Insect Appreciation Thread

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What’s the longest an adult dragonfly lived for?

[yyryy (Hello)]

I once caught a mantis and I found out the other day that it’s illegal to catch them in Poland.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

The easier something endangered is to catch, the more times will people catch that thing accidentally…

[CatSquared]

A Solitary Wasp building a mud nest.
Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Potter_Wasp_building_mud_nest_near_completion.JPG
Source: Wasp - Wikipedia

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Much better than the eusocial ones in terms of annoyingness I presume…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Is there any way to tell eusocial and solitary ones apart without numbers? Because a few solitary wasps can just happen to be in the same place, and a eusocial one can get separated from it’s colony.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Solitary ones can survive on their own. The eusocials can’t.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

One of the world’s longest Stick bugs,Phobaeticus chani.

By WildManOfBorneo - Photographed by P.E. Bragg in his own home while working on the species description.Previously published: It may be the same image used in the species description, but this is not certain - numerous similar photographs were taken., CC BY-SA 3.0, File:Phobaeticus chani Bragg, 2008; Holotype Female dorsal view.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

They might be the longest, but they sure aren’t the heaviest.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

The Insect Order of Phasmida is so cool. They are literally named “Ghosts”.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I suppose being hard-to-see is also the feature of certain ghost types.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Leptodirus hochenwarti - A cave beetle found in Slovenian, Croatian, and partly in Italian caves.

By Yerpo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, File:Leptodirus hochenwartii.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It’s front looks a bit like an ant…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

I am surprised no one has posted anything about Crickets, everyone’s favorite “chirping” insect!

By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, File:Gryllus campestris MHNT.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I’ve heard Cicadas also can do sing quite the loudly…