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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
*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 [...]
I made this post not so long ago about a spider that looks like a strawberry.
When we saw it, it was dragging around this hard brown ball. I thought it must be eggs, or it wouldn’t be going through the trouble of carrying it.
After I caught it in our kitchen floor and took it outside, [...]
