Do you have a favorite bug?

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This thread is about our favorite terrestrial invertebrates. Despite the name of this thread, you don't need to select a member of the hemiptera order.

My favorite bug is the orchid mantis. It is proof that the practice of pollination is not entirely a flawless, utopian form of food collecting. Collecting the sweet gifts of angiosperms can come with a few hazards.

Dragonflies, and damselflies, are my personal favorites.

Beautiful varied fast flying predators that eat up many bugs I hate, like gnats, and mosquitos.


The eagles and hawks of the insect world.

Thanks for posting!

Here are some more honorable mentions that I want to honorably mention.

Onychophora: They aren't arthropods, but they resemble the ancestors of arthropods.
Stalk-Eyed Flies: Yikes!
Crane Flies: They resemble big mosquitoes, but they are harmless.
Mutillidae: Only the males can fly. Only the females can sting.
Symphyla: They are very tiny relatives of centipedes.

Ladybugs, monarch butterflies, fireflies, bumblebees, honeybees, and ants.

Moths
Butterflies
Crane flies
Bluebottles
Bees
Dragonflies

Most people think I'm weird because I like bluebottles. Yes they may spread disease if they land on your food, but that doesn't mean they don't LOOK beautiful.

I do not have a favorite. Take the last insect that allowed me to befriend it for a bit, and that one is my current favorite.

I don't like mosquitoes or spiders, though. And I used to like ants, but they're really invasive, and I don't want to kill them =/

Tonight at work, I saw this really neat moth next to the sink. Probably the most pine-bark-like moth I have ever seen, and its wings were a very odd shape. I forgot I was going to come back for it and save it, I fear someone may have killed it.

I think it may have been one of these, it looked very similar: https://roadsendnaturalist.com/2014/07/ ... ed-sphinx/

"the Blinded Sphinx, Paonias excaecata"

Here's another similar moth, though, which he calls "a stunning eyed hawkmoth" (fourth image down): https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/community/place ... etles.aspx

Oh yes, lightning bugs/fireflies are always at the top of my list.

I walked through a glowing field of larvae a couple summers ago, it was kind of surreal.

Ladybugs. On the odd occasion I find one it always gives me a flush of happiness. So cute and peaceful.

I have always loved watching ants. I used to live near a big conifer plantation where they build huge nests out of pine needles and the waste from the saw-mills, and I could spend hours just watching one nest and following along the trails that the ants made to go get stuff.

The bold jumping spider, phidippus audax.

Another bug that I like is the Darwin Termite.

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

The Darwin Termite is a primitive termite with a cockroach-like appearance. This proves that termites share a fairly recent common ancestor with roaches.

i like cicadas because i like their songs and also i used to collect their skin but i don't know about subspecies of them

i also sympathize with ants because i like to see them
i specially like that red ones who are water resistant (we call them lava-pés in portuguese)

Ladybirds, Melolontha and honey bees.