HAPPY NATIONAL MOTH WEEK! Celebrate with moth art! Moths of North America poster Saturniid Moths of North America poster
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.
(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.
Little Mesquite Cicada (Pacarina puella) and Superb Dog-day Cicada (Neotibicen superbus)
Golden-White Bare-Ear Marmoset Mico leucippe
A small monkey endemic to the Amazon rainforest in Pará, Brazil. They eat fruits, flowers, nectar, plant exudates (gums, saps, latex) and animal prey (including frogs, snails, lizards, spiders and insects).
*Whimpers*
This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.
Dorsal view by the same photographer:
And from the side:
Chrysis cingulicornis - ID and photo by Henrik Gyurkovics
Wet & pathetic...