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Some more pinned specimens, this time from the collection at UMass Amherst. I see, from left to right, a Passalid (Aceraius grandis), a false powder post beetle (Bostrichidae), then that weird yellow...
This moth is absolutely ridiculous-looking! It looks like someone cut out and decorated a piece of cardboard and then stuck a tiny little head and antennae onto one end. It’s for real though - a...
Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma deliculata), pinned. Which probably explains why I’ve been singing “If you liked it, then you would have put a pin in it” for the past 30 minutes...:-) This is an invasive...
A big dragonfly that showed up at my porch light last August. Dave Small identified it as some kind of darner (Aeshna sp.), and based on the black s10 abdominal segment (hidden in this photo),...
A rather stellar-looking weevil that showed up at the black light last July. LOVE the scales on the pronotum! Turned out to be a type of Underwater Weevil, genus Listronotus. I was stumped on this...
Wow, this is one handsome little fly! Thanks to John Maxwell for id-ing it as a predatory fungus gnat, Proceroplatus sp. Bugguide.net notes that the larvae of some predatory fungus gnats do some cool...
The good news is that I finally got to photograph some insects today. The bad news is that they were all dead. Serious winter doldrums here. Anyway, please enjoy this super-cool wood leopard moth...
What a cute little fluffy bunny!!! (Ok, fine, it’s a moth. A species of Leucania, to be exact-ish, either L. inermis or L. pseudargyria, I’m thinking it looks more like L. pseudargyria.) Thanks to...
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LEGGO MAH LEGGO!!! (two-lined grasshopper, Melanoplus bivattus; thanks to Matt Pelikan for the id!)
A ginormous katydid I found sitting on a milkweed leaf in my garden last August. Matt Pelikan confirms it’s a round-headed katydid, Amblycorypha sp. (rotundifolia or oblongifolia, can’t be sure from...
