General Discussion

It's been a while, hasn't it? Let's start off with a bee. [img]https://i.imgur.com/31pICZm.jpg[/img] Apparently, 'obligatory european honey bee' has replaced the 'obligatory firebug' thing in this season. Also, check out this tiny spider: [img]https://i.imgur.com/7W3SasS.jpg[/img] Orb weaver-shaped. Don't know what to make of these colours. Likely a spiderling or a male, which are less often seen than adult females. Which makes identifying harder. @tomaytotomahto @Pixelspiral @Dragonfruiteen

@Xionahri
*squints really hard trying to find a bee in the picture* It's a trick photo, right? This little spiderling has a funny place to hang out. Really? A tire?

@Voronwis

The bee is on the flower, partially hidden behind the leaf there.

Okay, the cropped pic makes it less apparent. It's not a tire but a zipper of my bag. Looks oddly similar, now that you say it.

I forgot to share this until now! This is a very small little jumping spider I took a picture of this April! [img]https://i.postimg.cc/j52S4w7G/IMG-20190426-134507893.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/3wcd6FYK/IMG-20190426-134117499-2.jpg[/img]

[img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/2355843fc15d3fe35fe5969c419c1ca3/tumblr_inline_otxh47WeQJ1tozw4x_1280.jpg[/img] I love jumping spiders and there’s some that live in my house! Ty for eating the bugs smol frends!!! Additionally, here’s a awesome closeup I got of a wasp busy eating sap (I think) off a leaf: [url]https://sweat-cat-is-my-name.tumblr.com/post/179126867611/ready-for-the-coolest-fucking-shit-bam-i-took[/url] (dw, I wasn’t close enough to disturb it! I just have surprisingly good zoom on my phone)

Haha lookey what I got. A pretty brown moth! [url=https://flic.kr/p/2gh8ME5][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48096627372_2ddfce2316.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2gh8ME5][/url] It was sitting pretty high up so the picture is pretty blurry.

@Spottedleaf125 Oof, late response, but that is one gorgeous little jumper. @bittybatty Same goes for this one. And whoa, that's a cool-looking vespid, though prom the proportions it looks a bit more like a hornet than what is usuallycalled a wasp. Technically not wrong though, hornets are a type of wasp. @Voronwis Cute mothy friend with beautiful eyes. Now today, I have five animals here, of which one is a real treat. Seriously impressive. Non-blurry, even. But, before we get to it, I'll show you the others: Moth, no idea about it otherwise. [img]https://i.imgur.com/jnx0F08.jpg[/img] Look, Voro, I have blurry pics of moths, too. I have no excuse with the height, though. I just suck at photography. A jumper, possibly a [i]Phlegra[/i]. [img]https://i.imgur.com/wBplqY7.jpg[/img] I gotta admit, it's shadow made me first think it was a house centipede. House centipedes are one of the critter I've never seen IRL, but would like to. Some species are supposed to live in central Europe, som maybe one day. Some orb weaver. [img]https://i.imgur.com/I7ksFtv.jpg[/img] A chonky little bumblebee. [img]https://i.imgur.com/ZwnPgvn.jpg[/img] Common carder bee ([i]Bombus pascuorum[/i]), I think. [b]Now[/b], the time has come, for one of the most interesting critters I have posted here so far. A rare sight, I got up close enough to take great pictures. Check out this beautiful beast chilling on my window. [img]https://i.imgur.com/52fD14W.jpg[/img] While I'm not sure about the exact species (gonna ask r/whatsthisbug if they got a clue), it is very clearly a female parasitic wasp. Marvellous. [img]https://i.imgur.com/BDvmK7Y.jpg[/img] Perfectly harmless animals, to us at least. They can't sting, since their 'stingers' are merely ovipositors, and they only choose other invertebrates as their host. Which exactly depends on the species. Honestly, I feel really lucky seeing one of these. Especially such a huge one. Of course, at the time of writing, I have long caught her and released her back outside. Edit: Thanks to reddit, I finally got the species. [i]Pimpla rufipes[/i], the black slip wasp. @tomaytotomahto @Pixelspiral @Dragonfruiteen

oh i actually saw a beetl two days back! i asked my mom to take a photo [img]https://pp.userapi.com/c850032/v850032044/1bbc90/hktMWcv1oJk.jpg[/img] who is he

@PixelSpiral I cant' help you with identification but https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/ is a good resource for identifying invertebrates. I was actually introduces to this subforum by someone in this thread earlier (thanks @Xionahri) it's been really helpful. Also it's a good idea to post your general location when you want to identify stuff because a lot of bugs are region specific and can help narrow things down. [img]https://i.redd.it/qu4wdzl0apz21.jpg[/img] Also while I'm here, this is a net-winged beetle larva I found while walking to work one day (I didn't have my phone with me so I had to ask my boss to take a pic of it for me, luckily for me she's very used to me doing stuff like this by now)

@CyanDog
This...this is a perfect space monster for my next book! Wow, look at that carapace!