Livingplanet, is montevidensis a good butterfly attractor and is it available at most nurseries? Butterflies will come to it, but it seems less attractive to them than other Lantana species (at least in my experience). I've seen a few skippers on it. The common Lantana (L. camara) seems to be more ...

Nice. Lantana also seems to be deer resistant. That means that deer choose my other plants first, and have as yet, not chomped any Lantana. Finding nice looking plants that flower, are less tasty than others and will do well where you put them isn't always easy. Proactive can be the order, the lupi...

Now that the weather is getting milder, the Lantanas are starting to bloom well again, including a particularly colorful variety with flowers that start out yellow, then change to white, then pink. Photo below. Lantana has proven to be a good choice for my yard - they tolerate the summer heat, and n...

Trehopr1 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:46 am Unidentified sp. (W. Malaysia) July 2005...

This is a species of Theopompa, probably either T. servillei or T. tosta. Commonly referred to as "Giant Bark Mantids".

ExtraSuperNoise wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:05 pm Is this bedbug? Should I be worried?

No, it's a weevil beetle, and they don't bite -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weevil

FlamingDragon wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:13 pm So... a Beautiful Demoiselle.

Why do they give it a female name if this is a male?

In North America, ladybird beetles (family Coccinellidae) are commonly called ladybugs, although technically, many of them are manbugs.

A damselfly, the Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) -

https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/spec ... emoiselle/

Yes, and also, the discal cells of the hindwings would be darker in a true urvillianus, and the spots somewhat different in form.

A cockroach -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach

I assume that this photo is of a green Ornithoptera priamus that's been digitally altered, or perhaps even the specimen has been physically color-manipulated, to look like a blue O. priamus urvillianus? I've never seen an urvillianus that had a branching line running along the anterior margin of the...

Many thanks for posting. Yes - true that the verso side of many Lepidoptera can be just as striking (if not even more so) than the recto. Many such examples come to mind among the Charaxinae especially, such as: Agatasa calydonia - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAYmkY1m...

I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen a confirmed photo of the larva of M. cypris, but here is an alleged photo of one - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/13009274 Morphos (at least some of them) are associated with Fabaceae (M. peleides has even been reared on clover in captivity). M. portis ...

It looks very much like Otiorhynchus sulcatus -

https://bugguide.net/node/view/7480

Here are my best guesses -

1 - Mechanitis lysimnia (?)
2 - Hypothyris sp. (?)
3 - Napeogenes sp. (?)
4 - Mechanitis polymnia (?)

neominois wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:51 pm I think I have them identified except for #1. Any more help on it would be great... Which Pedaliodes could it be?

Uncertain of the species - all I can really say, is that it's a Pedaliodes.

1 & 2 - Pedaliodes sp.
3 - Doxocopa sp. (probably agathina)
4 - Lymanopoda sp.(probably panacea)

Hi everyone, I currently have an insect of some kind in my house in southern England that I'm trying to identify. It looks kind of like a grasshopper or a dragonfly but with giant antennae and translucent wings. Pictures are attached, any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. A katydid -...

These are possibly all variations of Melanitis leda.

See this page - https://archive.insectnet.com/thread/9494/melanitis

neominois wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 11:19 pm Do you consider F. canens and F. arcesilaus the same species?

They may be conspecific -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Faunis_arcesilaus

1 - Bassarona dunya
2 - Harsiesis yolanthe
3 - Lethe confusa