Welcome to my chrysalis 🐝

Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) ♂

Death’s head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos:

Notice the spooky skull on its back! Neat. Photo by riana60

Clymene moth, Haploa clymene:

Featuring the mildly Satanic upside down cross! Photo by susanelliott

Ghost mantis, Phyllocrania paradoxa, adult and nymph:

Photos by  ThorHakonsen and VeVe-350Z

Spiny orb weaver, Micrathena vigorsi?, juvenile;

Photo by Andreas Kay

Eastern lubber grasshopper, Romalea microptera, nymph:

Photo by zoology123

The bloody-nosed beetle, Timarcha tenebricosa:

This dude intentionally breaks membranes in its own mouth in order to bleed out foul-tasting hemolymph as a defense mechanism. Photo by muftillo

Citheronia phoronea moth caterpillar:

Photo by vireolanius

Spangle swallowtail butterfly, Papilio protenor:

Photo by calcium

Girtha laying an egg in my hand

Automeris frankae

Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s a bunch of amazing bugs that practice maternal care ❤️

I recorded this timelapse a while back of my technique for spreading insects for display. The specimen is a giant stag beetle, Hexarthrius mandibularis sumatranus.

And here is the specimen after it has dried: