HAPPY NATIONAL MOTH WEEK!
Celebrate with moth art!
Moths of North America poster
Saturniid Moths of North America poster
been getting into jumping spiders lately
Gulf Coast toad (Incilius nebulifer)
me: hey inat i found this weird bug in the bathroom can you help me out? it’s like a moth fly thing
inat:
hm. well. can’t argue with that i guess.
eating my snack #mysnack
been holding a lot of guys lately
Obscure Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca obscura) & Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus)
(source: Ahmed et al., 2018. Oophagy by Hyllus semicupreus (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina))
No need to teach your grandspider to suck eggs! Oophagy has been observed by several salticid species, and this H. semicupreus even got to exercise a bit of gourmand choosiness, passing over the insect eggs that didn't measure up to her standards as she Pac Woman'd her way down the line.
Prairie Boopie Boopedon gracile
i found more boopies