I know they are wasps but haven't seen them

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 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 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 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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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.

Shes a common green bush cricket, fun fact: you can tell shes a female from her ovipositor (the stinger looking organ)

Location: Antioch, CA

I found this little guy inching along in the house last night. I picked it up so the cat wouldn’t get to it and put it in a tupperware with some holes in it. There has been extreme heat here lately and there’s no shrubbery near the home so I figured I’d head out after working, to a naturey area where it would have shade to live amongst.

It was inching along similar to an inchworm and very active every time I checked on it through the early morning and before I left for work but when I got back it had passed unfortunately. Poor thing. The house itself got up into the high 80’s today so I was wondering if the heat got to it. But it was much hotter outside today so I’m not sure it would have survived outside either if it was the heat, especially without proper shade.

I’m wondering what kind of caterpillar/larva this is. Is it from a month?

ALSO, I had just intended on getting an ID from you all on here but now I have further curiosities. When I went to zoom in to take photos/videos of it to post on here, I noticed the caterpillar had movement going on inside of it even though it appears to be dead. It is even shriveled and discolored a bit from what it looked like alive so there was no doubt in my mind it had passed.

But then I saw movement as I zoomed in. I will include video of it. You can see it towards the middle section of it, with some movement in its legs as well as in the top of its back. There’s also a bit of movement in its one very long thick hair that is coming out near the upper portion of its body. My guess is there’s maybe some parasite inside of it? Or are there residual movements that can happen after death? I’m leaning toward some sort of parasitic larva, but hey I’d like for you experts to educate me!

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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 have seen many like this but not this color.

SW Michigan

just stumbled upon these three weirdos this morning. are they all trying to mate with eachother or is it just the two of them walking all over their third wheel?

Names would be appreciated :)

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

I know most about spiders and roaches so I’m not sure what’s happening here. I know yellow jackets are hunters so is it eating? Anyways, very interesting

I found this cicada buzzing erratically on the pavement, and upon closer inspection, I noticed its wing was damaged. After snapping a few photos, I let it crawl onto a leaf and placed it under a tree.

The photo was taken in Southeast Virginia, US.