I will be in Thailand and Cambodia for the first two months of 2024, and while I do not actively collect (more into photography), I would be interested in visiting insect museums/zoos where possible. I know about the main ones like the Bangkok Butterfly Garden and the Banteay Srey Butterfly Center (...

I was out for a short hike and happened to have my good camera when I noticed this Common Thread-waisted Wasp busily digging a burrow. This is one of the better shots out of the sequence. Another photo captured its head down in the burrow, winging beating to maintain leverage to haul another rock ou...

This species of millipede lives in the Mojave Desert of Southern California (high desert). They only appear when the weather begins to turn cold in late Autumn and usually peak in December, around the same time as our foulest weather. I guess that carries the advantage of fewer predators, although I...

I returned it to the outdoors that day, put it out under some bushes on its lemon so it could explore at its leisure. It quickly wandered off. Thanks again for the information.

Jim

Thanks, that is certainly it. We have a few invasive species out here, so when I see something odd, it goes in the ziploc. I put it outside and took a few more photos, it grew rather quickly during its two days in the bag, although it may also have lost some of its debris ball.

I am usually pretty good with insect identification, but this one had me mystified. I stumbled onto it quite literally when I walked by a stack of lemons we received from a neighbor, and I noticed a piece of what appeared to be black debris that was moving. I stopped and watched it for a moment as i...