Category: Bug of the Week (Page 172 of 218)

Bug of the Week: Scorpion

Do you know why you should check your shoes in the morning before you put them on, at least in Arizona?

We went camping in the mountains this weekend, and we checked our shoes for these:

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Scorpions hunt at night and hide during the day. This one was under a rock before I took this picture.

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It was soon looking for a crack, crevice …or shoe… to take cover in for the day.

Have you ever seen a scorpion?

Bug of the Week: Green Lacewings

I could have chosen a number of insects for bug of the week today. The mother crab spider’s eggs hatched, and the babies were ballooning away last night. I finally caught a cixiid in the act of laying eggs. The list goes on.

But this one really caught my imagination.

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I’ve shown you the beautiful, delicate green lacewing adult before.

Here’s a mystery:  How many lacewings do you see in the photograph below?

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Edit: There are three lacewings on this carrot flower.
Post on green lacewing life cycle showing photos of all the stages.

Bug of the Week: Earwig Moms

We don’t often think of insects as moms, probably because so many species simply drop their eggs and walk away.

This week we found one of the exceptions to this rule.

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We found several earwig moms under bricks in the yard. They had each made a tunnel and laid eggs.

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This one left for a minute when I disturbed her by taking her photo, leaving the eggs exposed for a moment. She came right back and I covered her up again.

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Hopefully she’ll be able to produce some young nymphs as the mother under a nearby rock had done. The nymphs stay with their mothers for awhile.

Earwig mothers just in time for Mother’s Day 🙂

For more information about earwigs:

Earlier post

Earwigs (Blastoff! Readers: World of Insects) by Colleen Sexton


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