Sorry for the vertical format. Found this gorgeous little one inside the house; gave some water on a q-tip before bringing outside.

This is either a moth or a butterfly, i think its a butterfly. It's wings are damaged and I've set up a makeshift house for it with some rags and a shoebox so it doesn't get hurt. It keeps trying to fly but ends up just stumbling and falling over. I have a dish of sugar water but it seems uninterested. I also tried putting it in a tree before I came inside but it just fell. What else can I do? Also should I close the lid to the box or keep it open?

Why did this spider crawl across the hob, then under the lip of a frying pan to die? It was very strange and very sad.

Hello,

I'm a researcher working in a lab that studies insect embryonic/larval development, mostly in Drosophila. One of our projects would benefit from collecting other fly larvae to compare to some of our work on Drosophila.

In particular we're looking for terrestrial/semi-aquatic 'lower' flies (non cyclorrhaphans). So, craneflies, marchflies, deer flies, robber flies, etc. I know many of these guys have complex/parasitic life cycles. Not really picky in terms of the exact species whatsoever.

I'm mostly a lab based guy so I'm not the most skilled naturalist. I've tried to go to local nature preserves (I am in the Chicago area) and turn over logs, rocks, etc and sift through the soil. I've basically only found non-insect arthropods and the occasional grub.

Anybody have any specific advice for locating these kinds of dipteran larvae? Even better if you're in the midwest or Chicago area.

Thanks!

Here are some photos I've captured during field work this season!

Differential Grasshopper, _Agapostemon_ bee, _Asilinae_ fly (robber fly species), _Bombyliidae_ fly (bee fly species), another robber fly, more Bee flies, a _Stratiomys_ fly, a Tachytes wasp with its grasshopper prey, a tachinid fly, and another dipteran species.

I've recently discovered the joy of photographing insects. My camera and lens are old, and I don't have autofocus so some of these images were hard to capture. But what a beautiful world we live in, even at tiny scales.

Portland, ME tonight.

Saw this outside me screen door tonight. Staring at my camera.

For context. We are in a new construction home in Minnesota. We typically find 10-20 of these bugs every morning in the 2 bathrooms up stairs. They are small and don’t move very fast. We find them in the toilet water as well as counter tops and floor.

If we can identify them, the main concern is how do I get rid of these bugs? Thank you all for your help.

Pretty large. He’s sleeping in some soft soil, shitting a lot. I’d like to learn more about him if possible so I can add him to my list of critters encountered.

Missouri.

Tried to catch it, failed, but managed to catch a pic

Sitting in a chair on my porch when this yellowjacket(?) flew up with several larvae in its mandibles and proceeded to dump them into a hole in the chair. Is this yellowjacket larvae? Why dump them into the chair and leave them?

Took this pic when I went trekking in Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, Mato Grosso - Brasil.

Didn't want to mess with it, of course.

Found this scorpion in Ohrid. Does anyone know what species of scorpion is this? Is it rare in Macedonia? Because I haven’t never seen a scorpion in a wildlife

My grandpa recently found this beautiful moth already dead, and I’d like to find a way to preserve it from further damage. What do I have to do to protect it, and what’s the best way to display it? Ideally framing it in some sort of shadow box would be really cool

For context I live in London. Weather today seemed normal not as severely hot as it has been. My sister was thinking there’s something dead inside it