Insects of the USA

  
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One of the largest sailboats on the east coast is the Papilio glaucus. There are specimens with a wingspan the size of a man's palm. Such an airplane flies in circles around the clearing - and you can hear the rustle of its wings. And the species has a gorgeous dimorphism...






Also quite a big bird - Papilio cresphontes. A lover of citrus groves. It sits on the flowers of trees, flutters its wings, squeezes that unlucky flower, and it is difficult to get close unnoticed for the frame - it is very timid... In early spring, it is common in southern Florida and southernmost Texas, and since the beginning of summer, it is common all over the Gulf coast...





Also spring-summer forest species - tapeworm Limenitis arthemis. It's like some kind of morpho... It can be quite massive in April and May.






Another common tapeworm is Limenitis archippus. The South Florida form is usually darker.




A lover of forests and warm summers-Battus philenor.




and another lover of forests, but dry and sandy, and even early spring - Papilio troilus




Handsome, yes... Papilio palamedes. Just a carnival in Rio, not a muddy road after a rainstorm...




Well, a few places where everything was filmed...










Actually, there are a lot of things, not just butterflies...

Are there any beetles?

I've been waiting for this question...

Yes, they will be here soon.

So, first bigger and more solid

Here is such a dung beetle, Dichotomius carolinus. It walks and buzzes. An armored car, not a bug...






Another" singer " from the Passalidines is Odontotaenius disjunctus. Or rather, the squeaker. If you touch it, it starts shaking its head and creaking. Pretty common in the summer. It is often found under old recumbent trunks. The females were seen a couple of times in the company of their own larvae. Do they care about them, or what?..






So, I was too lazy to find out who it was that I got out of the magnolia flower. It looks like a waxman. Trichiotinus of some sort, or something...




Oh, and I ran after this... It runs like a wild horse, and I had to catch it and hobble it. Megacephala carolina.




Well sho ? ...

Well sho ?...

Great! We are waiting for the banquet to continue!

Oh, and I ran after this... It runs like a wild horse, and I had to catch it and hobble it. Megacephala carolina.

Well sho ?...

Only probably not Megacephala, but Tetracha (Tetracha) carolina

Is there more?

super! ищо!

Are there any moths? I really want to see for example Sphingidae.

I would also like to see Ascalapha odorata ("Witsh moth") and black and white speckled bears (something like Leopard moths, I think they're called)

This post was edited by Ilya U-02/18/2010 21: 16

А що, куме, мухи на Американшині є? Мабуть, брешуть...

Only probably not Megacephala, but Tetracha (Tetracha) carolina


Yes, sir ! Well, of course, there's something else...

Are there any moths? I really want to see for example Sphingidae...


So, there are, will be Sphingidae...

I would also like to see Ascalapha odorata ("Witsh moth") and black and white speckled bears (something like Leopard moths in my opinion are called)...


Yeah, Black witch ... ok, I'll have Leopard moths to keep me company..

Well, let's move on...

A resident of the shining white sands of the Florida pine savanna, Cicindela gratiosa. An amazing disguise, it is almost impossible to see without scaring away. In the second picture, we managed to capture the moment of the search quite well






An interesting horse, a resident of lawns with high grass in the middle of the swamps of Louisiana-Cicindela pilatei. It seems to live only there. Black as the devil, he shoots insanely fast between the blades of grass, figs aim. Being caught, he bit his finger fiercely, his infernal eyes bulging. It's a pity, but I had to put potvoru to sleep...




A beautiful bug, Cicindela sexguttata. It is very common and lives in lowland moist forests. You sit down for a bite, pull out a hamburger, and they gather around in a ring and stare in silence...




Cicindela repanda. A massive species, it can be found almost near all the rivers in the south right up to late autumn. Well, the earliest spring, too. This one stalked its prey like a cat, and I was ignored...






Another remarkable specimen is Cicindela wapleri. Sands, streams, small rivers in the South... But very local. It often shares its territory with C. repanda.




So are the forest streams and shallows... Cicindela rufiventris.





And here - their biotopes.









This post was edited by Bald Cypress - 19.02.2010 21: 22

А що, куме, мухи на Американшині є? Мабуть, брешуть...

Flies ? Мух, куме, там як реп'яхів на собаці. Є навіть, отакі, в біленьких шкарпеточках...

