10.5.26 Claremore, OK



 

A very, very large female Yellow Garden Spiders

So beautiful!!!

Also humongous and pretty terrifying

Wow!!!!!!!!

Leg and pedipalp detail

Leg and pronotum (limb-bearing head) detail

Pronotum and abdomen detail

Spinnerets (silk gland), with silk coming out

Spider next to an 8-inch long hand

Northern or Giant Walkingstick

Head, front pair of legs, and antennae

Side

Top of head

Mouthparts

Legs and joints

Leg joints

Abdominal segments

Front leg tip

Front leg segment

Clamp like Cerci, meaning that this is a male wakingstick

Back few abdominal segments

Genitals

Walkingstick next to 8-inch hand for scale

Eastern Harvestman

Harvetsman vs spider. Harvestman have a torso, while spider torsos are divided into two main parts. Spiders eat liquified animal insides (except for one herbivorou jumping spider in latin america), while harvetsman eat solid food (mostly dead plant and animal matter, plus fungi)

Red-eyed Green Leahopper in the genus Gyponana

Stained-glass Moth

Celery Leaftier Moth

Asian Lady Beetle

Black-marked Plume Moth

Eastern Red Cedar (technically juniper) berries (technically cones)

Cedar-apple Rust, a moderate fungal infection, on an Eastern Red Cedar

Potter's Grass Spider.. Is aragog from Harry Potter a Potter's Grass Spider.

Grass

Elegant Grass-veneer


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