Which state/country? It looks a lot like a backswimmer to me.
P.S: Specificly it looks like a Notonecta Irrorata which is common on the american east coast.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
And that would explain the bite. Those little bastards bite way harder than they look like they should do.
Note. Don't touch or swim with Backswimmers. While not assassinbug/fireant/wasp bad their sting is powerful and can cause an allergic reaction (they have a spiky long mouthparts which they use to stab small fish, tadpoles and other insects. And you if you mess with it).
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it was in NJ and we found him in our small pool.
we were actually going to feed it to a frog we were rescuing, but my son dropped it, so i picked it up and it bit me.
All fun and what not, until it decided to fly around my head and i was instantly asaulted by 4 giant bats...like pigeon-sized "WHOOS WHOOOSH" flapping bats.
Oh i know lol. Sry was just the size of the fucker.
Macrosemia tonkiniana probably
Dundubia spiculata second best guess
You're in SE Asia?
Also, it's not Dundubia spiculata. Could definitely be a Macrosemia tonkiniana. Right size, right pattern.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Easiest way to identify cicadas is usually by sound. They all have extremely distinct singing.
Macrosemia tonkiniana sounds like a cross between a rusty doorhinge and the screams of the damned. Dondubia spiculata sounds like a polishing machine. Evening cicadas sound like you were trying to play a frog croaking, but just then your soundcard bugged out.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Easiest way to identify cicadas is usually by sound. They all have extremely distinct singing.
Macrosemia tonkiniana sounds like a cross between a rusty doorhinge and the screams of the damned. Dondubia spiculata sounds like a polishing machine. Evening cicadas sound like you were trying to play a frog croaking, but just then your soundcard bugged out.
Cicadas are awesome bugs. Possibly one of my favorite species.
I just like the thought of a big stupid bug that doesn't have a stinger, doesn't bite, and really relies on its buddies getting eaten in sufficient numbers to fill the local predators up as it's primary means of defense.
The fact that they're loud and annoying as all get out is just a bonus.
Yes. Almost 100% certain that this is Florida Wax Scale (Ceroplastes floridensis)
The little horned bastards are second and third stage instars, while the larger ones are fully grown females (so far the species appaers to have no males).
P.S: The little gits actually build a wax-like shell on top of themselves. The bug itself is reddish.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Looks like a western tiger swallowtail that has had its wings severely damaged
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Looks like a western tiger swallowtail that has had its wings severely damaged
I thought butterfly too when he sent it but he said that part on the back was more beetle carapace like, could it have just de-cocooned ( is that a word?) wrong? and still had some stuck on him?
No. Cocoons look different. Could be a failed metamorphosis though. Although it would be incredibly rare that an insect survives (however temporary) a failed transformation.
I guess we'll have to wait for arch and bugboys opinions.
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That's a Wheel bug, family Reduviidae. It's a "true bug", and they can bite REALLY hard. Those guys are active predators.
It's probably Arilus cristatus judging by the location. If you try and grab it (note: DONT) it will stridulate (i.e. make a loud screaming hiss) and bite the heck out of you.
Well. There are only two species of crested assassin bugs, cristatus and carinatus. Since you're not in south america it's definitely the Wheel bug. The south american variety also has orange legs from the tibia and out while the main body ranges from grey-brown to a vivid black. "Picking up assassin bugs" is a bad idea everywhere though.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
All that "don't pick it up" stuff aside, that's a cool looking murder-bug.
Like a minature spinosaurus-insect.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
ok so what if we put these onto wheels in the next Dark Souls game
Real question:
How do you distinguish "true" Monarch butterflies from similar-looking butterflies without catching and killing them?
1. Monarchs are yellow/orange/white (yes, there are albedo pattern monarchs) with black webbing.
2. Monarch butterflies have a veined pattern (not a striped like many tiger butterflies). That is, the black webbing on their wings go in a veined pattern out from the root of the wings with no sideways going lines.
3. Monarch butterflies have a double line of spots at the end of their wings. Their closest imitator (the Viceroy) only has a single line of spots.
4. Monarch butterflies have white spots on the ends of their abdomen and on their neck. Monarch imitators don't.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I forgot there was a second part to that post when I glanced over it, and was pretty excited to see your four-part breakdown of giant wheeled assassin bugs as video game bosses.
