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@transasahi submitted: could you ID some friends i found on a trip to south florida (USA)?
the lil guy really liked crawling all over my dress and moving too fast for me to get good pictures. he spooked me a lil bc it looked like he had something stuck to him and i wasnt sure what it was.
the orange grasshopper fellow i met on an early morning run and was very chill as long as i didnt put my phone too close to his face
the last one was a failed attempt to snag a pick of a very cool spider lol my camera couldnt focus on it, but it was very pretty and there were about 5 similar looking spiders spread out all over this plant! no ID needed since you cant see it for shit lol
love your blog! reading your posts makes me feel like a kid reading crazy bug fact books <3 captivated by the beauty and weirdness of nature. thanks for all you do!

Thank you for your kind words! I certainly can ID them. The first fella is a debris-carrying lacewing larva, so the stuff stuck to it was on purpose for camouflage. The grasshopper is an eastern lubber. From what I can see of the very blurry spider, I'd put my money on it being one of the orbweavers in the genus Argiope.

#im glad the larva was carrying stuff for camouflage#i thought that might be it but i'd seen a lot of posts abt bugs w parasitic fungi and things recently so that was on my mind#florida has such cool flora and fauna#im so mad i couldnt get a good pic of the spiders but i will look up orbweavers and see of any of them match what i saw#undescribed#bugs#lacewing#lacewing larva#grasshopper#eastern lubber grasshopper#spiders
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veryhumanlike-deactivated202407 asked:

Hello, hope you're doing well. Found this gorgeous little thing in a leaf pile next to some harvestmen. Got excited and picked it up cuz I thought it was a black widow. Then I noticed the markings were on top of the abdomen, with no hourglass on the underside. Is this a widow? Of some sort? Found in central texas, thanks!

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onenicebugperday answered:

Hello! This is indeed a black widow. Females have these markings as juveniles. They become more fully black as they mature. Not all widows have the hourglass, sometimes it's two separate dots or triangles rather than a connected hourglass, or sometimes it's just half of the hourglass. Less often, there's no marking on the underside at all. Either way, she's a lovely lady!

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#spiders#bugs#whoa#arachnids#undescribed
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hailstormdeath asked:

Hi!!! Have you heard the funnelwrb news?

A male Sydney Funnelwrb Spider - named Hercules - was found this week and is 7.9cm across!!!! The species is normally only 1-4 cm, and edpecially with him being a male makes this so cool!

He was captured and donated to a park, and is now apart of their anti-venom program :3

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onenicebugperday answered:

I hope Hercules knows that I love him. I can't share the images legally but if you want to see him there are pics here:

https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/deadly-male-funnel-web-spider-hercules-breaks-record-as-biggest-ever-discovered

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#whoa !#bugs#spiders
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apparently male spiders in many species have evolved a behavior to catapult away from females after sex to avoid getting eaten but then many of these spiders will go back to the same females as before and attempt to have sex with them again 😭

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spiders are incredible it’s baffling to me that people hate them. like are you hearing this.

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[image description: "'There are all kinds of great stories of strategies male spiders have come up with to escape being eaten by their mates,' Hebets said. 'Some males can induce acquiescence in their female partner - for example, knock her out - to escape. Others tie the females up with silk. Others come bearing gifts, like a silk-wrapped prey item, to presumably occupy the female while they attempt to mate.'" /end ID]

#image description#spiders#animals#bugs
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@texas-toadhouse submitted: I ordered some banded crickets online that shipped from Visalia, California. To my surprise, there were spiders with the crickets! There were six in total and they all looked to be the same species, but I could always be wrong. I took a few pictures of some of the spiders. The photos were taken at night, so they aren’t as clear as I would like them to be. Hopefully they’re still good enough for an ID! I guess the spiders could have snuck in at anytime during transit, so I’ll give my location too: south Texas.

These are cricket thieves, a type of running crab spider. They’re fairly common in feeder cricket shipments! Obviously you’ll want to remove them when you find them in shipments as they will eat the crickets.

#THEYRE CALLED CRICKET THIEVES??#i love bugs#animals#bugs#spiders#cricket thieves#functionally described
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@aroace-disgrace​ submitted: Hi! I have photos of some bugs. Maybe a few of them are too small or blurry to ID, so don’t worry about those. The photos are from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
First there’s this really small spider
Then this slightly bigger spider
And this even slightly bigger spider
Then this cute baby snail
This hairy friend
This cute light brown ladybug with a heart-shaped spot
Maybe a grasshopper?
And is it possible these two ladybugs are… banging? Making love?
That’s all, thank you!!

I love them all! Especially the very very very tiny spider in the first photo. The spiders are too small/blurry and the snail too nondescript to ID very well, but the caterpillar looks like Paracles deserticola, which is a type of tiger moth. The lady bug appears to be an ash grey lady beetle, and the fellow in the next two photos is definitely a grasshopper, but I don’t recognize the species off hand. The couple in the last photo is indeed making sweet bug love! They’re Eriopis connexa, which as you said, is a type of lady bug :)

#animals#bugs#spiders#ladybugs#caterpillars#grasshoppers
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