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. 

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Nutcracker

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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.)

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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. 

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Attack of the Green Stink Bug!

I saved this Edessa bifida from our little pool.

And then it attacked my camera. Ingrate.

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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. 

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Affordable Housing

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

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A possible denizen?

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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.

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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!

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Eghck

Patio visitor

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Before and After

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