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Nature photographer, amateur naturalist & arthropod enthusiast. Florida natives, here. Pics my own. Dead Name Walking. Man't. They/Them (she/her even, if you're not creepy about it) IG: @apsciencebylyn Discord: evelyndroid Tumblr: apsciencebylyn
Bright apple green flat ambush bug, holding on to a twig with his big grabby hands (mixture of crab claws and mantis hands)
Top view of the creature, showing the wide flat leaf shape with his head as the stem
Day 4 of my 2025 Favorites: Tiny Leaf With Grabby Hands!
Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet
Miniscule perky black jumping spider with orange legs and white palps, peering at you from a twig
Day 5 of my 2025 Favorites is just the tiniest #EmotionalSupportSpood known to science, Mr Neonella camillae
Bug and I make regular pilgrimages to central Florida to see them. He's but a grain of black sand 🖤
Miniscule perky black jumping spider with orange legs and white palps, peering at you from a twig
Day 5 of my 2025 Favorites is just the tiniest #EmotionalSupportSpood known to science, Mr Neonella camillae
Bug and I make regular pilgrimages to central Florida to see them. He's but a grain of black sand 🖤
She working 🤍
(night walks are for Ogres)
Slender leggy brown ogre spider hanging above and facing a lichen-y branch, little square net at the ready
I had a Baby Ogre, he was perfect in every way 🥹
05.12.2025 02:44 — 👍 83 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Gotta say it like Winston does from John Wick
05.12.2025 04:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amazon's broadcast superpower is making good songs sound soulless and disconnected from anything going on
05.12.2025 03:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We weren't allowed to watch or follow sports (for religious bullshit reasons) until like early 2001, and LeBron James hit the NBA ~2 years later. And he's still playing. That's a hell of a long time to be in our lives and it's hard for me to imagine the NBA without him. I've basically never seen it.
05.12.2025 03:23 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The dude has been dominating the NBA since before I could drive and I'm nearly 37
05.12.2025 03:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Extremely appropriate for him. Respect.
05.12.2025 02:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rictus from Fury Road, a bald muscle-y mountain of a man who might have been a himbo in a gentler time, holding a gigantic machine gun
(if Rictus loved spiders)
05.12.2025 02:47 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Slender leggy brown ogre spider hanging above and facing a lichen-y branch, little square net at the ready
I had a Baby Ogre, he was perfect in every way 🥹
05.12.2025 02:44 — 👍 83 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1He's the guy Brandin Podziemski thinks he is
05.12.2025 02:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Miniscule orange-brown scorpion baby, 3 of which could comfortably fit on my index fingernail close by. Just a child
Baby scorp?
05.12.2025 02:14 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Small pale slender spider with a long lizard like abdomen which she has curled into a spiral as she dangles under a palmetto frond
Day 3 of my 2025 Favorites: A Pleasing Shape (Technically a Spider)
Rhomphaea fictilium, a very silly kleptoparasitic spider with a long flexible booty which they curl into pleasing shapes for Reasons. This one was quite lovely 🤍
Bright apple green flat ambush bug, holding on to a twig with his big grabby hands (mixture of crab claws and mantis hands)
Top view of the creature, showing the wide flat leaf shape with his head as the stem
Day 4 of my 2025 Favorites: Tiny Leaf With Grabby Hands!
Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet
Me neither, but with kimchi
05.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"...the logic went"
Hideous, hideous people.
She working 🤍
(night walks are for Ogres)
Curled up black and grey rattlesnake, head peering over its body and a ridge of the burnt log its on
Missing him (Dusky pygmy rattlesnake catching some sun on a log earlier this year) 🖤
04.12.2025 03:41 — 👍 193 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0Not gonna lie if folks who totally aren't Irish vampires showed up to my door and led with this piece they might've got me
youtu.be/4xh5bhmU8X8?...
Will ya go, lassie, go...
goddamn Irish vampires in my head again
I'd be weirded out to be appearing in the dreams of Phone People most of the time, but this? I'm ok with this 😆
04.12.2025 05:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We know before we know, you know? 😆
04.12.2025 05:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anyway I don't know why this specific thought came to mind tonight but I just think it's Neat. Full circle
04.12.2025 05:28 — 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0*attempted to match in my case, she still had her account up but I learned later that she was already dating my ex 😆
04.12.2025 05:27 — 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My previous marriage was with a woman trying not to be gay, we divorced and later ended up matching* with the same woman on Hinge (they're now living together ♥️), and since then I've realized I'm transfemme and I'm now in a relationship with a woman who didn't realize she was gay until she met me
04.12.2025 05:26 — 👍 63 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0🥹♥️
Oh no, the creeps make themselves very obvious and fortunately there haven't been many of them lol. The vast majority of y'all are only in my notifications for the Bugs and I appreciate it
Slight exaggeration, my memory isn't great right now because this past year has aged us all 15 years, but you get the idea. I can look through pictures from last year and upload a creature to iNaturalist with its accurate location just from memory because I Was There.
04.12.2025 04:55 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I mentioned recently about the creepiness of AI-rotted brains engaging with my bug pics, which tracks with this. My jumping spider and wasp folders for just this year are 4000+ each, and if you pick one at random I can probably tell you where/when & which song was stuck in my head while shooting it
04.12.2025 04:50 — 👍 52 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
