@secretsynapse​ submitted: any idea what this little guy is? dunno if the photos are clear enough; it was hard to get a good photo ‘cause he is Very Small (like, the size of a pinhead).

location is southeast Pennsylvania =]

Suuuure it’s a juvenile orbweaver. Looks like a cross orbweaver, though I’m honestly not familiar with how most orbweavers look as juveniles, so there could be another that looks similar.

@dudgag submitted: What is this thing? I found it in my house on my door, located in central texas, it looks like an ant but not any ant I’ve seen before. I let it go free outside after taking the pictures.

A cute lil friend! It’s an ichneumonid wasp, though I couldn’t tell you which species without clear photos. And even then maybe not, there are so so so many species that look similar. Ants and wasps look similar because they’re in the same order and share a lot of characteristics :)

@moth-claws submitted: found some ants on a raspberry, lost in the sauce :] i also saw some doing the same thing with some cheese earlier this week! is that a common spring thing? they barely moved on the cheese too

It’s a common all the time thing! Or at least when it’s not freezing cold. Ants will take the opportunity to eat just about anything available.

mossworm:

@vivi-vanessapham​ submitted: The caterpillars are back! I love them so much.

Location: Vietnam

Munchmunchmunch. What a precious large and beautiful babe! For those curious, this is an oleander hawkmoth caterpillar :)

petricorah:

reblog if you wouldnt step on him

@reverse-rainbows submitted: I’m wondering what cicada this lil fella is! It’s from brood x, found it after it died and preserved it’s body in alcohol. From [removed] (remove location pls)

RIP, little friend! This is not a Brood X cicada. Brood X were 17 year periodical cicadas in the genus Magicicada. This fellow is a dog-day cicada in the genus Neotibicen. It may have come out around the same time as the Brood X cicadas, but it’s an annual species. These guys take 2-5 years to develop underground before emerging as adults, but there are overlapping generations that appear every year :)

@nohamozolna​ submitted: These guys for some reason love our garden. I tried to take them away from our garden because we have dogs but there are just too many of them. Luckily the dogs seem to avoid them. Do you think that they can smell that these ones are not to be touched?

I wouldn’t doubt it! The defensive fluid they secrete can cause blisters on bare skin, so I imagine it has a rather pungent smell! Smart doggies :)