New York City Bugs

Spill-footed lacewing larvae, Myiodactylinae, Nymphidae, Neuroptera (related to owls and antlions)

Found in Australia

Adult in the same subfamily:

Photos 1-4 by normfarmerimages, 5 by tjeales, 6-8 by doggy48, 9-10 by sofiazed1, and 11 (adult) bystreglystendec

how is this not a limacodid

Lovechild of a limacodid caterpillar and an owlfly larva

me when im a bowling alley carpet

male euthalia adonia | source

Gorgeous Green Geometrid Moth (Aporandria specularia), family Geometridae, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

photograph by Stéphane Bidouze

Yepcalphis dilectissima, family Noctuidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by Alexey Yakovlev 

Moth, and roughly Moth-shaped blemish on palmetto (made by Baby Moth)

The palm-leaf housemaker (Homaledra heptathalama) is one of my favorites. The adults are very pretty, the babies feed on palmetto, making blemishes which often resemble the adults very closely. It's a pretty solid strategy for being inconspicuous.

Emperor Moth (Opodiphthera fervida), male, family Saturniidae, QLD, Australia

photograph by Jasmine Vink

Red and white debid planthopper, Saccharodite coccinea, Derbidae

Found throughout South and Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by simbason, 2 by tausher, 3 (mating) by cosmophasis, and 4-5 by ylsu

Blue-eyed Black Lascar (Pantoporia venilia anceps), family Nymphalidae, West Papua, Indonesia

Photograph by Gan CW.

Notched-mouth ground beetle is built like a hot wheels

this little butterfly is Sarota acantus, a fingernail-sized work of art found in Central and South America. you can tell this one is a female since she’s walking on all six legs—male metalmarks have a greatly reduced first pair!

Yellow long-horned moth, Tisis sp., Lecithoceridae

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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Odina decoratus, family Hesperiidae, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Photograph by Sugitani Atsushi

Ball Cockroaches (Perisphaerus spp.), family Blaberidae, Singapore

photograph by Melvin Yeo

Eight-spotted Crab Spider (Platythomisus octomaculatus), female, family Thomisidae, Singapore

photograph by Janice Ang

Yellow-headed soldier fly, Cyphomyia leucocephala, Stratiomyidae

Photographed in Brazil by isismedri