The funkiest little stabby jellybean: Parasa indetermina, a Stinging Rose Caterpillar Moth, with an impressive and beautiful arsenal of venomous barbs at their disposal.
"Log Cabin" Bagworm #Moth#Caterpillar (Psychidae)
Bagworms spend their entire lives within a decorated/disguised silken sleeve. Different species make characteristic structures with specific materials.
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Like miniature attack planes, these sleek Conopid flies—Physocephala tibialis—patrol the prairie. Males like this one, predictably, seek out food and females. The females, however, are hunting hosts for their parasitic larvae; in the case of this species, they’re after bumblebees
#NationalMothWeek day 8! Today’s moth is a beautiful red-white-blue (and black) moth that pollinates flowers. Poisonous to birds! Erasmia pulchella (Zygaenidae). #MothWeek Photo: LC Shih