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Small Wonders

Insects and spiders (+ some other critters) close up
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HemipteraHeteropteraCercopidaeProsapia bicinctatwolined spittle bugadultanteriormouthpartseyes

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  • Spiracle (lower center; opening that lets oxygen into the tracheal system) and haltere (upper right; orange knob-shaped organ that helps balance the insect in flight). Dark brown horizontal structures at top are the wings.
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  • Spicebush swallowtail laying down silk on spicebush leaf to cause it to fold over and enclose the larva for protection against predators. The large "eyes" on the upper part of the body are fake, but appear real to predators such as birds that perceive the worm to be much more dangerous than it really is. The real eyes are much smaller spots located laterally on the tan-colored head capsule. check
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  • Parasitized aphid showing the hole used by the parasitoid to exit the host. Dark spots inside the aphid shell may be excrement deposited by the parasitoid. check
  • Note the piercing mouthparts embedded into the leaf's main vein, which anchors the insect and allows the next stage to more easily shed it's old skin. check
  • Mite hiding in a crevice of a beetle's integument ; uncertain id.
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  • Close-up of eggs showing the pseudoperculum, the rounded area on top of the egg that provides the young insect a means to get out of the egg. check
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  • Lucy using all her senses to identify this fly.
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  • Leaf miner feeding in between layers of an oak leaf. The larva feeds on the green plant cells but not on the top and bottom layers of the leaf. This "envelope" provides protection from threats such as some parasitoids and predators. The top layer of the plant is nearly transparent with a "cobblestone" texture. The open mandibles of the larva are seen at the lower tip of the dark-brown head. They move in scissors-like fashion to chew away at the cells. The mine starts off very narrow but increases as the larva grows and consumes a wider path of cells
  • Antenna ball & socket articulation in long-horn beetle. The bubbled-like structure that surrounds the socket is the beetle's compound eye
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  • The largest ground beetle in the world.
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