Crafty Caterpillar Puts Flowers on Back for Camouflage

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Mutant 'porn star' fleas with huge penises set to invade Sheffield homes this summer :-0

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This is a new bug for me. I found it dying in my house, no doubt a victim of abuse by the cats. If any of you want to try to identify it, feel free. I live in central Texas (west of Waco). I have submitted pix to a Facebook group of entymologists. I dug through pix on a couple of websites but had no luck. I suspect it is some sort of fly.

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But, it's June!

Mayflies show up on weather radar, swarm cars in Ohio

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Europe is under siege from a plague of incredibly hairy, toxic caterpillars
https://qz.com/1659782/video-of-woman-attacking-oak-processionary-caterpillars-goes-viral/

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This year's marina pet spiders are doing well, despite the "best endevours" of the marina's assistant manager...

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I finally saw a sight I wasn’t expecting. It was a wasp that had stung a spider almost as big as it. The wasp was dragging the spider somewhere.

Edit: looked at some pictures and decided it might be a Orange and Black Spider Wasp.

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Super tough spider silk could be due to a newly discovered protein.

It can be strong like steel, yet stretchy like rubber. It's lightweight but can be phenomenally tough.
We're not talking about the latest high-tech material developed in a lab somewhere, but one of nature's supermaterials — spider silk.

Spiders make many different kinds of silks.
Orb-weaver spiders, which spin the wheel-shaped, spirally webs we're so familiar with, can produce seven types of silk that are used in different parts of their webs. Now a team of US researchers is starting to figure out why silk produced by one orb-weaver species — Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) — is so tough.
"This spider is famous because it's been shown that one of the silk types that it makes, called dragline silk, is the toughest spider silk that's ever been measured," said evolutionary biologist Jessica Garb of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lead author of the study.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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I finally saw a sight I wasn’t expecting. It was a wasp that had stung a spider almost as big as it. The wasp was dragging the spider somewhere.

Edit: looked at some pictures and decided it might be a Orange and Black Spider Wasp.

I have black wasps that fly around my house all the time. I wondered about them until, several years ago, I saw one get caught in a spider's web. I was sad for the wasp until I saw the spider run up to claim its prize and the wasp stung it and carried it away. Wow! Now that I think about it, I was so mesmerized by the sight that I don't think I was ever sad for the spider.

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This year's marina pet spiders are doing well, despite the "best endevours" of the marina's assistant manager...

The image is broken.

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Watch: Ants Rip Spider Web Apart to Rescue Trapped Sibling

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Gigantic' Praying Mantis Stalks Subway Searching For Brains To Eat

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From Gizmodo: Go Ahead, Share Your Most Revolting Bug-Eating Stories

Reader, let me ask you an honest question: When’s the last time you ate a bug, wittingly or otherwise?

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From Gizmodo: Go Ahead, Share Your Most Revolting Bug-Eating Stories

Reader, let me ask you an honest question: When’s the last time you ate a bug, wittingly or otherwise?

I don't recall ever having eaten a bug. I did have a somewhat disgusting experience once. I was driving on a country road in Germany in the Spring or Summer (don't recall). I had my window open. A bee flew in and splatted on the left lens of my glasses. I believe if I hadn't been wearing glasses I might be half blind right now. Poor bee. Lucky Sue.

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Woman Has Venomous Spider Removed From Inside Ear

..... Not just any spider – because it can’t be that simple – a highly venomous brown recluse.

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Spotted this little fella sat on the fence when we went for a stroll yesterday afternoon...

OMG!! Fantastic!

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Yep, great closeup shot showing lots of detail.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Keith, your photo of the dragonfly is soo Beautiful,
Keith that photo and all your Photos,
shows how Beautiful Life is on Planet Earth,
you have an incredible Talent,
have you every considered entering a photo Contest ??