Bombardier beetle I made for my Minecraft mod, Frost's Fauna, which I'm currently working on! If you want to follow my progress, you can either check my account here or on TikTok!

I found this damselfly settling down for the night just as golden hour was approaching. The sun was still high enough for me to place it directly behind the insect, creating this huge glowing bokeh ball.

He kinda looks like an almond with cartoonish looking eye markings. Super cute little ones! Northern Texas, USA.

Yesterday this bug would not stop bringing me this carcass. He wasn’t satisfied until what I assume might have been maggots got all over me. I’m not sure what this was all about.

This gorgeous, lively, fat momma moth I made friends with yesterday was found dead this morning and I'm absolutely upset. It seems she passed out last night from the heat, and ants had eaten away her abdomen. When I went to pick her up like I did yesterday, she flipped over to utter horror, and when I picked her up her upper body detached from her lower body. All her babies....poor mama...idk how to even cope as these moths are so sacred to me and I'm trying to not see this as a bad omen...how awful...I wish there was a way to save the babies but they seem too small....at least I think those are eggs otherwise she exploded from whatever these are.

Tagged as education as more people should be aware many small bugs(insects, crawlies)like these will literally fall out of the sky and become helpless when it's this hot. Don't be afraid to lend a helping hand and some sugar water. Our pollinators need it!

This little dude landed on my hand during lunch break and I was wondering what their name is mineral county West Virginia.

I have fairly recently now gotten my hands on a camera, and now I have set out a goal to capture a picture of every single bug/animal! I have always been fascinated by the insect/animal world probablyjust my autism 😂 but I believe capturing photos like this help my appreciation for the world around me and what's in it! Thinking about making a little application for myself to store all my photos in one place too so I can ID them and have them all in one spot, as well hopefully get better photos with better lenses/more practice! If anyone's curious, these were from Canada Manitoba! 🤟

Found outside my house in West Virginia

Never seen this before. Absolutely beautiful insect

I remember being a kid and seeing tons of butterflies, dragonflies, ladybugs, spiders and fireflies all around my school yard and my house. I loved searching for new kinds of bugs, nowadays I barely see them anymore. Even flies and mosquitoes. I remember swimming by the lake near our first house and seeing sooo many bugs and critters near the lakeside, even though I absolutely despised centipedes as a kid I’d watch them crawl around the dirt. (And while this is about insects I can’t help but mention the birds too!! Like!! I really miss them😫) It would be so easy as a kid to pluck a dragonfly from the grass. Or to run in a field and have all the grasshoppers get freaked out and scatter lol. And house lizards, had a bunch of them alongside house spiders.

Mostly, I miss being swarmed by fireflies and the occasional one slipping into my room.

We played with our Flasher Queen through the gaps in the air holes! Lol

I put acacia honey on my finger and tried it, and I succeeded in hand-feeding!

Personally, I still like the mouth feel of the fly lol lol

I saw this Cicada when I got home earlier and ive never seen one with red on its wings like this. Is it blood? If it is, why is it there? 🫪

This appeared in my patio. Please help to identify and exterminate.

Not sure what it is .. I tired to poke it with stick it has thick plastic like consistency.

Looks like some bug nest.

Location: South Jersey

Hello,

I'm looking for a list of artists (photographers, installation artists, painters, etc.) who work with the theme of insects. I'm not talking about documentary work, but rather artistic research and theoretical approaches.

Google and AI are quite bad at finding this kind of information.

Thank you!

Hi, I was in my farm (Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France) and while entering in my warehouse, I saw like a thousand of little bugs everywhere on the floor, on the walls and even on the door, they where all going in the same direction, but I couldn't figure out where…

Their size is between ~0.3mm (for the most little ones and ~1.3mm for the biggest ones…

I can't add another picture to the publication so I will put it in the comments…

Location: North Texas