#barklouse

@crashxofxworlds submitted: No IDs necessary. Just a few bug friends I've made over the past week.

I shouldn't play favorites, but the weevil is my favorite.

Psocus leidyi

A barklouse found in North America.

Tree Cattle (Cerastipsocus venosus), adults with one nymph, taken August 20, 2025, in Georgia, US

A barklouse native to Europe, but introduced to the east and west coasts of the US, New Zealand, and elsewhere. The species was first described by Robert McLachlan in 1899, and named after Charles A. Briggs, an English insect collector who first collected it. I don't have much other info on them.

Metylophorus novaescotiae - speckled barklouse

Tiny lil baby, about half a cm long :) love the facepaint on these dudes. Spotted evading lady beetles on the side of a garage

iNaturalist link

Had a fun blacklighting session last night with the amateur entomologist group, here are a few of my observation pics In order: - A cute, lichen-looking Epinotia I wasn't able to ID to species - Ligyrus (formerly Tomerus) relictus, one of the only dynastinae (rhinoceros beetles) found where I live - Catocala sp., photo wasn't great unfortunately so I'm not sure which out of 2 possible species it is - Habrosyne scripta, fairly common but a beautiful drepanid that's always fun to see - Cisseps fulvicollis, smaller lookalike of the virginia ctenucha - Ischnura verticalis - very common species but I don't often see odonates at light traps - Tropisternus lateralis, a hydrophilid, this species in particular looks a lot like some dytiscids to me but the clubbed antennae are a surefire giveaway for hydrophilidae - Corixidae sp. - Parapoynx badiusalis, good example of how cute crambids are - A really cute ichneumonid, but probably not identifiable from photo - Argyresthia calliphanes - pay attention to micromoths! So many of them are absolutely stunning - Nemapogon sp. (maybe granella?) - Ennomos magnaria - Elophila icciusalis - Cerastipsocus venosus - new species for me, their common name is "tree cattle" and the clusters they form on trees get called herds. Felt really big for a psocodean The area had a lot of habitat variety, with multiple light traps being set near a wetland, forested areas (mainly yellow birch with some other hardwoods, and conifers- mostly balsam fir) and a sandpit. I have a lot more but I also have specimens to get around to pinning so I won't spend too long on posts haha, here's some uncropped photos of the sheets though

That time when a barklouse photobombed the giant floof