She's Got Legs

She knows how to use them

[9/23/10]

Now You See It...Now You Don't

Turns out there was a wasp nest in the arm of our patio chair

 

All in

Comin' out

[9/22/10]

happy halloween

A Brown Marmorated Stink Bug visited the windowsill.

Whaddya know, seems the exterminator's spray does work.

Feeding Time

I'm still pretty pissed off about the fact that I spent most of my life thinking this was a bee.
Anyway, it enjoyed the sugar on our place mats. 

[9/22/10]

Nutcracker

[9/22/10]

Holy Sh*t

This photo makes me want to puke. (I don't like spiders). 

Oh, you don't think it's so bad? Fine, I give you: the close-up.
(And imagine it sucking the life out of you instead of a bee. That helps too.)

[9/22/10]

Awwwwwkward

I know it's only a bug, but it just looks like he feels awkward.
Perhaps he's self-conscious about his Miley Cyrus legs. 

[9/22/10]

Attack of the Green Stink Bug!

I saved this Edessa bifida from our little pool.

And then it attacked my camera. Ingrate.

[9/22/10]

Good Reception

Nice antennae -- a little bug-eyed though.

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly (Strymon melinus).  
No, wait... Seems it could be one of a million or so butterflies that end with "Hairstreak" in the name.
Hmm, actually, might be a Yojoa Scrub-Hairstreak. Well, it's a butterfly. Definitely a butterfly. 

 [9/21/10]

Affordable Housing

These are cocoons of some type--likely a kind of case moth. They attach the twigs with their silk.

[9/21/10]

[9/22/10]




A possible denizen?

[9/21/10]

Scientific Method

It looks like spit. But it was all over the place on leaves. So we're just going to say it's some kind of bug thing.... eggs. There you go. It was bug eggs.
UPDATE: It's true!  They are called spittlebugs or froghoppers and the nymphs are encased in this slop.

[9/21/10]

Aunt Ant

Me:  What's something funny to say about an ant?
N:  I dunno. Which one?
Me:  Just an ant.
N:  I don't know. Which? What name?
Me:  It's just an ANT!
N:  I DON'T KNOW!

[9/21/10]

Eghck

Patio visitor

[9/21/10]

Before and After

oops:

Now That's What I Call Christmas I & II !

Oooh, Look at Me, I'm So Pretty

This one couldn't get enough of the camera

[9/21/10]

They Mostly Come at Night, Mostly

This is in fact not an alien but a spider that built a web from the grass thatch roof of our porch to the bushes, and scared the crap out of me all day long.
Extra points if you get the movie reference.

Grrrr

This is a Tiger Butterfly. That's a lie. I don't know the names of all these Central American bugs.

Check Out the Bod on that One

This butterfly's body was the size of an adult's thumb.
It was quite uncooperative in our photo shoot, refusing to stand still.
All ego

Moth the Size of a...

This moth was the size of a cat -- if that cat were about four inches wide or so.