having a... time

05.12.2024 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of spitting spider on a smooth, off-white background

photo of spitting spider on a smooth, off-white background

stoked to find a spitting spider in my bathroom sink the other day

04.12.2024 18:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of a giant leaf footed bug on a window screen

this giant leaf footed bug in my backyard took my breath away yesterday

16.11.2024 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of a polyphemus caterpillar, a thick green caterpillar with a light brown head, standing on concrete

met a celebrity the other day (polyphemus caterpillar)

13.11.2024 16:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of gulf fritillary butterfly on a leafy plant

it's
mother
fuckin
gulf fritillary season

13.11.2024 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of a torbie cat curled up horizontally in a ball

roung

08.11.2024 14:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

fuzzy egg sac on bottom of fallen dead leaf

gall wasp egg sac — one of many i've seen in the leaf litter recently

26.10.2024 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A black wasps with golden back feet. It is carrying a ball of mud to construct a nest on a brick face.

My photo of an Organ Pipe Mud Dauber made the Arthropod Photo of the Week with @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Figured I’d share it here bcs I think a wasp carrying a mud ball is adorable. Organ Pipe Daubers are solitary spider hunting wasps. They are docile around people and a great wasp to observe.

24.10.2024 02:48 — 👍 682    🔁 113    💬 19    📌 6

grasshoppy

24.10.2024 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of fuzzy black caterpillar on concrete

photo of fuzzy greenish white caterpillar on concrete

these guys were absolutely motoring on the hiking trail. breaking the catypillar speed limit

20.10.2024 20:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

traditional pencil drawing of three friends next to one another. the one in the center is a large young man grinning widely and giving a thumbs-up with his arms around the other two. the one on the left is also grinning and giving a thumbs-up. the one on the left is smiling with one eye open and her arm is pressed against her torso.

it's please be normal pfriday!

erin's shirt says "women want fish, me fear me"

#ocart #oc-tober

18.10.2024 22:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here are a few native bees from North America. I have been working on wide angle macro and that was the approach for the first two shots. The Two-spotted Longhorn Bee and Nomad Bee were sleeping.
Common Eastern Bumblebee, Denticulate Longhorn Bee, Two-spotted Longhorn Bee, and Nomad Bee

17.10.2024 23:57 — 👍 238    🔁 33    💬 10    📌 2

I’m not a new user, but here is a butterfly anyway. I’m from the NE US and had never seen this beauty before visiting Texas. It’s still my favorite butterfly, the Gulf Fritillary. Look at the orange and white striped body!
(Dione vanillae)

18.10.2024 03:07 — 👍 236    🔁 19    💬 8    📌 4

The beautiful thing about science is the changes persistent study and experimenting can reveal.

Here's 185 years of Iguanodon reconstructions demonstrating the shifts in our perception of it in less than a minute!

18.10.2024 15:03 — 👍 5639    🔁 1493    💬 100    📌 116

Free hugs for all the bugs!

A snazzy American Green Crab Spider sporting fabulous fall colors waiting patiently for an unsuspecting insect to make a mistake.
(Misumessus oblongus) #Arachtober

18.10.2024 00:38 — 👍 220    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 0

photo of a jumping spider on a tan metallic surface

met a twin-flagged jumping spider on my desk at work today

my husband said the spider was trying to show me the web browser it was working on

18.10.2024 00:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0