Hi,
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s licking my finger! Naughty, naughty butterfly :P
*fweeng!*
*flies away*
This was a longhorn beetle that was going for a walk in my bedroom.
By now you must think that I had the scariest bedroom in the world, but I slept pretty peacefully there, and was never bitten by anything. Only once I woke up scared when a huge beetle flew into my hair and [...]
