2 June 2009
Sometimes at the beginning of the month, we have problems with our server and new images do not post live to the site. We are currently experiencing this problem. Please be patient.
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Posted 02 June 2009
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May 27, 2009,
Hello-
I just have to tell you that I am in love with your website! I am an Archives Technician at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/) and during my graduate work at George Washington University I focused a lot of my attention on Integrated Pest Management. I am now the “bug girl” in my museum and I am always looking for new websites to assist me with identificaction. I hope to utilize your site more in the future!
Keep up the outstanding work, my bug-loving friends!
jasmine high
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Posted 27 May 2009
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Tagged: fanmail
Large, dark green beetle with red legs
Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM
I found this beetle on my apple tree on May 23. Can you identify it?
Connie Rand
Lincoln, Maine
Hi Connie,
This is a Blister Beetle, most likely Lytta sayi according to some photos posted to BugGuide.
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Posted 23 May 2009
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Tenebrionidae from Argentina
Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:24 AM
HI!
I´m sending a couple of pictures from Scotobius milliaris, Family Tenebrionidae. I´ve taken them in San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Patagonia.
This is a common species living in central Argentina, but expandig its distribution to cities in Patagonia, where you can find it only in garden´s houses. It is easy to see adult – larva under fallen leaves and walking on the grass. Some call them “catanguitas”.
I believe there aren´t any picture of this species on the web yet.
Hugs
Mirta
Darkling Beetle
Hi again Mirta,
Thanks for allowing What’s That Bug? to be the first site to picture this lovely Darkling Beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. It resembles our Southern California Ironclad Beetle. We have been so busy with work and our new aquarium that we have been a bit lax in posting new submissions, only about one or two a day at the moment.
Darkling Beetle
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Posted 24 March 2009
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What is the name of this insect and is it native to Wisconsin?
Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Dear Bugman,
We found this bug crawling slowly on our bathroom rug. It seems like some type of borer. I haven’t seen something like this before in Wisconsin, especially during the winter months. I brought it outside where it crawled slowly around for a bit on the snow and then I think it died.
Mike Zussman
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Western Conifer Seed Bug
Hi Mike,
The Western Conifer Seed Bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis, is native to the Pacific Northwest, but in the past three decades, it has demonstrated major range expansion. It is quite possible that an accidental introduction led to its proliferation in the Northeast. According to BugGuide, it has been reported in over half the lower 48 states now, including Wisconsin. Western Conifer Seed Bugs often seek shelter indoors when cold weather arrives, but they will not do any damage indoors.
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Posted 07 January 2009
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January 1. 2009
We are having intermittent internet connectivity problems with our provider Time Warner cable, and a technician cannot come to our office until Monday. Please excuse any delays we have in posting and responding to your queries. Right now we are unable to post any new images and we need to resolve this problem.
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Posted 01 January 2009
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Hi Very Nice People Offering an Unbelievable Free Service,
I could just not resist writing the following note to the selfish, unaware morons who feature in your “nastiest person on the Internet” (aka “Nasty Reader Award” section). Thanks for posting their emails so that they cannot remain anonymous and get away with such anti-social behavior.
Kindest regards and gratitude,
Julie
Clueless Ingrates: your post to What’s That Bug (Jen Cifon, jonathanayres, Dawn)
Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:16 AM
I can’t believe that you are such self-centered and apparently pretty stupid people to EXPECT someone who offers you a FREE service (at their own cost, in their own time) to give you what you want, when you want it. Just who handed you your sense of entitlement?
If you had a smidgen of intelligence, you’d be off to some professional entomologist at some high $$, and THEN demand service. Don’t be so stupid and selfish to look a gift horse in the mouth.
It is people like you that are screwing up our society in a big way. You make generous people like the owners of “What’s That Bug?” give up through frustration, and ruin it for everybody else.
You are each a clearly clueless ingrate, acting like the brats that you are, and deserve only the worst in life. Get out of other peoples lives. Idiots
JB
Hi JB,
Thanks so much for your support in the matter of our Nasty Reader Awards. We cannot believe the bile that some people spew because of the anonymity of the internet. We have been chastised by some people for our responses to the Nasty Readers, but we reserve the right to voice our opinion on our own website. Thanks again
Daniel
Is this a Sphynx Moth Caterpiller??
Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Hello Mr Bugman;
First I Love your site, I cannot tell you how many “Bugs” you have helped me identify in my digital adventures. My husband laughs everytime I show him the new picture of an insect and run in to look up what it is on this site. Anyway I came across this Caterpiller and the closest I come to is the Blinded Sphynx Moth caterpiller but I am not sure. He was on a moss covered growth on a dead either Elm or Ash tree in the woods. I live in Southeastern Ohio approx. 45 miles west of Wheeling W.V. I would greatly appreciate it if you could help me put a name to him. I hope these photos are clear enough to make a identification. Thank you so much for your site
Debby Hill
Southeast Ohio
Blinded Sphinx Caterpillar
hi Debby,
Since our first response to you, we have continued to research, and we believe you are correct in identifying this as a Blinded Sphinx, Paonias excaecatus. Bill Oehlke’s excellent website does not show this color variation, but it is well documented on BugGuide. We wish your artful photo also depicted the creature’s head.
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Posted 29 October 2008
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We will be in Kansas City from Thursday, October 30 until Sunday, November 2, 2008. Our students are finalists in the American Collegiate Press/College Newspaper Advisors 2008 Newspaper Pacemaker Award for a two year college paper. We hope the Los Angeles City College Collegian staff comes home with a trophy.
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Posted 29 October 2008
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Lacewing
Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Hi Guys,
found an ID for the plume moth, Alucita phricodes. Thanks for posting the picture. Last night had this visitor come into the house, a lacewing that mimics a moth, Psychopsis mimica. Hope you like it.
aussietrev
Queensland, Australia
Moth Mimic Lacewing
Wow Trevor,
That is one awesome looking Lacewing. I am linking to another image of Psychopsis mimica, but there is no information on this unusual Lacewing on the page.
nais metalmark
Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:40 PM
it’s me again,
this was another first for me this summer and i was so thrilled to see and to photograph this little beauty. i didn’t know what it was at first and i had fun looking thru my books to find it. it’s small and didn’t stay still hardly at all, but i managed to get a dorsal and ventral photo’s, which is what i love to do when the bitterflies let me. i just love how he’s using his antennae to check out the flower in the ventral view.
hope you can use these in your archives.
as always, thanks for all your help,
venice
Nais Metalmark
Hi Venice,
Your contribution of the Nais Metalmark, Apodemia nais, is greatly appreciated. The green eyes help with this species identification.
Nais Metalmark
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Posted 19 October 2008
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Nice antennae
Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:03 PM
What IS this? We shared our picnic table with it stopping for lunch on a long road trip from Texas to Oklahoma. Looks a little like a grasshopper, but I couldn’t easily identify it at bugguide.net . Love the antennae. Any idea?
My four kids and I love bugs and your site. Thanks for all you do to keep our budding entomologists busy.
Shannon
South OK
Long Horned Borer Beetle
Hi Shannon,
This is a Long Horned Borer Beetle in the family Cerambycidae, most probably in the genus Monochamus.
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Posted 16 October 2008
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