Fear me! … plz?
Ahhhh run!
:p
A colorful cicada
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, [...]
Family picture
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 [...]
What a strong beetle!
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
Blue Mud Dauber
I saw an article yesterday on Arstechnica about parasitic wasps. It’s a pretty cool article, check it out:
Parasitic wasp genome offers chance to study sex and death
It made me remember this picture I took, of a blue mud dauber. I think the species is called Chalybion californicum, but I’m not sure.
They make little tunnels of [...]
