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[[File:Female Western Calligrapher.webm|thumb|thumbtime=181|center|Female [[Toxomerus occidentalis|Western Calligrapher]] on [[zinnia]] taking [[pollen]] and [[nectar]]. Insert shows entire visit at 3X speed. Some portions of main video shown at one-tenth speed.]]

== Coleoptera (Beetles) ==

Dennis has had a lifelong interest in insects. First collecting them when eight or nine, later photographing them.

My interest in insect behavior led me to video, 3-D video and high-speed video.

My interest in becoming a Wikimedia editor is to add video clips to existing pages illustrating that insect’s behavior.

I have added video to the following pages:

Tipuloidea Craneflies

Mating craneflies. The light brown one with bipectinate antenna is male

Asilidae Robberflies

A robber fly with a honey bee. Includes slow motion.

Dolichopodidae long-legged flies

Courtship behavior in long-legged flies.

Lucilia sericataGreenbottle flies

genus Rivellia. Signal Flies

squash bug with Tachinid fly eggs attached and a feather-legged tachinid fly, probably Trichopoda pennipes, quickly depositing another egg on it.

Hoverfly, actual speed and slow motion captured at 2,000 frames a second.

Hoverfly larva on narrow-leaf milkweed with milkweed aphids, ladybird eggs, and larva. After first minute, shown at four times speed. Larvae recorded in early morning prior to sunrise.

A purple bromeliad fly visiting Paris daisy, variety Madeira deep pink. Last scene is repeated at one fourth speed.

A female common drone fly on Zinnia. A portion shown in close-up played at one-tenth place.

American hoverfles on Zinnia flowers. A portion in close-up is played at one-fifth speed.

Female Western Calligrapher on zinnia taking pollen and nectar. Insert shows entire visit at 3X speed. Some portions of main video shown at one-tenth speed.

Female margined calligrapher fly consuming pollen from zinnia florets. A portion shown at one-tenth speed.

Coleoptera (Beetles)

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Tiger beetles

Tiger beetle larvae repairing its shaft
Tiger beetle larvae attempting to catch prey
Six-spotted tiger beetle adults including a pair

Labidomera clivicollis Milkweed leaf beetle

Larva eating horsenettle leaves and stems. Notice the embedded leaf prickles that extend through the leaf that the larvae avoid while chewing. Last shows beetles internals through transparent exoskeleton
Milkweed leaf beetle adult on milkweed

Mating red milkweed beetles on milkweed
Mating milkweed beetles on common milkweed. The beetle vibrates when it is making a warning noise
A red milkweed beetle cutting milkweed vein to reduce/stop latex pressure before feeding beyond the cut

Necrophila americana American carrion beetle

American carrion beetles on a dead vole.

Epicauta funebris margined blister beetle

Female margined blister beetle pursued by multiple males.

Family Cerambycidae — Longhorn Beetles, genus Stictoleptura

Stictoleptura rubra

Cucumber Beetle

Diabrotica undecimpunctata on goldenrod.

Northern corn rootworm

Family Staphylinidae Rove Beetles

Hairy rove beetles (Creophilus maxillosus) at four days and larva at seven days under rabbit carrion.

Lebia tricolor, genus Legia, in the family of ground beetles, searching for prey.

Mating tumbling flower beetles in a morning glory flower.

Ladybird larva searching on Paris daisy, variety Madeira deep pink.

A western polished lady beetle and her eggs near a milkweed aphid colony.

Female western polished lady beetle, eggs maturing, and emerging first instar larvae on narrow-leaf milkweed.

Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps and Ants)

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Various bees visit a morning glory flower. A Tumbling flower beetle remains in the flower with a bee visitor.

Polistinae Paper Wasps.

Single paper wasp foundress establishes her nest, adding cells, renewing repellent on the pedicle. She has already laid eggs in several of the incomplete cells and continually checks the nest and cells
Foundress’ nest raided by a rat, beetle or other predator. Nest was previously photographed eleven days earlier when there were five eggs. If the foundress survived, she would start a new nest at a different location
Worker adding additional matrial to expand nest
Water is brought to the nest for the larvae
Masticated caterpillar portion brought to nest and fed to the larvae
Wasps fanning the nest with their wings to provide breeze/cooling
Queen replacing an egg that was either not viable or laid by a worker
Wasps bring water to place in nest to provide cooling by evaporation
Paper wasps disturbed by hits to their nest support.]]
End of season: Male wasps mature and leave, nest shuts down leaving nest empty.

