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Oh wow. I'd never think they were the same species!

Birds with pants...so strange. 😂

Seeing them both makes me feel dumb that I can't ID hawks at all. They look nothing alike in your pics, yet I have no clue when I see them.

Two tiny kitten, one fuzzy black one and a black and white one.

Foster babies! They are making me feel my age with the lack of sleep. My first bottle babies ever. Aren't they cute? Snowdrop and Dewdrop. #cats #kittens #fostercats #adoptdontshop #babyanimals

Whew. I didn't want to, so thanks.

Thank you. I need all the laughs right now.

Agreed. It is ridiculous for anyone to have that amount of money while people are homeless and hungry. Drives me nuts.

Maybe they've been watching The Hunting Wives. I've heard it's causing the ladies to rethink their choices. 🤣

A stink bug that is dressed for Halloween! It is orange and black. He's sitting on my hand.

Another stink bug and some stink bug nymphs, all on a flower.

A spider having a moth snack.

A gorgeous paw paw Sphinx moth. It is shades of black, white, and gray, which helps it camouflage!

Managed to get a nature walk in today!! Yay! Maybe ditching SSRIs will finally allow me to enjoy the outdoors again. #insects #texasmasternaturalists #moths #spiders

@scottsolomon.bsky.social Thanks again for the awesome talk at our TMN meeting last night. I didn't realize that ants were so fascinating.

I've been having horrible heat intolerance issues for a year now. Throwing up and almost passing out. I think my antidepressant was conspiring with TX weather. On a med break now and crying way too much, but I got to see some bugs. I hate mental health crap. Need walks, but also need meds. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I love those!

I think it was a new genus for me when I uploaded to iNat. Just have to get on a larger screen to see if I can get it to species. It was so hot today that I barely made it an hour before heading home. Happy to find a couple new things though!

A very boopable grayish weevil with the cutest snoot.

A green and black stink bug with a white heart on its back. So sweet.

Oh! I've never seen that one.

I'll share my cute friends from today.

We saw quite a few superb dog day cicadas at our moth sheets on the 19th. I guess that was the end of those. They are pretty big! Now I need to go find some of the new ones.

Do we have the same kid? It's a struggle for sure.

I don't mind a debate, but when people want to equate facts with social media spewings and propaganda, it's useless. So, I'll just be here happy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes. I hate it all.

I wish I did. They are so interesting.

It has super cool eyes.

If we are recycling, I already own Beto shirts and signs. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ha!! I would be so excited to get creepy crawlies. He just doesn't know what's cool. Maybe HE needs a black light to learn to love the moths and beetles.

So pretty. I haven't seen one in ages.

I've seen so many of these this year!

My bird friend list is much too long. I need to diversify!

That's hilarious. Laila will pick up slugs which totally grosses me out, but she is not a fan of spiders. I will pick up all the spiders before I ever touch a slug. 🤣

Before homeschool, she would come home from public school with snails in her pocket. 😬 We fly our weird flag proudly around here.

Slightly, huh? 🤣

It's strange because we have these at one park and they mostly run. The other park, which is not that far, has six-spotted ones and they seem to fly as much as they run. Only one species per park that I commonly see, but surely there's more? I'll have to look at iNat tomorrow.

Thanks. My daughter is the last sufferer and her fever broke last night. Hoping we all feel like celebrating the big 1-3 on Friday. I can't believe I'll have a teenager. 😳

I'm sure the Switch 2 will help her feel better. My husband spoils her too much. I just force her to help me spot bugs. 🙃

I hope you can avoid it. It's rough. It must be easy to catch since I wasn't even in CVS long.

My daughter caught it for the first time and poor thing... her bday is Friday and we had to cancel our yearly trip to celebrate. Hoping to reschedule when we all feel better. Her fever broke yesterday.

Thank you. It's been a frustrating. Dealing with antidepressant issues and then getting sick while trying to straighten that out. I just want to go outside and hunt for bugs w/o heat intolerance issues. I think this new med is working, but it's hard to tell since I've been sick since starting it. 🤞🏻

A cute fungus beetle all ready for Halloween with its orange and black elytra.

My whole family has been down with COVID for over a week and a half. I finally managed to go for a short nature walk today and saw this new to me beetle.

I was the first one sick, which is awful because I had only went to CVS to get meds the week I got sick! Pick up meds, get bonus germs I guess.