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Bug Identification
Blog dedicated to identification of "bugs" (all manner of small invertebrate animals) and bug-related posts. Corrections + help welcome. CURRENTLY INACTIVE.
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i found this very tiny spider a while ago but wasn’t really able to identify it. found in central texas :)
Basic: spider
Species: a Gnaphosid? possibly an Eastern parson spider (Herpyllus ecclesiasticus)??
that guy is hard to identify! still not 100% sure on this one, the pattern is slightly off and this guy is very grey. I even checked the entire list of Texas spiders to see if I had any better ideas but I don’t, so I’ll stick with this guess. I think this guy is a juvenile (100% will be if he is an eastern parson spider) which I believe is the source of my troubles
#lovely little guy!#my first thought was “jumping spider” when you said small spider but i don’t think this guy is. and at the very least doesnt look like any#texan jumping spider#as mentioned in last post. this will be the last id for awhile!#spider#arachnid#bug id#arthropod
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going away for awhile
hey! it’s probably been obvious based on the fact for the last few months I have rarely posted, and if I have, its something that isn’t identifying a bug. but basically, due to a lack of free time and mental health issues, I probably won’t be identifying bugs for a long while.
just thought I’d make this message official since I got a message in my inbox of a lovely spider, who I plan on id-ing when I can, but after that it’ll probably it.
still love the bug community and love bugs. this is an account I love and one I plan on returning to, but not for the foreseeable future.
#i have so many posts in my drafts that are partially/fully done of identifying bugs in posts but I just. dont have the time.#as said. its sad because i love doing this. i just need to put this on hold until i am in the right mental space and am not busy.#not bug
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Someone: Very clearly, explicitly explains that every single species of invertebrate is important in some way to the environment and how insect populations keep dropping which could literally cause ecological collapse if they were to all go extinct
Some absolute genius, every single fucking time: This is it......... This is the perfect post to talk about how much I hate mosquitos/ticks/spiders/wasps on and go "Haha but those icky bad evil mean bugs I hate are an exception right lol???"
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the parasocial relationship between you and the guy whose article you cite the most in your paper
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You joke but in the bug community we had a whole scandal with a guy who got his doctoral dissertation withdrawn alongside many other papers of his. He specialised in personalities and social behaviour of animals - notably spiders. Did a lot of stuff to do with spider social niches.
He basically falsified and fabricated data, including stuff like duplicating data. He also had very poor record keeping.
He lost his job and his credit within the scientific community. Apparently the guy is writing fantasy novels now as a kind of “haha! I can’t get any more allegations I’m making stuff up now, since that’s the point of fantasy!” the book is about spiders too I think
So yeah, naughty behavioural ecologists get their phd dissertation paper yoinked
you know how medical doctors can lose their license over malpractice? i think it would be funny if we did that for other types of doctors. this botanist fucked up so bad we're yoinking their phd
#i mean i think youre joking because quite a few scientists have notably lost phds over scientific malpractice. it is a thing#but maybe youre not aware#tried to not go too indepth as i’m not a scientist (yet) just an autistic person who loves bugs so dont want to get details wrong#but yeah i think anyone involved in entomology/arachnology/etc is aware of this story#lost the phd because of scientific fraud and not something fun like making a spider army to take over humanity. but still.#bug other#jonathan pruitt
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Ant and bee queens hog so much attention away from termite queens that in video games sometimes they give the termite queen's iconic giant wormy abdomen to ants or bees. Only termite moms have the humongous giant ass a hundred times bigger than their body!!
And unlike ants or bees who mate just once the termite queen has a little king who stays with her for life (decades!) to just keep mating.
Also I say this a lot but new people are awed every time so ants and bees are just variants on wasps but termites are a type of cockroach.
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hello! Im not sure if this has been asked/answered before but whats your method on identifying bugs? And if you use identification guides are there any you recommend for beginner bug lovers?
I have answered before but tumblr's search function is failing me so I can't find the posts.
If you're an absolute beginner and need to learn the identifying characteristics of each type of bug, i.e. beetle vs true bug vs hymenopteran vs dipteran, etc., I would say look for a physical field guide for your region. They will often have a section in the front or back that breaks down the characteristics of the most common groups. I can't recommend a specific book without knowing where you live, though.
Otherwise, if you've already got that down, I think physical field guides can be limiting and I would recommend using both iNaturalist.org/observations (NOT the app) and bugguide.net so you can sort possible ID options by location and type of bug to narrow it down and then look at photos to find a good match. More than anything else, attention to detail is absolutely necessary.
#i use the same methods!#bugguide.net if you were physical i would marry you#reverse image search can also be super handy for very specific scenarios#not bug
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on the topic of bug related documentaries, are there any that you would recommend?
Yeah! Dragons and Damsels is one of my favorites as well as Ant Mountain. Both of those are narrated by David Attenborough which is always a bonus. They were on Curiosity Stream but I can't confirm that anymore.
Dissecting Insects was also great, but I think they pulled that from Curiosity.
