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Tribe XantholininiObserver
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New to me - found on teak table on exposed patio. very odd movement of abdomen - up and like a snake along axis of body - back and forth. Very irridescent-blues approx 1.25cm total length
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Observer
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I seen a number of header up Tara from the Caribbean to here, but never one so flat I thought it was dead and it moved. Got dorsal and ventral images total length 9mm
Resembles a “ambush” Heteropterid I had seen in Costa Rica in body form
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Common Eucalyptus Longhorn (Phoracantha semipunctata)Observer
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Found dead at doorstep
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Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Subfamily Conocephalinae)Observer
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Sep 8,2022 Hamakua
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Genus CordycepsObserver
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Fungus Zombified cricket appears like “cordyceps”
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Flat Bugs (Family Aradidae)Observer
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Very “lava black” true bug approx 2cms TL
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Guava Moth (Ophiusa disjungens)Observer
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Moth escaped myna bird on driveway then flew got a video this was best still shot for ID none showing antennae
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Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp (Evania appendigaster)Observer
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Found him in the surf and brought it out let it dry off and it flew away
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Spotted Orbweavers (Genus Neoscona)Observer
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On the surf rocks next to black sand beach many with disorganized web with one or two feeler lines
no hourglass pattern
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Observer
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Been on property gardening for a year daily. First striped one I have seen. Not One of the typical exotic culprits that went to the nurseries in the south Florida where I had more experience.
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True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies (Order Hemiptera)Observer
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Some small insect (or hempterid ?) under leafs of Avacado
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Silky Cane Weevil (Metamasius hemipterus)Observer
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Inside home on screen
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Greenhouse Millipede (Oxidus gracilis)Observer
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Typical almond (cn) smell 2.5 cms
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Genus CheniellaObserver
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Hilo Botanical park Live 30 years in Florida I have never seen what looks to be an orchid tree but grows like a vine the flower structures look the same the same as the public somewhere of the lease structure of the Venetian looks the same but I’m a bug reptile and fish guy so any help would be appreciated
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Katydids, Crickets, and Allies (Suborder Ensifera)Observer
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Unknown possible eggs or pupae between layers of a Dendrobium sp leaf removed and taken for id
Identified by Hilo Entomologist as Katydid eggs
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Skin Beetles (Genus Dermestes)Observer
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Was found by Stacey Welch near vent 8 at Leilani estates
Looks to me like a beetle larva vs Lepidoptera
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Observer
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I thought it was some odd kind of antler fly or strange island form of fruit fly. Having spent the last 35 years in Florida, the Caribbean, Central and South America it’s new to me and was odd enough to take a photograph in the botanical park on a ginger flower.