*fweeng!*
*flies away*
This was a longhorn beetle that was going for a walk in my bedroom.
By now you must think that I had the scariest bedroom in the world, but I slept pretty peacefully there, and was never bitten by anything. Only once I woke up scared when a huge beetle flew into my hair and [...]
I took this picture a few weeks ago in my garden, and I was reminded of it by a picture shown to me today by a 8 year old boy from Canada who wanted to know what kind of spider that was. It was the same species as the one in my picture.
Its name is [...]
This katydid would like to give thanks for being green. It’s an excellent color indeed.
By the way, this is a round headed katydid, which is as friendly looking as a katydid can possibly be. Just look at it, it wants to be your friend.
It belongs to the Orthoptera order, the same as crickets and grasshoppers. [...]
This is the same spider seen in the previous post, after I managed to put it in a jar so I could take it out of my bedroom.
This is a crappy picture, but it’s the only one I have in which you can tell the size of this spider.
I like to put my hand close [...]
As you may have guessed, this is my favorite spider.
I took this picture in Sao Paulo, Brazil, inside my bedroom.
If you have any doubts about rather a spider you came across is a Phoneutria, the doubts go away once you try to get close to it. They are extremely aggressive.