Taking care of the children
I took this adorable family picture when we were out gardening and I found this wolf spiders cute little clay nest under a fallen tree branch.
It’s funny how these cold, predatory, mechanical, alien looking creatures can look so warm and caring while sitting on top of an egg.
Maybe there is hope for some of my [...]
Arilus cristatus
Don’t be fooled by this guy’s grey eyes and fancy crest. He is an assassin! Ok so his guts are spewing out. I swear I didn’t do it.
The Arilus cristatus is one of the bugs in the Reduviidae family, also known as assassin bugs. I don’t know what gives them this specific fame, since [...]
Nephilengys cruentata
I was very glad to find out the species of this spider, as I grew up playing with them.
These are the most common spiders in our garden. We have several of them on our outside walls, and my mother likes to leave them undisturbed so they can catch mosquitoes. So we see them as our [...]
