Some of the butterflies I have seen during my time in Florida…
Category: Insects & Spiders
When I first photographed these grasshoppers, I assumed it was two different species… but it turns out that they are just a juvenile and an adult Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea microptera). They are large grasshoppers – about 2-3.5 inches long with the females being larger…
If my ID is correct, this is a Halloween Pennant Dragonfly (Celithemis eponina). It was being fairly cooperative, so I decided to try my hand at some in-flight photos. Results were ok, but could be a little sharper. I’ll have to keep trying.
Ok – this was supposed to be the post from the other day that got bumped in favor of the Striped Bumblebee Shrimp. This is another subject I found at Colleton State Park in South Carolina. I did not have any intention or anticipation of…
A video compilation of various insets and arachnids that I encountered while out hiking recently. I couldn’t decide on music for this video, and I was going to annotate it with some info about what is happening in the video, but I ended up not…
It has been quite a while since I’ve shared a spider photo… Again, as with all of these jumping spiders I found in Bali, I have zero idea what it is actually called, but I like the face on this one.
I took these videos of these American Giant Millipedes (Narceus americanus) over a month ago while I was hiking in McConnells Mill State Park. I recently decided to put them together and make a semi-educational video similar to the Weaver Ants video I made while…
Again – no clue on what species this is, and I’m not even sure what to call it other than as I described it in the post title. I did share another photo of one of these spiders in a previous post.
Again – like the other jumping spiders I found in Bali, I have no clue what the name is for this spider (if there even is one), but with that yellow coloring and the black stripes, I figured I’d call it a Bumblebee Jumping Spider.
A handful of dragonflies photographed at Jiwa Damai…
Ok – I haven’t been sharing much land-based photography recently (mainly because I just haven’t been taking any for a while), but here is a quick series of photos I shot while in Timor Leste of a parasitic wasp of some sort that we found…
I have no clue what kind of moths or butterflies these caterpillars turn into, but they’re still beautiful in their own right.
I saw several ant mimic spiders while in Jiwa Damai. Unfortunately, I only got photos of these two with the very large mandibles. I’m not sure what function those over-sized mandibles serve, as they don’t really help them to look like ants in my opinion.…
While I was in Jiwa Damai, I helped work on a project to modernize beekeeping in Bali. I created a couple videos for the project, check them out.
