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BOLD Data Portal - CRCCF2222-23

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Featured today is a dance fly (family Hybotidae), a predator that seizes its prey with its front legs and uses its long proboscis to inject enzymes, digesting the prey from the inside.

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BOLD Data Portal - CIOSJ49322-24

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Today's featured specimen is an antlion from Mojave California. The predatory larvae are commonly found in sandy, dry habitats across the southwest United States, where over 94 species are known.

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BOLD Data Portal - NSWHB1641-24

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Featured today is a Lychee Stink Bug nymph (Lyramorpha rosea) from the "Giant Shield Bug" family Tessaratomidae. Native to eastern Australia they are major pests of lychee trees throughout Asia.

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BOLD Data Portal - THAME3361-23

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Today's featured insect is the distinctive Yellow Marking Flower Beetle, Ixorida mouhotii. It is a pollen-feeding scarab beetle from Thailand.

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BOLD Data Portal - PHGGC532-25

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Featured today: a Bethylid parasitoid "flat" wasp from Costa Rica. In some species, females are wingless and ant-like. They have painful sting which is used to paralyze their prey.

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BOLD Data Portal - PHGGC532-25

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Featured today is Linne’s Cicada (Neotibicen linnei). This annual cicada species spends about two years underground as nymphs feeding on tree roots before emerging each year as an adults to mate.

BOLD Data Portal - INRMA3468-20

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Today’s specimen from the Yukon is the Pure Click Beetle (Stenopronus pudicus), a forest-dwelling species. Click beetles possess a unique "clicking" mechanism that lets them snap into the air.

BOLD Data Portal - INRMA3468-20

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Today’s specimen is Xylotrechus undulatus, the Spruce Zebra Beetle from the Yukon. These longhorn beetles are wood-borers that feed beneath the bark of conifers, especially spruce.

BOLD Data Portal - ABOTH5617-22

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Today’s featured specimen is an Aedes mosquito (Family Culicidae), collected in Manitoba—often considered the mosquito capital of Canada!

BOLD Data Portal - PHGGC552-25

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Our DNA library is made possible thanks to the support of our funding partners.

Today’s featured arthropod is the American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis). It is a three-host-tick with each life cycle stage (larvae, nymphs and adults) feeding on a separate mammal host.

BOLD Data Portal - CRTOA8847-21

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Our DNA library is made possible thanks to the support of our funding partners.

Although today's insect from Costa Rica resembles a ladybird beetle, it is actually a true bug (Hemiptera) from the small family of 8 species Canopidae that are exclusively neotropical and thought to feed on fungus.

BOLD Data Portal - EMSCZ7500-22

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High-resolution arthropod specimen with inset map of collection site in the bottom left corner, scale bar in the bottom right corner, and funder logo in the top right corner.

Our DNA library is made possible thanks to the support of our funding partners.

Today’s featured specimen is the ubiquitous Australian cockroach, Periplaneta australasiae which was collected in the Galápagos Islands. The species has been introduced worldwide (including Canada).