Insects

[Oaktavia]

@Matt said in Insects:

The internet says it’s a lettered sphinx. Some moths curl their abdomens to discourage predators. The internet has spoken.

Nice work! I just shooed them outside.

[Anesthetist]

One more I found, for scale.

[A Former User]

[Seul]

Ok so @Anesthetist told me to post here. It's the caterpillar of a goat moth apparently.

[Oaktavia]

@Seul Goat moth what a name!

[Matt]

@Heavy_blue cool snail. I hardly ever see them in the wild. Certainly not in the desert.

[A Former User]

@Matt they are around here a lot these days

[A Former User]

[A Former User]

Bug on the buck

[SKT]

From my daughter’s field trip last week.

[Oaktavia]

@SKT pretty cool looking dude there!

[SKT]

@Oaktavia yeah and the pic doesn’t really show just how iridescent it was. I think six spotted tiger beetle but not certain

[EdH]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6791639/

“An Unusual Finding of a Ladybug on Screening Colonoscopy”

Yes. There are pictures.

[endo]

you again

[SKT]

@endo @EdH laughing here.

[goosehd]

@SKT said in Insects:

@endo @EdH laughing here.
I am too…

[Oaktavia]

Oh my hahaha

[sabergirl]

But, was it alive?! Forgive me if I missed that from the article.

[Craneman]

@EdH he's got a bug up his ass

[EdH]

@sabergirl I thought so, but now I'm not sure - the article refers to it being able to 'escape' digestive enzymes, but that's maybe a bit ambiguous...