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Off to the supermarket with the kids 👶👶👶🛒

This South American Wolf Spider lives in a web. She has a lovely little funnel retreat where she spends most of her time hidden away, and then she has the supermarket.

The supermarket is a broad, sticky

🤗 Wandering spider wants a hug. Do you accept?

I remember first reading about the “Brazilian Wandering Spider” in the Bugs magazines that my Dad bought to indoctrinate me in the 1990s. It was, I was informed, the most deadly spider in t

The leaves have eyes 👀

This is a stunning Dead Leaf Mantis showing us exactly why it’s called a Dead Leaf Mantis. The Amazon Rainforest is absolutely chock full of mimicry and each and every example is more impressive than the last.

Mantises

This bird’s tail is just a little bit naked 😳

This is the Rufous Motmot, a bird that is all fashion all the time. While I met this particular fellow in the Andes Mountains of northern Ecuador, it lives from Honduras down to Bolivia and Brazil

Arachnid vs arachnid 🪓

Guys, I think the harvestman lost …

While it’s true that spiders and harvestmen are cousins, both belonging to the class Arachnida, that doesn’t stop a bit of friendly snacking between relatives. Harvestme

Oh! What a beautiful flower! 🌸 Go on, take a closer look … I dare you …

The Seven-spined Crab Spider is without a doubt the most jaw-dropping crab spider I’ve seen to date. It gets even better when you realise that they don&rsqu

Don’t tell him I said this but what a cutie 🥺

This is the very ferocious super predator, the Peruvian Shield Mantis. He belongs to a group of mantises with a bizarre looking thorax which look like someone gave them a good going-over with a ro

Three … two … one … LIFTOFF 🚀

This is a praying mantis in flight!

Mantises, if you see them at all, are usually spotted hanging out in the bushes kind of eyeing us off like they’re wondering if they can fit us in their

Off to the supermarket with the kids 👶👶👶🛒

This South American Wolf Spider lives in a web. She has a lovely little funnel retreat where she spends most of her time hidden away, and then she has the supermarket.

The supermarket is a broad, sticky

🤗 Wandering spider wants a hug. Do you accept?

I remember first reading about the “Brazilian Wandering Spider” in the Bugs magazines that my Dad bought to indoctrinate me in the 1990s. It was, I was informed, the most deadly spider in t

The leaves have eyes 👀

This is a stunning Dead Leaf Mantis showing us exactly why it’s called a Dead Leaf Mantis. The Amazon Rainforest is absolutely chock full of mimicry and each and every example is more impressive than the last.

Mantises

This bird’s tail is just a little bit naked 😳

This is the Rufous Motmot, a bird that is all fashion all the time. While I met this particular fellow in the Andes Mountains of northern Ecuador, it lives from Honduras down to Bolivia and Brazil

Arachnid vs arachnid 🪓

Guys, I think the harvestman lost …

While it’s true that spiders and harvestmen are cousins, both belonging to the class Arachnida, that doesn’t stop a bit of friendly snacking between relatives. Harvestme

Oh! What a beautiful flower! 🌸 Go on, take a closer look … I dare you …

The Seven-spined Crab Spider is without a doubt the most jaw-dropping crab spider I’ve seen to date. It gets even better when you realise that they don&rsqu

Don’t tell him I said this but what a cutie 🥺

This is the very ferocious super predator, the Peruvian Shield Mantis. He belongs to a group of mantises with a bizarre looking thorax which look like someone gave them a good going-over with a ro

Three … two … one … LIFTOFF 🚀

This is a praying mantis in flight!

Mantises, if you see them at all, are usually spotted hanging out in the bushes kind of eyeing us off like they’re wondering if they can fit us in their