The Fascinating Lives of Butterflies is good, and that's available on youtube for free, and so is Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony. Oh and The Queen of Trees which is all about fig wasps.
Life in Color has some good brief bug content, and so does Life On Our Planet in a few of the episodes. I would recommend those both beyond the bug content.
If anyone else has any recs, I'm always looking for good bug content to watch :)
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While entomology is trending: a legit list of bug projects worth donating to/participating in.
Did not have "frozen bug man asking to borrow an outlet is a potentially fraudulent misogynist" on my entomology bingo card for this year, so trying to do something good with the fact that entomology is currently trending, here's a list of what SHOULD BE (I am no longer confident) good bug projects to donate to/participate in if you feel so inclined! Please also add good bug projects if you know any! Click the names of the institutions to find ways to donate.
The Frost Entomology Museum - Part of Penn State University, which has started up its public insect fair again this year! The museum has a "Hexapod Haiku Challenge," and I'm screaming.
The Lost Ladybug Project - Fair warning that the main webpage for it looks mildly sketch, but I can find it in multiple places that it's a real project of Cornell. It has a citizen science component where you can photograph specimens for them (no killing bugs)!
The Smithsonian Natural History Museum Department of Entomology
The Big Bug Hunt - An international project that appears to have the backing of multiple universities. It's a citizen science project to track the movements of bugs that are both detrimental and beneficial to crops. I am honestly not sure how this will affect the bugs though because the point is to protect home gardeners' crops from them.
University of California Riverside Department of Entomology
Cornell University Department of Entomology Giving Page - There's a tab at the right with three different projects of theirs: The Cornell University Insect Collection Fund, the Lost Ladybug Project Fund, and the Pollinator Health Research Fund
Michigan State University Department of Entomology - They have A BUNCH of named entomology funds you can donate to, or you can give them money that they can use flexibly.
Entomological Society of America
#can’t verify the american ones but most of these look cool. bugguide for sure is the site of all time (i mean that positively)#yeah don’t know whats going on with the fridge guy. i saw that post but got an ehh feeling so didn’t rb#bug other#entomology
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Sephora has a lotion that attracts horny spiders out right now isnt life interesting
#as last post confirms this is almost definitely just rumours but if there is ever invented a lotion which attracts spiders to you lmk#bug other#wolf spider#spider#arachnid#arthropod
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My cousin found this spider on our front porch and wanted to know what kind it was. Sorry for not getting a good view of the top of it, any time we messed with the lid it would try to climb up the side. It's really big too, like the size of a jawbreaker. (That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I can't think of anything else to compare it to)
Found in Eastern Oregon
Basic: spider
Species: an orb-weaver for sure. Probably European garden spider (Araneus diadematus), also known as cross orb-weaver. I can’t really tell from the photos too well but if it has white spots on the top of the abdomen that form cross(es) its definitely this. This species has size dimorphism, so this one is probably a female
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Decapocember Day 14: Know your Decapods!
Available as a print, just in time for holiday gift-giving!
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Nice Bug of the Year Poll!!!
I've chosen the five Nice Bug posts from this year with the most notes. Please vote for your favorite!
(Links to each coordinating post below the poll so you can view the nice bugs before voting.)
Lipstick lady beetle post
Snake mantis post
Purple-gold jumper post
Southern African slug moth post
Yellow leatherleaf slug post
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I love when I just find random shitposts on my hard drive I don't remember seeing let alone saving
#they all count as bugs to me#hmm what tag should i use for prehistoric bugs#bug other#paleo bugs#i love you small creatures i shall never meet
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time lapse of a banded sphinx moth caterpillar (Eumorpha fasciatus) devouring a water primrose leaf
(Florida, 9/18/22)
E. fasciatus caterpillars are heavily polymorphic and come in several different color morphs- those stripy rainbow ones are from the same population as the green one.
another neat thing about these guys is that most caterpillars drown easily, but since water primrose (Ludwigia) usually grows in standing water, E. fasciatus caterpillars have a propensity for swimming and are often seen wriggling their way through lakes when they need to come ashore to pupate.
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what is this guy? its from a gif that says “fibbus behavior” but fibbus has no results. plz help
Basic: Fly
Species: Beetle fly (family Celyphidae)
help from the notes of this post! I was very confused at first. Doesn’t help the gif is very blurry. I recommend looking at the wikipedia page I’ve linked for clearer photos + more info on the guy!
#once again. reverse image search coming in as my friend lol. i knew it was a fly but was so stumped by the weird shell on the back#my first thought was some kind of parasite infected the guy?#but nah. just interesting convergent evolution#bug id#insect#fly#arthropod
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Basic: isopod
Species: Giant Isopod (Bathynomus sp.)
THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:
So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.
I asked to share this info and he gave permission!
Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!
#cant narrow the species down very well. doesnt help im not good with estimating measurements#but this is super cool info! the doritoes creatures…#bug id#isopod#crustacean#arthropod
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