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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Forgot the alt text: a tiny orange wasp with yellow eyes and black and white stripes on its wings and antennae.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Anagyrus paralia, a tiny parasitic wasp. Travis County, Texas, USA #insects #inverts #macro

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Opilioacarus texanus, a large primitive mite that shares many characteristics with harvestmen. Travis County, Texas #inverts #arthropods #macro

A purple mite with long legs feeling its way across a substrate of damp leaves and yellow strings of mold.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I do agree! And I fall victim myself to trying to hit too many spots…

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I like “Robby’s Maxim” 🙂. Nice idea for a website!

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A dead leaf? Unicorn Prominent (Coelodasys unicornis) caterpillar. Forsyth County, NC, USA

Wide view of a cherry branch with 1 full leaf and another half eaten leaf with a green and brown caterpillar on the end. The caterpillar is camouflaged as the end of a dead leaf.

A closer view of the camouflaged caterpillar

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Green anole (Anolis carolinensis), Beaufort County, North Carolina, USA #herps

A sleeping green lizard on a cattail leaf. The lizard is covered in tiny, shiny dew droplets.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A quick collage of some snow flakes 🙂. Forsyth County, North Carolina, today

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Forbidden hot tub full of toe biters. Lethocerus medius, Brewster County, Texas. #inverts #insects #underwater

An inside view of small pool of water full of giant water bugs clinging to the rocky walls of the pool.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Bearded Weevil (Rhinostomus barbirostris), Veracruz, Mexico #inverts #insects #beetles

A big weevil with proportionally long and spiny front legs and a large snout nearly covered in orange fur, like a mustache and beard.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Eastern Black-necked Gartersnake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis ssp. ocellatus), Travis County, Texas #herps #snakes

A slender snake stretched out along a tree root on a mossy slope. The snake has a gray head, a tan body with black spots, and a neon orange stripe along its back.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Baird's Ratsnake (Pantherophis bairdi) eating a bat! Val Verde County, Texas. #herps #predation #snakes

A gray snake with longitudinal dark lines down its back and orange skin between the scales is coiled around a bat. The scene is inside a dark, rocky cave.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Mountain Woodsorrel (Oxalis montana), Watauga County, NC, USA #plants #botany

A closeup of a small flower above verdant shamrock leaves. The flower is white with pink veins and each of the five petals has a yellow spot near the center of the flower.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Sorry for the screen photo, but is this the maggot you are interested in collecting pupae of? Seen today in NC on a walnut husk.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Heiligbrodt's Mesquite Moth (Syssphinx heiligbrodti), Cameron County, Texas #insects #inverts #moths #caterpillars

A green caterpillar with white stripes rears its front half. It has small spikes on the back of each segment, and longer spikes on the neck area and near its back end.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Common Sea Skater (Halobates micans), Nueces County, Texas. Water striders in this genus are perhaps the only insects that are truly marine, living most of their life on the open ocean. #insects #macro #invertebrates

A small chocolate-brown insect with a diamond shaped body and very long middle legs sits upon wet sand.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), Webb County, Texas. #herps #snakes

A snake with a pointy nose and a pattern of red and black triangles coiled on a sparse rocky landscape.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.), Tiputini, Ecuador #ants #insects #inverts #macro

Two ants on a mossy log, one carrying a yellow flower and the other carrying a small bit of leaf.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Grapevine Hills, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas #landscapes #desert #westtexas

A desert scene dominated by orange-brown spires of rock jutting out of rocky rolling hills with splashes of green shrubs against a clear blue sky.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Giant Lichen Orbweaver (Araneus bicentenarius), Travis County, Texas #spiders #camouflage

A green spider camouflaged among lichen in the crook of a hanging branch.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans), Beaufort County, North Carolina #mammals

A sleek mousy-brown flying squirrel comes down a tree. It has its legs spread so you can see the stretched skin (patagium) that assists in gliding.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Pocock's Lampshade-web Spider (Hypochilus pococki), Macon County, North Carolina. These long-legged spiders make lampshade-shaped webs on the underside of overhanging rocks and cave walls. Members of the family Hypochilidae are found in mountainous regions in the USA and China. #spiders #macro

A flat spider with very long legs sits encircled by its web on a cliff wall

Two lampshade-shaped spider webs decorate the side of a large boulder.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus), Trinity County, Texas #arachnids #macro

A close up of an orange scorpion with 2 gray stripes on its back. Its pincered pedipalps are held together at the tips.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Salamanders have smooth, slimy skin while skinks have dry, scaly skin. Skinks also tend to move a lot faster than salamanders!

