If the post title isn’t a hint, I’m going to do a couple straight days of the various jumping spiders I’ve been seeing. Apologies to those of you who don’t like spiders, but you should all probably have expected this at some point… This first…
Category: Insects & Spiders
A large hunstman spider on a beautiful staghorn fern.
I got plenty of opportunities to find scorpions in Madagascar… especially when we were doing the Spider Tortoise survey – I think I found maybe six or seven by just turning over dead logs.
I was hoping to find some cool and crazy looking insects while in Madagascar (ok – we did get to see some stick insects, but I didn’t have the good camera with me that day), but while praying mantis are always fun to find and…
One of the days I was wandering with the camera, I noticed this little fly that seemed to be trying to dig a burrow in the sand. It is seemed like such interesting behavior so I got some photos and videos…
Warning: I intentionally did not set this post to have a thumbnail image just in case folks really don’t like centipedes This particular one was hiding under one of the volunteer’s shirt that was hanging out to dry and had fallen on the ground. I…
At least I *think* they are a pair… I suppose there is a possibility that the smaller one is one of those species of spiders that steals food from other spiders, but I am leaning towards this being a pair.. Incredible size difference between the…
