#insect identification
i realise this a long shot but i was wondering if you might be able to ID this little fella? Apologies about the photo quality but they’re so small it was really hard to get decent shots. They’re not in such hot shape due to being terrorised by my cat, they’re about 5-8mm big and was found in Melbourne, Australia. Also, when I first spotted them, the abdomen was a lot darker, like the head.
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It looks like a jumping spider (Salticidae) to me based on the eye arrangement, but I’m from North America and not very familiar with spiders from your corner of the world.
Just from some brief googling my best guess would be Hypoblemum griseum/Hypoblemum villosum(this was the picture with the best visual match), but, again, please don’t take that an authoritative ID because this is very far outside my area of familiarity.
Anybody else able to help?
Entomologists I need your help identifying a thing I saw!
Unfortunately I didn’t have my phone on me, but I found a very small (perhaps ½" long) larvae? outside in MN yesterday. It was black, somewhat flat bodied, had legs, and had an orangish/red strip down each side of its body.
I can draw a rough picture if that helps.
Before I painted this I had no idea what fireflies looked like before they became beetles. Then after I found out they just became even cooler!
Also here are some cool facts I found out when I was researching them:
1. They can glow at every stage of their lives. From the egg to pupa stage its usually like a faint glow and then in the adult beetle stage they flash or blink.
2. They stay in the larva stage for like 2 years until they pupate.
3. When they’re in the larva stage they eat all kinds of other insects even snails and slugs.
4. I just think they’re really cool. Also after I finished this painting I served seeing so many firefly larva it was so cool!!
Also I do have prints of this illustration in my etsy shop. It’s linked below.
Finally posting this Giant African Millipede. I finished it like 3 months ago lol.
Now for some millipede facts:
• Millipedes are omnivores the only eat leaves and other plants on the ground. They’re basically mini recyclers.
• Millipedes don’t actually have a 1000 legs at most they have between 30 and 400 depending on their size and how many body segments they have. Millipedes have 4 legs per body segment.
• The Giant African Millipede is the largest milipede in the world out of at least 10,000 know species.
Hemipterid nymph, probably Achilidae, in mid-molt. Photographed in a Karri forest in mid winter near Donnelly River.
Any help with an ID appreciated. This is a specimen showing ordinary, less freshly molted colours:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDqUAZUjdLL/?utm_medium=copy_link
