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As an Entomologist Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
Sup /an/

I'm new here, left the cancer of /b/. I scrolled through a few of the threads here and noticed several people wanting insects identified. I don't know EVERY species, but I did do a lot of insect identification in college. If you have any pictures you want identified, I might be able to help.
>> Anonymous
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What is this? It looks like a cockroach but the thorax is different.
>> Anonymous
>>279086
Whoops! I meant abdomen, not thorax.
>> Anonymous
it is a female cockroach laying an ootheca, a bag of eggs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ootheca

the cockroach doesnt appear to be a species I've seen before, but I'm in the south
>> Anonymous
>>279088
God, I thought so. Glad I let her bitchass outside.
>> Anonymous
What's this>>278890
>> Anonymous
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how about this funtastic friend?
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279095
I didnt respond to that thread because I dont know what family that is, honestly
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279097
Reduviidae, an assassin bug
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduviidae
>> Anonymous
>>279100
awesome. he and his friends made for some cool macro pictures
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
bump
>> Anonymous
ok got not picture but ill try to describe

it looks like a large rust colore hornet (id say about 4cm long) with one bright yellow strip on its abdoment
i see them flying around in the grass sometimes but they rarly stop for long enough to take a good look
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279243
sounds like a member of the Polistes genus, but it could be a number of things within the family Vespidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes
>> Anonymous
>>279255
besdies the yellow strip they are completly rust\red clored including the wings theres no black or additional strips

also the yellow strip is pretty thick about 1/3 or half of the abdoment
>> Anonymous
I've been lurking on whatsthatbug.com for years.
http://whatsthatbug.com/
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
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>>279258
like this? This is a Scoliidae. Other than that, it could be a Pompilidae, but without a picture I'm sorta stabbing in the dark. Apocrita (wasps and bees) has a lot of stuff that can be described the same with generalist descriptions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoliidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompilidae
>> Anonymous
>>279261
i searched google a bit and found this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_hornet
seems about right
>> Anonymous
http://www.vespa-crabro.de/oriental-hornet.htm
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
bump
>> Anonymous
>>279319
>>278217

still trying to id these
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279518
done, but I don't know the fly
>> Anonymous
>>279521
Thank you so much, I don't know how I missed your fly comment, it was getting kinda trollish around than. I lucked out with those stink bugs, I picked him off my zucchini and brought him over to a shrub bush. Maybe I got the friendly one
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279527
their mouths are modified into a straw-like tube which they use to feed on tasty plant matter. He was probably feeding on your fruit
>> Anonymous
>>279528
ah, thats good to know. So does he feed on any kind of plant? I don;t want to find out I signed out his death warrant by brining him to some stupid shrub.
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279534
he will probably crawl back. I can't tell you what exactly it eats without knowing the species, which is near impossible without looking at an adult. They generally eat fruits and other sugary parts of plants. Most are host specific, so he probably was liking that zucchini. But, he will probably be back on there tomorrow anyway
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I caught a green beetle the other day. What is it, and what does it eat? Can I make a colony of them? It looks really magical, sort of like leprechaun, but a beetle.
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279538
probably not the exact species, unless you live in Europe, but close

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetonia_aurata

Unfortunately, with most insects we actually don't know much about the life cycle. While there are a bazillion sources to tell you the differences of diet between a lion and a tiger, there's very little information on the subtle differences between individual species in insects. There simply isn't enough money or people working on it *shrug*

Most likely the info in the wiki article will give you a rough idea of it's diet, but I would suspect you wouldn't have the patience to grow a colony (and I'm pretty damn sure you won't be able to mate them)
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
at the very least, it's a flower beetle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetoniinae
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>>279550
No it's not that one. It's an American species. People call it a green june bug. I haven't been able to find a scientific name yet though. But I have learned that they will eat oranges and other fruit. Unless I could breed them year round like I do with my super worms, and dubia roaches I probably wouldn't want to try it.
>> Anonymous
sooo I am pretty new to insects in general, I have alwyas wanted to learn about them but never really had the motivation until now. Last week I got National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders and I was wondering what other books you would reccomend reading, as that is more of a reference book.
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I was going round a park when i saw this fellow. I'm in central ohio. I know I've seen them before though..
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>279560
well this is a different species than the previous pic, and googling green june bug brings up...
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/KKHP/1insects/junebeetle.html

I can't identify it better than that, identifying to species with certain beetles is very very difficult. The info over the life cycle generally remains pretty consistent when you get down to the Genus level. These beetles will only have 1-2 broods a year, and take several months as larvae.

>>279809
I don't know for casual reading of insects, but if you wanted to know the family of anything you see, I'd highly recommend the book below. Then google image search the family name + color or other description of the insect . It works somewhat well, actually.

http://www.felinepress.com/entomology_photo_atlas.html

http://www.amazon.com/Photographic-Atlas-Entomology-Insect-Identification/dp/0962515043

I can recommend university level books if you like, but they are generally aroun ~$150

>>279823

err, a small moth, I can't identify it from that picture, but I probably couldn't with a better one anyway
>> Anonymous
bump, anyone else?
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
bump
>> Anonymous
>>280750

Well, the problem is that most anons here know how to identify insects themselves, but I'm still bumping
>> Anonymous
http://bugguide.net

Go there.

Look through thousands of images.
>> Anonymous
>>280973
added some new pics, i could use an id if you dont mind
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
>>281857
k, done, anyone else want anything identified?
>> Anonymous
OP, we love you already.
>> Anonymous
>>279086
Holy fuck, I have the same color of carpet as you!
>> Dr. Grissom !9GXd8p7Kds
bump again, saturday night, etc, anyone got anything?
>> Anonymous
>>279550
>unless you live in Europe

Cetonia aurata is the most common here in Europe, but there are also several species of Protaetia that can look like this.

To distinguish those 2 genera, you need a ventral shot of the beetle.
>> Anonymous
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Here Doc, try this moth.
Family should be Noctuidae, but that's as far as I go.
>> Anonymous
bugs
>> Anonymous
Big (size of a little less than half my index finger) mean looking bug sitting on a light in my garage. It had mouth pinchers and was black and white. It was trying to kill a nearby junebug.
I tried to get close and it started flying around my head, so I ran away like a baby. Ideas?
>> Anonymous
>>283355
sounds very vague, could you at least tell if it was a beetle, wasp, fly, true bug etc. or draw a sketch of it?