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She's a bit sluggish from the cold, but here's a little paper wasp :]

Welcome home, buddy

Thin-Spined Jumping Spider (Tutelina elegans), female, family Salticidae, Illinois, USA

photograph by KJ Bluma

Aenasius sp Nugget. 🥹🥹 Encyrtid wasps are about as close to nuggets of pure serotonin as one can find in the wild. One of her species eluded me a week or so ago and I was overjoyed to find another today. She's like a Very Compact Pink Cuckoo Wasp, with that sorta golf-ball texture. 💜

3/14/23. N. Florida

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Just a reminder about fatphotoref.com—it exists!! I'll be updating with new photos next week and hopefully more regularly after that. Request access by going to bit.ly/fpraccess 💙🧜‍♀️ happy mer may!

Emerald moths to improve your day - 3: common emerald

Called common, but for me at least it's an infrequent visitor. Its caterpillars eat a similar range of shrubby plants and trees to the light emerald. They're also very good twig mimics and you can see in these photos by Kjeld Brem (find the originals here and here on Flickr)

Look at it's adorable little mush!

Such a good moth. I hope I get some more visit this year.