Life Cycle postings

a clerid life cycle

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1765384

… Blaine Mathison, 24 December, 2019 - 3:37pm

Asphondylia neomexicana (Cecidomyiidae)

Three of an unknown (by me) number of larval instars, and the pupa and adult of this gall midge species are linked here:

… Edward L. Ruden, 23 December, 2018 - 9:27pm

Nondescript Dagger Moth - Acronicta spinigera

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 25 July, 2017 - 8:37am

different individuals?

Is there a way to post life cycle sets that are not all a single individual? Maybe bugguide needs a special category for life cycles. Of course, I do understand that mistakes could be made by including images that are not the same species.

… Stephen Hart, 17 June, 2017 - 8:35am

Hatchlings, etc.

When I've found a clutch of eggs and reared the whole bunch together, the photos were of different individuals, as in this series:

Is that the situation you mean?

… R. Berg, 17 June, 2017 - 9:35pm

Beautiful

That's a great series.

But I meant several images of instars that are taken at different times in the wild.

Of course, one could link them with the thumb bbcode procedure, though that's a bit tedious.

… Stephen Hart, 17 June, 2017 - 11:39pm

Use the text

You can link them in the text or comments.

Here is one example. A lot of work but worth it.

… Beatriz Moisset, 17 June, 2017 - 9:48am

Some partial life cycles

Sophonia orientalis, Cicadellidae. Last-instar nymph, adult.

Leucopis sp., Chamaemyiidae. Last-instar larva, puparium, adult.

Spanagonicus albofasciatus, Miridae. Last-instar nymph, adult.

Graphocephala sp., Cicadellidae. next-to-last-instar nymph, adult.

Protalebrella tertia, Cicadellidae. Last-instar nymph, adult.

… John Schneider, 8 June, 2017 - 1:39am

A few more

Chrysopidae: Chrysoperla rufalibris. Egg, 1st instar larva, 2nd instar larva, 3rd instar larva, cocoon, adult.

Hemerobiidae: Micromus posticus. 2nd instar larva, 3rd instar larva, cocoon, pupa, adult.

Delphacidae: Pissonotus albovenosus. 4th instar nymph, 5th instar nymph, adult.

Aphelinidae: Encarsia sp. Pupa (in host), adult.

… John Schneider, 11 December, 2016 - 10:38pm

Acrobasis

We already have a life cycle series linked to on the genus info page but I thought I'd share this one, which has some additional views.

… Aaron Hunt, 15 September, 2016 - 5:35pm

Antennophorus sp.

larva, protonymph, deutonymph, adult:

… Edward L. Ruden, 27 August, 2016 - 10:29pm

Leafcutter bee

. . .

… R. Berg, 25 August, 2016 - 4:57pm

Second bee

A second bee emerged from pupation. The series now includes behavioral shots.

The species has been identified: Megachile perihirta.

… R. Berg, 31 August, 2016 - 10:16pm

Life cycles

Ocyptamus fuscipennis: last-instar larva, pupa and adult

Diomus terminatus: last-instar larva, pupa and adult

Acoloithus falsarius: last-instar larva, cocoon and adult

Calycomyza lantanae: leaf mine, last-instar larva, puparium and adult

Platynota sp. on Asclepias curassavica: larva, pupa and adult

… John Schneider, 19 August, 2016 - 9:32pm

O. fuscipennis

A new series, abridged but including an earlier instar

… John Schneider, 15 September, 2016 - 9:14pm

Pityococcus rugulosus

Lifecycle series starts here.

… Edward L. Ruden, 16 July, 2016 - 2:45pm

Thanks

I added them to the info pages.

… Beatriz Moisset, 1 September, 2016 - 8:34am

Matsucoccus acalyptus (Pinyon Needle Scale)

… Edward L. Ruden, 24 November, 2015 - 10:28pm

Sorry for the delay,

but just wanted to comment that this information is excellent. I've added links to your photos and details to the Info page for Pinyon Needle Scale.

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 8 February, 2016 - 6:49pm

Gray hairstreak

From larva to adult.

… R. Berg, 6 September, 2015 - 10:22pm

Thanks!

I added some of your photos to the Life Cycle section of the info page.

… marcie oconnor, 7 September, 2015 - 8:01am

LIfe cycle site - BuglifeCycles.com

I'm going to start to add the life cycles from my site - Buglifecycles.com, to BG. There will be links to them from the "info" page for the insect, in a section titled "Life Cycle". It will take a while - I think there are about 700 life cycles - but I'll get there eventually!

