Your pics are really cute - like a bug’s life story book :O)
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Im happy to see so many moth enjoyers here!! D. Rubicunda is definitely high on the list for me as well, but let’s be sure to appreciate some of the larger moths too. I was thrilled when this polyphemus moth stopped by my porch and was even friendly enough to let me hold her. Just look at her face, she’s precious!
Also wooly alder aphids are just adorable little fluffballs and I adore them <3
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your note (on the observation) made me chuckle.
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The fuzzy butterflies and moths around here are definitely cute. Some of them are even downright friendly (maybe they just enjoy the salt in my sweat, but it’s still nice to be able to get up close). I haven’t managed to get any great example pictures, but I think velvet ants are adorable, too, and I like the yellow-faced bumblebees that live around my area as well. They’re very docile and let me get pretty close.
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Love those “fuzzy butts!” 
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They’re not mine - just a couple of my favorites from the taxon page :) I wish mine were that good! I need a lot of practice photographing those cute little friends.
The little yellow ones like you have there are some of my favorites.
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Wow, I’m impressed you were able to get the photos you did w the Olympus, and even more impressed that you saw these to begin with. good eyes
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aaaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh its so adorable I literally can’t handle it!!! It’s soo cute!
Edit: Wow. It’s so adorable I lost my mind and screamed in all-caps. Yeesh!
What I typed earlier:
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This one by @cecileroux is the same genus. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42306980
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From my observations,
Lupropini Darkling beetles, tiny tickly black teddy bears
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93147133:
I had gone out to check out the lights (crowded with ant alates), and when I came inside I felt a tickling on the back of my neck while I was sitting at my desktop. I then found out that this cutie pie had hitched a ride on me! When I was admiring it I had some urgent work to do so I found myself rummaging in my books with a darkling beetle on my hand! I decided to postpone the work a few minutes and deal with the beetle first. I soon released it.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96352146:
Tetramorium walshi, a species of Tetramorium ant whose workers only I have observed (queens have been observed here on iNat):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/85314347
This Physocephala sp, a type of wasp-mimicking fly: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96449189
This super cute Asiline Robber Fly, a fat fluffy cheetah fly: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97125194
This adorable Horsefly: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96334738
Which is the cutest?
- Lupropini Darkling beetle
- Tetramorium walshi
- Physocephala wasp fly
- Robber Fly
- Horse Fly
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I choose the Horsefly, since it has a cute step-stop-step-stop tango walk. It’s also really chubby.
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