entomology

Question on eggs and hatching (pics.letsfail.com)

Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole “bugs” thing, and I’m still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs…...

Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? (www.scientificamerican.com)

Eumenes fraternus on Allium flowers, Eastern Nebraska (media.kbin.social)

What would cause these flies to die on this piece of grass like this? (lemmy.world)

Ant about to have the worst day ever (pics.letsfail.com)

Wallonia, Belgium, today....

Head lice hitched a ride on humans to the Americas at least twice (www.sciencenews.org)

Crusty creatures with 'rather complex' genitalia found in caves: A new species of millipede (phys.org)

Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects’ welfare? (journals.plos.org)

Nightmare fuel from today's bugging: a fully funginated ex-cicada (mander.xyz)

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/16ef440b-b095-4f89-8aa3-8858ff9c6685.jpeg...

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food (www.science.org)

Apoderus jekelii (black morph), a long-necked weevil (mander.xyz)

See no weevil, hear no weevil, speak no weevil

How scientists are trying to save the insects that make life possible (www.npr.org)

Insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate (www.reuters.com)

Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterflies (www.newyorker.com)

What did the katydids do when picking up bat sounds? (phys.org)

How caterpillars gruesomely transform into butterflies (www.zmescience.com)

Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet (www.theguardian.com)

The Growing Utility of Online Photo Sharing for Entomology Research (entomologytoday.org)

Three out of four populations of rare butterflies have been lost (science.ku.dk)

Praying Mantis says hi (777520800.blogspot.com)

She kills to be kind: the mastermind ecologist eliminating invasive predators (www.theguardian.com)

Mitchell's diurnal cockroach, Big Desert, Vic, Aus (inaturalist.ala.org.au)

Leveled up my bug spotting game over the weekend! Driving along a track in big desert; catch a moments glimpse of stripy pattern in a bush; bug alarm goes off; promptly halted our convoy for a cockroach appreciation session!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Ecosystem (worldsensorium.com)

Curious and cryptic: new leaf insects discovered (www.uni-goettingen.de)

Planthopper, Geisha distinctissima, falling victim to a spider, Nihonhimea japonica (mander.xyz)

I think it’s safe to say she’ll be eating well tonight.