European paper wasp searching for prey. Three instances, each shown a second time at one fourth speed.

A European paper wasp interacts with a anise swallowtail caterpillar which uses its osmeterium in defense. Most scenes are repeated in closeup at one-fourth speed.

A European paper wasp takes a monarch butterfly caterpillar from within a narrow leaf milkweed umbel. Part is shown at one fourth speed.

A European paper wasp preying on Milkweed aphids which are on narrow leaf milkweed. Most scenes are repeated at one-fourth speed.

Four-toothed mason wasps nectaring on Canadian thistle

A gold-marked thread-waisted wasp in family Sphecidae flying near blooming yellow ironweed.

Great golden digger wasp on narrow leaf milkweed. Part is shown at one tenth speed.

Yellowjacket wasps

Yellowjacket wasps can be very aggressive if disturbed. Here the ground was pounded next to their nest—with sound
Yellowjacket wasps are disturbed, but not enough to swarm around their nest entrance—with sound. The response is down to one wasp after seven minutes
Yellowjacket wasps using a stone as a landmark to navigate to their nest entrance. When the stone moved, they continued for a time to return orienting with the stone
Yellowjacket response when a leaf blocks their entrance–with sound
Very late in season, nearly every morning is too cold for the yellowjackets to forage. In another several weeks all are dead—except the new queens sheltering somewhere else
Yellow jacket wasp catches green bottle fly to feed its larvae, followed by the final catch in slow motion. rabbit carrion is four days old
Yellowjacket wasp at fermentimg fruit harassed to leave by aggressive ant

Sphex digger wasp nectaring on Queen Anne’s Lace; replayed at one tenth speed.

Parasitized white cabbage larvae showing wasp larvae exiting its body, spinning cocoons. Playback at double speed. Adult wasps at normal speed.

A milkweed aphid pushes the sticky wax drop from its cornicle against an attacking parasitic wasp, extruding another drop. Two scenes at one-tenth speed. A different aphid has captured a wasp.

Bombus Bumlebees

Bumblebees can be active in cooler and less favorable weather than most other flying insects. Here it is cool and raining (with audio)

A yellow-faced bumblebee foraging on California poppy

Yellow-faced bumblebee foraging California lilac. Repeated a second time at one-fourth speed.

Honey bee hive entrance with audio. The last part is at one fourth speed

Honeybee nectaring, actual speed and slow motion, captured at 2,000 frames a second.

Honeybees on yellow ironweed. Followed by segment at one tenth speed.

Honey bee on Geranium (cultivar Rozanne) and flying. Second portion shown at 12,000 frames per second with 60 frames shown per second.

A pure green sweat bee foraging on yellow ironweed.

Image showing forked tongue of this A. pura.^[1]

Male Ceratina bee foraging on yellow ironweed.

carpenter bees on Lavandula|. Including slow motion, to better show the bee and a white cabbage butterfly avoiding each other. Finally even slower speed of just the bee

Large eyed male mountain carpenter bee hovering

A female mountain carpenter bee robbing nectar from pineapple sage salvia without providing pollination services. The last scene played at one-fourth speed.

leafcutter bee taking flight. The front and rear wings hook together on the first wing stroke. 6,000 fps played at 30 fps.]] and repeated at eight frames a second

Leafcutter bee taking flight from Great Valley gumplant. Its left pair of wings have not hooked together resulting in the hind wing not contributing to lift and the bee holding its legs to the right.

Male Megachile, leaf-cutting bees, discouraging honeybees from visiting their common sunflower perch and nectar source. Portions repeated at one-tenth and one twenty-fifth speed.

Family Formicidae Ants

Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) with a cutworm (tribe Noctuini) and then lost to ants (Family Formicidae)

ants from different colonies steal the cranefly that a pair of silverr long-jawed orb weaver spiders were consuming.

Ants find a dying white cabbage larvae that parasitoid wasps larvae exited two days earlier.

Ants collecting honeydew from Calico scales (Eulecanium cerasorum then played at 30 times speed to show the pumping action of the scale.

Ants tending aphids and collecting honeydew secreted. A wrinkled solder beetle flies in and eats an aphid before being chased away by the ants.

Hemiptera (True Bugs, including Aphids, Cicadas, Leafhoppers and Planthoppers)

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Arilus cristatus North American wheel bug

Sinea diadema The spined assasssin bug

Phymatinae Ambush bug

Late stage nymphs and adult fourlined plant bug on thistle (family (Asteraceae)

Fieberiella florii nymph leafhopper

Jikradia olitoria leafhopper

Jikradia olitoria leahopper nymph on sweet corn leaf (nearly eight millimeters long)

Green coneheaded planthoppers, Acanalonia conica in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, on the underside of a milkweed leaf.

