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#DailyBugFacts, February 4, 2025

We interrupt your Daily Bug Fact to bring you the Belted Kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon! It’s tangentially related because it does eat insects. But I’m posting it because I got to watch this lovely lady…
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#DailyBugFacts, February 3, 2025

This stunning ichneumon wasp is from June 7, 2023. These wasps are parasitoid wasps (one reason why wasps are my favorite…they’re so fascinating and diverse!).
February 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#DailyBugFacts, February 2, 2025

Happy Groundhog Day! This is a Seven-Spotted Ladybug, Coccinella septempunctata. I actually saw it today! It was over 60°F today and I went to the @denverbotanic gardens to see their orchids and walk around. Saw a few arthropods, inside and out!
February 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#DailyBugFacts, January 31, 2025

A bug (an actual, true, real bug in the entomology definition of the word!) on the very last day of Jan! It was quite warm. I walked the dogs in leggings and a tank top.

There were two of these Eastern Boxelder Bugs, Boisea trivittata. They are mostly found on…
February 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
#DailyBugFacts, January 31, 2025

Throwback to my birthday, January 19, 2023, when I was #blessed by the Spider Gods with this birthday gift!

This is a Longlegged Sac Spider, Cheiracanthium sp. This one could be a native species or an introduced one.
January 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#DailyBugFacts, January 29, 2025

I picked this beauty b/c I just saw some large spider hate. :( This is a Giant Crab Spider, Olios giganteus. I saw this one in the bathroom at Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah, US, at the end of Nov 2021. I may or may not have checked in every day we were there…
January 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Hello, world!

Posting so I don’t have an empty profile! This is a Convergent #Ladybug, Hippodamia convergens. One of Colorado’s 89 species of ladybugs and also one of the native ladybugs. I spotted it technically yesterday (Nov 20) and noticed it had an unusually yellow face. Very cool!
November 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM