Creepy Crawlies
I have this weird fascination with insects. I think I always have. They're just so foreign and beautiful to me....as long as they're not ON me.
Lately I've been spending a lot of free time looking at the posts over at whats_that_bug. It's a community that - as I'm sure you'd imagine - consists of people posting pictures of insects they find and then everyone else tries to identify them. I usually go and do more research on the insects after they are identified, which I guess is my strange self's idea of fun. Biggest nerd ever! I know.
Moths are my favorites. I find them so much more beautiful and interesting than butterflies.
My favorite is quite the beauty:
Oleander Moth
http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/fasulo/woodypest/1003.htm
Other than the many awesome moths another favorite of mine is the Steelblue Ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)
Anyone want to share their favorites with me? Or am I just completely alone here in having favorite bugs? I'm a strange cookie, I know.
Lately I've been spending a lot of free time looking at the posts over at whats_that_bug. It's a community that - as I'm sure you'd imagine - consists of people posting pictures of insects they find and then everyone else tries to identify them. I usually go and do more research on the insects after they are identified, which I guess is my strange self's idea of fun. Biggest nerd ever! I know.
Moths are my favorites. I find them so much more beautiful and interesting than butterflies.
My favorite is quite the beauty:
Oleander Moth
http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/fasulo/woodypest/1003.htm
Other than the many awesome moths another favorite of mine is the Steelblue Ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)
Anyone want to share their favorites with me? Or am I just completely alone here in having favorite bugs? I'm a strange cookie, I know.