#texas fauna

[hotmonkeelove]

I finally managed to photograph a toad! It's only the second one I've seen since I moved. Isn't it gorgeous?! I love toads!

[zaccharine-vulture]

Fauna of the marshes.

[greenwingspino]

Some jays, a cardinal, and a crow frequenting a little local feeder from around my area.

Photos (c) GreenWingSpino

[greenwingspino]

A green dragonfly along the Anahuac National Wildlife Visitor's Centers trail.

[greenwingspino]

My collection so far of Texas Wildlife books for identifiying various animals and plants of Texas with only needing one with mammals, reptiles and amphibians to complete it. Mostly because I've been getting interested in identifying animals and plants of my home state and even getting ones not native and not in the books like the Cuban Anole or Red Vented Bulbul.

[greenwingspino]

This little photo of a Wheel Bug on my mom’s truck while we were northeast of Houston, They are related to Assassin Bugs, but they aren’t much aggressive as their relatives unless provoked which they will bite you leaving behind a lot of pain and have your wound from the bite heat up and start forming a white crust around the bite. At least for the good news it isn’t venomous or will give you disease like other Assassin Bugs. It’s better to handle them with hard garden gloves.

Even they are beneficial to gardens reducing populations of what insect harms your garden, except they will prey on ladybugs and bees (also beneficial to gardens).

[greenwingspino]

Some little cicada photos... I saved him from one of my cats and He looked like he just came out his shell, I already released him back in his natural habitat as he was still learning to navigate on his own.