S. M. Garver - Wildlife Photos - Insects

The insects on this page include an aphid, an ant, several types of beetles, a milkweed bug, and several insects I have yet to identify. The subsequent pages include bees and wasps, various types of flies, and cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.
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I suspect these will be future insects of some type.
[A clear sack of at least 20 white cylindrical pellets sits on the leaf of a plant.]

Aphid
[The tiny insect is walking amid the stamen of an all yellow flower. The aphid faces away from the camera, but its long antenna are visible. The body and legs are a light brown. The legs are very skinny in comparison to the thick oval of the body.]

A carpenter ant crawling on a spider lily plant.
[The reddish brown ant has six legs and two long l-shaped antenna. The back section of its body is darker than the rest. It is crawling from one petal to another of the lily and is spanning the gap between the petals.]

Multicolored Asian lady beetle
[The wings of this ladybug are burnt ornage with about eight black spots on each wing. Its head is greyish-white with two black spots in addition to its eye spots. It also has a front whitish section with black which resembles a snout. Its legs are burnt orange color. The beetle is walking on the white bark of a tree.]

Mating multicolored Asian lady beetles.
[Both beetles are sandwiched between leaves of a plant. The black and white head and black dotted red wings of the bottom beetle are visible. The legs and part of the underside of the top beetle are visible while the rest of its body is hidden by the leaf curled around it.]

Multicolored Asian lady beetle and what I presume are offspring
[A beetle in the shaded curve of a leaf has what appears to be at least a dozen off-white eggs grouped together.]

Multicolored Asian lady beetle pupa (the stage before it gains its wings)
[The shape of the main section of the body is similar to the mature beetle with its wings closed. The oval section is orange with black spots and has ridges. The front section is sections of white

Seven spot lady beetle
[The wings of this ladybug are reddish-ornage with about three black spots on each wing. There is one large spot on the section of wing just behind its head. Its head is black with a white patch on each cheek. The beetle is walking up the stalk of a Carolina false dandelion plant.]

Not sure what type of beetle this is.
[A brownish red beetle on a leaf has what appears to be two black dots on the upper part of its wing which is kind of hidden from view. .]

The air potato (on the left) is a non-native invasive plant and air potato beetles (on the right) were introduced to this area to help combat air potato growth by eating the leaves.
[Two images were spliced together. On the left is a puffy light tan sphere hanging in the air suspened from a green vine with a huge heart-shaped leaf behind it On the right is a blurry but close view of a beetle with a black head, upper body, and legs, and red wings walking across a large leaf with lots of holes in it.]

Beetle with forked antennae
[The dark brown beetle perched at the end of a piece of grass has two antennae coming from its head, which is smaller than the center portion of its body and which is then smaller than the back portion of the body containing its folded wings. At the end of the main portion of each antenna are three small pieces of antenna. The shaping is similar to what antlers would be on a deer.]

Emerald ash borer beetle
[This is a side left view of the beetle climbing up on a weed stalk. The photo is rotated so it looks like the beetle is crawling from right to left. It has a green sparkly head and body with large eyes. Three left side legs and the top right side leg are visible.]

I've not yet found the name for this beetle, so we'll just call him Bob until I do.

I've not yet been able to determine what this flying insect is.
[A maroonish-brown six-legged insect perched on a plant. It has clear wings and some white stripes on the back side of its body.]

This looks like a small walking brown leaf, but I don't know its name.
[This small all-brown insect has six light-brown legs, two long antennae, and two tiny black eyes.]

Brown marmorated stink bug
[Top-down view of the bug on a blade of grass. The brown body is triangular with a separate triangular section on its back. The long antennas, each having five segments, extend from the sides of its small head.]

An acanthocephala femorata has distinctive large back legs.
[Back view of the bug as it climbs up a stalk. The all-brown body has a tiny head, a triangular midsection, and a larger back section. While the front two sets of legs are relatively thin, the back two legs are very thick. The long antennas, each having four segments, extend from the sides of its small head.]

Female milkweed bug
[This orange and black creature is perched on the top of a leaf such that its underside faces the camera. The two long black antenna each appear to be in three sections. The head is orange while its eyes are black. The underside of the body is black and orange. ]

I've not yet identified this flying critter.
[The small rectangular insect with long black antennas is perched near the end of a blade of grass. Its body consists of yellow, brown alternating sections. It has those two colors and some off-white sections on its head.]

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