Why he so photogenic tho???
Found this sweet baby outside the apartment on my way to walk through the woods again, like right outside my door too!
Very calm and if I say an award winning smile to boot!
Second photo is my favorite💕, made sure to run em to the tall grass before the local kids found em.
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Male Io Moth,
He was a bit roughed up it looked but more than happy to let me poke his upper wings to the side to get a look at those eye spots!
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Some pictures I took last summer.
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Differential Grasshopper
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Hanging Theif / Robber Fly
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Assassin Bug
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Common Brown Bat
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Flasher?
Viceroy larvae with two very impressive sets of racks 👌🏻💋
The Viceroy is considered a Monarch mimic in the way they both display very bright colors and similar patterns, they both also display polymorphism (which is when different territories will have different colors of the same species.). Vicroy is considerably smaller than the monarch but said to be equally as poisonous to predators that may consume them.
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A Ghostly Gathering.
A short hike with the fiance and not long in we come across this lovely rare site.
A small patch of Ghost Pipe flowers aka Indian pipe for their shape. A parasitic flower that has no chlorophyll and so lives off of other plants mostly trees. A flower that was previously said to be parasitic, but is now suggested to libe symbolically with the mycelium beneath the ground which itself lives a similar relationship with the surrounding tress. The mycelium takes from the trees and gives to the flower.
And A Lonely Soul...
Ghost flowers are very sensitive and grow in little to no light. It's said that just touching them with your hand or brushing them with a stick will cause them to wilt and die. Not just one flower though, the entire gathering will wither away. These hauntingly beautiful flowers blooms for around a week out of the year and the remaining time us spent silently surviving beneath the soil. The soil itself needing to be in old untouched forests, wet undisturbed dirt. The dirt too is sensitive for disturbing it will kill the entire plant lying below, want to take it home? No chance, this plant will not survive anywhere but where it chose to make itself present.
This plant is currently in review for being on the watch list for threatened and endangered species plant list.
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Bug Pics From Over The Years
American Giant Millipede
Virginian Tiger Moth Larva
Northern Paper Wasp
Large Tolype Moth
Male Eastern Dobson Fly
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Inconspicuous?
Nah, an Enicospilus Wasp.
Adults mainly eat flower nectars but its larve will parasitically feed off the larve of other insects and some spiders.
Tiny green froghopper hiding off to the right.
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Short Hike
Friday June 10th, 2022
Decided to go an a short walk today around the woods, was hoping to see some life or mark locations of any nearby forageables. While I found no food, I found plenty of lovely photo opportunities!
A Bakers Dozen!
First amazing find that completely overshadowed the rest of the hike, was this rather large turkeys nest. I managed to zoom in close enough for one decent pic and ran off incase she may have still been around. Made sure not to get too close and didn't disturb the area at all. I count 13 in total!
Lucky Cricket?
This guy came right out infront of me and him being a bit of a monster he was hard to miss! Little guy was pretty much fearless and stuck around just long enough for me to snap a picture or two, I chose just this one as its my favorite overall.
Pictured below is a Dark Bush Cricket. While the name itself contains "cricket" in the title, it's actually a species of katydid. Katydids also previously carried the name "long horned grasshopper".
Someone's Feeling Peck-ish
Came across this woodpecker dugout by sheer luck honestly, I wasn't sure they bore that low to the ground. Would have been something to catch a shot of him at work. Don't know too much about them unfortunately.
Wrong Turn
...Nope...
Tucked Away
Can't say much other than wow! It was stagnant water, but still nice to stand around looking in silence.
To be continued...
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Art of my Snail, Snurl Snarling.
Slimey boi
Piece by @ Coffinpaws on twitter.
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Late Night Lurker
Dude did nothing but smack his face off the walls x.x wouldnt stay still long enough for more pics ;-;...
Moved him safely to some wet grass away from all the concrete.
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