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A sleeping green lizard on a cattail leaf. The lizard is covered in tiny, shiny dew droplets.

Green anole (Anolis carolinensis), Beaufort County, North Carolina, USA

#herps

A quick collage of some snow flakes 🙂. Forsyth County, North Carolina, today

An inside view of small pool of water full of giant water bugs clinging to the rocky walls of the pool.

Forbidden hot tub full of toe biters. Lethocerus medius, Brewster County, Texas.

#inverts #insects #underwater

A big weevil with proportionally long and spiny front legs and a large snout nearly covered in orange fur, like a mustache and beard.

Bearded Weevil (Rhinostomus barbirostris), Veracruz, Mexico

#inverts #insects #beetles

A slender snake stretched out along a tree root on a mossy slope. The snake has a gray head, a tan body with black spots, and a neon orange stripe along its back.

Eastern Black-necked Gartersnake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis ssp. ocellatus), Travis County, Texas

#herps #snakes

A gray snake with longitudinal dark lines down its back and orange skin between the scales is coiled around a bat. The scene is inside a dark, rocky cave.

Baird's Ratsnake (Pantherophis bairdi) eating a bat! Val Verde County, Texas.

#herps #predation #snakes

A closeup of a small flower above verdant shamrock leaves. The flower is white with pink veins and each of the five petals has a yellow spot near the center of the flower.

Mountain Woodsorrel (Oxalis montana), Watauga County, NC, USA

#plants #botany

Sorry for the screen photo, but is this the maggot you are interested in collecting pupae of? Seen today in NC on a walnut husk.

A green caterpillar with white stripes rears its front half. It has small spikes on the back of each segment, and longer spikes on the neck area and near its back end.

Heiligbrodt's Mesquite Moth (Syssphinx heiligbrodti), Cameron County, Texas

#insects #inverts #moths #caterpillars

A small chocolate-brown insect with a diamond shaped body and very long middle legs sits upon wet sand.

Common Sea Skater (Halobates micans), Nueces County, Texas.

Water striders in this genus are perhaps the only insects that are truly marine, living most of their life on the open ocean.

#insects #macro #invertebrates

A snake with a pointy nose and a pattern of red and black triangles coiled on a sparse rocky landscape.

Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), Webb County, Texas.

#herps #snakes

Two ants on a mossy log, one carrying a yellow flower and the other carrying a small bit of leaf.

Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.), Tiputini, Ecuador

#ants #insects #inverts #macro

A desert scene dominated by orange-brown spires of rock jutting out of rocky rolling hills with splashes of green shrubs against a clear blue sky.

Grapevine Hills, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas

#landscapes #desert #westtexas

A green spider camouflaged among lichen in the crook of a hanging branch.

Giant Lichen Orbweaver (Araneus bicentenarius), Travis County, Texas

#spiders #camouflage

A sleek mousy-brown flying squirrel comes down a tree. It has its legs spread so you can see the stretched skin (patagium) that assists in gliding.

Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans), Beaufort County, North Carolina

#mammals

A flat spider with very long legs sits encircled by its web on a cliff wall

Two lampshade-shaped spider webs decorate the side of a large boulder.

Pocock's Lampshade-web Spider (Hypochilus pococki), Macon County, North Carolina.

These long-legged spiders make lampshade-shaped webs on the underside of overhanging rocks and cave walls. Members of the family Hypochilidae are found in mountainous regions in the USA and China.

#spiders #macro

Agreed, and thank you!

A close up of an orange scorpion with 2 gray stripes on its back. Its pincered pedipalps are held together at the tips.

Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus), Trinity County, Texas

#arachnids #macro

Salamanders have smooth, slimy skin while skinks have dry, scaly skin. Skinks also tend to move a lot faster than salamanders!

A tan-yellow salamander with thin longitudinal stripes on each side of its back sits atop wet leaf litter.

Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander (Eurycea chamberlaini), Beaufort County, North Carolina.

#salamanders #herps

A copper and green colored butterfly with white bars and fake antennae opposite the head.

Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus), Travis County, Texas

#insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

A tiny butterfly with fuzzy legs and wing borders. Its color is orange around the outer edges, transitioning to a red-orange center. Alternating broken vertical lines of silver and black decorate the wings.

Guyanan Sarota (Sarota gyas), Tiputini, Ecuador.

#insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

Thank you!

A close up of a passionflower. The lower tepals are green, and above those is a whorl of coronal filaments. Above those are the nectaries, anthers and carpels.

Birdwing Passionflower (Passiflora tenuiloba), Travis County, Texas

#plants #botany #macro

A yellow beetle sits in the inflorescence of a boneset plant.

Boneset Leaf Beetle (Ophraella notata), pale form. Forsyth County, North Carolina

#inverts #insects #beetles #macro

A pair of slipper orchid flowers, which look like white ballet shoes with maroon laces.

Mountain Lady's-Slipper (Cypripedium montanum), Kittitas County, Washington.

#plants #flowers #orchids

A tiny yellow orchid flower. The shape looks a bit like a flying bird carrying a large pair of pants in its claws.

Kidneyleaf Twayblade (Neottia smallii), Caldwell County, North Carolina.

#plants #orchids #macro

It’s a moth!

A wasp-mimic moth. The moth has black wings and body with blue iridescence. The wings have broad whitish blotches and the body has thin yellow stripes.

Black-banded Wasp Moth (Syntomeida melanthus), Brewster County, Texas.

#inverts #insects #moths

A small waterfall drops into a rocky tea-colored stream in the Colombian cloud forest

Cascada los Colores, Cueva de los Guacharos, Colombia

#waterfall #landscapes