Posts from @mshbd

Six-spotted Zigzag Ladybird (Cheilomenes sexmaculata)

mshbd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:17:57 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Cheilomenes sexmaculata	Oct 22, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this insect is known as Cheilomenes sexmaculata. In English, they are generally called six-spotted zigzag ladybird or ladybeetle.
Family and Genus:
According to the classification of the animal kingdom, it belongs to the family Coccinellidae of the order Coleoptera. It is a species of the genus Cheilomenes.

Origin and Habitat:
Starting from India to Japan and various parts of Australia, they have wide distribution in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. They are regularly seen on the leaves of gardens, farm fields, and plants in our country.

Food:
They are extremely irresistible predatory insects. They eat by hunting aphids, whiteflies, scale insects, and various harmful small insects and their larvae that damage the tender leaves of trees.

Reproduction:
In suitable environments, they lay small and bright eggs on the leaves or branches of trees. Larvae emerge from the eggs, grow up quickly by eating surrounding harmful insects, and later transform into the pupa stage.

Benefits:
In crop fields and gardens, these beneficial insects play a wonderful role as natural biological controllers or biocontrol agents in suppressing harmful aphids.

Harmful Aspects:
They have no kind of harmful aspect for humans, plants, or crops. These are completely harmless and beneficial insects known as the farmer's true friend.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Cheilomenes sexmaculata)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/410125636

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3360	89.1134	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3360/89.1134

Mango Flower Beetle (Protaetia fusca)

mshbd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:14:45 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Protaetia fusca	Oct 22, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this insect is known as Protaetia fusca. In English, they are generally called mango flower beetles or mango flower eating beetles.
Family and Genus:
According to the classification of the animal kingdom, this belongs to the family Scarabaeidae of the order Coleoptera and the subfamily Cetoniinae. It is a species of the genus Protaetia.

Origin and Habitat:
They are basically native insects of tropical and subtropical Asia and Australia. But later through human transportation and trade, their spread has occurred in various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans besides Florida and the Caribbean region as well.

Food:
The adult beetles are trophic generalists or omnivorous in nature, which eat by collecting juice and nutrition from flowers and fruits of various trees including mango, lemon, fig, corn, and rose. Besides, their role is also seen in the pollination of sesame and sunflower flowers. On the other hand, their larvae or grubs eat rotten organic matter and compost manure instead of live roots.

Reproduction:
They lay eggs in rotten organic garbage, compost, or manured soil. In favorable environments, larvae hatch from the eggs and grow up by eating rotten leaves and organic matter to transform into fully grown beetles.

Benefits:
They work as natural helpers in making decomposable organic waste or compost in nature and in causing pollination of some plants like sesame and sunflower.

Harmful Aspects:
If they increase in excessive numbers, by eating flowers and fruits of mango, litchi, or various fruits, sometimes they become known as minor insect pests or harmful crop pests in agricultural fields.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Protaetia fusca)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/410124980

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3360	89.1134	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3360/89.1134

Asian Cockroach (Blattella asahinai)

mshbd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:25:03 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Blattella asahinai	Oct 20, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this insect is known as Blattella asahinai, and in English, it is called the Asian cockroach or Asian roach.
Family and Genus:
According to classification, it is a species of the family Ectobiidae of the order Blattodea and the genus Blattella.

Origin and Habitat:
Although their native home is Asia, their distribution has now occurred in various regions. They generally prefer to stay outside, not inside houses, but rather on tender leaves of gardens, rotting leaves under trees, or damp places with mulch.

Food:
They are omnivorous insects. Along with eating human food, pet food, flowers, various vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, and strawberries, they also hunt and eat the eggs of harmful pests in crop fields.

Reproduction:
The female Asian cockroach carries the egg capsule or ootheca herself until the eggs hatch and babies come out. They produce about four oothecas in their lifetime, each averaging 35 to 40 eggs.

Benefits:
By eating the eggs of harmful Lepidopteran pests in agriculture, they play a wonderful role in protecting crops as natural predators.

Harmful Aspects:
Due to the attraction of light, sometimes in the evening they come close to houses and can enter inside through open doors and windows. Since they look like German cockroaches, confusion often arises in the use of pesticides.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Blattella asahinai)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/410019518

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3366	89.1117	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3366/89.1117

Lobesia aeolopa

mshbd — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:58:42 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Lobesia aeolopa	Oct 20, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this moth is known as Lobesia aeolopa. Edward Meyrick first described this species in 1907.
Family and Genus:
According to classification, this is a species belonging to the family Tortricidae and the genus Lobesia.

Origin and Habitat:
They live in widely distributed regions worldwide including various countries of Asia and Africa such as Vietnam, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and South Africa. They are often seen around gardens and vegetation of our Asian region.

Food:
Their larvae or caterpillars can survive by eating leaves of various plants as well as hunting small aphid-type insects.

Reproduction:
In suitable environments, they lay eggs on tender leaves or various parts of trees, and after the eggs hatch, larvae emerge to conduct their life cycle.

