#cocoons — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cocoons, aggregated by home.social.
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This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy
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This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy
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This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy
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This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy
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This might be a record for me: 16 mason bee cocoons in a single nesting tube. The ones on the left are larger and likely all females. The smaller ones on the right are males, who emerge first and then wait for females to come out. It's really cool how hymenopterans can control the sex of eggs they lay (males are from unfertilized eggs). Osmia georgica. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #cocoons #insects #pollinators #hymenoptera #osmia #haplodiploidy
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Getting really into #cocoons lately. #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon
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Getting really into #cocoons lately. #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon
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Getting really into #cocoons lately. #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon
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Getting really into #cocoons lately. #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon
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Getting really into #cocoons lately. #insects #bugphoto #bugstodon
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Most of the time I can avoid insects. I even plan for them when I can. I have fly screens to keep the flying ones out of the house and sticky stuff to catch them if they sneak in. I regularly clean floors and bedding, and I use extendable dusters to clear corners and ledges of spider webs.
Today, though, I encountered two unfamiliar bugs. The first revealed itself when I was on my patio. I noticed that one of my potted plants was housing lots of small white bugs, or nests, or cocoons on the underside of lots of leaves. I didn’t know what they were, so I took a couple of pictures.
A Google search suggested mealybugs, but I wasn’t convinced. The mealybug pictures weren’t quite the same as the thing I was looking at, but they were pretty close. Given my doubts and lack of insect-awareness, I decided the bugs had to go. I donned some of the latex disposable gloves that I had bought during the pandemic and went out to strip that plant of infested leaves. Once I started turning branches upside down, though, I realized the problem was bigger than I had thought. Stripping leaves would not be sufficient. I had to prune whole branches.
I clipped away at that plant (which I inherited from the previous owner and still cannot identify) and I removed most of the lower branches. Once I had filled a large Ziplog bag with bugs and branches, I thought my work was done.
What I had not anticipated, however, was the hour-long cringing spine-chilling that comes with bug-association. The shivers stayed with me much longer than I would have thought. Then, just as I thought I was over it, I looked out of the living room window and realized I had missed some bugs. As the sun shone on that darned plant, I saw that I had missed a few.
By this time, though, I was mad. Bug-shivers be damned. I was going to annihilate those beasts. I took up my garden hose, turned the dial to an insect-defying jet, and sprayed it on the undersides of those renegade leaves. I had to hold my ungloved fingers under the leaves to reach my goal, but ultimately all the white bugs were gone.
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wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobius_forficatusThen, as I sat in my recliner revelling in my glory, I saw a centipede crawl out from under the couch. How dare it! I am ready for you, centipede! No creepy-crawly shivers going on now. I am getting you out of here!
I pulled a file folder off my shelf and scooped that creepy thing up faster than a centipede can crawl. It actually paused in shock for a moment, but then I flung it out of my living room onto my patio so fast it thought it had entered a new dimension.
It hasn’t experienced Back to the Future, exactly, but that bug has now joined the same universe as the remains of those insects I ejected from my patio plant. I hope they find a bug DeLorean to take them away from here. Otherwise I may have to take more drastic measures. I’m working on the flux capacitor as we speak.
https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2024/07/12/dont-bug-me/
#blog #bugs #centipede #cocoons #DeLorean #disposableGloves #fluxCapacitor #insects #leaves #mealybugs #nature #patio #Photography #shivers
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On the 5th Day of Christmas by true bug sent to me...
'5 GOLD COCOONS'
#12BugsForChristmas The new buggy #ChristmasCarol
https://amazon.co.uk/Bugs-Christmas-WAYNE-SIMON-PAGE/dp/1699816670 #insects #Cocoons -
On the 5th Day of Christmas by true bug sent to me...
'5 GOLD COCOONS'
#12BugsForChristmas The new buggy #ChristmasCarol
https://amazon.co.uk/Bugs-Christmas-WAYNE-SIMON-PAGE/dp/1699816670 #insects #Cocoons -
On the 5th Day of Christmas by true bug sent to me...
'5 GOLD COCOONS'
#12BugsForChristmas The new buggy #ChristmasCarol
https://amazon.co.uk/Bugs-Christmas-WAYNE-SIMON-PAGE/dp/1699816670 #insects #Cocoons -
On the 5th Day of Christmas by true bug sent to me...
'5 GOLD COCOONS'
#12BugsForChristmas The new buggy #ChristmasCarol
https://amazon.co.uk/Bugs-Christmas-WAYNE-SIMON-PAGE/dp/1699816670 #insects #Cocoons
