*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 [...]
This was a very shy little spider. She was about one inch long, and the more I poked it, the more it shrank and tried to cover itself. Too bad, such beautiful colors!
Which brings me to wondering… what kind of spider is this? In that area of our backyard, I am used to seeing a [...]
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.
I recently came across a pretty interesting blog called Ugly Overload, where there are, of course, many pictures of insects. Poor little creatures, they are not that ugly!
Anyway, I saw this picture of what is being called the strawberry crab over there, and it made me remember this spider that I found a few years [...]
These two longhorn beetles were being naughty on my jabuticaba tree.
I can’t blame them. Those fruits are so sweet and juicy and delicious. The female just couldn’t stop eating!
Sounds like somebody I know.
I’ll take the opportunity to recommend a website. It’s the Cerambycidae Holotypes of the Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro.
They have a huge catalog [...]
