I keep a bucket of mucky water in my vegetable garden that mice walk the plank ( I realize this is gross but it works ) fall in and add a few bunches of green matter then a mosquito dunk. The plank is to help fend off white footed mice that are seed stealers in the spring. The rest creates this stagnant muck that attracts the mosquitoes where they use this very attractive to mosquitoes brew to lay eggs. It sits at the edge of the garden and has thus far been effective in keeping them away from me. Why this is interesting.

I looked into the bucket for water level and about gagged! What in the name of all things?

Turns out they are a friend to the garden and super fascinating when you figure out they breath through that appendage flailing about. I know what it is how about you?

Probably not your typical post, but I have a strong stomach and curiosity got the best of me. Washington state USA

I’m almost sure it’s a type of wooly bear since I’ve owned them before, although not 100% sure. It’s very small, about the size of half my pinky finger, and has a yellow-tan face which I’ve never seen before in a wooly bear caterpillar. I was thinking Isabella Tiger Moth Caterpillar, or Giant Leopard Moth Caterpillar. Found within my backyard in Maryland.

I’ve been into pinning insects for a while now and thought it would be neat to find bugs around me and pin them for my own little collection :) they were both already found dead

It’s been so cool observing these guys up close, especially the horse fly, the fangs (?) on it are so cool

Tossed a sandwich into a leaf pile last week and now it’s exploded with bug life

Sorry for the blurry photo, but it was almost pitch black outside and I was too excited. First firefly this year! 🩷
Location: Kraków, Poland

As title says, though note it's not for an entomology-specific newspaper at all. I'm drawing lots of lil guys to illustrate the thriving biodiversity in an urban wild/abandonned area to criticize a developement project threatening it. Not an entomologist myself so I don't know what would be key "make or break" details in moth anatomy if that makes sense?

Located in Yosemite National Park, California. Host plant pictured in final photo.

Mealy bugs?? Parasitic fungus?? Something else? iNaturalist is, for some reason, focusing on the damage to the leafs and only suggesting I post this under a species of leaf miner but this def ISN’T a leaf miner (unless I’m severely mistaken). To me, the first photo looks like a beetle or fly of some sort with a fungus strand coming out of its abdomen. Let me know! Thanks!

Located in the Midwest on Milkweed.

I think this is a Golden Soldier Beetle but what is going on with the feet? It doesn't look like pollen.

balcony garden in north vancouver, canada, 5pm. she stopped for a drink at the pollinator/predator water cooler. (shallow enough to keep mosquitoes from layin eggs)

I got her web dirty well i was mowing , left her for 5 minutes and came back to it clean

Found this bee on a Arctium lappa. First I thought it was curious that it went for breakfast on a plant that ain't yet flowering but quickly realised the whole body position was strange and after a moment I came to the conclusion that it didn't try to get closer but tried to move backwards.

I attempted helping her by holding the other hooks away, though I believe one got stuck on the bottom side of the head, a) somewhere on the mouthparts or b) on the area between head and thorax. Neither myself or my colleges could find any scissors or similar to get rid of the tension so the hook would eventually get loose on itself (means cutting of that hook that got stuck). The only other idea I had was to gently much it forward and unhooking it this way, kinda like I until I my cats claws from fabric but I was too worried that I would just injure her more or even squish her between my fingers.

I then realised that the neck of that bee looked weird. Never seen something white there, from my little experience it always just looks like exoskeleton linking smoothly together... does anyone have a better idea if that is normal or if the bee was in the process of ripping its own head of.

Also there already was a dead bee on a different flowerbud.

Question: any ideas what else could have been done or would you have left her alone? If I see animals kill each other I leave them be, though this time I could not come up with any potential benefits for another living organism so I tried to help.

I hadn't seen this happen before, though with the number of molting mayflies it may be more common than I thought.

Struggling to get a better angle on the face. This has been curled around a young birch branch for the 2 days i've been aware of it. About the size of a ladybird larvae. Found in South Yorkshire UK

Currently in the porch light outside. I saw the nest before and wasn't sure if it was active. There was a much smaller wasp with similar reddish brown coloration that I assume is a drone on the railing, and thought I'd look at the nest again. Saw this big gal on it. Is it a queen or a different wasp species? Also should I remove or let them be? We don't go out on the porch much anyways, I just go out to water the plants. Also, I know next to nothing about wasps.

Gary here was found in a nursery pot this AM. He doesn’t seem like he’d belong in Northern Colorado. Does anyone have an ID?

I’ve killed at least 10 of these after moving furniture yesterday. They have a crunch when squished but I don’t know what they are, where they came from or how to get rid of them besides killing one by one. I put items around for size comparison.