Insects and Spiders

Incredible!

They’re amazing close up - just a bit tricky to photograph when the whole bush is waving around in the breeze!

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These are awesome

Wow

I guess they perceive light differently to us.

Lets hide in that inconspicuous bush!

(Checks colour wheel)

You're doing a pretty great job in spite of wavy-bush challenges...

I’ve just bulk watched Breaking Bad and couldn’t help thinking of a complete episode dedicated to a similar problem, in a meth lab right enough....

I hate these little bastards. Used to live in a house with ivy running up around the bedroom window. Had the window open one hot summer night, and a plague of these little shits decided to let themselves in - turns out they were living in the ivy - and make themselves comfortable all over my bed and my head. One of the most unpleasant wake-ups.

Great pictures tho!

The stuff of nightmares! I recall talking to a fellow student at university about his experience growing up in Trinidad and being woken by the sensation of cockroaches filling his mouth. Apparently it was not something he had dreamt up.

Gaaaah, god that wins hands down, that’s horrible.

What didn’t help was that my girlfriend woke up to me losing my shit, told me to shut the fuck up, rolled over and went back to sleep. She then gaslit me for days about it: “you’ve done too many drugs dude, you’ve fucked yourself up, you’re seeing bugs”. Got my revenge tho when she was up in the night looking at her phone and one of these leapt splat onto the screen. We tore down all the ivy the next day.

More bugs from yesterday: a red admiral, a scarlet tiger moth and a greenbottle

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Meant to say cheers for this.

Think they might have had their moult now as they look a lot darker than they did before and are starting to scatter out and explore the surroundings.

Please ignore the dusty ceiling. I’m gonna use the spiders as an excuse but truth be told we just don’t dust very often!

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But where are the spiders? I can only see dust.

Big dragonfly around yesterday

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Christ. Looks like its hanging on for dear life. :o)

Not sure which one it is either... (Hawker?)

https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/dragonflies-2/

Such an impressive creature.

Mad stat that these were around way before Dinos.

Also, we are closer to T-Rex than Stegosaurus. (Just to put time into context)

a female common hawker i think

very cool

Yep. Higher o2 content of atmosphere during the Carboniferous period meant insects could be a lot larger too. Relatives of dragonflies got up to about a metre in wingspan I think during that time

What amazes me is that a form was found that worked through evolution.

Then pretty much unchanged for 300 million years.

See sharks.

Spiders in red, dust in blue.

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Pretty much all gone this morning. Hopefully off to eat the moths and didn’t just crawl up our noses/down our throats while we slept.

Looking back at old photographs and I found this pic of a Dragonfly in Sri Lanka over 10 years ago.

I did not realise at the time but I think this is one of the biggest in the World. (Anotogaster Sieboldii)

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Got bitten by a spider two days ago. Swelling getting worse. Filthy leggy bastards.

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Do you think it might've been radioactive?

70% chance yes