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Get a room, you two! #bugstodon

A large female grasshopper with a smaller male on her back.
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Always wondered where those wasps were coming from The big nest might be for Dolichovespula maculata whom we haven't seen around lately. How would you like to be the plucky band of Polistes dominula to set up the first of their smaller nests next to this Death Star #insects#bugstodon

Home improvement project reveals a substantial wasp nest in a cavity over our kitchen bay window. About 9 in. diameter
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An ailanthus webworm moth hanging out on the window. #bugstodon

Close up view of the underside of a moth, with black and white horizontal stripes across its body. Stripes of orange wrap around its sides.
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Bumble bees enjoying yellow thistle. #Bugstodon#Macro @halide

Macro view of two bumble bees sticking their heads into the pollen of a spiky yellow and brown flower.
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Brown-belted bumblebee enjoying the zinnias. (Shout out to @halide’s macro mode.) #Bugstodon#Florespondence

Close up view of the head of a fuzzy yellow bumblebee on a pink flower
Close up view of the back and wings of a fuzzy bumblebee on a pink flower
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Some squatters in the garden. #Bugstodon

An Agapostemon virescens, metallic green bee, crawls on the petals of a yellow Nasturtium.
A Lucilia sericata, green bottle fly, crawls on the petals of a yellow Nasturtium.
An Armadillium, a common pill bug, trundles along top soil.
An Oxidus gracilis, a greenhouse millipede, crawls along top soil.
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