I can only guess that entomologists have a bigger lobbying body than I would have expected, because today has been named National Green Lynx Spider Day by the American Association of Let’s Make Every Damn Day a Holiday. While I find this a frivolous method of celebrating nothing at all, it is a national […]
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October 4th, 2019 | Tags: 'friends' plural, American Association of Let's Make Every Damn Day a Holiday, crab spider, egg case, National Green Lynx Spider Day, spider courtship, Thomisidae | Category: Nature, Photography |
 Leave a commentYou should read that title in Bender’s voice, and if I have to explain that, well… let’s just say I’m disappointed in you. Regardless, what it means is, after a long dry spell where photography was almost nonexistent and even meaningless philosophical posts just weren’t happening, I finally started to get back into the […] Two years ago at the last day of the year, I posted a series of pics intended for blog posts that had simply never made it, and I am doing the same again this time, with one small addition: I am posting a photo taken within each month, and adding a link to my […] I enjoy doing this. Last night while out poking around, I chanced upon a fairly small spider that, once I unloaded the images, motivated me to go out and get better, closer ones. I’m very pleased with this portrait: Some spiders are menacing, or ominous. Some are even cute. This one’s just ugly. In […] It’s been longer than I’d planned between posts, for several reasons, mostly being busy. There are also two larger posts that I’ve been working on, but they have required more time than I had available, so not just yet. But with the nice weather today, I took a moment to chase a few macro […] Last year was largely devoted to arthropods, even though I’m not actually trying to limit myself – they were just what I had the greatest opportunities to tackle. And it seems this year may be largely the same. The same holly trees that appeared here have been playing host to several specimens of crab […] |
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