Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / July 2008

please have a look at the pics I've posted below:
http://bolognini.net/bug/
Do you know what insect is this? Could you help classify it?
Thanks,

Hi, I would appreciate your help about this matter.
I found at home some of these insects shown in the pictures below..
It's darkbrown-black coloured ( in the last 2 shoots  it appears red-
orange due to the flash light of my camera).

...in my closet yesterday. I have never seen anything like it. At
first I thought it was a regular fly, but when I waved my hand in the
air to make it fly away - it was sitting on some clothes in my closet
- it didn't fly, but just crawled on. I then thought that it was the

I live on Okinawa, Japan and am fighting an infestation on our beloved
orange tree. I won the battle with the larvae in the trunk.  The tree
stopped dropping it's leaves, flowered in the spring and has borne immature
fruit. My battle now is how to keep the mature beetles from ...

This little black winged insect was found resting on a wild pea flower in a
field in Northeastern Ohio July 2008.  Can anyone tell me what it is? It is
posted on Flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpal/2690816134/

Hello entomologists,
A few years ago I remember seeing this caterpillar in my backyard. I've
never seen anything like it before or since.
I touched it on the back, and discovered that it had these erectile tissues

Sorry, would you be so kind to tell me
which sort of flying bug/insect is this one?
http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1020642te3.jpg
Thanks a lot

Anyone know what this is?  I found many of them at our camp near
Island Lake, Desolation Wilderness, CA.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kamholio/2008_07DesolationBlackInsect?authkey=9dmNODd3r5s
Thanks.

This one stung me last night. Started out as just an itch on my hand .
Lots of mosquitoes in my area, so I brushed my hand and kept working.
The itch turned to pain and quickly intensified to worse pain than any
bee sting I've experienced. The closest I could compare the pain would

First of all, excuse me for my bad English.
Could you help to recognize those little insects that are infesting my
home in these days?
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1010623qv8.jpg

I am not an entomologist by any means, so forgive my general ignorance
of terms.  Today I found my dog chewing on the head of a horned
beetle.  I found the body nearby easily because it was huge.  Looking
at the horns on its head, I thought it might be a rhino beetle.  A