[jadafitch]

HAPPY NATIONAL MOTH WEEK! Celebrate with moth art! Moths of North America poster Saturniid Moths of North America poster

[bugkeeping]

Gulf Coast toad (Incilius nebulifer)

[batsandboba]

me: hey inat i found this weird bug in the bathroom can you help me out? it’s like a moth fly thing

inat:

hm. well. can’t argue with that i guess.

[bugkeeping]

eating my snack #mysnack

[bugkeeping]

been holding a lot of guys lately

Obscure Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca obscura) & Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus)

[salticidaeily]

(source: Ahmed et al., 2018. Oophagy by Hyllus semicupreus (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina))

No need to teach your grandspider to suck eggs! Oophagy has been observed by several salticid species, and this H. semicupreus even got to exercise a bit of gourmand choosiness, passing over the insect eggs that didn't measure up to her standards as she Pac Woman'd her way down the line.

[bugkeeping]

Prairie Boopie Boopedon gracile

i found more boopies

[bugkeeping]

Little Mesquite Cicada (Pacarina puella) and Superb Dog-day Cicada (Neotibicen superbus)

[bugkeeping]

boopie….

[all-mammal-creechur]

Golden-White Bare-Ear Marmoset Mico leucippe

A small monkey endemic to the Amazon rainforest in Pará, Brazil. They eat fruits, flowers, nectar, plant exudates (gums, saps, latex) and animal prey (including frogs, snails, lizards, spiders and insects).

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[bugkeeping]

why he standing like this...

[fivetrench]

*Whimpers*

[onenicebugperday]

This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.

Dorsal view by the same photographer:

And from the side:

[creditednature]

Chrysis cingulicornis - ID and photo by Henrik Gyurkovics

[bedupolker]

Wet & pathetic...

[bugkeeping]

Today I met this Phidippus putnami in my yard hanging from a tree and eating a GIANT meal she had caught! The insect shes eating is called a Giant Leaf-footed Bug, Acanthocephala declivis

[bugkeeping]

this photo ended up on the Phidippus putnami wikipedia page which i think is very cool

[spider-snap-deactivated20251214]

When the Bumblebee Jumping spider sees a new ant...

[salticidaeily]

(source: Sherwood & Hatchard, 2026. A case of gynandry and intersexuality in Phidippus regius C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae))

Sherwood and Hatchard describe the life history of a bilaterally gynandromorphic regal jumper in fascinating detail here, including some behavioral trials -- though near-perfectly split into male and female halves, overall this captive-bred regal exhibited more male-typical behaviors, though without much interest in courtship, and lived a two-year lifespan more expected from a female.