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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#Arachtober 17: a whirligig mite doing…something with the protective waxy fluff of a woolly aphid (or maybe an adelgid?) on a lichen-covered white pine tree trunk. Eating the insect underneath? #LichenSubscribe #DailyMitePic #arachnids #mites #Acari […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

On smooth flat bark covered with light seafoam-to-leaf-green-coloured crustose lichen and bold yellow-green foliose lichen, a squat, shiny red mite with spiky hairs is next to a small woolly white clump, one of several visible on the tree trunk.

A closer view shows the mite's pedipalps are buried in the fluff (they were moving around, in fact).

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#Arachtober 16: oy gevalt, almost forgot…anyway here's a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_). °OO° #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae

Three-quarters view of a small jumping spider on limestone. It has a pair of large forward-facing eyes and its abdomen is striped white and brown. (The colour of the zebra stripes can range from the palest grey to brown to jet black.)

The spider looking straight up at the camera. It has a smaller pair of eyes flanking its main pair. Fangs can be seen at the ends of its shiny black chelicerae, partly hidden by fluffy white pedipalps.

A view of the spider's abdomen, showing the diagonal stripes of white and rusty brown, formed out of lots of little hairs.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

a moment of tranquillity: steps from Old Mill station, little minnows (or something, idk i'm not a fishologist) flit around a salmon carcass as autumn leaves float down the Humber River #toronto

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#Arachtober 15: missed yesterday because I was out protesting bike lanes getting removed (nevillepark.ca/2026/10/15/protestin…). The day before I had bought a pumpkin pie on sale (Canadian Thanksgiving was this past […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

An orbweaver, light brown and black-brown with spiky, banded legs and a white dotted cross marking on the dorsal side of its abdomen, hangs upside down in the relative shelter of a juniper-type bush.

A side view of the spider. Note the tiger-like stripes on its sides and the small curved protrusion on the underside of its abdomen—the "scape", a part of mature female genitalia. I'm sure other species have scapes too but the appearance can be used to ID A. diadematus.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

#Arachtober 13: it's mating time for _Zygiella_, one of the most common orbweavers in my area! It seems every female's web has at least one scrawny male patiently, rhythmically plucking away from the edges. Here, a male (left) and female (right) tentatively […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A wide photo, with two spiders at the outskirts of a (faintly visible) web against the grey backdrop of a willow tree trunk. The male (left) has longer legs but a much smaller body, and long palps that have "knees"; they are folded over. He has a white folium (leaf-like marking) covering the top of his abdomen, with flushes of pink on the side. The female has a slightly larger head and a much larger abdomen with a shiny yellow underbelly. They are both plucking at the silk lines to communicate.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

#Arachtober 12 × #MiteMonday: one of my favourite mite finds this year, a random cluster of bird/rodent mites (superfamily Dermanyssoidea) on a Muskoka/Adirondack chair in a park. These mites are "nidicolous" (Latin "nidus", "nest"): they live in their host's […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A bunch of tiny oval mites on a yellow recycled plastic plank in a Muskoka chair (a. k. a. Adirondack chair in the US). Their bodies are mostly translucent but have dark markings mostly on the rear half.

A close-up of one of the mites. Its front pair of legs are reaching up and out, a little like the soil-dwelling predatory mesostigs previously featured here. The markings make it look like it has two body segments, but they are actually fused.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#Arachtober 11: this juvenile male running crab spider (_Philodromus_) is almost all right. Get it (The bulbs at the ends of his pedipalps, the short appendages on either side of his jaws, are enlarged but still unformed, indicating he has some more growing […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A small brown, somewhat flat-bodied spider (built for running, ambush hunting, and fitting into low spaces, with a crab spider-like eye arrangement) rests on a wooden surface. He is missing three of his left legs (his left, our right) but has all of his right legs. The ends of his pedipalps are quite large and bulbous, but homogeneous and undifferentiated, not the complex organs they will become in adulthood...if he makes it that far.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#Arachtober 10: 10/10 is #InternationalJumpingSpiderDay! °OO° Jumping spiders have a pair of large, keen eyes that give them their distinctive appearance. These eyes can see colour and fine details, whereas the smaller, simpler eyes that ring their heads are […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A bold jumping spider eating a midge as it peeps out from a hole in a metal railing. It has green-blue chelicerae and banded orange-brown and black legs.

