2020

A terrific year for insect photos: I’m not going to post more than a handful, or this will end up as a duplicate of the main pages.

Halictids are always a highlight:

Bethylidae
Tetragnatha
Graphocephala fennahi (Rhododendron Leafhopper)
Crabronidae, Gorytes, with a grasshopper for its babies. It later flew off carrying it away.
Lebia ornata
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Astylopsis macula
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Entiminae. Maybe Asiatic oak weevil.
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Handsome trigs, always photogenic
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Polycyrtus, maybe. Cryptine ichneumonid.
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*Maybe* Drasyllus.
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Micropezidae, maybe Rainieria antennaepes
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Platycryptus undatus
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Monochamus notatus
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Limonius basilaris
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Coniopterygidae!!
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Odontocolon
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Tarpela micans
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Ampedus collaris
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Hemileuca lucina
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Rhagonycha
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Female Hentzia?
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Panorpa!!
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Maybe Auplupos
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Lasioglossum cf coeruleum
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Winter firefly, Ellychnia corrusca

Posted 2020-11-02 by gaurav1729