#dead bugs

I collect dead bugs that I find, this was my first moth that my mom found when I was really little. I know it’s a hawk moth and it looks like an Oleander Hawk Moth but I’m not completely sure. Either way it’s beautiful.

look i’m sorry to do this but i have to show you all this beetle i found with a pair of phoretic uropodid mites hanging off it like a pair of Trucknutz

Pityophthorus cariniceps is a bark beetle that looks like it’s wearing a fuzzy little fake nose

@reverse-rainbows submitted: I’m wondering what cicada this lil fella is! It’s from brood x, found it after it died and preserved it’s body in alcohol. From [removed] (remove location pls)

RIP, little friend! This is not a Brood X cicada. Brood X were 17 year periodical cicadas in the genus Magicicada. This fellow is a dog-day cicada in the genus Neotibicen. It may have come out around the same time as the Brood X cicadas, but it’s an annual species. These guys take 2-5 years to develop underground before emerging as adults, but there are overlapping generations that appear every year :)