Або в лісі є отакі здорові, що твій бугай... На людей ніби не кидаются, але оком своїм поглядають так недобро... Нда, в спину тобі так...

  А що, куме, мухи на Американшині є? Мабуть, брешуть...

Flies ? Мух, куме, там як реп'яхів на собаці. Є навіть, отакі, в біленьких шкарпеточках...

Oh, you yak garna stilt (Micropezidae)

This post was edited by Dr. Niko - 02/18/2010 22: 48

Are there any cocoonworms by any chance?" It would be interesting to see.

This post was edited by AntSkr - 02/18/2010 23: 06

Ordered by Leopard moth aka Hypercompe scribonia. Just got out, svezhak is quite common in the south, by the way. Often flies to the light, already boring...




Ascapapha odorata, black witch Hot and "odorata", but the butterfly does not smell anything, no matter how much I sniffed. Maybe the caterpillar is smelly, I don't know...
The butterfly tends to be tropical and doesn't seem to be resident in the southern US. It comes across very infrequently, but still, it happens, it arrives.

Hawks and cocoonworms are the last, and if I get the family mixed up, you can correct me...

Purely fighter Sorry, not defined only... It flies from the Caribbean and all over the northern Gulf coast.




Shot down by anti-aircraft fire over the Caribbean Sea...




Some kind of Darapsa sp. from north Florida




For comparison-Darapsa myron, Mississippi Delta. Quite common, by the way...




You'll definitely love this one. Eumorpha pandorus. His caterpillar is still hornless, and there's an eye on his ass instead




And this miracle is from the southern Appalachians. Plenty of them out there...




I won't say that, but...








Nadata gibbosa










Phyllodesma americana



Well, again hawkmoth... Ceratomia undulosa




Laothoe juglandis




and Paonias myops

Purely fighter Sorry, not defined only... It flies from the Caribbean and all over the northern Gulf coast.

Enyo lugubris

This post was edited by Zhuk - 02/18/2010 23: 49

Black and white cocoonworm-Tolype sp.
And the first one after "I won't say, but..." is a crested bird, some kind of Furcula

This post was edited by AntSkr - 02/18/2010 23: 55

Shot down by anti-aircraft fire over the Caribbean Sea...

How lovely! this is Eumorpha labruscae

  А що, куме, мухи на Американшині є? Мабуть, брешуть...

Flies ? Мух, куме, там як реп'яхів на собаці. Є навіть, отакі, в біленьких шкарпеточках...

So! So, kume! Не зупиняйтеся!!! Ще трішечки!!!!!

[плаче від щастя, кидається збирати валізу]

"I don't know what you're talking about, but you have to go!" (c)

The horses are good! Only Cicindela sexguttata is missing.

The horses are good! Only Cicindela sexguttata is missing.

Sorry, the pad came out Instead Of scutellaris just sexguttata and is. I've already fixed it..

And C. scutellaris here, similar to it...




А ось, куме, знайшлася ще картинка Дивітся, що виробляють ті потвори, що вони виробляють!...




A fairly common type of barbel from the south...




Oh, I know what's worthy of attention... Here it is... (Plectrodera scalator)




... and here it is (Pseudolucanus capreolus)




Ну а тут - любителям коників Pterophylla_camellifolia






Romalea_microptera (black form, Louisiana-Texas swamps)



and the green form (swamps of south florida)




Here, for comparison with the bird

Inhabitant of wet meadows and forests Microcentrum rhombifolium. What color, what breed!...






And here is such a forest small fry, Phylloscyrtus pulchellus. I liked it somehow...

А ось, куме, знайшлася ще картинка Дивітся, що виробляють ті потвори, що вони виробляють!...

От, ктири-пустуни, хай їм грець... А це шо, сіль або сніг?

Не повірите, але це пісок ! Повні пляжі отакого, гарячого на сонці, піску...

Great,just great!!!

By the way, what about the removal of the material?

And more:Do you have any Saturnidae?Please show me if there is one.

And more:Do you have any Saturnidae?Please show me if there is one.

So they are already in post 9
Pictures # 6,8,13 and, it seems, a butterfly with its wings raised by 11. In the new world, there are many peacock eyes that look like hawkmoth.

Do you happen to have any pictures of the Tineidae family ?

