Let's do Some Zoology!

>  No info available, Not my photo  >  > Can you please tell me what kind of snake this is? That looks like a CALIFORNIA KINGSNAKE (Lampropeltis getula californiae) a subspec...

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> Fly acting like a bee? Chicago. Yes! This looks like Helophilus, a wasp mimicking hoverfly. 

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> Is it ironic to see a groundhog in a tree? Very much so, I never knew that they climb. I guess it makes sense, they are basically just big squirrels. 

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> Hey there! I was wondering if you’d be able to ID these for me. > The stick bug was found in Indiana, and the other two were from when > I was doing fieldwork�...

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> I saw this bug in my garage last Thursday. I thought that it was a > wasp or a mosquito when it landed next to me, but it did not behave > like one, and it wa...

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> Would really appreciate some help with this one. I couldn’t find > it online, and it was crawling on my bedroom ceiling. @.@ I’m in > northern Arkansas if that ...

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> Found this guy in central PA! This is a male EASTERN DOBSONFLY (Corydalus cornutus) a fairly common species that spends most of its time as an aquatic larva. Males have those large, show...

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> This lil guy is about the size of a thumbnail and was seen in > southern arizona This is one of the LYNX SPIDERS (Oxyopidae), probably Peucetia viridans a widespread southern ...

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> Found a few of these in my garage. Hard to knock down also. >  Chicago. This is (or was) the nest of a MUD DAUBER (a broad term that is applied to several families), or a simila...

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> Eastern WA state, I’m not familiar with butterflies featuring > eyespots in my area. The other side of the wings are a more solid > reddish orange, also with eyesp...

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> Found in Oregon City, OR! Awesome find! This is a STRAWBERRY CROWN MOTh (Synanthedon bibionipennis) a colorful species of clearwing moth that feeds on a variety of rosid species, includin...

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> Sorry for the picture quality. The spider is camouflaged on the > lower brown thing. You can see her abdomen, it has some pretty > markings. St. Louis. Sorry about ...

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> Saw it while on vacation in Israel. It had beautiful blue eyes! This looks like an ENSIGN WASP (Evaniidae) a family of distinctive wasps that are parasitoids to cockroaches. 

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> Hi there! I have tried my darndest to ID this guy but there are just > about 0 online resources that want to help me. >  Found in Flagstaff, AZ. Thanks in advanc...

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> Found in southwest PA This looks like the larva of a dytiscid beetle, a large family of aquatic beetles that are sometimes known as “predaceous diving beetles”.  EDIT: since it was...

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This is a STEEL-BLUE CRICKET HUNTER (Chlorion aerarium) doing what it does best; paralyzing and laying eggs into crickets…

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> This little dude wouldn’t stop buzzing right by me while I was > trimming vine away from our lilac bush (NE Tennessee) This looks like an Acanthocephala sp. LEAF-FOOTED ...

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> Hey, this little cutie was hanging from a tree, winding his silk, > making a cocoon? Saw him in Atlanta, GA july 15. Any idea what he > will become? This looks like...

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> Saw this guy crawling around last weekend. Do you know what it’ll > metamorphose into? Taken in central Indiana. This looks like a HICKORY TUSSOCK MOTH ( Lophocampa caryae)...

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> I’ve been seeing these guys a lot more lately but I don’t know > what they are. Taken in central Indiana. This is the nymph of a GREEN STINK BUG (Chinavia hilaris), a c...

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