It’s a Boy!
… and a girl and a boy and a girl and another girl and another boy and …
Insects
Another One Bites the Dust
The late night snack pictured here is either genus Phyllophaga — in which case it really is a june bug, and I’ve been calling them by their proper common name — or it’s genus Cyclocephala — and it’s really a masked chafer.
Either way, I’m happy to see it in the spider’s web as opposed to [...]
Crane Fly
I am torn. “Crane fly” just does not hold the mystique that “mosquito hawk” does. When you associate “crane fly” — or its oft used misnomer “daddy long legs” — with this insect, you think to yourself, “of course. Long legs. I get it,” and you leave it at that.
But when you associate “mosquito hawk” [...]