I’d like it to be the case that this international bug of mystery with so many hits on his belt is keeping its identity secret for stealthiness purposes.
But the fact it that I just don’t know what it is :D
You’d think that a bug with such striking features as this one would be pretty easy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
