Isodontia philadelphica is a thread-waisted wasp found on both coasts of the United States, and hundreds of miles inland - but apparently not through the center of the continent. When the sunlight catches its wings, they have beautiful patches of a deep, iridescent blue or purple.
Unfortunately, even my best picture last year was blurry - I'm looking forward to trying again this summer!
We're doing #bluebugs for #bluemonday? Yay! Here's a bluetiful dolichopodid fly! These guys are fun to watch. They're not very shy, and will come back to the same spot again and again. They're little predators who catch smaller flying insects.
#fly #flies #diptera #insects #dolichopodidae #nature #photography.
I saw some of them for the first time this past summer. So cool! They were only on one particular shrub growing off the sidewalk and it was crawling with them. #BlueMonday #BlueBugs
For today's #BlueBugs hashtag, I offer the NZ Southern Blue, Zizina oxleyi, seen on the campus of #LincolnUniversityNZ.
Students have been counting butterflies in our second year biodiversity class since 2014, using #iNaturalist. They've shown that blues were rare on campus, until one of our big earthquake damaged buildings was demolished and fenced off, making a large wild gravel area for the butterflies to live. That's largely tidied up now.
Saw the #BlueBugs hashtag floating around and this ink-blue _Chalybion_ mud dauber immediately came to mind!
Nearctic Blue Mud-dauber Wasp from Lake Shore Blvd W / The Boulevard Club, Toronto, ON M6K 3C2, Canada on June 08, 2022 at 09:59 PM by Neville Park. It was, I think, a cold night, and this brilliant metallic beauty was very placid and docile. The...
Forget #BlueMonday and make today all about the beauty of INSECTS! Let’s spread some joy & share our snaps of #BlueBugs 🦋
Here’s one of my favourites: a Blue Ground beetle (Carabus intricatus) 💙
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