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Snuggly shed scorp molts under a bit of pine bark, turned into a pair of keychain pendants for my ex and her girlfriend. I love preserving these lovely things when I can find them 💛🐡

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Guy who saw a lady beetle and thought it was a lady spood

(Tutelina lad, performing the opening of the courtship dance before dying of embarrassment)

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Documented this (currently) undescribed Tutelina species at a new location, when this excitable boy showed up peering at me 🧡

June through August here in Florida is Tutelina Season (unofficially)

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Leggy Green Jello Monster, guarding her eggs 💚

(Lyssomanes viridis, magnolia green jumping spider)

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Saw a Hamataliwa helia egg case sitting unattended, which isn't normal, and looked around the shrub until I found the mum, who seemed to have lost her dragline to her egg sac and was running frantically up and down a lower branch trying to find it. Reunited her with it. 🤎

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I don't even know what to say about this tiny guy, just drink him in 💚

(some planthopper nymph. I love him)

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Imagine, if you will, a field of buffalo-sized beetle lumps calmly grazing

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Oh no i killed the beetle, he dead

(he's fine. Warty leaf beetle is very silly)

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Illegal 72° head tilt by this man smh

(Lyssomanes viridis lad, aka, The Leggy Green Jello Monster)

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Stick! It's Stick. It's Bug. It's both Bug and Stick. It's Stick Bug

🤎

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*hands you one*

(introduced Bug to Ms. Baeus this weekend 🥹)

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There is no discernible head on this robberfly, just mounts for 2 eyes and a mouth - a creature of singular Purpose (snacks)

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*plotting*

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Felt the urge to make a creature, so I made a creature: A model of the wasp which started my obsession with tiny wasps a few years ago, the silly gorgeous mopey Uropelma formosum. I think I captured her spirit well. 🖤

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The two genders, Shy and Wavy

(Zygoballus sexpunctatus and rufipes, respectively)

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Mantoida maya (the Little Yukatan Mantis) babies are excellent ant mimics and I love them so much. There were so many out today, on a central Florida wander with Bugfriend. An'tis 🥹

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Thinking about him again (Archasia auriculata treehopper)