My Small Insect Collection

This is my small collection of insects- with the exception of two insects I found today.

I though i would share with you my ever growing insect collection.

most are insects found in my house that could not survive the night in the container.

Let me explain each insect here and new additions.

This is a Magicicada Septendecim Exoskeleton.

Also known as Periodical Cicadas; these specimens often look like giant locusts.

Although they are said not to bite or cause harm to plants; they only eat sap from deciduous trees.

These insects often lay their eggs deep in tree stems and it is advised not to destroy these insect eggs

because the larvae only eat sap and sense these insects burrow into the ground and sleep for seventeen years; they are not as abundant. Their absence in nature almost seems as if they went instinct.

 This is a Amphipyra pyramidoides Carcass i admittedly and sadly destroyed it's luster.

Luckily i took some decent photos before hand because this used to be my favorite peace.

( Lesson Learned: Don't glue moths to preserve them)

The Amphipyra pyramidoides is also known as the Copper under-wing.

these Pyramid Headed larvae are a result of a once a year brood.

They eat shrubbery such as including apple, basswood, hawthorn, maple,

oak, walnut, raspberry, and greenbrier.

This is a sugar ant that happened to be searching my monitor for sugar.

I was going to return it to the ant colony outside our house the fallowing day.

but the the poor bloke didn't survive sadly; so i preserved it.

This is a Toe-Winged Beetle.

these beetles live in rotten vegetation and rotten wood.

They do not bite and are quite harmless.

 These are the tiny unidentified insects that are just too tiny to decipher.

along with these  beetles below that may or may not be death watch beetles.

The next is the complete evolution of the Larder Beetle.

Note that i accidentally killed a pupae cause i thought an adult was in it.

a Larvae died most naturally as well as the adult Larder beetles i have.

it's starts with two adult Larder Beetles.

( I know; I have to figure our a better way to preserve them other then glue)

from the bottom left; that's a larvae in which produce a tune of molts which is on the bottom right.

when larvae is ready to pupate; it burrows into almost anything and becomes a pupae on the top left.

after a week or so they molt their larvae skin found on the middle left side.

a month later; they molt out of their pupae skin found on the middle right and become adults again.

This Folks is a Black Larder Beetle; a different species then the ones i have bread in the tank.

you can't see it by camera; but you can see a faint barely visible band over it's back

just like it's lighter cousin.

too bad this poor little one was found dead because i would have put it in the tank with the others.

founded today while hanging out clothes.

 Lastly; I believe this is a Phyllophaga Crinita.

Also known as a May or June Scarab Beetle.

Not much is known about these little critters.

But i'm so happy to own a Scarab Beetle.

Sadly i found him dead in a pale outside.

enjoy the rest of the photos.

This marks the end of my small bug collection.