By the way, what about the removal of the material?

I can't even guess... I'm actually just photographing, not collecting...

And more:Do you have any Saturnidae?Please show me if there is one.


But this is with pleasure


Do you happen to have any pictures of the Tineidae family ?

Yes, there is, but only one-the only unlucky moth somehow...


So, Saturnia. An absolutely flying moth, Eacles imperialis, the imperial moth, is common in the summer in the southeast...






Comet, just comet Actias luna. Once you see it, you're gone forever... It has been flying since early spring. Pretty common, by the way...






And over there, in the upper-right corner.. This is it, this is it !... Antheraea polyphemus, early spring, flies with Saturn's moon, when at night in the South there is still a relative mallet, about 0 Celsius...




... and its sibling, Callosamia promethea. You will laugh, but he is also quite banal here.




Another nanny, a small Automeris io. Early summer view. It can be so numerous that you just have time to fight them off...




Well, another representative of the night gentry.. Citheronia regalis




And for dessert, Tineidae, dami ta panove ... a specimen found and photographed in Washington State, on the banks of the Columbia River, last summer.

. The females were seen a couple of times in the company of their own larvae. Do they care about them, or something?..
Yes, they do. Passalids are one of the few beetles with care for their offspring and even with a pronounced social hierarchy. They are able to communicate with each other, transmit signals, for example, about danger, and younger beetles give way to older ones.

OK, boss, so it's going to be Adelidae for dessert

Sorry, chebur, I was in the dark...

Some Wild West beetles Material from last year's expedition to the mountains of the states of Washington-Oregon-California.

Scaphinotus angusticollis. Rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, prowling through the forest like this, or sitting under fallen trunks...






Another shellfish eater. Both species are well caught in soil traps.






Omus sp. Cool animal... here it's called stalking tiger beetle, but it moves at a crunching speed, so I don't know who it is from at all... start playing games...






The largest Pterostichus that has been seen so far is P. lama.
They came across up to 3 cm in length...







A typical biotope for all of them...

Another shellfish eater. Both species are well caught in soil traps.

Scaphinotus (Brennus) marginatus

Bad Den, thank you for the additions.

I want to show you another wonderful beetle, a resident of the rain forests of the Pacific coast. Promecognathus laevissimus. I've never been caught in the soil traps of anything. But it was found during a methodical examination of the backward bark of coniferous stumps.






According to rumors, it has a very specific menu and cracks this one...
Harpaphe haydeniana. A millipede that releases hydrogen cyanide for protection. But this feint is deep in the beetle "on the cymbals", it seems that it is insensitive to cyanides...




In general, the northern territories are somehow not very impressive in terms of the abundance of beetles, but if something comes across, it will be interesting... Pterostichus johnsoni, for example.




It lives along the banks of mountain rivers, under rocks. Like here, for example...






There also lives a very numerous summer-autumn, I'm not afraid to say, Opisthius richardsoni, yes...
Funny buzzer, they say, his genealogy is tricky. It seems like there is a relative, but already in New Zealand. However, I do not presume to judge. For what I once bought, for what I sell




And this one I found at 2000 meters in June under the rocks. It's not snowing yet. Rhadinum sp. It looks like a rodent likes to rummage in its burrows...







Klamath Mountain Range, northern California.





An amazing place in itself. There in general, under each stone such!... Here, for example, it looks like Nebria, with white legs... If you turn a stone on the shore, they'll be there!..




And here, I think, is Chlaenius. On the banks under large pebbles just herds walk. They spat so much phenol on my hands that I stank of carbolic acid all the way to the evening, barely washed it off...




Someone from Brachinus. I guess... They shoot very closely and very quickly and are also numerous since spring...




Some more Nebrii. Observed along the banks of cold rivers Mt Rainier. The photos were taken in marching conditions, so what really came out...

There also lives a very numerous summer-autumn, I'm not afraid to say, Opisthius richardsoni, yes...
Funny buzzer, they say, his genealogy is tricky. It seems like there is a relative, but already in New Zealand. However, I do not presume to judge. For what I once bought, for what I sell

It's my pleasure

About Opisthius. The only species is O. richardsoni. A related genus, Paropisthius, is distributed in the Himalayas (Nepal, India, China, Bhutan)

Bugs are super! Pleasing to the eye!