This was a very shy little spider. She was about one inch long, and the more I poked it, the more it shrank and tried to cover itself. Too bad, such beautiful colors!
Which brings me to wondering… what kind of spider is this? In that area of our backyard, I am used to seeing a [...]
Our common cicadas in Sao Paulo are about 2 inches long, fat and chunky and seem to defy the laws of nature in order to fly. Their clumsiness is cute in a way
They’re all a greenish gray color, so I was surprised when I saw this fancy one, with all these drawings on its back, [...]
Aren’t these babies cute?
These are Fulgoroidea, or plant hoppers. When you’re walking on the grass, you can often see several of these jumping away at every step. They are very fun to play with.
They’re in the Hemiptera family, along with cicadas, aphids and true bugs. The characteristic that distinguishes them is that Y shaped vein [...]
It took a lot of pressure to make it stop.
Then when I was holding it for this pic, it peed on my hand!
I turned it belly up so he’d think about what he did. :p
