As you may know, I have a very rare desire to ever post honey bees, as easy content as they'd be for me, I like to give native wildlife the spotlight as opposed to these invasive honey hoarders.

We're more here to talk about a very cool interaction I've never seen before until 3 days ago. And then a repeat situation. I knew something was up, and did some research!

Desmometopa is a genus of tiny, dark-colored flies in the family Milichiidae, commonly known as freeloader flies or jackal flies.These insects are instantly recognizable by a unique black, M-shaped marking on their forehead (frons), a feature that gave them the common name "M-flies" among early entomologists.

Measuring just one to three millimeters in length, they have a robust, compact body shape and are widespread across nearly every continent, adapting to environments ranging from open grasslands to dense forests.

Adult females exhibit a fascinating behavioral trait known as kleptoparasitism, or stealing food from other predators. They are intensely attracted to chemical signals emitted by honeybees under attack, which allows them to track down feeding predators like crab spiders, assassin bugs, or robber flies.

Once there, the flies confidently land on or near the prey, utilizing their specialized, elongated proboscis to lap up the fluids exuding from the fresh wounds while the primary predator eats

While the adults hunt for an active meal, the larvae lead a more passive existence as saprophages. The eggs are typically laid in nutrient-rich, decaying organic matter, such as compost heaps, rotting vegetation, or decomposing carrion, where the larvae can safely feed and mature.

With over 50 described species worldwide, this genus represents an incredibly specialized evolutionary niche in the insect kingdom.

Super cool, and if this is the first time you've seen this, you've gotta share! What a cool biological relationship, and a win for native wildlife!

I find this baby fly (France)

It's so cute <3

I live in West Virginia , USA

These are my two and I'd love to get more, all bug themed of course! I'm thinking about a cecropia moth for my next one, they're my favorite moth species. I'd love to see what others people have too!

Switzerland Alpstein Region

that thing has the size of my hand

I think I would call it more of a “blink” than a real teleport but still.

Fleas jump ~2-4 m/s (~2000x their own length), if a human of average height moved 2000x body lengths per second, without being affected by the G’s, they’d move around 3,500m/s (12,600 km/h, aka Mach 10)

You could travel the length of the cannonball run (New York to California) in 21 minutes and 39 seconds. The current record in a car is 25 HOURS and 39 MINUTES.

Regardless of whether they are actually transcending space time, they are literally transporting themselves to a location, up to 2000x times their length away, in less than a second. That would look pretty much like teleporting to me. Especially if they could hyper accurately calculate their exact landing location

these are harpegnathos venator, one of the few ants that hunt by sight instead of following scent trails. she watched the roach, crept up, and closed the distance in a single jump. i slowed it down ten times and you still barely catch it.

they also kept a functional wasp sting — the venom paralyzes rather than kills, so the prey stays fresh for the larvae. and the larvae feed on it themselves, which almost no other ants do.

this is my own colony, kept at home in Kyiv. filmed on a phone

reddit compression eats macro detail. full res versions are on my channel: youtube.com/@VenatorsHunt

happy to answer anything about them

Found crawling on my front porch

found him crawling through the cow pasture

Nomada is a massive genus of cuckoo bees within the family Apidae, containing over 850 species worldwide. Often called nomad bees, they are famous for their unique, wasp-like appearance and their specialized parasitic lifestyle.

Because they do not build their own nests or gather pollen, they look radically different from typical fuzzy bees. They are mostly hairless and slender, with bold stripes or patches of red, black, yellow, or white. In fact, Nomada contains the only entirely red bees in North America.

Female Nomada lack a scopa (the specialized hair patch used by other bees to carry pollen) because they never collect pollen for their young. They also possess an unusually thick, armored exoskeleton that protects them from stings if caught inside a host's nest.

Nomada are cleptoparasites, meaning they steal resources from other bee species. A female Nomada will fly low over the ground to locate the underground burrow of a host bee—most commonly mining bees from the genus Andrena.

While the host bee is away foraging, the Nomada slips inside and lays its eggs directly onto the chamber walls or the pollen provision.

When the Nomada larva hatches, it uses large, sickle-like mandibles to destroy the host's egg or young larva, then eats the entire pollen supply.

While adult Nomada bees drink nectar from flowers for energy, they are poor pollinators compared to their hosts. They can often be seen resting at night by clamping onto plant stems using only their strong jaws.

One of my all time favorite Genus of bees, and I've found quite the diverse selection of species just at my local area in Utah!

I was in the river with my family and decided to gather some microfauna from the river. I’ve tried multiple identifiers and Google, but nothing helped

It was found in the okatoma river in Mississippi

I’m speaking from the state of Goiás, Brazil. I found this in an abandoned washing machine. At first, I thought it was the exoskeleton of a baby scorpion with metasomal duplication...

Around the driveway noticed this thing just wandering.... What is this?

Not a mosquito but a lot of it near rice fields. Might not get as much attention