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  1. The nice brown marmorated stink bug is still alive after a week and still crawling around the same place. We called it Wörner. 🤣

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_ma

    #Insects #InsectsOfMastodon #FlyingInsects #Bugs

  2. A moth. This one seems to be extremely nervous about whatever. 🤣 I don’t know what it's doing but I guess the moth doesn't know too. 😝

    #Hiking #AnimalWildLife #Insects #FlyingInsects

  3. Spent some time hanging out with some blue #damselflies at the lake before coming back home 😊

    Damselflies have existed since the Late #Jurassic period & found on every continent except Antarctica. Presence of damselflies & the larger dragonflies, indicates a healthy #ecosystem.

    #Zygoptera #nature #aquatic #odonates #insects #entomology #PredatoryInsects #Saanich #biology #Wsanec #freshwater #ecological #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #FlyingInsects #PNW

  4. CW: Insects

    TIL that earwigs can fly. Though they mostly don't bother flying, it's a little embarrassing as someone with two biology degrees not to have known this 😳

    (HT @aegilops)

    They have shimmering, foldable wings that they hide away under their stiff forewings, like beetles do. Their wing deployment reminds me of an unfurling solar sail.

    nationalgeographic.com/animals (includes video)

    #Earwigs #FlyingInsects #InsectFlight #AnimalFacts #NationalGeographic #TodayILearned #Biology