A female jumping spider being courted by a male on a worn log fence. They are both mottled brown, with the male being a warmer lighter shade. I'm not sure of the genus or species...

A black-and-white zebra jumping spider eating a small midge on a green park bench.

An ant-mimic jumping spider that looks similar to a carpenter ant, on a stone wall.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#Arachtober 8: a twofer with bonus #LichenSubscribe, why not. A sumo mite (_Allothrombium_) encounters a spiderling, probably some kind of cobweb spider? At up to like 3-4mm in body length, sumo mites are considered very large mites. (Any mite you can easily […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

In a shady, lichen-encrusted crevasse on a tree trunk, a tiny almost translucent little spider reaches out a leg to a large fat vaguely peanut-shaped red mite that has tripped a silk line. The mite dwarfs the spider.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#WeevilWednesday: a weevil in peril!! (It has fallen onto the web of a grass spider. I decided not to interfere with nature.) #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

A pale beetle with a short, wide snout with two elbowed antennae coming off it, flailing on its back on a barely visible sheet of spider silk. A log fence rail is to the right.

Another angle of the weevil. Note its large feet. It may be an Asiatic Oak Weevil which I also photographed in the vicinity.

A further-out shot. Its feet are tangled in the silk. The web inhabitant clearly wasn't that hungry.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#Arachtober 7: back in April I found a whole bunch of mesostigs just chilling with a rove beetle under a log. Probably Parasitidae or something like that. Contrary to their name these mites are mostly soil-dwelling predators, like the ones in these photos. I […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

About ten oblong or oval golden-brown mites, as well as a larger glossy dark brown elongated-teardrop-shaped critter with very short golden-brown elytra, on the grimy underside of a log.

Close-up with one of the mites almost in focus, showing its longer, thin, antenna-like first pair of legs and its short, curved, almost claw-like second pair of legs. The smooth dorsal shield seems undivided.

Another group of mites near the first one; no doubt a nymphal stage. They are rounded and simpler-looking, with legs peeking out from underneath.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#Arachtober 6: a small running crab spider (_Philodromus_) releases a thread of silk on the wind, preparing to "balloon". Sometimes they do this to travel far distances, other times simply to cross a gap. Orbweavers can use this to lay down web frameworks […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A small flattish brown spider perched on the plank of a picnic bench with its abdomen slightly raised. A fine, straight thread of silk can be seen coming from the spinnerets at the end of its abdomen.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Slightly belated #Arachtober 5: for #MiteMonday, here's my favourite mite find of the year. Back in March, found a whole bunch of Erythracaridae racing around on pine trees. These speedy predatory mites used to be part of Anystidae but were split off into […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A small reddish-orange mite with longish translucent legs that have faint red-orange banding and lots of spiky hairs sticking out exactly perpendicular to the leg. It also has two dark red eyespots. It looks very similar to a whirligig mite if you stretched it out a bit and added lots more leg hair.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#Arachtober 4: on a grey afternoon in the Necropolis, found quite a few opilionids (a. k. a. harvestmen, etc.) hanging out under the overhangs of tombs like these. I think this one is _Leiobunum vittatum_? Opilionids are not spiders; they are their own order […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

An old tomb in a large cemetery. It is a tall square block surmounted by a tapering column. The inscription on the front is almost completely worn away.

On the old stone, an arachnid with a plump oval orange body that has armoured-looking segments and a splotchy dark marking down the middle. It has two tiny eyes on a little tubercle towards the front of its head. Its legs are extremely long and thin and extend out of frame, and the left leg IV (its left) is missing.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#Arachtober 3: that quintessential sight of autumn in northeastern North America, the super pregnant grass spider (_Agelenopsis_). They make egg sacs, attached to surfaces and camouflaged with debris, which won't hatch till next year. They are often confused […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A spider seen by night on a log fence. She has long thin but not overly spindly legs, a brown and beige lengthwise-striped head with a cluster of uniformly small eyes at the front, and an extremely large swollen abdomen with two sort of rough dark lines running lengthwise and speckled flanks.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#Arachtober 2: checked out the garden wall late last night in the hopes of finding arachnids, found many snout mites (family Bdellidae), including this one feeding on a tiny bristle millipede (family Polyxenidae)! I have seen very few arthropods preying on […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A bright red mite with pointy mouthparts that are buried in the underside of a small many-legged arthropod covered with little bristles (more of which are scattered around it).

