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| Two Condylostylus comatus. Let's call them Condylos in this post |
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| Condlylo going SwwooouummmFFFFF!!!! |
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| Are... they having a dogfight? |
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| All the iridescent beauty of a greenbottle fly, but not turd-shaped and in your house. What a nice fly |
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| Lots of Brown Ambrosia Aphids on a cup plant leaf |
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| Close-up |
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| A parasitoid wasp. Female Parasitoid Wasps lay their eggs on (or in) other insects. The larvae then eat their host alive. They then pupate on or near their dead or dying host. There are also over 100,000 known species of wasp, with likely many more. Most wasp species are parasitoid wasps. So this world has well over 100,000 species of xenomorph at the moment. But since their evolution 300-250 million years ago, there have likely been just millions and millions of species of xenomorph. And there are still more to come |
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| Cute lil Asian Lady Beetle larva |
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| Adult Asian Lady Beetle climbing up onto a leaf. |
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| On a hand |
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| Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Eastern Black Carpenter Ant |
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| Common Whitetail |
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| Bare-eyed Bee Mimic Fly |
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| If you look up hover fly online, you'll mostly get photos of dainty little flies mimicking wasps (don't worry. they're not scary). On my blog, I have a lot of calligraphers, which are very small (3mm long) and especially dainty. This guy, on the other hand, was very large (2cm long), chonky, and mimicking a big ol' bumble bee. |
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| Eastern Forktail |
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| Pennsylvania Dingy Ground Beetle |
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| Flea Jumping Spiders handing from a thread of silk |
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| I can't tell if they're mating or if they already have and the female is feasting on her date |
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| A very cute Black Firefly |
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| Ants in the genus Lasius |
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| I don't know what they're doing, but I think those white tic-tac shaped things are ant larvae. I know that many species in the Lasius genus are social parasites, meaning they manipulate other ant colonies, often of related species, and also often by one queen barging into the hive of another, killing her, and taking over. |
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| White-hazel Cone Gall Aphid on American Witch-hazel |
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| White-hazel Cone Gall Aphid galls |
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