Any other hobby entomologists here?

[TioBollio]

Car spider! Lol

Great pics!
I'm squeamish around spiders, except for jumping spiders; they're my favorites.
Around the house, I call them all Bob, and Bob definitely gets around!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Saw this guy in the work parking lot just after he emerged. Cicadas have such a simple and poignant life cycle!

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These things are so gross and not the bug itself just the leaving skin behind makes me think of tremors 3 where they morph lol anything that leaves a skin behind makes my skin crawl lol

 

[TioBollio]

Last year I was under a mower and kept feeling a tickle on my neck...

We agreed to leave each other alone. It was bigger than a 50 cent piece, and just a little smaller than a horse.

 

[PeaShack]

These things are so gross and not the bug itself just the leaving skin behind makes me think of tremors 3 where they morph lol anything that leaves a skin behind makes my skin crawl lol

Ooooh, here’s some nightmare fodder…
You do shed your skin…not like a cicada or a snake. But no probs, there’s the handy dust mite to gobble it all up. In your mattress, on your curtains, maybe even in your pillow. Sweet dreams!

(Cicada doesn’t seem so bad now, right?)

 

[TioBollio]

Ooooh, here’s some nightmare fodder…
You do shed your skin…not like a cicada or a snake. But no probs, there’s the handy dust mite to gobble it all up. In your mattress, on your curtains, maybe even in your pillow. Sweet dreams!

(Cicada doesn’t seem so bad now, right?)

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Funny, but now I'll be itching all night!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Ooooh, here’s some nightmare fodder…
You do shed your skin…not like a cicada or a snake. But no probs, there’s the handy dust mite to gobble it all up. In your mattress, on your curtains, maybe even in your pillow. Sweet dreams!

(Cicada doesn’t seem so bad now, right?)

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I actually already knew that but it’s entire skins that gross me out like snakes peeling out and bugs lol if we peeled our skin in one clump and had new that would be nasty!

 

[TioBollio]

I actually already knew that but it’s entire skins that gross me out like snakes peeling out and bugs lol if we peeled our skin in one clump and had new that would be nasty!

That was me at the beach as a kid, the beginning of every summer!
Massive burn, crawl out of the mess and try to tan

 

[Susan Skylark]

My son is in 4-H entomology (and his mom is a huge bug geek but we'll pretend I'm a normal person!) and we keep our eyes peeled for cool bugs. We caught a gorgeous wasp the other day, no idea what type (sort of a rainbow mud dauber sans a sting) but having had some luck with the google photo search with rocks (and also some disasters, everything from dried deer placenta to gluten free bread fails suggested!) we tried to ID it once it was pinned. Google thinks it is a tarantula hawk wasp, which would be awesome except winters get -30F here, we don't have tarantulas in the upper midwest, pretty sure this is another AI fail!

 

[TioBollio]

sort of a rainbow mud dauber sans a sting

Maybe a steel-blue cricket hunter? I think they can go pretty far up north.

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

My son is in 4-H entomology (and his mom is a huge bug geek but we'll pretend I'm a normal person!) and we keep our eyes peeled for cool bugs. We caught a gorgeous wasp the other day, no idea what type (sort of a rainbow mud dauber sans a sting) but having had some luck with the google photo search with rocks (and also some disasters, everything from dried deer placenta to gluten free bread fails suggested!) we tried to ID it once it was pinned. Google thinks it is a tarantula hawk wasp, which would be awesome except winters get -30F here, we don't have tarantulas in the upper midwest, pretty sure this is another AI fail!

There is a Entomology (world wide) on FB that we used often to gauge our bugs for 4H after using our numerous books lol good luck with 4H!