Another angle that better shows the snout mite's elbowed pedipalps on either side of the snout, like a weevil's antennae. One can also see a thick clump of bristles.

Here is what a bristle millipede looks like alive and the right way up, more like a carpet beetle larva or a caterpillar than a typical millipede. Its segments are fringed with rows of bristle-like hairs, and it has two bundles of longer hairs coming out of the end of its butt, a little like the waxy tail of a planthopper.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#Arachtober 1: the lights on this pedestrian bridge create giant spider shadows! The casters are the appropriately named bridge spiders, _Larinioides sclopetarius_. #DailySpiderPic #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae

A pedestrian bridge by night, with downward-facing lights set underneath the wooden railings. A spider has built its web directly beneath one, creating a giant spider shadow on the walkway.

A further-out view showing the bridge curving away, with dozens of similar lights.

An orbweaver spider at the centre of its symmetrical, wheel-like web. It has a darker leaf-like marking (the folium) on the top side of its abdomen which looks a little like a fleur-de-lys.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

big steppy For #WeevilWednesday, I think this little buddy from High Park is an Asiatic Oak Weevil (_Cyrtepistomus castaneus_). #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #HighPark #toronto

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It's still #MiteMonday somewhere: today I wandered around the Necropolis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Necro…) enjoying the lichen and finding various arachnids including some whirligig mites (family Anystidae). They seem to experience a brief […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A very old worn lichen-encrusted tombstone. A bright red mite with star-like splayed legs, small but still very visible to the naked eye, dances across it.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Went for a lovely nighttime ramble under the full moon in High Park and saw several interesting spiders. I admit I yelled in alarm when I saw this leopard slug (_Limax maximus_, introduced from Europe) by the foot of a tree. It was the size of my thumb!!

A large spotted and striped slug on sandy earth, feeding on what could be some fungus or dropped food. A medium-sized isopod is next to it, for scale.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Took a little detour to some streetside pollinator gardens while running an errand today and was rewarded with SO. MANY. LOCUST. BORERS. 💛🖤💛 #bloomscrolling #bugstodon #insects #beetles #LonghornBeetles #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae

A yellowjacket was…No! It's a beetle! A beetle with an elongated body, black with yellow markings, that make it look like a wasp at first glance, feeding on pollen from aster-ish yellow flowers (idk I'm not a plantologist). It has long red-brown legs and very long red-brown antennae, as befits a member of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). Its black, oval eyes have "cutouts" around the base of the antennae, like the cursed phone front camera notch.

A head-on view of a locust borer feeding on yellow flowers (goldenrod, I think). The thorax has horizontal stripes of almost fur-like yellow scales. The antennae stretch way out to either side.

A locust borer stands with its back two pairs of legs on one flower cluster while grasping another with its front legs to feed.

Non-macro shot from above of two locust borers on clumps of small yellow flowers. Goldenrod? Asters? Fuck, are goldenrods asters? Oh shit, they are. Fuck.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Goth squirrel of the day: the rare SQUIRREL LOAF. Forgive the crappy photos, it was fairly high up in a tree, but too cute to pass up!

A black Eastern Grey Squirrel lying down on a slender branch in an oak tree, its floofy tail flopped over the branch and its front legs tucked beneath it.

The squirrel still lying down but with its head turned towards me, like "Well? What do you want?"

The squirrel back in loaf mode, chin seemingly resting on its front paws or the branch, looking off into space.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Met this lovely and impressive _Camponotus_ princess*, damn near an inch long, on my way getting groceries. * Until she takes off her wings and settles down to start a new colony. Then she's a queen. Note: I made this up #bugstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

An extremely large, robust dark reddish-brown winged carpenter ant resting on a smooth stone surface in late afternoon sun. Her thorax is unusually muscular (because of the wing muscles) and her abdomen is very large.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

meanwhile, in an arachnology Discord I'm in

A black T-shirt that says "i spend HOURS looking at spider GENITALIA" with 8 greyscale images of different spider palpal bulbs (vaguely apostrophe-shaped organs). Sadly I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which species.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

night walk: 1 raccoon, 1 dead skunk, 5 live skunks, 1 rat #parkdale #toronto #skunks

