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animals with a lot of legs

lil stag beet on a log

Leaf Litter Lads!!

one of these lovely ant mimic jumping spiders (that snuck home in my car from a camping trip)

im not a bug person but these were cute!!!!

last couple months' worth of bee identifications. every orange tag denotes a separate species. my coleopterist grad advisor is spinning in his grave

at some point it would be fun to post a big compilation of some of the prettier and weirder bees i've come across during this project. just gotta find the time to photograph them. in the meantime though here's some Osmia, a genus of bees exactly as nightmarish to identify to species as they are pretty.

Sometimes, all you need is a flower beetle eating an apple slice out of the palm of your hand to be content