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Exciting news: a grass-carrying wasp (Isodontia sp.) has moved into the observation panel at my insect hotel. The shiny yellow object on the right is the wasp egg. The tree crickets are all alive but paralyzed. #wasps #insects #entomology #TreeCricket #nature #BeeHotel #InsectHotel #isodontia #sphecidae
Photograph of green tree crickets packed into a routered hole in a piece of wood covered with plexiglas. On one of the crickets there is small, elongate, yellow egg.


A recently-eclosed periodical cicada waits for her new cuticle to harden. Panther Creek State Conservation Area, Illinois. Photo from 2014.

#molting #entomology #cicadas #insects #photography #nature
A pale insect with vast, netlike wings hangs from a twig, against a completely black background.