Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2008

Not a Crab Spider?



I shot this in the yard this morning. I always called these critters "crab spiders" but I just did some research and found out this is not really a crab spider but actually a "Crablike Spiny Orb Weaver" (Gasteracantha cancriformis). Imagine that. How would it be if we named people in this descriptive way? What would your name be?

Saturday, October 25, 2008

A Thousand Little Feet

Every morning in recent weeks we have been greeted at our office with these millepedes that crawl into the office at night. Michelle usually picks them up. If you touch them, they curl into a coil and you can just pick them up lightly. If you stress them, they emit an odor. The odor is why birds don't eat them. Toads eat them, but we don't have those around. (click on the photo for a real close-up look)

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