insects – Holly Jessen

Ant swarms garner a lot of attention

After heavy recent rains swarms of ants exited their colonies to mate.

Tiny red beetle looks furry in macro view.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how great a photo you take. For identification, it’s all about angles.

A human mama does what she can to help a moth mama carry on her life’s work.

This isn’t my usual happy post with pretty pictures of bugs.

There are so many interesting and unique moths in Minnesota.

Mouth puckering cranberries take me back to my youth with my grandma Nordvick.

Some say spotted-belly buprestid and others say ventrally-spotted buprestid. Either way it’s a jewel beetle or a metallic wood boring beetle.

Flashy looking moth warns predators to back off.

A trip outside yields multiple new species for a newbie bug identifier.