Work bugs me

[urbpan]

I have to admit, one of my favorite things about working where I do, is that there are many more bugs than in the city.



Thread-legged bug.





Orhtopteran (snowy tree cricktet, I suspect) on garlic mustard.







Unidentified jumper on the washing machine.



Still my favorite kind of spider. Look at that face!

Comments

[momomom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really! That spider is just all sorts of cute!

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

"don't jump, life is worth living"

yah, the jumpies are very cute. good 3D vision that :)

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[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Keen pics! Is the Thread-Legged Bug a True Bug (Hemiptera) or is the person who gave it that common name it just trying to trigger one of my pet hates by calling anything tiny with six (or god help them, eight) legs a Bug?!!

btw- love the Salticid. Trivia: Jumping Spiders tend to not trigger The Screaming Heebies in even the most hardcore of arachnophobes- it's prolly something to do with the fuzzy chops and huge eyes triggering the inate "awww, protect the cute baby mammal!" reflex we carry around in our Reptile Brains...

[turil.livejournal.com]

Interesting theory about why we like the little buggers (sorry! jumpers? spideys? What's a cute name for jumping spiders?) I was about to post that I love those little jumping spiders, and then I saw that I'm not alone. They do seem somewhat childlike, I suppose...

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

The Salticids (Jumpers), with their excellent vision, also have an endearing habit of noticing and turning towards a person/camera... They're so cute! (even if my own personal favourites are the Widows (latrodectus))

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

It's so true about the spiders looking at the person. They are such hams. It's as though they're posing. I wonder if they think.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

They love being on camera!

If they do think, it's prolly along the lines of the usual arthropod maxim "Can I eat it? Can it It Me?!"

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Yup, Thread-Legs are true bugs, members of family Reduviidae (much better known for the assassin and kissing bugs). This particular species is Emesaya brevipennis. Like the other Reduviids, they are predatoryon many home and garden pests.

I've never seen one in person, but I think they are particularly neat. :)

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

The Assassin Bugs are way keen. We have one over here that hunts termites in their nests, and takes advantage of their natural instict to clean up dead workers by draining a worker, then dangling the corpse in front of another worker and luring it off somewhere quiet for the Second Course!!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yep, they are "true bugs," subfamily Emesinae: http://bugguide.net/node/view/213/bgimage

Do you have a short word to use in the place of "bug;" "Terrestrial arthropod" is kind of cumbersome. I say "bug" unless I know there's a sensitive entomophile around.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Neat!

I just use "Insect". 'Bug' for anything small, winged and crawly is one of my pet hates, along with calling a *spider* an insect and calling any invertebrate that pops up in a place not convenient for us as a "pest"...

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

I generally use "critter" to include arachnids, millipedes, centipedes, and insects. "Insect" or "buhgs" for insects. This goes back to a classmate I had in one of my undergraduate classes. He was from far west Texas and had a drawl like crazy. One day, he made the comment "Iff'n it's gawt more'n four lehgs and goes cah-runch when ye step awn it, it's ah buuuhg." (the word bug being sustained for nearly a full second). "Or mebbe ah spahder."

You did see that I gave you a species for that specimen earlier, right?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you! :)

Unfortunately, though I always find them on a man-made surface (the mosquito netting of my bird cages) I have never found them in the city. I don't feel like I can use them in the project.

I found one in the garden

[rockbalancer.livejournal.com]

I found one in the garden at work the other day. It was under some leaves of what I think was Elecampane, Inlua helenium.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

How does the bug fit any muscles into those skinny legs?

[dragonwrites.livejournal.com]

i am always so jealous of those spider-eyes. imagine all the things we're missing by just having the two pointing straight ahead.

yesterday i saw a very cool grasshopper. it was all white, like an albino, with little blue spots on it's legs.