Assassin bugs are sadly underutilized as videogame characters. I think the only game that featured them was Battle bugs, a RTS/Puzzle game back in the 90s where you used various types of insects to take control over food sources.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I got to experience an assassin bug bite by, well, grabbing one. On our summer vacation last year we rented a house in Croatia, and I picked up a habit of rescuing insects from the pool. Partly because I felt sorry for them, partly because I didn't want to swim in a pool full of dead insects and angry drowning wasps. I knew better than to pick up wasps with my bare hands, but everything else I'd just grab and toss into the lawn. Then one day I thought I was rescuing a beetle, until a searing, stabbing white hot pain informed me that I had made a huge mistake. Fucker thanked me by biting me right in the middle of my palm. I'd rate the pain as considerably worse than a wasp sting, and it took forever for the pain and swelling to subside.
They are really cool insects though, and many species look quite beautiful. In my mind they compete with house centipedes neck and neck for the coolest predatory critters title.
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Today I learned that I got the wrong degree, because I didn't spend six months putting wrestling makeup on wasps and making them fight.
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I just saw my first grasshopper since I got back to the Vegas area this past week and it was HUGE. I told my husband and he said "yeah only the really big ones are left." Otherwise it's like the biblical plague never even happened here.
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Spotted this shiny boy the other day. Pretty small, about the size of a pinky nail. Locale would be Iowa.
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Today I learned that I got the wrong degree, because I didn't spend six months putting wrestling makeup on wasps and making them fight.
Or Wasp fight promoter.
Come one come all to the greatest fight you will ever see.
the part i thought was coolest was how if you gave a high class wasp low tier face paint, he fought harder due to the lack of respect.
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P.S: Specificly it looks like a Notonecta Irrorata which is common on the american east coast.
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we were actually going to feed it to a frog we were rescuing, but my son dropped it, so i picked it up and it bit me.
That sucked and i was shitting my pants.
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Macrosemia tonkiniana probably
Dundubia spiculata second best guess
You're in SE Asia?
Also, it's not Dundubia spiculata. Could definitely be a Macrosemia tonkiniana. Right size, right pattern.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Macrosemia tonkiniana sounds like a cross between a rusty doorhinge and the screams of the damned. Dondubia spiculata sounds like a polishing machine. Evening cicadas sound like you were trying to play a frog croaking, but just then your soundcard bugged out.
https://soundboard.com/sb/cicada_insects_thailand
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They're about a millimeter or two across, all over the leaves of a bush. I'm leaning toward fungus, but could be eggs?
Or some kind of protein shell on a bacteria colony, idk!
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I just like the thought of a big stupid bug that doesn't have a stinger, doesn't bite, and really relies on its buddies getting eaten in sufficient numbers to fill the local predators up as it's primary means of defense.
The fact that they're loud and annoying as all get out is just a bonus.
Yes. Almost 100% certain that this is Florida Wax Scale (Ceroplastes floridensis)
The little horned bastards are second and third stage instars, while the larger ones are fully grown females (so far the species appaers to have no males).
P.S: The little gits actually build a wax-like shell on top of themselves. The bug itself is reddish.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
4-5 inches long/diameter.
We live in West Kelowna B.C.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I thought butterfly too when he sent it but he said that part on the back was more beetle carapace like, could it have just de-cocooned ( is that a word?) wrong? and still had some stuck on him?
I guess we'll have to wait for arch and bugboys opinions.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
https://imgur.com/a/Vh0SYJL
Outside in Ohio, any idea what it is? Looks cool.
That's a Wheel bug, family Reduviidae. It's a "true bug", and they can bite REALLY hard. Those guys are active predators.
It's probably Arilus cristatus judging by the location. If you try and grab it (note: DONT) it will stridulate (i.e. make a loud screaming hiss) and bite the heck out of you.
Not that I....know...from....experience....
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Like a minature spinosaurus-insect.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
ok so what if we put these onto wheels in the next Dark Souls game
Real question:
How do you distinguish "true" Monarch butterflies from similar-looking butterflies without catching and killing them?
1. Monarchs are yellow/orange/white (yes, there are albedo pattern monarchs) with black webbing.
2. Monarch butterflies have a veined pattern (not a striped like many tiger butterflies). That is, the black webbing on their wings go in a veined pattern out from the root of the wings with no sideways going lines.
3. Monarch butterflies have a double line of spots at the end of their wings. Their closest imitator (the Viceroy) only has a single line of spots.
4. Monarch butterflies have white spots on the ends of their abdomen and on their neck. Monarch imitators don't.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
They are really cool insects though, and many species look quite beautiful. In my mind they compete with house centipedes neck and neck for the coolest predatory critters title.
Spotted this shiny boy the other day. Pretty small, about the size of a pinky nail. Locale would be Iowa.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Or Wasp fight promoter.
Come one come all to the greatest fight you will ever see.
the part i thought was coolest was how if you gave a high class wasp low tier face paint, he fought harder due to the lack of respect.
Japanese beetle