See picture in Bug Club photo album "Unknown Bug". Found in updstate New York...is about 3/4" long, has wings, stinks if squashed, has been found everywhere...
Looks like one of the True Bugs - for examples see the following page:- http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2142.html From: "kayakerr <kayakerr@...>"...
This is a leaffooted bug ,I got them here also in my house .I study them with my microscope and take pics of them through my microscope.If your interested in...
Hi, I just found the Bug ID website and tried to make myself a little home study game out of some insect photos, guessing the order of the insect by keying it...
Hi Friends, Seasons greeting from India! I want to know how broods are calculated in butterflies and moths. Correct me if my views are wrong, according to me...
you look at the little comb hairs in the bottom, the female will have longer ones and the male would have shorter ones. Also females are much bigger than...
My daughter collected a caterpillar around July of 2002 and it has been in the pupae stage since. The pupae has formed on a branch. Should I give up? I live...
Of course not.... I have had stuff in pupa for 2 or even 3 years when it hatched... some species take longer than others, sometimes environmental variables...
Dear Shubha/all As there haven't been any replies to this query I will have a stab at an answer. In the UK the term 'brood' is widely used to refer to the...
Please see photo's posted at the "photo" section. I named them "Looking for ID" Thank you for your help. EDTORS NOTE: I dont know how many species in you area...
Ok. The size of the cocoon is just about an inch. The caterpillar was furry and the color was black with yellow stripes...It may be a tiger moth? and the...
Dear friend, Greetings from India! It was nice to have your query on the light attraction of insects what I call as fatal attraction because most of them die...
Please view photo album labeled "Pupae" to see. You'll see the photo named "cocoon"; this is what the pupae came out of. (Note: I took the pupae out of the...
I am writing to get some more information about these fascinating insect. As a company we recently purchased some of these insect for an exhibition were we...
Hello everyone. I just found this and a few other insect groups. Very excited to share info and learn even more about these fasinating animals. To start off I...
I live in Pennsylvania. Is it possible to keep subterranean termites in a farm? I was thinking of making a tank of glass about 3' by 3' with a 1/4" opening...
Hi all, Re the query below, the key to keeping pupae or any other insect through its hibernating stage is to keep it as close as possible to natural conditions...
Hello, An article at http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/b-6080.html may prove useful. Since pairs of termite alates create new colonies together,...
Hi, this is my fist time using a user group like this so I hope somebody out there can help. I live in sydney australia and found this half COCKROACH half and...
looks to me like some sort of mole cricket..... R *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/28/2003 at 7:15 PM James Craig wrote: Hi, this is my fist time...
Yeah, mole cricket. Don't pick it up though. Their first pair of legs are sharp and made for digging in the dirt. And when they get scared they dig...which...
Does anyone know of any magazines that are about insects that aren't super-technical? EDITORS NOTE: The bi-monthly AES Bulletin for a start. For examples of...
Does anyone know of a source for the Peterson Guide book (now out of print) EASTERN MOTHS by Dr. Charles Covell? I have already checked the online used...
If so, I'm looking for someone just like you to feature in an new UK magazine aimed at 18-24yr old females about unusual and interesting hobbies/activites....