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Here is your Sunday Spider, one of many gorgeous little salticids (jumping spiders, family Salticidae) that we saw in Costa Rica. Several species had lovely blue hues, including this little doe-eyed cutie. 🐙🌿🕷️

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Our jacaranda tree is blooming and Eddie could not be happier 🐢💜

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Here is your Friday Frog. (Red-eyed Tree Frog, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica) 🐸🌿

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Saturday Spider Hat! 🕷️🎩 Recently in Montana's Pryor Mountains, we saw a northern scorpion with a spider on top of it. A closer look revealed the scorpion had likely killed the spider, which somehow ended up on top of the scorpion while it chewed on a 🕷️leg. Maybe it liked the crunchy part first? 🌿🐙🦂

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Nostalgic treat from a recent drive in the American west

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It's Friday Flyday, and y'all need this Aussie dance fly. #FridayFlyday

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Happy #WorldTurtleDay from Eddie 🐢

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🐙🌿 I love jumping bristletails, for their metallic, moth-like scales, and of course for their googly eyes 👀. They are in their own order, Microcoryphia (which means "small head," which is not very descriptive and kinda mean. Some use Archaeognatha, which means "ancient jaw," which is nicer). They--

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The thousand of species of Ladybugs/Lady Beetles/Ladybird Beetles come in many patterns and sizes. This is one of the "giant" lady beetles (genus Anatis), and was almost a cm. long. It's Anatis mali, or the Eye-spotted lady beetle. I found it resting in a flower in Carbon County, MT. 🐙🌿

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This Bitey McBiteface is a Hairy Rove Beetle (Creophilus maxillosus). They're attracted to carcasses, and feed on both the body and any fly larvae on scene. They won't bother you, although if one lands on you, you are probably either a zombie or in need of a shower. (Pryor Mountains, Montana) 🐙🌿🧟‍♂️

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Somewhere in the vastness of the cosmos -galaxy upon galaxy- surely there is life of another arrangement, elegantly evolved for its own home world. But damn - life on Earth is just astonishingly fucking beautiful when you really start to see it. I’m so grateful to witness it at this level.

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Here are your Wednesday Wasps. 🐙🌿 What wasps, you ask? They're the tiny green "grapes" on the caterpillar. They're larvae of a Euplectus sp. wasp. The female wasp injects a venom into the caterpillar which stops it from molting ever again, so the wasp's externally-attached babies won't fall off--

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Sumac flea beetle (Blepharida rhois) in Montana - "flea" because they can jump using beefy hind legs. Adults lay eggs within a casing of excrement which contains toxins from the sumac plant, and larvae wear a "poop shield" on their back for the same protective reason. I mean, whatever works. 🐙🌿💩

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I believe this is what bird photographers call, "stick happens." (male mountain bluebird and annoying bisecting aspen twig, Montana) 📷 🦉

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A wonderful video by @tshahan.bsky.social - featuring beautiful native sunfish. Some cool gar make an appearance (that I think @solomonrdavid.bsky.social would like), and Thomas has a link for his awesome T-shirt designs if you want to support a real artist! #sciart 🐟📷🍃🌿 youtu.be/S_zUY60yQyI?...

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Quite a few arthropods are myrmecophiles ("ant loving" creatures). I found this tiny (about 8-9 mm.) pupa under a rock in an ant nest. Looks moth-y to me. Habitat was juniper/sagebrush scrub in Montana's Pryor Mountains. Do any ant or lep experts know what this bristly pupa might be? #insects 🐙🌿

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Here is your Tuesday Tenebrionid for #TenebTuesday, one of the many Eleodes sp. darkling beetles that people call stink bugs. This is its "I fart in your general direction" posture. Honestly, I've never noticed an odor, but my sense of smell isn't great. Maybe I'm lucky. Pryor Mountains, Montana. 🌿🐙

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Charlie is our 13 year old standard poodle. Here he is a couple of days ago contemplating Lake Tahoe and enjoying every minute of it

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Here is your Monday Melyrid 🪲 Melyridae is a family of beetles called soft-winged flower beetles. This tiny critter, only about 3 mm. long, was in Montana's Pryor Mountains. Best guess is Listrus sp. #insects 🐙🌿

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Returned home to find a mockingbird nesting at eye level near our back door. Knowing mockingbirds, I may need eye protection or possibly a motorcycle helmet to safely access my backyard 🐦‍⬛🪺👷‍♂️🥽

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A newly-emerged cicada, I think Platypedia sp., in the Pryor Mountains of Montana a week ago. It still has a bit of its teneral (just-molted) coloration - note the turquoise highlights on the wing veins - but the overall colors will darken as the exoskeleton hardens. #insects 🐙🌿📷

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Here is your Saturday Smiling Scorpion. It's a Northern Scorpion, Paruroctonus boreus, in Montana's Pryor Mountains. They're Montana's only scorpion, and even range up into Canada. This one posed quite nicely - I love how it daintily held its pincers almost but not quite touching. 🐙🌿 #arachnids

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In honor of my friend @mhedin.bsky.social and his recent terrific @ologies.bsky.social podcast episode on araneology (spiders), here's a wee spider I found in Montana's Pryor Mountains last week. My guess is it's a rock weaver (family Titanoecidae) but maybe Marshal can correct me if I'm wrong. 🐙🌿

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🐙🌿 Friday Spiday: A beautiful jumping spider, a male Habronattus americanus. This guy's flamboyant coloration (plus some dance moves) is how he impresses a mate. These spiders are only a few mm. long, and not especially colorful from above, so are easy to overlook. I found him last weekend--

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There is not much in this world cuter than a baby horned lizard (aka "horny toad," but of course they're not toads, which are amphibians not reptiles). This adorable little grump is a Greater Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi). Pryor Mountains, Montana. Cuteness: 12/10 🌿 #herps #reptiles

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Here is your Wednesday Waterfall, and a small, 1 cm. stonefly. Shot with the same macro lens, in the same spot, about five minutes apart. Macro lenses are often more versatile than you might assume. Some are even amazing portrait lenses. 🐙🌿📷

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