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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

👀

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

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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.

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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 🧡)

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Green heron going through A Phase

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

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That rare moment when you're creeping up on a tiger beetle, and they decide to come towards you instead of running away 💚

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

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Finding the one miniscule encyrtid wasp among a thousand springtails of equal size, shape, and color crossing my vision in the grass today 🥹

(I love all the springtails too, I just don't have the head space available to add another bug obsession on top of my current ones)

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

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At rest and while snacking, this bronze-y little encyrtid keeps her wings down like normal god-fearing wasps. On the hunt (for whatever it is this species is after), she flips her wings straight up and keeps them that way as she runs. No idea why, I just like it. 🤎

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