*EPIC!*

So much epicness! Really tired so I'm just gonna list them all and ramble later:

Cabbage whites
TWO Tiger Swallowtails OMG!
1 Silver Spotted Skipper
2 Lopidea sp. (One landed on me)
2 Eastern Commas
1 American Hoverfly?
Clear Wing Moth!! (Hemaris diffinis or H. thysbe?) Oh. My. God.!
American Bumble bees (Males everywhere on Buckeye bush)
Carpenter bees
1 Honey bee
Hover Fly (Brown not sure of the sp.) *Thinking Pseudodoris clavatis it's very variable
Thrips or beetle larvae in a Datura (?) flower
Spring Azure
Male Mosquitoe or Midge
And a lacewing on my terrace window....♥ Epic!

I'll ramble properly about all of this later. Also the "Great Carpenter Bee Mystery" has been pretty much solved after my observations today. My suspicions about the whole thing have been right all along. Smh........*Major facepalm* There were lots of bees today. My somewhat mystery digger bees, some of which might be mining or plaster bees.

Not too entirely sure. And I won't be unless I catch one (impossible) so the only other option is to get photos (possible since there was one today that was very friendly & photogenic). Not to mention the second tiger swallowtail I saw today was very photogenic and friendly but it wouldn't let me hold it. >_<

Hehehe. That's fine. Someday though...........I hope. *^^* Enjoyed seeing all these and a proper rambling shall occur later since I know someone's wondering what the "Great Carpenter Bee Mystery" is.

And I'll tell you later! ^_______^

Epic!

So I FINALLY was able to go back to my beloved park. *Happy sigh* And I saw tons of cabbage whites and carpenter bees. Also a Mining Bee of some sort? Not too sure.

But I finally met someone who could tell me about the plants in Morning Side!! Yippee! This is why this visit was especially epic. =) I've been attempting to find someone for quite a while. So I'm happy to have finally accomplished that. Hoping to meet Joe (that's his name ^^) again someday.

On to the buggies:

Cabbage whites
A Bee (RESEARCH!)
Carpenter bees
European paper wasps
An Ant (I can't remember where I saw this.......X_X)
Lopidea sp. (a nymph and an adult)

By my house:

A Jumping Spider
A Mirid

Aaaah 모닝 싸이드 오랫만이예요! ᄏᄏᄏ

16 Ways To Eat A Cicada

CLICKY!

They've all lost their minds.......

Happy Summer! *^^*

BOTM: Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)

Reserved for epicness.

*OMG!*

I'm proud to say I witnessed this. ♥

There were dozens and dozens out twirling around each other so elegantly. I thought nothing of it at first as I thought it was just your typical territorial dance between 2 males. But then there were more doing that same dance and I had to wonder what exactly was going on here?

So I continued to observe them and when I saw some mating that's when I knew what was going on. I got sentimental over it all as I've never had the pleasure/honor of witnessing something so beautiful. I'm extremely thankful. A further more detailed explanation (a.k.a Excited, slightly immature rambling) of it all can be found here.

I also got to hold a Painted Lady. 0_0 I don't need to say anymore on how EPIC this was other then it was flying around the water fountain by the baseball field and it practically walked onto my hand (I had bent down when it landed to see if I could get it on me)! I got to hold it twice.

*Happy happy sigh* I was in great need of this. Thank you & God bless you Lepidoptera.

Random Insecty Things (Links)

8 Odd Ways To Get Rid of Ants

I wonder if I should add a couple of ants to my Hall of Shame list I'll be posting???

Catonephele Images (Butterfly)

I think some of these are wrong......obviously. -_-

Cincindela Online

Amazing! They have books that I would love to have......unfortunately it's a European site with (obviously) European currency. -_-

I wonder if Amazon has any of these books? I certainly hope so!

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Microlepidoptera OMG!

