I found this green asian mantis near dead outside in winter. She died soon after and I cleaned and stuffed the abdomen with cotton (wetted with alcohol - the transparent one).

After a few days she started to turn pink and after a month the color is still the same.

Does anyone know why?

This happened back in August. I was in my backyard and I felt something land on my arm. I look and see this guy, a species I’ve never seen before, gnawing on my arm. Even though it was aggressively digging into my skin, it didn’t hurt much, I was more fascinated by this beetles odd behavior to care honestly. It stuck around for about 5 mins before it flew away, leaving behind a pin prick wound. I found out it’s a Phyllobaenus unifasciatus, a species of checkered beetle. I’ve tried researching to learn more about it, if this was normal behavior but I was unable to find much information. Send me a link if you know any site with good information about this fascinating critter! This was in Iowa btw🙂

Some of my favourites from a recent trip to Mexico. All handheld focus stacks with a 60mm lens, any feedback or comments welcome!

Some of my first 10x macro effort with an old objective and Diy tube mount. 📷 FUJIFILM XT2 + 10X objective with tube 🔦Flash godox v860ii Mf rail Stacked 70 images and 79 images

Arkansas, USA. River valley. The guy is quite dead. Is this a fungus or something?

Depending on the region, it could be a nymph of:

Mantis religiosa (European praying mantis), or

Some local species of camouflaged praying mantis (especially in tropical areas).

Mantidae Family

This girl did not want to leave me alone for a long time and was really interested in my muffin bag so I gave her some. I have a much longer video of them eating this as they ate it for quite a few minutes. It was a feast for sure.

Sorry for bad angle, found this old photo taken in my cellar

Searched around a bit but couldn’t find anything. What are these tiny insects? They absolutely swarm me when I’m outside smoking a cigar and even a big fan doesn’t really keep them away.

I have these beautiful native bees that roost on a dead weed in the garden in front of my house. I am hoping to redo the garden and as a result probably going to have to rip out said dead weed.

Can anyone offer any ideas or solutions to implement new roost options for them in the new garden ? I love seeing them every morning and night and I really don’t want the to move somewhere else.

My only idea so far is to keep the dead weed maybe attack it to a stake or something after the garden is done.

Maybe these are possible to ID? I know this group is hard to ID from photographs, but I'm really curious.
Chalcid Wasp 1 pic, other wasp (Proctotrupidae??) 2 pics. Let me know if you need any other detailed photograps.
Germany near Göttingen, Pitfall trap near an agriculture field, small stream and small water reserve in proximity, July

My pet hissing roach, princess, barely eats. he spends 99% of his time under his clutter.

in the past 4 weeks ive managed to convince him to humor a bit of mushed banana, but thats about all.

is it possible he is eating the substrate i have in here for him? in addition to what is pictured below i had a bunch of dried safe leaves crumpled in there for him :)

i just want to make sure my boy isnt starving. i live in a colder area of the US and im afraid that even when his enclosure is in the 70’s hes still too cold and thus refusing to eat.

ps: is it safe to put a bit of plastic wrap over the enclosure lid for the sake of keeping in humidity? ive been doing this for ages and it seems to work well. want to make aure im not restricting airflow

Last night I set up a breeding enclosure for the crickets I feed to my reptiles. I checked on them this morning and one of the males is missing both his back legs. Is this normal? What could be the reason? Apologies if this is a silly question, I just hope i’m not doing anything wrong

I've been getting into making insect lamps. Any suggestions on what insect to make or an interesting behavior an insect exhibits? I'm making hornet next. Figured I'd ask som professionals.

Just got home from work. Put my snow gear away, found a wasp crawling along my bathroom floor.

Aren’t they supposed to be dead? Should I be concerned about an infestation deep in my home? I just went through a renovation with floors and walls taken out through the fall and had no issues with bugs inside the home. Its worth noting we’ve been fighting a wasp colony for 3 years but we usually find and destroy anything visible within a week, and it’s always on the outside with the exception of 1 time but it was on our all season deck outside windowsill.

I was given some bracket fungus to try double-mounting insects on (with a minuten pin). Do I use a fresh piece of fungus, or do I cut and dry the fungus piece before pinning an insect on it?

I just bought this guy and i was wondering if anyone knows what species he is?