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Crane Fly: Pedicia albivitta

On November 14, 2007 · Category: Crane Fly · Add Comment

unusual insect
Hi
I have been looking for this picture for some time now and found it tonight. I live in Northwestern Ontario, Canada just outside of Kakabeka Falls. This beautiful flying insect showed up in August and I have not seen one like it since. I really enjoy your site and have it bookmarked so I can visit often. Have gone through some of your bug info lists but don’t know where to start with this one. Thanks in advance if you can identify it.
Dave

Hi Dave,
This is a Crane Fly, and we matched it to Pedicia albivitta on the Crane Flies of Pennsylvania website. We agree that it is a beautiful specimen.

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Golden Winged Elder Borer

On November 13, 2007 · Category: Longhorn Beetles · Add Comment

What is it?
Hi and great website! Can you identify this beetle for me? It was in Northern Montana and the black part on the back was very iridescent. Thanks in advance.
Bob

Hi Bob,
We are very excited to get your photo. We identified it on BugGuide as the Golden Winged Alder Borer, Desmocerus aureipennis, and there was but a single image on BugGuide. Your specimen sure is a beauty, and there is no indication as to why it is called the Golden Winged Alder Borer. The food is obviously alder, but the golden winged is a mystery.

Thanks for your answer!!
Thank you, Daniel for answering my husbands query about the Golden-Winged Elder Borer. About the Golden-Winged description, the picture did not capture it but when the sun hit it just right it sparkled with different colors. We thought we remembered greens and purples but maybe there was yellows in there too! Have really enjoyed browsing your site and have another query for you if you have time. … Kind Regards,
Joelle

Update: from Eric Eaton
Daniel: Cool! There is another species (or subspecies) in California that is highly endangered (Valley elder borer). Desmocerus are seldom found away from the elderberry host plant.
Eric

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Tumblebug

On November 13, 2007 · Category: Scarab Beetles · Add Comment

Dung beetle in Georgia?
While I was taking my dog for a walk around my yard, he stopped and was sniffing at the ground for a while. So I moved him away and took a look for my self and found this little beetle. I am almost positive that it is a Dung Beetle or as I like to refer to them, a Scarab. Not too sure that there is a difference between the two. The odd thing is that I didn’t know that we had these kind of beetles in Georgia. Is this a Dung Beetle/Scarab? And Do we have them in Georgia? Thanks,
Justin R. Robertson

Hi Justin,
Yes, there are Dung Beetles in Georgia, and yes this is a Dung Beetle. Scarab is a more general term for the family of beetles that includes Dung Beetles. We believe this is Canthon vigilans, commonly called a Tumblebug.

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Mating Hollyhock Weevils

On November 13, 2007 · Category: Weevils Tagged With: bug love · Add Comment

Hollyhock Weevils
Hi there! Just a follow-up to my recent e-mail …I’ve been completely mesmerized by your site. I ’ve re-discovered my “inner child ”and bugs with a macro lens I picked up this spring. You have some wonderful pic tures and information on your site! Inspired by your “Love Bug ”section, h ere ’s one of my first macro shots from earlier this year of a pair of very tiny Hollyhock Weevils doing what it seems like they ’re alw ays doing
J

Hi J,
Thanks for sending us your great image of mating Hollyhock Weevils, Apion longirostre. We did some internet research and found a page devoted to them when they were the Bug of the Month back in August 1998. Your letter has us a bit confused. Your email address matches the person who signed another letter with a Brown Lynx Spider, but from a different email address, and your mysterious initial only signature seems to match the name on the other email.

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Anise Swallowtail Caterpillars

On November 12, 2007 · Category: Caterpillars and Pupa · Add Comment

Here’s a picture
I took these pictures in my back yard in Pacifica, CA. (since you ask for a better one than on your site) Thanks for telling us that they were the black swallowtail. They were on a Fennel plant but did not cocoon there… Blessings,
Tori Prince

Hi Tori,
Black Swallowtail Caterpillars and Anise Swallowtail Caterpillars look very similar. Black Swallowtails are found in the Eastern U.S. and Anise Swallowtails in the West. Your caterpillars are Anise Swallowtails.

