Sawyer beetle above the front door!

Oh right it's #MothWeek!

I just love these little metallic moths. They are casebearers—as caterpillars, they build little cases or shells for themselves out of plant matter, debris, etc.

I sometimes get very excited about new products, but they’re not met with the enthusiasm I was hoping for.
That’s just life as a small business, we keep going!
It just made every little magnet adoption extra special

If you like them, here’s where you can adopt them: https://evanskyarts.com/collections/aimants

"‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/jul/22/summer-butterfly-sightings-across-the-uk-photos

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
#butterfly #insects #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography
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Viceroy (Limenitis archippus)
Driftless Area, Dane County, WI, USA
#butterfly #insects #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography
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Canadian tiger swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) 
Driftless Area, Dane County, WI, USA
#butterfly #insects #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography
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ein Goldglänzender Rosenkäfer Cetonia aurata

‪Here are some very nice moths I've met

Clear wing moth
Orange headed callima moth
Raspberry pyrausta moth
Plume moth

I suspect the incandescent red of this wasp is trying to warn me about something.

(Polistes occipitalis, Ecuador).
#WaspLove #Wasps #Polistes #Insects

A Grass-Carrying Wasp covered with pollen.

Butterflies have their own way of #bloomscrolling.

I dropped a cashew on the patio yesterday and forgot about it. Now it is covered in tiny black ants. I don't think I want to eat it now.
#ants #insects

An Elephant Mosquito (genus Toxorhynchites) spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 8 Feb 2025. These large forest mosquitoes are not blood-suckers. And their larvae feed on other mosquito larvae (like those of Aedes aegypti), so they are considered a beneficial species.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260984657 ].

This was quite an impressive insect:
#photography #nature #insects #bugs

Not sure who was more shocked in this groundbreaking encounter? We, or the Caroline grasshopper, it had its eyes on us. Oh well, it was a brief encounter before we all hopped away. #insects #nature #grasshopper #Canada #Naturephotography