Unusual insects

[Dark Raptor]

Nice pics, especially assassins. I like their small head with large, brown eyes.

This katydid looks like some Tettigonidae specie to me (and not laying eggs but cleaning its ovipositor). They belong to different orders (if common english names means something different).

The last picture shows not a spider but Opiliones (daddy-longlegs).

 

[Farom]

Thanks for the help! The katydid did lay eggs in the leaf, which is why I had assumed that was what it was doing in the picture. I thought it was chewing the leaf "open" in order to stick its ovipositor in there and lay its eggs.
Do you know if the eggs of this specie need a cooling period in order to hatch?

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Dark Raptor]

Yes. I guess it can be also possible. I forgot that in Europe there are also Tettigonioidea species that can lay their eggs on plants (like Meconema sp.).
I don't know biology of that specie. In Europe most species belonging to that group survive winter as eggs.

 

[Black Hawk]

hey andrew would u mind tellin me what ur feedin ur katydids, i caught a couple and wanna raise em but i need to know what they eat, how to give them water, and any other info. also breeding info could be useful

 

[Scythemantis]

This is larvae of tiger beetle - Cicindela hybrida. They hunt almost like antlions.

I thought that's what they might be, but I've never seen them up-close. Or even in photos...I've only seen drawings. They have awesome faces.


Daddy longlegs are arachnids but they're nothing like spiders. They have no silk, no venom, and their body has only one fused segment like a mite. They are also omnivorous.

 

[Farom]

hey andrew would u mind tellin me what ur feedin ur katydids, i caught a couple and wanna raise em but i need to know what they eat, how to give them water, and any other info. also breeding info could be useful

I feed mine lettuce, but im sure they will probably eat potatoes, carrots, etc. My female mated before I caught her, so I cant give any breeding info, although I think that just keeping a healthy adult male and female together will result in breedings.

Make sure you give them nice big, thick leaves for them to lay their eggs in. I find that grapefruit leaves work especially well.

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[Black Hawk]

thx for the info Andrew, i just put some greens in for them and they went right at it also the assasin i caught i feed for the first time tonight, very cool to watch. i want some more of these little predators now

 

[Dark Raptor]

This time pictures taken with Canon Power Shot A60 digital camera. This stuff is a terrible choice if you wanna take a good macro pic... but check the results

Cetonia aurata (Scarabaeidae)

Gerris sp. (Heteroptera)

Exorista sp. (Diptera)

Oedipoda (Orthoptera)

Acridoidea sp. (Orthoptera)

Dragonfly belonging to suborder Zygoptera (in copulo).

Lepidoptera larvae (family Psychidae)

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[Dark Raptor]

Hierodula mambranacea

 

[Dark Raptor]

My Tenebrio molitor colony:

"Doggy style"

Nauphoeta cinerea colony:

Freshly "born" N. cinerea larvae:

Blaps lethifera:

Blaberus sp. "giganteus"

 

[Dark Raptor]

True bugs (Hemiptera)

Aphidoidea

Nepa cinerea

 

[Dark Raptor]

Musca sp.

Asilus crabroniformis

Lepidoptera

 

[Dark Raptor]

Ips typhographus

Thanassimus formicarius

Cicindela hybrida - larvae

 

[Dark Raptor]

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[Dark Raptor]

Not an insects... but arachnids - Pseudoscorpion

...and Acari

And insects again...

Oryctes nasicornis (Scarabaeidae) female

Protaetia lugubris (Cetoniidae)

Cetonia aurata (Cetoniidae)

Ips typographus (Curculionidae)

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[Dark Raptor]

Collembola

Carabid beetles captured in pitfall trap

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[Dark Raptor]

Blaps lethifera.

Eudicella smithi (The funniest thing was that I wasn't keeping that specie. Somebody probably added larvae to my Xylotrupes gideon tank).

Blaberus sp. "giganteus"

Gromphadorhina portentosa. My "Supermale" and standard male.

"Czarnobylec" (roach from Chernobyl)

Oryctes nasicornis - 3 females

My crickets.

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[juggernaut]

can you get those in human. that would be eye popping!

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Day in day out, when r things gonna change

 

[Dark Raptor]

can you get those in human. that would be eye popping!

No

...but I've got some Blaberus molting pics

...and Carabus hortensis again...

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[Dark Raptor]

This time only one living beetle... Carabus auronitens.

...and as I've promised in another thread some pics of beetle collection. Here they are:

Mostly Buprestidae

Ontophagus sp.

Curculionidae

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