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Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
#insects

Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death - Energy Vanguard
The Mosquito Bucket of Death is a safe and environmentally sound way to rid your yard of mosquitoes. Here's how you make them.

🦗 Organic Edible Insects --- What Would It Take?
#insects #food

Spotted this tiny praying mantis peeping in our window. I think just under 2 centimeters long. I tried to get my index finger in for scale.
#prayingmantis #Insects #WildLife

Gorgeous freshly emerged peacock butterfly in the garden just now
#UKButterflies #insects #Nature

And ... some more #insects from the eastern #Sauerland, this time from the Blütengarten - #Bruchhausen Sunday. A paradise for insect photographers, even if you have only a simple smartphone at hand.

🦗 Genomics can help insect farmers avoid pitfalls of domestication
https://theconversation.com/genomics-can-help-insect-farmers-avoid-pitfalls-of-domestication-261357

Genomics can help insect farmers avoid pitfalls of domestication
Considering how easily bird flu swept through chicken farms, it’s clear that domestication has downsides. Lessons from the past paired with modern genomic technology can help with farming insects.

grasshopper chilling in the sun
#photography #insects #grasshopper #bloomScrolling

More #insects from that crowded common #hogweed (I think) in the German #Sauerland. IDing all the bugs will take time (and a larger screen, am on travel with just a cellphone).

🐛 What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
#insects

What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose to eat may not line up with their ideal nutritional needs.

Small copper butterfly obligingly perched yesterday
#UKButterflies #insects #Nature

More #insects, this time with just a smartphone while hiking in the eastern #Hochsauerlandkreis in the #Sauerland near the small Silbersee - enormous traffic on just one plant.

Want more #insectsofmastodon? Some more pictures of #insects on our balcony in #Bochum, Germany, seen yesterday during further experiments with macro gear.

Early experiments in catching #hoverflies in flight ... dunno why the wings are completely blurred in one picture but very sharp in the other, both were at 1/500 second with the flash fired. Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ300 with macro lens. #insectsofmastodon #insects

more green grasshopper
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #grasshopper

Upside down butterfly in someone's front garden in collegetown
#photo #photography #insects #bugs

Bug crawls on the disc of a daisy family flower
#photo #photography #flowers #insects