auch schick: dieser wie klavierlack-lackierte käfer mit dem schmucken namen

Zweifleckiger Schmuckläufer
Anisodactylus binotatus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisodactylus_binotatus

die namensgebenden flecken sind wohl ganz vorne zwischen den augen, hier also nicht zu sehen.

#insekten #insects #beetle #kaefer #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #BugOfTheDay #nature #biodiversity #entomology

"The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, ... local children showed her a mound of earth nearly broad enough to park a Jeep on, crowned with chimney-like tubes. She was shocked that insects could build something so huge."

From @KnowableMag: "These ants farm, but they are also master builders."

https://flip.it/ZpD6Ns

#Insects #Ants #Entomology #Science #Nature

The crazy nests built by leaf-cutter ants

Turrets and tunnels and carbon dioxide — oh my! These ants farm, but they are also master builders.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews
Female Georgia mason bee (Osmia georgica) with remnants of processed pollen on her mandibles. There are varying estimates of how many foraging trips they make to complete a pollen ball, but maybe 20-40. This species tends to focus on flowers in the Asteraceae and Rosaceae. #bees #insects #hymenoptera #entomology #nature #pollinator #pollen

Such a clean and neat diagram! Ammophila tamping down on nest entrance with a small pebble - an example of tool-use by insects ... from J. W. Folsom (see earlier post)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ammophila_urnaria_tool_using.jpg

#entomology #wikipedia

Theodore Henry Frison - Wikipedia

Henry Skinner (entomologist) - Wikipedia