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laurel_crown) wrote2013-10-30 06:18 pm
laurel_crown) wrote2013-10-30 06:18 pm
bugz
So I was waiting for the bus home this afternoon when a beetle flew into my sunglasses - and clung on!
My fellow entomophile friend Rosa (who did Invertebrate Zoology with me) and I proceeded to coo over it and try to figure out what it was. Meanwhile our entomophobe friend was backing away . . .
Now, thanks to the omniscient Google images, I have decided it was a tortoise beetle:
All this reminded me that I had found a brown lacewing (Order Neuroptera, Genus Micromus for the biologically inclined) in the kitchen the other day!
HUGE mandibles (pincery mouthparts)
Luckily I saw it was not, in fact, a cupboard moth before I squished it :P Can't wait for uni term to end (almost there, just got to get through exams) - then I can spend the summer describing beetles at CSIRO!!
ETA: Wikipedia (via Rosa) informs me said tortoise beetle was indeed more orangey than the first photo, being probably Paropsis atomaria
My fellow entomophile friend Rosa (who did Invertebrate Zoology with me) and I proceeded to coo over it and try to figure out what it was. Meanwhile our entomophobe friend was backing away . . .
Now, thanks to the omniscient Google images, I have decided it was a tortoise beetle:
All this reminded me that I had found a brown lacewing (Order Neuroptera, Genus Micromus for the biologically inclined) in the kitchen the other day!
HUGE mandibles (pincery mouthparts)
Luckily I saw it was not, in fact, a cupboard moth before I squished it :P Can't wait for uni term to end (almost there, just got to get through exams) - then I can spend the summer describing beetles at CSIRO!!
ETA: Wikipedia (via Rosa) informs me said tortoise beetle was indeed more orangey than the first photo, being probably Paropsis atomaria