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What a day. Lots of work, train delays, and then a missing Diggo. Nothing quite gets your heart rate up like a tarantula about the size of your hand loose for who knows how long. All my bugs are in really secure cages, but she was in a handmade container her original owner made in an architecture class. The seal had simply worn out and the plastic distorted over time. She was clearly easily able to push her way out as the broken side was against the wall of my bookshelf and I didn't notice. . . I wondered how I'd find her and then noticed ridiculous webbing going up the side of the bookshelf. No local spider could make webbing this thick. It went all the way to the top, behind the books, to every shelf, to my dinosaur parade, and back down again so she had a grand time of it. The last video shows where I found her, across from the bookshelf. . . She's rehoused in a secure container now. It latches closed and while I thought the walls might be too much for her to climb I caught her climbing the glass already. I might need to give her some material to climb on if she likes it that much. I thought her species was terrestrial but she REALLY likes to go up. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp01pQUA1Ap/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1thjzqmgdc021

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Tony cares about his brother so much. #hashtagblessed https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXhhhxFlfP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jlz4iase05xe

#hashtagblessed

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What could possibly go wrong? https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn6o8mNFhsX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d3yw1l0jqxy9

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Oh hey it's almost like I didn't entirely forget how to art while I was consumed with endless pipetting. -ferry ride to Boston Harbor Islands . . . . #boston #bostonharborcruises #bostonharborislands #newengland #watercolor #boat #sketchbook #pleinair #landscapepainting #painting #seaandsky #art #handboundsketchbook

#pleinair #watercolor #boat #boston #landscapepainting #painting #seaandsky #bostonharborislands #art #sketchbook #handboundsketchbook #bostonharborcruises #newengland

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That is one very gravid amblypygid. The spherical bumps visible under her abdomen are developing embryos. I moved her into her own container today, away from the other gravid female (who also got her own container) and the male, who is still chilling with the millipedes. I'm not sure they like the foam... . . . . #amblypygid #amblypygi #phrynusmarginemaculatus #phrynus #gravid #embryo #evodevo #naturalhistory #arachnology #arachnid_perfection #floridataillesswhipscorpion #whipspider #arachnidsofinstagram

#phrynusmarginemaculatus #whipspider #evodevo #floridataillesswhipscorpion #gravid #arachnid_perfection #embryo #arachnidsofinstagram #phrynus #amblypygid #arachnology #naturalhistory #amblypygi

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Override that tallneck Aloy -- err... Sakura-chan!!! . . . . #horizonzerodawn #aloy #tallneck #hzd #pinktoetarantula #aviculariaavicularia #avicularia #guerrilagames #tarantulalove #instarachnid #instarantula #tarantula #araneae #spidersofinstagram #mygalomorphae #spider #videogames

#guerrilagames #aloy #araneae #spider #instarachnid #spidersofinstagram #horizonzerodawn #tarantulalove #pinktoetarantula #videogames #instarantula #avicularia #tarantula #tallneck #hzd #aviculariaavicularia #mygalomorphae

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He's so sweet. This little guy was burrowed for a really long time, now he's back in a fresh molt, licking condensation off the side of his terrarium. . . . . . #trigoniuluscorallinus #millipede #myriapoda #myriapodology #scarletmillipede #diplopoda #petmillipede #mandibles #macro

#trigoniuluscorallinus #millipede #petmillipede #mandibles #myriapoda #scarletmillipede #macro #myriapodology #diplopoda

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After hiding away for several weeks, Spicy is back in action. She decided to have a bath against the glass tonight which let me use my clip on macro lens to get cool footage of her mouthparts. Centipedes are very clean and bathe themselves like cats, running each leg through their mouths and wiping them down with their first maxillae. . . Sorry for shaky cam, the clip on lens focuses by distance and I was holding the flashlight also haha. . . #fastidious #grooming #centipedesofinstagram #centipede #chilopoda #myriapoda #myriapodology #invertebratesofinstagram #arthropoda #bugfriends #petcentipede #macro #arthropod #antennae #legsfordays #bath #scolopendromorpha #scolopendrapolymorpha #scolopendra #tigercentipede

#grooming #arthropoda #bugfriends #macro #legsfordays #scolopendrapolymorpha #antennae #scolopendra #myriapodology #arthropod #centipedesofinstagram #scolopendromorpha #chilopoda #invertebratesofinstagram #fastidious #petcentipede #centipede #bath #tigercentipede #myriapoda

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This dinosaur did not want me to keep going down the sidewalk on Mass Ave... . . . #dinosaursofinstagram #thanksgiving #wildlife #massachusettswildlife #cambridge #massachusetts #newengland (at Cambridge, Massachusetts)

#massachusetts #thanksgiving #dinosaursofinstagram #wildlife #cambridge #newengland #massachusettswildlife

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Vlad the mighty Hunter caught a chipmunk! He carried it around, dropped it on the grass, then seemed disinterested until it ran up a tree... And he followed. . . . . . #blackcatsrule #mightyhunter #catoftheday #catsofınstagram #blackcat #panther #cat #kitty

#blackcat #panther #kitty #blackcatsrule #catoftheday #mightyhunter #cat #catsofınstagram

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... I didn't plant you. Where did you come from?

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O hello fren

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Velvety wormy meeting doodles . . . #onychophora #velvetworm #naturalhistoryillustration #peripatopsidae #sketchbook #pensketch (at Museum of Comparative Zoology)

#peripatopsidae #naturalhistoryillustration #velvetworm #sketchbook #onychophora #pensketch

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Warning! Crazy AGB handling video! Do not do this at home or you could die... . . . . Of cuteness. . . . . #millipede #africangiantmillipede #archispirostreptusgigas #agigas #giantmillipede #diplopoda #arthropoda #handling #legsfordays

#millipede #agigas #diplopoda #africangiantmillipede #giantmillipede #archispirostreptusgigas #legsfordays #arthropoda #handling

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Tiny treasures from a little rock wall in my yard. #eupnoi #opiliones #cellphonephotography #macro #acari #salticidae #arachnidsoftheworld #arachnids #massachusettswildlife #babies #tinytreasures #moss #harvestman #arachnology #naturalhistory (at Shirley, Massachusetts)

#opiliones #cellphonephotography #massachusettswildlife #acari #salticidae #macro #eupnoi #arachnidsoftheworld #babies #naturalhistory #tinytreasures #arachnology #arachnids #harvestman #moss

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On this snowy April morning, I agree with Vladi. (at Ayer (MBTA station))

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Still of the party. Millipede and Amblypygid friends, the amblypygids just tap the millie with their whips and continue chilling. . . . . #amblypygi #arachnids #amblypygid #taillesswhipscorpion #whipspider #millipede #trigoniuluscorallinus #phrynus #phrynusmarginemaculatus #arthropodsanonymous #bugfriends #arachnology #animalbehavior #diplopoda #myriapoda #mybugsareidiots

#millipede #mybugsareidiots #trigoniuluscorallinus #arachnology #phrynus #myriapoda #amblypygid #whipspider #arachnids #arthropodsanonymous #bugfriends #animalbehavior #taillesswhipscorpion #amblypygi #diplopoda #phrynusmarginemaculatus