A grainy night photo of three striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) clustered together eating birdseed someone has dumped on the ground. A chain-link fence enclosing a school sports field is in the background.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Okay so re: the #IgNobel -winning splash-free urinal design: the paper also includes a design for a splash-MAXIMIZING surface (the "urine-no") that can be attached to walls to discourage people from peeing on them. (They also use the TTC [Toronto public […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

Fig. 7. a) The generated isogonal curve (solid scarlet line) in the vertical plane for an impinging angle of 90°⁠. L is the inseam height of users, as an characteristic length, to normalize the scale of the curve. b) A rendering of the “urine-no” installed on the exterior of a building to deter public urination. The surface is generated by extruding the curve in (a).

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

#DailySpiderPic × #WeevilWednesday: this _Parasteatoda_ cobweb spider has captured some kind of broad-nosed weevil (subfamily Entiminae). Note the brood of recently hatched spiderlings clustered around the papery-looking egg sacs at the top of the frame! RIP […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A somewhat pear-shaped black weevil with dotted-pinstripe elytra and a short, wide snout, covered in a grey shroud of silk, is being fed on by a round brown spider in its irregular web under the lip of a stone wall. Behind them, right where the wall meets the overhang, are two papery light brown egg sacs, round with pointed ends, and a clump of tiny spiders.

A more side-on view with the spiderlings, egg sacs, and spider more in focus. The spider's flank has small lighter and darker brown markings.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Has #WeevilWednesday come early? No, it's #MiteMonday! These snout mites (family Bdellidae) must need moisture as I usually only see them in damp places and right after it rains. They are predatory, and about the same size as sidewalk mites (_Balaustium_ […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A red-orange mite on a chain-link fence, seen from the side and slightly above. It is teardrop-shaped with a pointy snout with elbowed pedipalps (tipped with forked hairs) coming off it, superficially similar to a weevil's snout. It has two little red eyes on the side facing us.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Saw someone post an unsourced image with "the Great Lakes' real names", so just a reminder that there are lots of Indigenous languages and the many different nations have called them different things at different times. Also, in general but especially, as I […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A map of the Great Lakes (Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin) prepared by Charles Lippert and Jordan Engel. It is oriented with east (Waabang) at the top as per the medicine wheel compass rose in the lower right corner. The lakes are Niigani-gichigami (Leading Sea; Lake Ontario); Waabishkiigoo-gichigami (Neutral’s Sea; Lake Erie); Waaseyaagami-wiikwed (Shining Waters Bay; Georgian Bay); Naadowewi-gichigami (Iroquois' Sea; Lake Huron); Anishinaabewi-gichigami (Anishinaabe's Sea; Lake Superior); Ininwewi-gichigami (Illinois' Sea; Lake Michigan). There are many, many other place-names on the map; see the linked blog post for names and translations.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Went down to the lake and fed midges to the bold jumping spiders living in the railing by the pool. °OO° #ArthroBeauty #DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Araneae #Salticidae #Diptera #Chironomidae

A small bold jumping spider, with big round eyes, orange-brown and black-striped legs, fluffy orangey pedipalps, and metallic blue-green chelicerae, peeking out from a round hole in a metal railing while eating a slightly mangled midge (a mosquito-like fly).

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Crappy phone photo because I can't find the drive for the fancy camera's card right now and I have to go to bed #LunarEclipse

Extremely grainy low-res digitally zoomed photo of a shadowed full moon with one fingernail-slice still brightly illuminated. With its reddish hues it looks almost like Mars.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

#DailySpiderVid: cellar spiders (family Pholcidae) cautiously court under a rail bridge. Female on the left, male on the right. Cellar spiders are practically blind and so vibration is an important part of communication; I don't know if there are also chemical […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Acorns and chestnuts are ripening here. Prime goth squirrel photoshoot time.

A black Eastern Grey Squirrel peeling open an acorn with its teeth while sitting up on its hind legs on a wide grass lawn, looking with slight alarm at the camera.

The squirrel holding the elongated green acorn up to its mouth with both paws like a god damn corn cob.