Planthopper nymphs, belong to subaorder Auchenorrhyncha along with the other hoppers, on coneflower stem. Includes a slow motion segment

Froghopper Nymph (usually called a spittlebug) reforming its protective bubble covering.

Cicadidae Annual cicadas

Annual Cicada adult male singing (with audio)

genus Magicicada Periodical cicada

Adult cicada and female creating a slit in twig and inserting eggs. The sounds of thousands of cicadas
Emergence! Nearly all at once. Many do not survive, but with mass emergence, many will reach maturity to start the next generation

Acanthocephala terminalis

Insects live in a world of motion. This leaf-footed bug climbs wind blown grass and flies off.

A female leaf-footed bug, family Coreidae and tribe Acanthocephalini, deposits an egg before flying off.

squash bugs

Winged adult (alate) aphids. Some scenes repeated at one-twentieth speed. Recorded at 60 fps.

Milkweed aphids giving live birth on narrow leaf milkweed. Speeded up twenty times.

Milkweed aphids on narrow-leaf milkweed eliminating honeydew. Unlike some aphids, these kick the drop away with their leg.

A milkweed aphid moulting on narrow-leaf milkweed. Shown at ten times speed.

A milkweed aphid on narrow-leaf milkweed is attacked by a hoverfly larvae. It thrashs and release pheromones and sticky wax from its cornicles. Nearby aphids flee. Video played at 4X speed.

Oncopeltus fasciatus, The large milkweed bug in the family Oncopeltus

Large milkweed bug flying, repeated at one fifteenth speed
Large milkweed bug molting from third to fourth instar. Scenes of the molting followed by the entire molt at fifteen times speed. Last is superposition before to just after molt showing the increased size already
Early instar large milkweed bugs on milkweed late in the season
Large milkweed bug nymph feeding on milkweed before extracting its stylet, sheathing it again in its rostrum
Late instar and adult large milkweed bugs on milkweed late in the season
The banded orb weaving spider wraps up a large milkweed bug and subsequently cuts it from its web. This illustrates the protection the bug gained form feeding on milkweed

A brown marmorated stink bug uses its stylet to pierce a sweet corn stock, inject enzymes and suck in partially digested sap.

genus Podisus Spined soldier bug eggs and then the recently hatched first instar bugs

Family Gerridae Water Striders

Lepidoptera Butterflies and Moths

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Cabbage white emerging from egg and starting to eat broccoli leaf.
Second instar larvae eating. Speeded up 50 times to illustrate feeding behavior. Nearly transparent body shows internal digestion.
Second instar larvae sheds skin in under 20 minutes.
Cabbage white larvae eating remainder of a broccoli leaf. Six hours speeded up one hundred times.
Segments of the last two hours of the Cabbage white larvae shedding its 4th instar skin. It started a few hours earlier. The integument has already pulled away from its head capsule as this video starts.
Fifth instar white cabbage larvae walking on broccoli stem and on glass, showing it laying down silk it then walks on.
Parasitized white cabbage larvae showing wasp larvae exiting its body, spinning cocoons. Playback at double speed. Adult wasps at normal speed.
White cabbage larvae shedding skin, becoming a chrysalis. Recorded over fifteen hours. Closeups at two times speed. Other clips at ten times speed.
Cabbage white emerging from chrysalis into an adult.
White cabbage butterflies flying. Later clips in slow motion.
Male cabbage white (Pieris rapae) butterflies mud-puddling
White Cabbage Butterflies depositing eggs under broccoli leaves. Each repeated in slow motion.

Hemaris diffinis the snowberry clearwing

Hemaris diffinis is a excellent bumblebee mimic.

Family Pterophoridae Subfamily Pterophorinae Geina buscki Bucks Plume

Family Nymphalidae

Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus

Monarch butterfly flying around narrowleaf milkweed, depositing an egg. Played a second time at half speed.
Adult Monarch butterflies Flying and sipping nectar
Monarch caterpillars eating milkweed leaves
1) Fourth-instar Monarch larvae killed and being consumed by a stink (shield) bug. 2) Mature fifth_instar larvae jerks to dislodge a large milkweed bug (a herbivore). 3) Fourth-instar arvae killed by insect parasitoids, non-insect parasites or a pathogen