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander (Eurycea chamberlaini), Beaufort County, North Carolina. #salamanders #herps

A tan-yellow salamander with thin longitudinal stripes on each side of its back sits atop wet leaf litter.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus), Travis County, Texas #insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

A copper and green colored butterfly with white bars and fake antennae opposite the head.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Birdwing Passionflower (Passiflora tenuiloba), Travis County, Texas #plants #botany #macro

A close up of a passionflower. The lower tepals are green, and above those is a whorl of coronal filaments. Above those are the nectaries, anthers and carpels.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Boneset Leaf Beetle (Ophraella notata), pale form. Forsyth County, North Carolina #inverts #insects #beetles #macro

A yellow beetle sits in the inflorescence of a boneset plant.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Mountain Lady's-Slipper (Cypripedium montanum), Kittitas County, Washington. #plants #flowers #orchids

A pair of slipper orchid flowers, which look like white ballet shoes with maroon laces.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Kidneyleaf Twayblade (Neottia smallii), Caldwell County, North Carolina. #plants #orchids #macro

A tiny yellow orchid flower. The shape looks a bit like a flying bird carrying a large pair of pants in its claws.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Black-banded Wasp Moth (Syntomeida melanthus), Brewster County, Texas. #inverts #insects #moths

A wasp-mimic moth. The moth has black wings and body with blue iridescence. The wings have broad whitish blotches and the body has thin yellow stripes.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Cascada los Colores, Cueva de los Guacharos, Colombia #waterfall #landscapes

A small waterfall drops into a rocky tea-colored stream in the Colombian cloud forest

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Northwestern Garter Snake (Thamnophis ordinoides), British Columbia, Canada. #herps

A small garter snake with a defensive posture in the lower branches of a tree. The snake is smooth and shiny, and it is mostly gray with three tan longitudinal stripes and small black dots above the lower stripe.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ogre-faced spider (Deinopis sp.) , Tiputini, Ecuador #inverts #spiders #macro

Up close and personal with a hairy, brown ogre-faced spider. The spider has two large black forward-facing eyes and its chelicerae are hidden by its curled pedipalps.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Another fly for #FlyWeek: A blood-engorged Green-eyed Horse Fly (Tabanus fulvulus), Alamance County, North Carolina. #inverts #insects #macro

A large horsefly whose abdomen is distended with blood sits on a mountain mint leaf. The fly has green eyes with subtle red stripes and a golden yellow fuzzy body, noticeably reddish where the abdomen has stretched.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Whoops, forgot the alt text: a black fruit fly with broad wings studded with white dots, like a black starry night cape, sits atop the stem of its host plant, wingstem.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Eutreta rotundipennis, Wilkes County, North Carolina. #inverts #macro #insects

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Passionflower Flea Beetle (Disonycha discoidea), Forsyth County, North Carolina. #inverts #beetles #macro

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A baby Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii), Reeves County, Texas #easterbunny #mammals #smol

A tiny baby rabbit poking its head up out of a hole in the gravel substrate in a West Texas desert

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Forsyth County, North Carolina

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Puffball Beetle (Caenocara sp.), a little bug in a big world. #inverts #insects #beetles #smol #macro

A tiny dome-shaped beetle taking a step forward with raised antennae

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Giant Sunflower (Helianthus giganteus), Ashe County, North Carolina. #botany #plants

Tall, showy sunflowers and goldenrods against a blue sky with puffy white clouds

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Chinquapin Leafminer Moth (Dyseriocrania griseocapitella), Forsyth County, North Carolina. #insects #inverts #moths #macro

A tiny moth with gold and blue scales on its wings and fuzzy scales around its head.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Paracantha culta, a stunning fruit fly that eats thistle flowers as larvae. Travis County, Texas

A colorful fly with complex patterns on the wings and eyes.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thanks, Ian! Yes, we follow each other :)

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