Gavin Broadさんのイラストまとめ

#InsectOfTheDay no.246. Sticking with butterflies with refractive colours, here's one closer to home, Apatura iris (Purple Emperor). This specimen from the New Forest (and photos by Harry Taylor). Has the endearing habit of sucking up fluids from excrement and corpses.

#InsectOfTheDay no.243. Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis. I remember the first UK records in 2004. Now the ladybird I see most often. All stages to be seen right now, including cannibalism. Record ladybirds and find out more at https://t.co/6Yo56JAOOs

#InsectOfTheDay no.240. Another weird wasp, Pelecinus polyturator. Widespread in South and North America (not Europe, sadly), parasitoid of scarab beetle larvae. One of only three species of Pelecinidae around today but there is more diversity in fossils. Photo by @CharltonLucy

#InsectOfTheDay no.204. Volucella zonaria, the hornet mimic hoverfly. Alongside a real hornet, Vespa crabro. Would it fool you? Larvae feed in wasp nests, to add to the insult. Photos by NHM's Kevin Webb.

#InsectOfTheDay no.200. Stylops nevinsoni, the first strepsipteran of the series. Lovely specimen featuring winged male, Andrena fulva host and female Stylops sticking their butts out of the Andrena abdomen. Amazing antennae on that male.

#InsectOfTheDay no.197. It's #WorldSnakeDay, so here are two pink elephants! Larvae of Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor) look like little snakes. Which you can see on the rather excellent UK Moths site https://t.co/tQnXiLtRk7

#InsectOfTheDay no.161. Disgraceful that I've not featured Raphidioptera yet. So here is a snakefly, Raphidia notata, from the UK. Amazing insects, predatory and with a long ovipositor for laying eggs under bark.

#InsectOfTheDay no.156. Ampulex compressa, the beautiful jewel wasp that zombifies cockroaches. Biology is amazing, as is venom chemistry. Great video here: https://t.co/ZZW0HvnnAp. @NHM_London Specimen photos for previous Venom exhibition (and cool book by Ronald Jenner...)

#insectoftheday no.128, the iconic flea from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, which you can peruse here: https://t.co/uPHRwAOgQA. An excuse to link to a favourite poem: https://t.co/s861wHO54o. And did you know the Royal Society hosted the first flea circus? https://t.co/ABaeM1QAI5

#insectoftheday no.120. For #WorldRobberFlyDay, here's a tiny wasp that parasitises their eggs (probably). Brachista efferiae has been found hitching a lift on robberflies, presumably for nefarious purposes.