Creepies and crawlies

Leaf-footed bugs in the genus Paryphes, Coreidae

Eurasian Hoopoes (Upupa epops), family Upupidae, order Bucerotiformes, UAE

Cuban Painted Snails (Polymita Picta)

“Their colours come from their diet, lichen and mosses rich in minerals that give the shells these stunning colours. They differ according to the particular mix of plants that each snail has been eating.” - David Attenborough

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), displaying, family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, Brazil

This bird is the only member of its family. Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

A Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, drives a Bengal Monitor Lizard (Varanus bengalensis), family Varanidae, away from its nest in Keoladeo National Park, Thune, India

Spiny Tropical Pill Woodlouse (Calmanesia erinaceus), family Armadillidae, Madagascar

Painted Schinia Moths (Schinia volupia) feeding on Indian Blanket, family Noctuidae, East TX, USA

Yellow pasha butterfly caterpillar, Herona marathus, Apaturinae (Emperors)

Hairy Bush Viper (Atheris hispida), family Viperidae, from central Africa

Venomous.

farewell, Beef.

It’s a fly-eat-fly world out there… in the sandy scrubland of central Florida, a hanging thief robberfly (Diogmites esuriens) devours a beefly (Exoprosopa fascipennis).

Interestingly enough, the beefly is a parasitoid that lays eggs in the nests of sand wasps (Bembix), which are themselves specialist hunters of flies including both beeflies and robberflies (though I’m not sure whether this hanging thief is too formidable to be on the wasps’ menu). Insect food webs are amazingly convoluted.

idk if this is a problem anyone else has. it is a problem that I have had, and so I am posting the solution. there is a picture of the house centipede under the cut just FYI.