China biodiversity data

 All IDs here tentative (even ones without question marks) unless otherwise noted. Pics next to each other that seem to be the same individual are, unless otherwise noted.

Taicang indoors 4/26/2025:

Liposcelis, in dried goods

Grain ptinid, with Liposcelis above

Pteromalid-type wasp, probably parasitizing grain anobiid, too large to eat Liposcelis, moribund from probable adult starvation (no nectar indoors for adult to drink), refused sugar when offered (prob too weak to feed any more)

Muscid-type fly

Suburban ornamental landscaping surrounding my residence:

Episyrphus..?, one of the few incredibly common diurnal insects at this time, adults seem to prefer shaded microhabitats

Gall on topiary, neither exactly common nor rare on its host

ditto but apparently less red

Crematogaster (ants are one of my weak spots btw)

Ditto but male

Anthomyiid? drinking honeydew

Smallish lycosid

Lasius? It's like a fat Linepithema haha,

Generic looking miner, host appears to be...

...Erigeron philadelphicus? Common weedy daisy here.

Same plant as above.

Mosses in half dead lawn, they're dry and revive when it rains

Some dormant snail I don't recognize

Water-walking flies in the artificial drainage-duct river, Brachydeutera?

Pheidole? minors cooperatively carrying lump, very unlike the ants I'm used to where when more than one worker tries to drag the same object they end up interfering with each other

Major that was following the same trail as the minors above, so probably conspecific

Diplolepis? On streetside domesticated roses

white clover (funny seeing familiar weeds on the other side of the world isn't it)

Mazus pumilus in an unkempt public flowerpot; first of many sightings of these to come

3 angles of dead scarab (melolonthine prob.)

More Mazus pumilus, in lawn

Eupeodes on aforementioned daisy sp.

For some reason I couldn't find many springtails despite my best efforts

Xysticus? It was on a daisy stem consuming Eupeodes but then Lasius scared it into dropping the prey

Trigonotis peduncularis, regular readers may note its visual and taxonomic closeness to US native micro-Boraginaceae like Pectocarya

fruit of same

single branch of same; it was a wiry tangle just like Pectocarya, tho even more gangly and long

Aethina? This one wasn't found in a beehive, it was found buried in...

...a flower of Lysimachia candida. I never saw a second Aethina during the extent of my stay despite seeing many more L. candida.

Flea beetle corpse, who knows how long it's been there (prob. years)

4/27, more suburban animals and weeds:

I kept finding paper-mulberry saplings planting themselves, no idea where parent plant was tho