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Snails from the Philippines

cave invertebrates
Location: Lanao del Norte, Philippines
November 15, 2010 1:12 am
i would like to ask a help to identify these specimen. i collected these invertebrates from the cave in the Philippines. i find it hard to identify them because i have no standard taxonomic keys and other references. Please kindly help me because they are needed to be identify for my thesis. I hope for your help, as soon as possible. Thank you for your consideration.
Signature: immediately

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Snails from the Philippines

Dear immediately,
We do not recognize your snails.

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Posted 16 November 2010 § Snails, Slugs and other Molluscs ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:
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Cave Cricket from the Philippines

cave invertebrates
Location: Lanao del Norte, Philippines
November 15, 2010 1:12 am
i would like to ask a help to identify these specimen. i collected these invertebrates from the cave in the Philippines. i find it hard to identify them because i have no standard taxonomic keys and other references. Please kindly help me because they are needed to be identify for my thesis. I hope for your help, as soon as possible. Thank you for your consideration.
Signature: immediately

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Cave Cricket

Dear immediately,
This is a Camel Cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae, and they are also called Cave Crickets.

Posted 16 November 2010 § Crickets, Camel Crickets and Mole Crickets ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Centipede from Maldives

Millipede from Maldives
Location: Maldives (Lhaviyani Atoll)
November 15, 2010 1:37 pm
Hello bugman,
This millipede was on the wall of my room on Maldivian island last summer.
We moved it out of the room (the reddish color frightened us).
It was about three inches long.
Can you help me?
Thanks
Signature: Saverio

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Centipede

Dear Saverio,
This is a Centipede and not a Millipede.  Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment and millipedes have two pairs of legs per body segment.  Of the four orders of Centipedes represented on BugGuide, this looks the most like the Soil Centipedes, but we do not believe this is a Soil Centipede because the antennae look different and BugGuide indicates:  “Slender eyeless centipedes that have 31 to 177 pairs of legs and antennae with 14 segments. The number of pairs of legs is always odd.“  Perhaps one of our readers will be able to provide some additional information on your Centipede’s identity, otherwise you will have to be content with a general identification to the class Chilopoda.

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Posted 16 November 2010 § Centipedes ‡ Comments (2) °
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Green Darner

Eastern Pondhawk, we think
Location: Amherstview, Ontario
November 15, 2010 9:16 pm
We found this beautiful dragonfly on our apartment outside wall. We have never seen a dragonfly this big before. We thought you could use another picture for your website.
Signature: big fans of What’s That Bug, Tyler (9 yrs) and Brennen (7 yrs)

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Green Darner

Dear Tyler and Brennen,
Thanks so much for sending us your Dragonfly photos, but this is not an Eastern Pondhawk.  It is a Green Darner which you can verify by comparing your photo to images posted to BugGuide.  According to BugGuide, the Green Darner, Anax junius:  “Females oviposit in aquatic vegetation, eggs laid beneath the water surface. Larvae probably take several years to mature. Mature larva crawls up an emergent plant before adult emerges. Adults migrate north in Spring, these do breed in Canada. In the Fall the adults may form swarms and migrate south.“

Thank you so much, you made my children’s day!

Posted 16 November 2010 § Dragonflies and Damselflies ‡ Comments (0) °

Hangingflies from Australia Courting and Mating

Scorpionfly mating sequence

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Hangingfly with Fly Prey

Scorpionfly mating sequence
November 16, 2010
Location:  Australia
Hi Daniel,
Hope you like this sequence.
The male had to wait for less than a minute with his robberfly for a female to arrive. When she did, he started to make what we would call beckoning motions, by repeatedly curling and uncurling one rear claw. All the time he slowly moved his abdomen into position for mating. When he locked with her she immediately let go of the grass and started to thrash around, at which time he passed her the fly and she settled in to dine while he went about his business. After mating her grabbed the fly back and took off, probably to use it for his next conquest, the cad.
regards,
Trevor

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Hangingflies Courting

Hi Trevor,
This series is phenomenal, and your firsthand observations are priceless.

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Hangingflies Mating

We wonder if there are other observational accounts of the male absconding with his nuptial gift after getting his way.

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Hangingflies Mating

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Owl Moth: Can this be a state record for Wisconsin???

Great Big Moth!
Location: Milwaukee, WI
November 15, 2010 11:49 pm
When I was out feeding my feral kitties this afternoon I saw what I thought was a leaf poking out of the slats of the porch. Looking closer, I saw that it had antennae and little legs! The wing span was about 4-5 inches and was a pale greyish brown with some darker accent marks.
I thought at first the beastie was dead- I live in Wisconsin and it is, after all, mid-November, so I tried to pick it up. I just about jumped out of my skin when the thing came to life and started to wiggle it’s legs! I left it on the porch to do it’s mothy business. When I went to take a photograph the wind blew the moth over and I saw it had a fuzzy, dark rusty-colored body and lighter orange-red color on the underside of it’s wings. Do you know what this is? I’ve never seen a moth so big!
Thank you for your help!
Signature: Angela

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Owl Moth

Dear Angela,
This is a very exciting report for us.  This is an Owl Moth, Thysania zenobia, a neotropical species that is found in Mexico, and the only U.S. reports on BugGuide are from Texas, however, the info page on BugGuide contains this information:  “Recorded through much is eastern North America east of the Rockies: AR, CT, FL, IA, IL, KY, LA, MA, ND, NY, OH, RI, SC, SD, TX, WI; Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Ranges south into South America. Range map.“  The Texas Entomology website has this information: “Caveney (2007) reports 14 Owl moth records from Canada. The western-most and northern-most record was collected in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Neil (1979) reports the eastern-most record at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was collected in late summer or early fall 1944. The specimen is in the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax.“

Update: November 16, 2010
Hi again Angela.  We looked again at the Range Map provided by the Texas Entomology website and there are four reported sightings from Wisconsin.  There is a cluster of three sightings in the 1940s in Kewaunee and a single sighting in 1999 from Bayfield Co., N. Great Lakes Visitor Center, nr. Ashland.  You may want to contact Mike Quinn at the Texas Entomology website and report your sighting.
Sept 21, 1999

Posted 16 November 2010 § Black Witch ‡ Comments (0) °

Preying Mantis Oothica

cocoons on pecan tree
Location: Cottonwood, Arizona
November 15, 2010 12:48 pm
Found several of these on our peecan tree and wondered if they will harm the tree.
Signature: Cathey in Cottonwood AZ

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Mantis Oothica

Hi Cathey,
this is the Oothica or egg case of a Preying Mantis.  We cannot tell you what species this is without doing some research, but perhaps one of our readers knows which Arizona species has an Oothica that looks like this.

How AWESOME!!!! Thank you!!!
Cathey

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Posted 16 November 2010 § Eggs § Preying Mantis ‡ Comments (0) °

Fruit Fly

What is this yellow bug?
Location: Southeast Michigan, Detroit surburb
November 14, 2010 9:25 pm
This yellow bug was on a peony blossom in my surburban Detroit backyard mid-day earlier this summer. It makes a great photo and I’d sure like to know what it is.
Signature: Jeanette

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Fruit Fly

Hi Jeanette,
We identified your insect as a Fruit Fly in the genus Strauzia based on photos posted to BugGuide.  The patterns on the wings are quite distinctive.

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Fruit Fly

THANK YOU for the identification!!!
This is a way cool web site and a fine service to ID the bug for me!  Those wing patterns are most unique, indeed!
Thanks!!
Jeanette

Posted 15 November 2010 § Fruit Flies ‡ Comments (0) °

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