Benefits:
These small moths have their own role in maintaining the food chain of nature and balancing insects.

Harmful Aspects:
Generally, they are not the cause of any serious harm for humans or major crops, but their larvae can have a minor impact on the leaves of some plants.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Lobesia aeolopa)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/409733469

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3366	89.1117	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3366/89.1117

Liris subtessellatus

mshbd — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:31:15 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Liris subtessellatus	Oct 18, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this insect belongs to the genus Liris. In English, they are generally called digger wasps or sand-loving wasps. Scientific Name Liris subtessellatus.
Family and Genus:
According to the classification of the animal kingdom, this insect belongs to the family Sphecidae and subfamily Larrinae of the order Hymenoptera. It is a beautiful species of the genus Liris.

Origin and Habitat:
They are generally widely distributed in warm and tropical regions. They are often seen roaming around gardens, farm fields, sandy soil, and fruit or lemon trees in our country.

Food:
These wasps are extremely skilled predatory insects. They usually hunt various small insects and larvae, take them to nests made in the ground, and collect nutrition from flower honey and natural juices in the adult stage.

Reproduction:
They lay eggs by digging the soil or making small holes or tunnels in convenient places. They keep the hunted insects right beside the eggs so that the newly hatched larvae can easily get food.

Benefits:
These digger wasps work as wonderful natural predators in controlling harmful insects and pests in nature. Besides, they have a role in maintaining the balance of the environment.

Harmful Aspects:
They do not cause any kind of harmful effect for humans or crops. These are completely harmless and beneficial wild insects.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Liris subtessellatus)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/409217563

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3360	89.1134	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3360/89.1134

Wasp-mimic Jumping Spider (Rhene tamula)

mshbd — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:50:39 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Rhene tamula	Oct 18, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this spider is known as Rhene tamula. In 1879, Karsch described this species. In English, they are generally called jumping spiders or wasp-mimic spiders.
Family and Genus:
According to the classification of the animal kingdom, it belongs to the family Salticidae of the order Araneae. It is a species of the genus Rhene.

Origin and Habitat:
They usually live in plants, on leaves, and in shady places in various regions. They are seen more in garden shrubs, tender branches of trees, and places where they like to sunbathe.

Food:
They are extremely agile hunting spiders. Following small insects, flies, and other insects silently, they suddenly catch them by jumping and take them as food. Rather than catching prey trapped in webs, they are proficient in catching prey directly.

Reproduction:
In the breeding season, male spiders carefully go near the female spider and attract her through special behaviors. After laying eggs under leaves or in safe shelters, the spiders guard and protect them.

Benefits:
In nature, these spiders play a wonderful role as natural predators in controlling harmful small insects and flies. They help maintain the balance of the environment.

Harmful Aspects:
They have no harmful effects for humans or crops. These are completely harmless and beneficial natural insectivorous animals.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Rhene tamula)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/409216274

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3360	89.1134	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3360/89.1134

Poophilus

mshbd — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:02:18 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Poophilus	Oct 14, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, this insect belongs to the genus Poophilus. In English, they are generally known as insects of the spittlebug or froghopper group.
Family and Genus:
According to the classification of the animal kingdom, this insect belongs to the superfamily Cercopoidea of the order Hemiptera and the family Aphrophoridae. It is a species of the genus Poophilus.

Origin and Habitat:
They usually live in grassy fields, shrubs, and green leaves of various plants. Humid environments and tender leaves of trees are their favorite places.

Physical Structure:
Their body is quite sturdy and of small size. A mixture of gray or green color suitable for blending with the leaf color is seen on their body, which helps them hide easily.

Food and Life Cycle:
They survive by sucking sap from tender twigs or leaves of trees. Their larval or nymph stage usually stays inside a foam-like covering on the tree to protect themselves and grows up by eating sap.

Benefits:
They play a role in maintaining the balance of the environment by protecting the natural food chain and as food for other predatory animals.

Harmful Aspects:
If their numbers increase excessively, some tender twigs or leaves of plants may suffer minor damage due to their sap-sucking, but usually they are not seen causing severe damage to major crops.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Poophilus)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/408274551

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3366	89.1117	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3366/89.1117

Bangla Hive Global Contest #5: Alphabet Hunt (Letter E)

banglahive — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:58:33 GMT

▶️ Bangla Hive Global Contest #5: Alphabet Hunt (Letter E) ◀️

Hello to all friends around the world! We wish you are passing a beautiful day.

First of all, we want to give a huge thanks to all the people who took part in our fourth round. The Letter D contest is now fully CLOSED. Our team is checking all your beautiful submissions right now. The winner list will be published in a very short time!

Today, it is a matter of great joy that we are starting Round #5 of our game with the Letter E!

The main creator of this enjoyable contest concept is @barbara-orenya. We are very proud to restart this idea so that our community members stay active and show their creativity.

