Nature does seem a little frivolous every now and then. Sometimes it chooses to paint pink spots on a longhorn’s back.
It is beautiful, but probably not frivolous. She always does it for a reason.
Thanks again to Enmos for identifying it down to the species. You rock.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
