The bugs channel

[WillyCKH]

I think we should start a thread in honor of the bugs that may end up in the belly of our plants.

Golden eyed Lacewing

And its eggs, I suspect.

Native springtails

Mayfly

Ant Mimic Spider

Jumping spider

Isopod

 

[Daremo]

great shots ….

 

[WillyCKH]

Here's a new one, not sure about what it is though.

 

[stevebradford]

Looks like a Weevil!

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[WillyCKH]

Bug of the day

 

[pitcherperfect]

Those little predatory wasps are awesome to have around the garden!

 

[Carson Hardy]

Garden hunters

 

[WillyCKH]

Eat those aphids please!

 

[Muckydoo]

My little aphid eaters.
They have a slightly different colour.

 

[Carson Hardy]

I'm going to look for an adult!

Do your looks different as well?

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

The invasive ones are nasty, they even bite!

 

[Muckydoo]

Mine only have 6 or 7 dots. When I see one I will post. That larva in the pic was from last year. I saw some adults this weekend.

 

[Muckydoo]

Actually... I have a photo of one.

This was actually selected for July 2018 in a calendar contest!
It's sitting on a teddy bear sunflower.

 

[stevebradford]

A wild bee? I rescued from my Sarracenia flava. It’s been a bad year for bumble bees and these wild bees in my pitchers hopefully that means there’s just that manny more wild bees around this year

 

[pitcherperfect]

is that a mason bee?
(im not super familiar with bees but im going by the generally dark colouring and lack of pollen sacs on its back legs)

 

[stevebradford]

Rescued another poor roughed up mangy bumblebee from my sarracenia today. If you put a stick of grass long enough to reach down to the bottom of the pitcher from the top they can climb out

 

[pitcherperfect]

haha and shes still licking the rim of the pitcher like she hasnt learned a lesson

 

[Muckydoo]

I picked up a parlor palm from Home Depot in late winter, and one of the pots came with some tiny little millipedes.
After carefully picking them out, I put them in a container with some bark, soil and other junk.
Now, 5 or so months later, they are at least 5x the size!

They took the junk soil with a bunch crap in it, and turned it into some (probably) amazing compost!
I mixed it around today for the first time, and it was so light and fluffy... Just full of bug poop!

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

When life gives you millipedes, you make, millipedes?

 

[pitcherperfect]

I was outside tending to my garden yesterday and i heard the weirdest high pitched buzzing sound and all of a sudden these 2, clearly in the throes of passion, flew into the side of my head, bounced off, landed on a potato plant and just kept going.