❤️ Big Thanks to Our Great Sponsors ❤️
Our reward pool is becoming bigger because of the kind hearts of our supporters:

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Kindly read these guidelines nicely and follow them to make your post valid:

Search 6 Things: Look for 6 real things, places, or objects that begin with the Letter E (for example: Egg, Elephant, Eagle, Envelope, Earphone, etc.).
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Type 200 Words: Write a small story or details about your captured pictures. It has to be at least 200 words long. Your writing needs to be fully your own and without any AI help.
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Drop Your Link: Put the link of your contest post inside the comment box of this post.
(Time Limit: You will get exactly 7 days to share your entry from the time this post goes live).

🎁 Prize Pool for the Winners 🎁

🏆 3 Top Winners Will Get (Each):

1 HIVE (From Bangla Hive Community)
1 HSBI Share (From @mshbd)
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300 Ecency Points (Sponsored by @melinda010100 & @nelinoeva)
2 ARCHON Tokens (Sponsored by @ecoinstant)
100 PEPE Tokens (From @mshbd)
50 SBT Tokens (From @mshbd)
50 SME Tokens (From @mshbd)
40 FOODIES Tokens (Sponsored by @sirenahippie)

🏅 2 Honorable Mentions Will Get (Each):

1 HSBI Share (From @mshbd)
200 Ecency Points (Sponsored by @melinda010100 & @nelinoeva)
50 PEPE Tokens (From @mshbd)
25 SBT Tokens (From @mshbd)
25 SME Tokens (From @mshbd)
30 FOODIES Tokens (Sponsored by @sirenahippie)

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Take your camera in hand, begin your hunting for the Letter E, and enjoy the time!

(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)

📸 Image Credit: Cover photo created using ChatGPT.

Common Mormon Swallowtail (Papilio polytes)

mshbd — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:24:09 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Papilio polytes	Oct 14, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, the larva or caterpillar of this butterfly is known as Papilio polytes. In Bengali and English, it is commonly called the caterpillar or larva of the 'Common Mormon' butterfly.
Family and Genus:
According to the classification of the animal kingdom, this is a species of the family Papilionidae of the order Lepidoptera. It belongs to the genus Papilio.

Origin and Habitat:
They can be found in countless numbers starting from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka to China and Southeast Asia. Mainly, they roam and live in lemon-type trees, home gardens, and light forests.

Physical Structure and Camouflage:
In the primary stage of life, these caterpillars look exactly like bird droppings, which helps in self-defense from predatory birds. Later when they grow up, they take a dark beautiful green color, and unique bands with transverse black and light spots are created on their bodies which look like the eyes of a snake's face.

Food and Life Cycle:
Their favorite food is tender leaves of lemon tree, bael tree, curry leaf, and kamini tree. After hatching from eggs, the larvae grow quickly by eating leaves and later go to the pupal stage to transform into a fully grown butterfly with beautiful black-and-white wings.

Benefits:
When these caterpillars grow up and turn into butterflies, they play a wonderful role in pollination by roaming from flower to flower and in enhancing the beauty of nature.

Harmful Aspects:
If their numbers increase on small lemon trees of houses or nurseries, they can cause some damage to the tree or leave it leafless by eating the leaves.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	No
Photography	(Papilio polytes)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/408274297

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3363	89.1134	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3363/89.1134

Plagiostenopterina

mshbd — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:45:03 GMT

Latin Name	Observation Date	Location
Plagiostenopterina	Oct 14, 2026	Natore, Bangladesh

Scientific Name:
In the scientific world, signal flies are insects belonging to the Platystomatidae family. The European signal fly species is known as Platystoma seminationis in scientific circles.
Family and Genus:
According to classification, this insect belongs to the superfamily Tephritoidea of the order Diptera and the family Platystomatidae. There are around 1200 species of insects in 127 genera in this family.

Origin and Habitat:
Signal flies are distributed worldwide and are found in all biogeographic regions, but their abundance is highest in the tropics. Adult flies are usually seen perching on tree trunks and leaves.

Food:
Adult flies are attracted to flowers, decaying fruit, excrement, sweat, and decomposing snails. On the other hand, their larvae survive by eating fresh and decaying plant material, rotting corpses, and root nodules of trees.

Reproduction and Behavior:
Very strange and exceptional social and reproductive behavior is seen among these insects. In many species, special structures or eyestalks develop on the heads of male flies, which are used in reproductive battles and expanding territorial dominance.

Benefits:
They play a role in maintaining the balance of the environment by helping to rapidly decompose organic waste and dead bodies in nature.

Harmful Aspects:
The larvae of some species can have a minor harmful impact in agriculture on various parts of plants or in the case of legume crops.

I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.

_{***(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)***}

Camera Used	Samsung SM-G973F
F-Stop	F2.4
ISO speed	ISO
Focal length	26mm
Flash	No
Editing app	Lightroom
Photography	(Plagiostenopterina)
Photographer	@mshbd
Location	Natore, Bangladesh

Link to original community
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/408273509

Latitude	Longitude	Map Link
24.3363	89.1134	https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3363/89.1134