Megachile
A leafcutter bee gathers pollen from a summer aster. Saint Louis, Missouri.
Gigantiops destructor
Gigantiops destructor, worker Peru, Tambopata: Puerto Maldonado 12.5984ºS 69.2179ºW 200m 30.vii.2016 A.L.Wild #ALW5709 UTIC 200780
Opsithopsis haddoni
An Australian strobe ant.
Hyalophora cecropia
Solenopsis invicta
Winged fire ant females scale vegatation prior to launching themselves on a late spring mating flight. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Austin, Texas, USA.
Lasioglossum sp.
Sweat bee on spiderwort. Austin, Texas, USA.
Hogna
Up close with a large female Hogna wolf spider. Rumley, Texas, USA.
Apis mellifera
Austin, Texas, USA.
Magicicada
A recently eclosed periodical cicada waits for her new cuticle to harden. Panther Creek State Conservation Area, Illinois, USA.
Phanolinus
A colorful rove beetle from the Ecuadorian cloud forest. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Misumenoides formosipes - white-banded crab spider
South Bristol, New York, USA
Camponotus nigriceps
A black-headed sugar ant forages on a Eucalypt on a bright morning in Victoria. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
Ledrinae
Oncometopia orbona
Broad-headed sharpshooter. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas, USA.
Photinus pyralis
Illinois
Leptomyrmex ruficeps
Australia
Dolichopodidae - long-legged fly
The wings of many insects, including this long-legged fly, sport iridescent patterns that differ from species to species. Austin, Texas, USA.
Fireflies
A 5 minute night exposure in a restored Illinois prairie reveals the signals of several different species of fireflies, each with a unique pattern. Homer Lake, Illinois, USA.
Wandering spider killed by fungus
Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Trissolcus sp.
A tiny parasitoid wasp lurks among a clutch of stink bug eggs. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Aedes aegypti
The eclosion of a female mosquito. Mosquito larvae and pupae live underwater, but the mature pupal casing spilts on a seam at the air/water boundary, releasing the adult to the atmosphere. Laboratory culture at Rockefeller University.
Megischus bicolor
A female crown-of-thorns wasp, in the relatively uncommon family Stephanidaem, oviposits into a beetle burrow. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Antheraea polyphemus
Alchisme
This treehopper mother is so dedicated to guarding her eggs (in the leaf vein behind) that she apparently tolerated spiders laying webs over her thorns. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Danaus plexippus - Monarch
Face to face with a monarch caterpillar. Laboratory animal at the University of Kentucky.
Acrocinus longimanus
Portrait of a male harlequin longhorn beetle, one of the largest and most recognizeable insects of the American tropics. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
