Wasps My Beloveds

I mainly post bug photos here- all photos are mine unless otherwise stated

I tag spiders as #spiders and things that look like them as #spiderlike

I was thrilled to see a bee-mimicking robber fly alive for the first time recently! This guy was a big ol grizzly bear of a fly, fierce and bulky and about the size of a carpenter bee.

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This stubby little assassin bug hunts millipedes. You would think such an insect would be found, like, somewhere near millipede habitat, but this one was flitting along a stretch of sidewalk.

Beautiful perfect angel I love you so much

Check out this gorgeous tachinid!

Chance encounter with a celebrity

Big wauce and little wauce

I cannot emphasize enough how unexpected this creature was. A mucousy blob nearly the size of my foot revealed itself to be a seahare when moved back into the water

Little baby man

Whuh

As the year began, so it draws to a close: with lumps

Freeloader flies (yes, delightfully, that’s the common name) snacking on a bee snared by a mantis