The squirrel's reddish front teeth are visible as it manoeuvres the acorn end over end.

The squirrel with the acorn clutched in its reddish incisors, little hands in front of its body, looking startled.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Yesterday after the rain I went out for #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe tree trunk photos and also encountered some bugs! This is all from a small patch of a quite ordinary Norway maple. #fungi #sporespondence #bugstodon #ArthroBeauty #insects #cicadas #arachnids #Opiliones #Phalangiidae

Close-up photo of a lichen-encrusted tree trunk with clumps of moss and a few tiny umbrella-shaped mushrooms peeking out.

Close-up of a dog day cicada (Neotibicen canicularis), head-on, showing its cloudy eyes and triangle of reddish ocelli, the smaller simple eyes. It is standing on a carpet of chartreuse and seafoam lichen flecked with emerald-green moss.

Another wee parasol mushroom growing amid lichen, this one with a smoother, more rounded top.

An opilionid (something common like Phalangium or Leiobunum idk), an arachnid with a single visible body segment and extremely long thin legs, on a lichen- and moss-covered tree trunk.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Just now at a community garden I saw a yellowjacket (_Vespula maculifrons_) cutting a piece of squash flower like a leaf-cutter bee!!! What?? #bugstodon #insects #wasps #Hymenoptera #Apocrita #Aculeata #Vespidae #Vespinae

A large trumpet-shaped orange-yellow flower (with my pale hand holding it still in the background). A black-and-yellow wasp, the ubiquitous yellowjacket that haunts garbage bins and picnics, is tearing off a strip with its jaws.

The wasp hangs from the flower as she tears off a piece.

The wasp is almost hidden behind the flower as she clutches the strip of flower in her mouth.

The wasp has flown off, leaving a clean curved bite out of the flower, rather similar to a leaf-cutter bee's.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

these are the worst bird pics of all time but I think this heron totally ate it while trying to fish, with a bunch of passersby looking on

Extremely blurry low-res photo of a variegated grey-brown heron of some kind in hunting mode, neck retracted, on a log floating in an algae-filled wetland. The backdrop is a wall of tall bulrushes.

The heron has pitched forward off the log and into the water in a way that does not look entirely on purpose. Its wings are spread and a leg is bent; the head is underwater.

The heron, looking a little ruffled, back on the log facing the other way.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

went down to lake and saw some good bugs 1. long-jawed orbweaver (_Tetragnatha_) 2. crambid moth (one of the grass-veneer moths, tribe Crambini), so confident in its camouflage as a hollow grass blade I could get quite close 3. also very well camouflaged […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

An extremely long thin spider with a creamy-white abdomen and very long thin translucent golden-brown legs stretched out on a thistle stem.

A brown moth with a long cylindrical body/wings, face-down ass up on lichen-covered rock.

On similarly lichen-covered rock, an orbweaver in matching shades of grey-brown and pale greenish cream is tucked into a crevice.

A fly with a striped abdomen, iridescent eyes and very long thin legs stands on a dead part of a tree trunk with a smaller fly in its mouthparts.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Last night I passed by again. All the little mushrooms were gone but these GIANTS had taken their place (hand for scale in last pic). I could see a stream of spores coming from the largest mushroom! Needless to say I am going to be checking this spot more […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

Two large round flat-topped pale brownish mushrooms right next to each other, with one of the dandelion plants from the previous post squished between them. One mushroom is significantly larger.

A view of the largest mushroom, lit from below with phone flashlight at night. It has thin radial gills.

Panned right, you can see that a stream of powdery spores is flying off the mushroom, like steam from a hot bowl of soup.

Hand for scale. The large mushroom is easily larger than my (small adult) hand.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

This is a spot I pass on my usual night walk route. There used to be a stump here for years, but relatively recently they dug it up and, idk, mulched it I guess? Anyway, it has recently started sprouting some *great* mushrooms. This is from the 7th. (1/2) […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A large cluster of small pale grey umbrella-like mushrooms growing amid mulch and weeds. Taken with phone flashlight at night.

A little hill of the same mushrooms at the base of a large dandelion plant.

Looking down at several clusters of mushrooms. Their caps have a slightly retro-reflective effect in the phone flashlight.

A view of the whole former stump site, now mulch and earth surrounded by clover-sprinkled lawn.

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