Africa Wild

What a compilation, Ex!

What a fabulous series, Ex! Thank you for your dedication to document this evolution and for sharing it
How long does the whole process go?

Thanks, dear ones.

While looking for an invertebrate pic for the AW “Best Picture of…” entry, I came across these pics I took in Costa Rica a number of years back. Some pretty bizarre, yet very cool lil’ ones.

This looks like the offspring of a beetle and a grasshopper.




This one looks like the offspring of a walking stick insect and a weevil.







Some of nature’s nighttime ninjas

A few with strange appendages…












What the heck???






…to be continued…

Incredible the kind of strange creatures you can find if you look enough

Astounding critters, Ex!

The stuff of science fiction!

the small things are amazing.

Love the waxy filaments!

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More from Costa Rica

Everybody’s LEAST favorite, (you’ll never guess)…

This last one is, in fact, not a spider. It belongs to the order Opiliones, arachnids colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, or daddy longlegs. In opilionids, the head, thorax, and abdomen are fused into one thoracic cavity. Spiders, of the order Araneae, have a distinct waist between the cephalothorax and the abdomen. Opilionids have just two eyes, compared to the usual eight in spiders. They also do not produce silk, unlike spiders. They do not spin webs, and they do not use webs to capture prey.

A love-hate episode for me, Ex!
Amazing flash macro pics!