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Crab Spider

On November 12, 2007 · Category: Spiders · Add Comment

QUESTION! (Fwd: omg pretty yellow)
HI BUGMAN!
I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THIS "BUG"/ARACHNID… PLEASE READ FORWARDED EMAIL TO EXPLAIN. THANK YOU.
Crystal T.
hi, omg so I’m getting gas and I look down and see this face and it totally scares me! …this thing was on my passenger door a couple days ago, then yesterday I thought it was gone but it was on the passenger-side back door… and I had been on the freeway a couple times, all around town etc, and it was still on there. I thought it was dead and stuck to my car – then it was on the back door – and so I wanted to keep it cause it was crazy and while putting it in a film cannister it moved! it’s still alive!!!!! so I have it, not sure what to feed it or if there are any spider-doctors that can fix him?? I tried feeding it a bug but I think all it did was kill it. But afterwards did have lots more energy, like could stand up straight, lol. ok, it’s super alien looking, like a tank. have u seen it b4? really pretty. peter said I should stitch the design on something.
Crystal

Hi Crystal,
We are not sure of the species, but this is a Crab Spider in the family Thomisidae. Though it is missing a few legs, your spider probably won’t have any trouble surviving in the wild. Release it onto some flowering plants.

Ok, thank you! I’ll set him back into the wild. (PS- do u teach @ ACCD?) Crystal

I thought your name sounded familiar.

Art Center, design, 2 terms ago- I ran into you in the Freestyle parking lot not too long ago too. I can’t believe you’re the bugman! That’s so awesome! (I remember you mentioned something about bugs in class though.) I take lots of bug pics, I find them fascinating, so complex and beautiful. There are some I have pix of that I’ve been wondering about too… can I send ‘em to you? I can’t believe the coincidence! You could have been some wheat farmer in Montana for all I knew!!!! ^_^
CT

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Underwing Moth

On November 12, 2007 · Category: Underwing Moths and Fruit Piercing Moths · Add Comment

Hello!
What fun to look at all of the moths! This one was flying around our upstairs room in October. It was large enough that I thought, from its shadow, it might be a bat. Then I saw the beautiful coloring when it spread its wings. We had to hold it in a glass to get the photo. Its back was a rather beautiful brown pattern, but the red was astonishing. We happily set it free, again. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks!
Marjorie

Hi Marjorie,
This beauty is an Underwing Moth in the genus Catocala.

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Moths from Bhutan

On November 12, 2007 · Category: Moths · Add Comment

moths Bhutan
Hi, I’m having some trouble idientifying these moths. The photos were taken in Bhutan (september 2007).
Thanks.
Linda


Tiger Moth	Tiger Moth

Hi Linda,
We believe two of your moths are Tiger Moths in the family Arctiidae, and we are not sure in what family the third moth belongs. We will try to contact Julian Donahue to see if he can provide any additional information.

Update: (11/17/2007)
Numbers 1 and 2 appear to be species of Spilosoma, but this is such a large genus that it may not be possible to identify them without seeing the hindwings. Seitz Macrolepidoptera of the World, Palearctic Bombyces & Sphinges, would be the best bet, and I don’t have that here at home. (Also Fauna of British India, my copy of which is at the Museum.) I do have Hampson’s Arctiidae volumes here at home, but the only one that might be close (just picture-booking, and not all are figured, and I can’t use the key because I can’t see all the moth) is that No. 2 *might* be Spilosoma rubitincta. I also can’t vouch for the current generic name (Hampson has all of them under Diacrisia). Googling was no help–I spotted LOADS of misidentifications! No. 3 may be a noctuid. But I would have to have the specimen in hand to confirm even this.
Julian

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Crane Fly: Pedicia albivitta

Golden Winged Elder Borer

Tumblebug

Mating Hollyhock Weevils

Anise Swallowtail Caterpillars

Crab Spider

Underwing Moth

Moths from Bhutan

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