OMGOMG Baby spidersss

I went outside through the back porch and saw this:

Then I came closer….

…ENHANCE!

It’s baby spiders by the dozens BAWWWWW! Arenttheycute?
If you don’t think baby spiders are cute you have no heart, no soul, YOU ARE DEAD INSIDE.

Ah, spring is wonderful.
I never saw a spider quite like this, yellow with a black triangle on the [...]

Mystery assassin bug

I’d like it to be the case that this international bug of mystery with so many hits on his belt is keeping its identity secret for stealthiness purposes.
But the fact it that I just don’t know what it is :D
You’d think that a bug with such striking features as this one would be pretty easy [...]

The size of an Armadeira

Hi,
Spring is coming, and with it, many buggies will begin to visit my backyard. I hope to see lots of tiny Chicago creatures, and put my macros to work :)
While I wait, I decided to make a post about the Phoneutria sp. spiders again because, well, they’re awesome.
Armadeira is the common name of the Phoneutria [...]

While we’re looking at weird arachnids…

Here is one from Illinois!
I found this guy last fall when I was at the Shawnee Park. It was about the size of my hand. The legs are so long and skinny, it just looks like a levitating bug ball. Harvestmen are pretty cool little creatures.
If you’re one of my friends from Brazil, you might [...]

HEY! Don’t you run away from me, you… weird thing.

*pokepokepokepoke*
Ha! There you are.

So, what the hell is this?

I apologize for my n00bness to my 3 or 4 readers out there, but I honestly had no idea of what this was.
In my defense, I grew up turning every rock and rotten tree log in my parent’s land to see what I could find underneath, and [...]