I hate to post another insect that I don’t know much about, but I was looking through my pictures and couldn’t resist it.
I do know that this little bastard was chewing on my tomato plants!
I promise I’ll study in the future and find out more about this guy. I’ll keep this pic here as a [...]
My brother took this picture in our kitchen in Sao Paulo. (It was my camera, so it’s ok for me to post :p).
This is another one of those wood chopping longhorn beetles, whose exact species I am never able to identify.
There must be people out there who are much better at identifying beetles than I [...]
This cute little moth was resting in our bathroom in Sao Paulo.
It is not a very usual moth to find over there, and I never knew much about it until last night when I was cropping this picture and decided to look it up.
My mother calls it “mariposa bundinha de pincel”, little brush butt [...]
This happy looking spider is one of the many in the Lycosidae family, also known as wolf spiders, or how we call them in Brazil, grass spiders.
This one is sometimes confused with the dangerous Phoneutria, the wandering spiders, because they also have red chelicerae, but they are not nearly as dangerous.
They have a painful [...]
The spider in this picture is a Lasiodora difficilis, also known as the Brazilian fiery red tarantula. Once again, it was taken inside my house, this time in the living room (I know, that carpet needs some cleaning).
What is it about tarantulas that makes people either love them, or hate them? Is it the [...]