Listing the species:

• Episcada apuleia (Hewitson, 1868) Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
• Pteronymia alida (Hewitson, 1855) Mexico to Bolivia including Venezuela,Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• Pteronymia teresita (Hewitson, 1863) ssp. thabena (Hewitson, 1869) Ecuador
• Pteronymia dispaena (Hewitson, 1876) Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
• Pteronymia teresita (Hewitson, 1863) Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
• Pteronymia teresita (Hewitson, 1863) ssp. denticulata Haensch, 1905 Bolivia
• Pteronymia alida (Hewitson, 1855) ssp. zabina (Hewitson, [1857]) Colombia
• Pteronymia artena (Hewitson, [1855]) valid name for Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
• Pteronymia artena (Hewitson, [1855]) valid name for tigranes Godman & Salvin, [1879] Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama
• Pteronymia simplex (Salvin, 1869) Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala
• Pteronymia artena (Hewitson, [1855]) Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia
• Pteronymia cotytto (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) Mexico, Panama
• Pteronymia alissa (Hewitson, 1869) Ecuador, Bolivia, Trinidad, Colombia,Venezuela
• Pteronymia alissa (Hewitson, 1869) andreas (Weeks, 1901) valid name for andreas of authors Ecuador, Bolivia
• Pteronymia primula (Bates, 1862) valid name for tenuis Haensch, 1905 Brazil(Amazonas), Colombia
• Pteronymia primula (Bates, 1862) ssp. auricula Haensch, 1905 Colombia
• Pteronymia aletta (Hewitson, [1855]) subsp. lilla (Hewitson, 1856) Ecuador
• Pteronymia aletta (Hewitson, [1855]) subsp. agalla Godman & Salvin, [1879]
• Pteronymia laura (Staudinger, 1885) Colombia
• Pteronymia euritea (Cramer, [1780]) Brazil
• Episcada hemixanthe (C. & R. Felder, 1865) Brazil
• Pteronymia sao (Hübner, [1813]) ssp. antisao (Bates, 1862) Brazil(Amazonas)
• Pteronymia medellina Haensch, 1905 Colombia
• Pteronymia ticida (Hewitson, 1869) Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,Venezuela
• Pagyris cymothoe (Hewitson, [1855]) Venezuela, Colombia, Peru. Ecuador
• Pagyris cymothoe (Hewitson, [1855]) subsp. sylvella (Hewitson, 1868) Ecuador
• Veladyris pardalis (Salvin, 1869) Ecuador, Peru
• Velamysta pupilla (Hewitson, 1874) subsp. cruxifera (Hewitson, 1877) Ecuador
• Velamysta peninna (Hewitson, 1855) Peru. Bolivia
• Velamysta pupilla (Hewitson, 1874) Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia
• Aeria eurimedia (Cramer, [1777]) Mexico - Colombia, Guianas, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela
• Aeria eurimedia (Cramer, [1777]) subsp.agna Godman & Salvin, [1879] Nicaragua - Panama, Venezuela
• Aeria olena Weymer, 1875 .Brazil to NE.Argentina
• Brevioleria coenina (Hewitson, 1869) Ecuador
• Hypoleria lavinia (Hewitson, [1855]) vanilia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) Colombia
• Hypoleria sarepta (Hewitson, [1852]) subsp. virginia (Hewitson, [1853]) Brazil(Amazonas)
• Brevioleria aelia (Hewitson, 1852) subsp. orolina (Hewitson, [1861]) Brazil(Amazonas), Peru

You know I'll be researching these. Not all at once of course. :P Moderation. *^^*

Onion Plant Bugs Labopidicola, Labopidea

So one of these decided to pay me a visit early this morning (06-01-11) and I went looking to see if I can pin it to an ID and came up with Labopidea, Labopodicola (what the difference is between the 2 I have no idea). Only difference with mine is that mine was a darker green then in the photos I found on Bugguide.

Of course there's a possibility (with Mirids it's hard because it's the largest Hemipteran genius) it was something else. What that something else is well.......it could be:

Orthotylus sp.
Ilnacorella sulcata, other green Ilnacorella?
Blepharidopterus sp.
Or this? Which hasn't been ID'd yet.....

Will continue looking for other possible candidates. There's also a nice PDF on them here.

You shall be updated!

Korean Bug Sites!! 한국 곤충 블로그/싸이트

대~~~~~~~~~박! 대박이당~~!

I found these (06-01-11):

몸은 비록 멀리 있어도 항상 가까은 곳에... Linky!
곤충 나라 식물 나라 Linky!

아주 행복해요~*.* 공부!!! 공부 열심히해요! 홧팅!

Narcissus Bulb Fly (Merodon equestris)

I saw this yesterday and mistook this for a honey bee. Come to think of all my other "Honey Bees" that were way too big to be honey bees might have been these fellas. =)

These are native to Europe (obviously introduced here :P) where they have 6 different color forms. =O I wonder which one was mine? Mine had white fuzz around the abdomen kinda like this one.

