A cool story about sacrifice and social immunity in ants. #Ants #insects #Biology
A Formica incerta field ant worker drinks nectar from a Queen Anne's Lace. Tennessee. #Formica #Ants #Insects image
Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Hegemona lineata, Belize. #Tenebrionidae #Photography #Insects image
One of my favorite local planthoppers, Dictyonissus griphus. Such distinctive wing venation. #Tropiduchidae #Planthopper #Insects #Nature image
A Trigonarthris atrata flower longhorn feeds from the spring blooms of a rough-leafed dogwood. Austin, Texas. #Cerambycidae #Longhorns #nature #Insects image
Mosquitoes, a photo gallery: #Mosquitoes #Nature #Insects
Up close with a pygmy mole cricket, Neotridactylus apicalis. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas. #Insects #Orthoptera #Tridactylidae image
The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand. Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas. #Ants #Pogonomyrmex #Formicidae #Insects image
This is such a cool study. A parasitic ant queen tricks worker ants into murdering their own queen, so the parasite can take over the colony. #Ants #Science https://www.sciencenews.org/article/parasitic-ant-matricide-queen
Macro photograph of a large, robust, aposematically colored red, black, and white insect in oblique front view standing on a seedhead, the insect's metallic blue wings blurry with the first wingbeats prior to launch. #Symphyta #Sawflies #Insects #australianwildlife image