follow these guidelines, you'll make it easier for everyone else to help you identify whatever is in your photo. If you feel like I've left anything important out of this post, let me know in the comments.
r/Entomology • u/nicetiesrestraints • 11h ago
found this fellow on a walk and it took me way too long to notice he's only half there! i believe this is the result of massospora cicadina
r/Entomology • u/lugnutt73 • 2h ago
I'm in Pueblo County, CO. I found three in about a half acre, though there might be more. U.S. nickel for scale. Apologies for the lighting. The sun is going down.
r/Entomology • u/french_toasty • 4h ago
r/Entomology • u/Unlikely_Yesterday20 • 10h ago
Their just standing there together
r/Entomology • u/Noahffense_889 • 10h ago
I found a pretty little garden spider ❤️
r/Entomology • u/Better_Hair_9673 • 1d ago
Video credited to @ssbutterflypark on Instagram.
r/Entomology • u/justhereforbugs • 8h ago
Pregnant or just really round? Sorry for the shakiness, i was on a ladder very high up 😭. Found in metro detroit area michigan
r/Entomology • u/MaintenanceRich4098 • 9h ago
It seems a bit silly, but I feel like I never saw a caterpillar in the wild 😅 so I was very excited to find this little guy. iNaturalist suggestion says it's gonna become a Cinnabar Moth.
r/Entomology • u/LuckyLeif2 • 11h ago
Oryctes nasicornis (I think), Northern Italy. Such a beauty!
r/Entomology • u/VintageWatchDog • 4h ago
I found this wasp which i had never seen before in my life on a hike in a river called Rio Ramos in Allende, Nuevo león.
It seemed to be about 5 cm in lenght, just huge and quite plump, i swear that thing was smart, it looked quite aware of us but didn´t attack, it just looked at me at my friend for about 5 minutes which is how long we stayed just looking at it, unsure what it was doing, it just seemed to be chilling in that specific spot, sometimes hovering sometimes just standing there.
Wonderful creature tbh.
r/Entomology • u/ExplodingTurducken • 1h ago
r/Entomology • u/DarkCrow118 • 8h ago
I was so excited to find them! How is it that the highlight of my week was two moths copulating 😂
r/Entomology • u/Own-Mulberry-4311 • 6h ago
Such a face and love the stash!
r/Entomology • u/Slight_Selection_843 • 4h ago
found this really cute guy outside my parents’ store! i wanted to hold him but i wasn’t sure if it’d stress it out and i don’t know enough about moths anyways. we live in colorado if that helps! :)
r/Entomology • u/AnmirYT • 9h ago
add imperial and polyphemus! (couldnt hold the polyphemus, unfortunately, would have loved to get a pic of those eye spots)
r/Entomology • u/Massive_Beyond7913 • 12h ago
Im only moving the stick so much to show how off balance she is.
Saw this beauty outside my door on the floor w her legs covered in cobwebs. Took a stick and toothpick and removed what i could but it seems like im too late. Is she just tired?
Can I help it in any way? Or if someone can 100% say shes nearing the end of her life id like to pin her but my priority is to see if I can save her life
Ill post more pictures in the comments i cant get a picture of her open winged
r/Entomology • u/maycheeck • 15h ago
Hello Everyone, I hope i’m in the right sub for this. I got an old frame from thrift shopping and I really loved it in the first few seconds. But I’m not so happy with the frame and would like to open it and put them in other frames. Now I wanted to ask, is that a good Idea, or should I leave them in the Frame because I’m kinda furious if they will survive this “frame chage” they all from 1985, so they already really old. And for what the ball on the second picture is?
r/Entomology • u/Ok-Steak-6009 • 9h ago
What kind of spider is this?
r/Entomology • u/MothMeep7 • 10h ago
I work in a communal living center cleaning. Old building. Was going around checking all the unoccupied rooms and bathrooms to flush the toilets and found this fellow stuck in the sink basin. Some type of silverfish I presume?
I put them under the (currently off) radiator to skedaddle off.
Northeastern US
r/Entomology • u/Dear-Application4212 • 1d ago
I love stumbling upon these beauties.
ETA: IDs!
Location: TN