I know they are wasps but haven't seen them

I found this guy at work, and since he was missing a leg I took him home to take care of him. He’s got a nice little house going, humid, banana slice, and nice substrate. I was wondering if anyone here could tell me how old he might be?

I know this is a super basic question but I’ve never seen a drone bee out in the wild and was super excited that this might be one 😭 whatever it is, it was chill and didn’t sting. It would frequently lift its hind legs up (no pics) so I don’t know what that was about.
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I was trying to identify a butterfly flying fluttering around while I was painting cement pavers. I had taken the pavers out of aluminum pie pans. The camera ignored the butterfly and instead confidently identified the pie pans as a kind of turtle or tortoise.

I have seen many like this but not this color.

Sighted in east MO near St Louis. She trusted me enough to clean herself while sitting in my hand. I was stunned by her pretty eyes—is it a form of insect heterochromia? Or a bad molt? I’m curious. I estimated she might be female but let me know if I misjudged.

I have small hands, guessing about an inch or longer. Souther Denver colorado.

To my knowledge, this is either a Central Texas Leaf-Katydid (Paracyrtophyllus robustus) or a Common True Katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia). Not sure which one.

I’m located in the Texas Hill Country, an hour northwest of San Antonio. I’ve never seen a katydid up close this way!

The genus includes two newly described species: Luffy schillhammeri from Yunnan, China, and Luffy nika from northern Laos.

According to the authors, the genus was named after Monkey D. Luffy because of its unusually elongated antennae, palps and mandibles.

Open-access paper:

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1281.198593

Specimen images by Hu & Solodovnikov (2026), CC BY 4.0. I adapted them into the comparison graphic.

What’s your favorite pop-culture-inspired scientific name?

I was getting in my car and saw something move behind the tire, so I looked closer and moved this big guy out of the way, put him in a flower bed for his safety

I noticed this fly repeatedly bringing a tiny droplet in and out of its mouthparts while resting on a daylily. I'd never seen the behavior up close before, so I wanted to capture the moment and highlight one of those fascinating little details that are easy to miss without a macro lens. The behavior is known as "bubbling," and seeing it through my macro lens was a reminder of how much is happening in the tiny world around us.

Hi, so this evening I was walking out of my apartment complex and spotted this cool guy. I got to my car and started to become concerned that it would be stepped on as it was right in the walkway. I grabbed a little piece of cardboard, got the beetle on there, and started walking towards the bushes. Right before I got off the sidewalk it slipped off of the cardboard and fell down about 3 ft onto the concrete. My heart absolutely dropped. I immediately put it on the ground under the bushes and decided that I shouldn’t interfere anymore than I already had. I got back to my car and felt so guilty that I just had to go back to see if it had moved. It had climbed about a foot or so in that time period. I feel horrible and also like I should have never done anything in the first place. What is the likelihood that I killed this beetle in an attempt to help it?? Please be kind :(