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What kind of insect appears in this photo?
I think these could be the eggs of woolly aphids(Eriosma lanigerum), which overwinter and spend their winter as either nymph or egg , woolly aphids usually lay their eggs in autumn .They are mostly ...
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Is continuous exposure to blue light lethal for mosquito larvae?
There are lots of relevant results from Google Search for "blue light mosquito larvae". Here is just one of them:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14096-y
They are not all only ...
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Insect Identification Request -- brown and white flea-like bug
These are clearly the larvae of the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, to whom cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and spittlebugs belong:
the have an (usually) elongated body shape, often with a ...
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Insect Identification Request -- brown and white flea-like bug
I think this is a springtail which lays it's eggs in young plant and moist soil and as you said, It bended it's abdomen by placing it on tape ,when they are stimulated ,they open their hidden tail ...
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