What's this charming creature?
Ten points for the first person to get the family name right, too.
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[note: this and all preceding entries are reposted from myrmecos.wordpress.com; guesses for this Monday Night Mystery are also lodged here.]
What in the world is this strange creature?
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There's nothing wrong with microstock. After all, the thriving web-based market for cheap images is a ripe opportunity. But buyers get what they pay for…
Ok, so we all know this is a wasp. But what's with the lumps near the tip of the abdomen?
Ten points for identifying the lump, and five points for anyone ambitious enough to put a name on the wasp, too.
An eloquent elegy to age, written by Steven Johnson on his fortieth birthday:
One of the things that's always stuck with me from my Mind Wide Open research is that human beings vary predictably in their perception of time as they age. Time literally seems to go faster the older you get--not just in…
dermaptera
Some kind of Ephemeroptera (mayfly) larva?
It's a bristletail, so Archaeognatha, and I'm going to guess Machilidae but now that I've said it it'll probably end up being Meinertellidae.
Nice one. I got hung up on the three tails and what my brain saw as "gills"...and thought the pic was snapped in an aquarium.
A Ceti Eel, the last indigenous inhabitant of Ceti Alpha 5?
Meinertellid?
Lack of scales on the antennae suggests Meinertellidae.
Just spent a few months going through pitfall trap samples, and it was surprising how many of these popped up as bycatch.
Lepisma saccharina
No, I second MrILoveTheAnts.
It's definitely that thing Khan put in Chekov and the other dude's ears.
*shudder*
Oh great. My blog is attracting nerds again. :)
I don't know bristletail families, but I think Microcoryphia has priority over Archaeognatha for this order of insects.
"attracting nerds again"
What do you mean, "again"? Shouldn't that be "still"?
No, that was something more like a doodlebug:
http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/doodlebug_trevor.jpg
(antlion larva)