They're cute but they like destroying daffodils.......we can't have that in my garden (if/whenever I get one). *^^*

The adult M. equestris feeds on the pollen and nectar of flowers from the genera Lilium and Narcissus.

The larvae of these flies are known pests found on the bulbs of these flowers, leading to the names bulb fly and Narcissus fly. This is unlike most other members of the family, which predate on aphids.

Interesting! From Wikipedia obviously.....do extra research!! I can only do so much with limited knowledge on these and the genius in general. :P

I'll see if I can spot some more?

$JACKPOT$

So I went to the park today finally!! It's been too long and was GREATLY rewarded with members of the Lepidoptera family (I thank you greatly):

1. Tiger Swallowtail ANOTHER ONE! That makes 3 altogether I've seen around my neighborhood. Starting to keep track now.

2. A Comma or a Fritillary? 90% it was a comma. Little sneaky bugger was too fast for me to get a good look at it.

3. Eastern Tailed Blue?

4. Mating hoverflies?

And a hoverfly mimicking a honeybee.........RESEARCH!! I'll get back to you! ^___________^

Flowers:

Deutzia gracilis
Philadelphia Orange
Mystery Flower #1
Mystery Flower #2 Looks like Ajuga sp. but isn't. X_X

Wicked Bugs! >:)

Oh Ho~!


This. Is. Epic.! A special thanks to AOL for directing me to this epic trailer due to them featuring a brief article here. And then there's this too from which I read that epic excerpt from this book that's about to become apart of my collection of epic insect books.

Wicked Bugs is like an updated version of Nick Arnold's Ugly Bugs except it's not "kiddified" if you get my drift. Both are epic but Amy's is more of the "adult version" at least to me.

You can be sure that I'll get my copy ASAP. Because when one of America's best selling writers that doesn't write about insects starts to.......you know it's gonna be epic!

Props to Amy!! You've gained another fan. Can't wait to read it all!

BOTM: Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia)

Argynnis paphia F. valensina

These are on the cover of A World For Butterflies by Phil Schappert which I received on the 17th. It's a gorgeous book and I highly recommend it.

Now on to my ramblings about 2 very important things that I noticed:

1. There's quite a bit of info on Wikipedia but it's not cited with references or sources so I won't be posting anything from there on here. I will be linking it though.

2. From what I understand there seems to be 2 forms of the female....unless the 'F' stands for 'form' there's the regular orange color and this one (pictured) named valensina.

Upon searching for info elsewhere I found this.

Apparently Valesina is the name of the dark form of the females. Coolies!

A spectacular form of this butterfly, known as valesina, occurs in a small percentage of females, primarily in the larger colonies in the south of England, where the orange-brown colouring is replaced with a deep olive-green.

The legendary lepidopterist, Frederick William Frohawk, was so taken with this form, that he named his only daughter after it. This form is quite distinctive in flight, looking like an overgrown Ringlet, and has the common name of the “Greenish Silver-washed Fritillary”

- UK Butterflies

On a side note I'll be look at that site even further because it has pictures and videos of butterflies. For A. paphia it also lists the aberrations too.

Will be checking the site out further. Awesomeness.

Hall of Shame Rant

Sitting here thinking about who else should be on here besides the obvious?

1. Bed Bugs (Cimex lectularius) *These guys just might get more then one entry too.
2. German Cockroaches (Blatella germanica)
3. Asian Ladybug (Harmonia axyridis) *Yes people we're mentioning them yet again.....
4. Cabbage Whites (Pieris rapae) *I know what you're thinking...a butterfly?! You'd be surprised

Any more suggestions? I need a bit of help here! *Researching* Shame the pic's not bigger. Heheehehe >:)

You'll be hearing from me soon on this. Hopefully starting it at least.

Happy April Fools Day!

Happy April Fools Day!

Not feeling it this year though. Or should I say that I didn't feel it this year because of a rather distressing situation I'm in that Idk when it'll be over and we'll have all the answers and everything. So this is just a fill in.

Working on filling in the month for April as I work on May. March is pretty much easier to do since I don't plan on going through the whole month. It would only hold things back even more. And I don't want that. Want to let you know that I am ok. Stressed but ok. As I type this I feel motivated......prepare for post spam!

Yippee!!

Oh~ I want these!

Butterfly Books!

CLICKY!

Books on the butterflies and moths of Malaysia, Singapore, & Thailand. I want these. Must go look on Amazon/B&N. Hopefully I can get some.

Can never have enough books. Which reminds me, I have to list the rest of my collection. *^^*

Toodles!