… marcie oconnor, 3 November, 2014 - 2:52pm

Melanolophia partial life cycle

This could use a specific ID:

… Bill Keim, 21 August, 2014 - 5:41am

Umber Skipper from egg to adult

… R. Berg, 20 August, 2014 - 12:28am

Two partial life cycles of Neogalea sunia

One individual was found as first-instar larva

and reared to adult.
Another individual was found as egg

and reared to last-instar larva.

… John Schneider, 11 June, 2014 - 1:12pm

Sarcophagidae - larva, pupa, adult

… John Schneider, 11 June, 2014 - 1:04pm

Ogdoconta cinereola

… Iustin Cret, 11 June, 2014 - 12:06pm

Another one

I may have a few more soon.

… Beatriz Moisset, 26 September, 2013 - 8:04pm

Two tortoise beetle species - larva, pupa, adult

Deloyala guttata

Chelymorpha sp.

… John Schneider, 23 July, 2013 - 10:28pm

life cycle of Geina

- Life cycle is posted, however the moth is waiting for a final ID.

… Ilona L., 21 June, 2013 - 7:29pm

Thyanta calceata

… Iustin Cret, 24 May, 2013 - 10:27am

Nice series of a small-eyed sphinx

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 20 May, 2013 - 10:35pm

Datana ministra

There is a nice series of photos of the successive larval instars of the notodontid moth, Datana ministra (feeding on beech in Ohio), here.

… Terry Harrison, 17 March, 2013 - 9:01am

Thank you

for the compliment, Terry.

… Tim Turner, 18 May, 2013 - 2:22pm

A few more...

Neolema cordata here; Rhopalomyia grossulariae here; Recurvaria consimilis here; Acrolepiopsis spp. here and here; Zelleria celastrusella here; Microrhopala vittata here. Also many life histories depicted at microleps.org.

… Terry Harrison, 24 February, 2013 - 10:41am

Terry - I don't see to have your email address....

and I have a question for you. I'm starting to move the links to insect life cycles from my BugLifeCycles page, to Bugguide. May I do that with yours? I'll put a "Life Cycle" section on the info page for the species, and then put a link to the life cycle. Eventually I hope to stop using my page, and have all that info on BugGuide.

… marcie oconnor, 3 November, 2014 - 3:02pm

Another Pero series is complete

It starts here:

… R. Berg, 4 November, 2012 - 9:48am

A few old posts

Here are a few old posts of mine, in case any of them are of interest!

... Eupithecia sp. - larva, pupa, and adult

... Andricus quercuslanigera - larva and adult

... Pachypsylla venusta - adult and the gall it emerged from

… John Schneider, 10 September, 2012 - 11:47pm

Coleophora cornella life cycle

… Ilona L., 18 July, 2012 - 10:23pm

A mite

This one sort of started with a moth

but sadly I didn't get any shots of the mite attached (like here)

Oh, well :-) This is the mite's story so far.

I might try to raise it to an adult, but I'm not sure. I don't have a confirmed ID, yet.

… John R. Maxwell, 18 July, 2012 - 12:32pm

Acrolepiopsis heppneri

Waiting for confirmation -- life cycle posted for

… Ilona L., 16 July, 2012 - 2:39pm

I'm working on it!

Check it out here!

… Stephen Tapsak, 11 July, 2012 - 12:17pm

Nice life cycle!

Could I add you as a contributor to buglifecycles.com? Check it out and see what you think - I'd love to include links to your life cycles - it looks like you have quite a few. If you're interested, write me an email and we can figure it out.

… marcie oconnor, 12 July, 2012 - 10:19am

Sure!

I have been raising a TON of caterpillars this year. I'm sure we can figure something out. Some of the life cycles aren't finished yet. However, I think I will be able to finish them soon. BTW, I added pics of a Walnut sphinx molting. They aren't the best of pics, however.

… Stephen Tapsak, 12 July, 2012 - 10:31am

great!

If you go to my bio page on BG you can find my email address, or write a comment on buglifecycles and I'll write back to you. I'd like to put a short bio of you on my contributors' page, and then I'll start putting up links to your life cycles. I'm so glad you want to do this - I like how well documented your life cycles are!

… marcie oconnor, 12 July, 2012 - 10:49am

Email help

In your email adress, do I remove the NO SPAM and replace the 'at' with @?

… Stephen Tapsak, 12 July, 2012 - 8:34pm

yep...

....

… marcie oconnor, 12 July, 2012 - 9:00pm

Dates

Please fix the dates. The life series is much more valuable if you have correct dates. You may want to add other info in the comments.

… Beatriz Moisset, 11 July, 2012 - 12:38pm

Ok!

Done! Fixed them up.

… Stephen Tapsak, 11 July, 2012 - 8:29pm

Skeletonizing beetle - genus Ophraella

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 30 June, 2012 - 11:12am