Very interesting and cute animals! Do you have any questions?

Firebugs have different regional names. What do you call them?

Houseflies mating,
Musca domestica
(08/2015 in Oberursel, Germany)

Insects have a different nervous system than vertebrates like us. 🎉🎊 Not everything is controlled by the brain. 🙃🌳 The nerve cords are similar to a rope ladder. ☝🐝 In each body segment are two interconnected ganglia. ✌🐜 In the head several ganglia are fused together and form the brain. 👈🤓 The brain isn't really needed for survival, because the vital functions 💕 take place in other body segments. 💪😃 However, the fly can take without head no liquid or food. 💀🌈

A dancing caterpillar of the brown-tail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea). 🐛🎵
It's German name is Goldafter. 💩💰😅 Hairs from those caterpillars are toxic for humans. They cause an itchy rash! ☠ At the moment, there are many in the bushes along the railway tracks, which they eat bare.
Music: "Shrimp Rich" by septahelix (2019 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0)

Tachinid fly,
Tachina fera
(04/2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

The German name of this fly is Igelfliege, which means hedgehog fly. ❤ These loveable creatures lay their eggs on leaves. 🌿 When the maggots hatch, they crawl into caterpillars.👍🐛 One maggot per caterpillar. ☝🐛The caterpillar then plagues a lifelong feeling of internal erosion until it finally finds its well deserved death. 💀🐛 Take a look at this cute fly! 😍 It's very useful in pest control. They are cruel but very effective!

Red paper wasp,
Polistes canadensis
(10/2018 in Santa Teresa, Peru)

I've often encountered them in the Cusco region. With a wingspan of about 5 cm, they belong to the larger wasp species. The species name refers to Canada, but it doesn't occur there. The first describer, zoologist Carl von Linné, was misinformed. The red paper wasp lives in neotropical regions from Argentina to USA. Unfortunately, I couldn't photograph any of them alive. But a dead insect can also be quite interesting! I think it would fit well in a Star Wars movie, right?

Just realised it's head looks like a panda! 🐼🐞
I imagine a big two-legged panda walking through a bamboo forest.

Little bumblebee looking for shelter on the balcony. ☔🐝🌧

Team meeting! 👥
No sound, because top secret! 🙉🙊😇

Dagger flies,
Empis tessellata
(04/2016 in Oberursel, Germany)

Only adult males are predatory on other insects. Before mating, the male catches a prey to present as a gift to the female. In this case, a robber fly. Only then the mating takes place.

I haven't seen many animals on my way from Hidroeléctrica to Aguas Calientes. It already was dusk when I almost reached my destination. That's the time of owl butterflies! They are pretty large (65 - 200 mm). The name comes from those eye spots on their wings. Do you know the purpose of those spots?