This is the mighty Phoneutria nigriventer. If you have never heard of it, I am going to explain why, when my brother saw it on our lawn, he came running to me.
We know that all spiders are poisonous, since all but one recently discovered species, are predators. Most spiders don’t pose any risks to us [...]
Most people looking at this page must have seen one of these before. They are pretty common garden spiders everywhere.
The name Argiope argentata means silvery silver face. I guess whoever described it first was really impressed by the silvery coating on their cephalothorax.
The Argiope spiders are very particular about their webs. They make an impecable [...]
My dear friend Enmos spent hours trying to find out the species of this longhorn beetle I posted this week.
Here’s what he wrote:
I’m pretty sure I got it down to the genus (the longhorn beetle with the green/yellow stripes/spots)
It has got to be of the genus Ambonus! :D
Images of some species from this genus:
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In case you are wondering, that is not a mini hand. This moths’ wingspan was of about 18 cm (7 in).
With butterflies and moths, it is pretty easy to tell if it is a male or a female. In this species, the female has a white stripe going from one wing to the other, and [...]
Hymenoptera is the order of all of those ant, wasp, bee looking bugs, including the weirder ones like wood wasps and sawflies. Then, inside of this order there is the superfamily Vespoidea. Both ants and velvet ants are in this subfamily.
BUT, ants are in the family Formicidae, and velvet ants have their very own [...]
