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You don't have to wait till Mother's Day to rewatch Fury Road, you can watch it right now. You're welcome.

(Annual reminder that Mad Max: Fury Road is a Mother's Day movie)

#Fury Road #furiosa #mad max #mother's day

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An't curiously watching an ant run by 🥹

One of the spiders in my pocket is a little Sarinda hentzi I brought for show and tell for my siblings. They "Cannot Believe It's Not An Ant" ®

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #emotionalsupportspood #salticidae #mimicry

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Why do people always act surprised when you say you have live spiders in your pocket, and they ask if you really have spiders in your pocket, and you tell them you do and you pull out several vials containing live spiders

#nature #animals #bugblr #science #spiders #invertebrates #emotionalsupportspood #invertefest

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Floofy red-head Grumpilump ❤️

Maybe my favorite color morph for Hamataliwa grisea, which are usually more of a uniform brown-ish grey.

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #emotionalsupportspood #Hamataliwa #Lynx #invertefest

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Strange little star-fruit of a jagged ambush bug

👀

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #entomology #invertefest #hemiptera

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Grapholita moth just being one of the prettiest little things you'll ever see 🤎

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #entomology #moths #invertefest

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Happy Leggy Green Jello Monster Day to all who celebrate! It commemorates the first sighting of the year of adult Lyssomanes viridis; the date varies by person and location.

I celebrate by making weird happy noises at the creature and taking lots of pictures. 💚

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #emotionalsupportspood #salticidae #invertefest

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I'm still fussing with it here and there, but

Here is the official cover reveal for my upcoming book, THE CICADAS OF NORTH AMERICA!

Preorders are available NOW at www.OwlflyLLC.com/publications !!!

#I love it <3

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Attidops cinctipes, aka, the (invertebrate) Brown Creeper* made an appearance this evening for #InverteFest. She found a snack. A good Lump. 🤎

*Thanks to @crevicedwelling for the very appropriate name for the creature 🤎

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #emotionalsupportspood #salticidae #invertefest

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Tiny Hannibal of Carthage, and his trusty elephant steed ❤️

#invertefest #bugblr #animals #beetles #weevil

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This past weekend I finally completed a silly challenge I gave myself a few years ago: Finding and shooting representatives of all 4 of our ant spood genuses in one day (bonus: at one location)! In order of appearance: Synemosyna (petrunkevitchi), Synageles (noxiosus), Peckhamia (americana), and Sarinda (hentzi). 🏆

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #salticidae #emotionalsupportspood #mimicry #invertefest

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*Flight of the Bumblebee, on solo saxophone*

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #entomology #diptera #BugSex

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My mental health has been a mess recently. Remaining alive is a minor accomplishment. Finding bugs is good for grounding one's self but there's only so much that can do when brains just don't work.

Mating pair of big-headed flies provided a little joy this past weekend though.

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #entomology #diptera

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Late this afternoon I was about to turn back on my walk, and there was a small patch of leaf litter along the fence of the preserve I was at. Stopped to watch and see what appeared. After a few minutes I could only chuckle; the ant mimics seemed like they were outnumbering the actual ants I was seeing! So I figured I'd make a little game of it for y'all: how many ants are in this post?

1 & 2:

3 & 4:

5 & 6:

7 & 8:

9 & 10:

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #entomology #wasps #antblr #Ants #mimicry #spiders #beetles

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One of the cutest little wasps you'll ever see 🧡

I love these Scelionids.

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #entomology #wasps

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Habronattus brunneus lad, aka, the Rubber Ducky Boy (3rd leg pair looks like they have an orange duck face, to my eyes. It's very silly 🧡)

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #emotionalsupportspood #salticidae

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Green heron going through A Phase

#nature #animals #photography #birdblr #birds arent real