This doily with legs is a lace bug. Lace bugs are small true bugs with piercing mouthparts that they use to drink plant sap. Corythucha sp., Pennsylvania 🌿🧪 - ThreadSky

jencross.bsky.social • 41 days ago

This doily with legs is a lace bug. Lace bugs are small true bugs with piercing mouthparts that they use to drink plant sap.

Corythucha sp., Pennsylvania 🌿🧪

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wynronan.bsky.social•41 days ago

Very cool, with the pigmented parts almost looks like it is mimicking a small tetrapod.

rockircoon.bsky.social•41 days ago

They hurt when they bite

mariannedenton.bsky.social•41 days ago

Just gorgeous.

hajabroki.bsky.social•41 days ago

So beautiful and delicate (or so it appears)!

gamemodecat.bsky.social•41 days ago

I’m no entomologist, but “true bugs” seems like excessive gatekeeping to me.

jencross.bsky.social•40 days ago

🙄

riknagel.bsky.social•40 days ago

Very cool, and thank you for sharing! But hate the fact when I now see something amazing in nature, I wonder if it’s ai generated :(

jencross.bsky.social•40 days ago

I get what you’re saying, but I think many arthropods are still unique enough that AI can’t guess them yet.

gailwill.bsky.social•41 days ago

What is the definition of a “true bug”?

jencross.bsky.social•41 days ago

Insects belonging to the order Hemiptera: they have six legs and piercing, sucking mouth parts. Most drink plant sap, but some drink blood (such as kissing bugs) and some are predators that feed on other insects (such as assassin bugs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera

davesadventures.bsky.social•41 days ago

Amazing detail! Beautiful little thing!

hunterje.bsky.social•41 days ago

Since getting in to macro have been amazed by how pretty a lot of hemipterans are, even just basic leafhoppers, so many of which are unnoticeable at passing eyeball distance but up close look like they should be in an exotic tropical setting, not on the Rhodedendrons in my boring temperate backyard

jencross.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes, lots of beautiful and interesting ones out there. I was amazed the first time I found a leafhopper.

jackiegardens.bsky.social•41 days ago

With voracious appetites for your vegetables and flowers

connieco.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oh my.. gorgeous! Need to incorporate this fellow in my fabric painting project

scruggs56.bsky.social•41 days ago

oh my goodness

jeremysell.bsky.social•41 days ago

Nice shot!

psychicsoul.bsky.social•40 days ago

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attylyn23.bsky.social•40 days ago

these little insects are so interesting. There’s a whole world out there that most of us know nothing about; thank you for sharing!

thegreatmoonhound.bsky.social•40 days ago

Moar bug posts please

samanthagenx.bsky.social•41 days ago

Love these guys

notkaspeck.bsky.social•41 days ago

Are those wing markings an attempt to mimic a little lizard or salamander?

jencross.bsky.social•41 days ago

No, they're way too small for that, only a few millimeters long.

notkaspeck.bsky.social•41 days ago

a teeny-weeny salamander? an inkling of a salamander?

jencross.bsky.social•41 days ago

lol, sure, ok. 😄

rickyjose.bsky.social•41 days ago

Don't think so, since those bugs are way too tiny.

qua12.bsky.social•41 days ago

Great species👍

rbgrosbeak.bsky.social•41 days ago

Great shot - beautiful creature!

lbw28.bsky.social•41 days ago

Omg love your photos 👏🏽

jackiegardens.bsky.social•41 days ago

And will turn your rhododendron leaves brown and crisp in no time

susanb29.bsky.social•37 days ago

Interesting!

ndhm.bsky.social•41 days ago

Very cool.

kristinwyatt.bsky.social•41 days ago

Now I'm getting excited for your spring and summer photos!

psychicsoul.bsky.social•40 days ago

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tropicalgrowing.bsky.social•41 days ago

Omg! What a cutie!! 😍

sylvius.bsky.social•40 days ago

Piercing Mouthparts would be an epic name for a band.

s-hq.bsky.social•41 days ago

It looks like a frog in bubbles...adorable

platotheteddy.bsky.social•41 days ago

Funny, can’t think where it got it’s name 😉🙃💚

kitcrooks.bsky.social•41 days ago

Fabulous!

columbojones2.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oh it looks like little footies in the wings!

stephanie-can-fly.bsky.social•41 days ago

Trypophobia trigger 😳😳😳

psychicsoul.bsky.social•40 days ago

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gabeny2.bsky.social•40 days ago

Amazing, Mother Nature is perfect 👌🏼

jmegraw.bsky.social•41 days ago

Well hello, doily!

brunoponzi.bsky.social•41 days ago

I started college in plant science yesterday. Following you.

tomb80.bsky.social•41 days ago

What magnification did you focus in at. Nice detail.

jencross.bsky.social•40 days ago

tara-m-e.bsky.social•41 days ago

They are so incredibly small & hard to see also. I brought some inside on a spider plant last fall.

psychicsoul.bsky.social•40 days ago

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g-lau.bsky.social•41 days ago

Soooo beautiful!!
Nature is awesome.

frwildflowers.bsky.social•41 days ago

Astonishing 🙏

lucidillusions.in•40 days ago

how cool is this!

(i should see documentation of lace bugs in India)

gengarprofessional.bsky.social•41 days ago

I glad I experiment a new type of bug in this post 🐛✨

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