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@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:47 PM

I totally spaced out on #Arachtober yesterday, and today it’s world #JumpingSpiderDay. A female Apache Jumping Spider, Phidippus apacheanus, with sawfly prey, on the restroom at Cottonwood Picnic Area, Cimarron National Grassland, near Elkhart, Kansas, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching

Compact spider, hairy, dull orange on top, otherwise black, facing left, and holding a black and red sawfly in her jaws. Spider is on a restroom building.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:00 AM

This very large orbweaver, genus Araneus, was one of several under the eaves of the visitor center at Las Vegas (New Mexico, USA) National Wildlife Refuge. Happy #Arachtober 8th. Photo taken yesterday morning. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Large, extremely rotund spider, beige in color with a vague black crescent across the front of the abdomen. Legs are pale with faint darker bands. Spider is sitting in a silken retreat adjacent to its circular web, under the eave of a building.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:42 PM

I didn’t know, or had forgotten, that #InsectThursday is a thing. Here is a female sweat bee, family Halictidae, taking flight from a flower at the visitor center in Las Vegas (New Mexico) National Wildlife Refuge. #bugsky #bugwatching #pollinators #bees

Small bee, banded with black and white on the abdomen, taking flight from a yellow composite flower. Rocky flowerbed in the background.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:04 AM

I saw this female Bold Jumping Spider with a fly as prey, on the exterior of a building today, #Arachtober 7th. Kansas Wetlands Education Center, near Great Bend, Kansas, USA. #bugsky, #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Compact, hairy black spider with white spot on abdomen, and iridescent green jaws, feeding on a fly with large red eyes. On the exterior of a building.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:53 AM

Apologies, yesterday’s wall spider was for #Arachtober 5th. Today, the 6th, features a female Western Black Widow guarding her egg sac in her silken tunnel retreat. Cottonwood Picnic Area, Cimarron National Grassland near Elkhart, Kansas, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching #spider

Round, jet black spider with beige egg sac inside silken tunnel retreat on outside of bathroom building.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:46 AM

My #Arachtober 4th spider is from yesterday at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, west of Tucson, Arizona, USA. Wall spiders, family Oecobiidae, are very small, even as adults. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Very small, mottled spider with relatively short, banded legs, clinging to a stucco wall on the exterior of a building.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:37 AM

For #Arachtober the 4th, a large fishing spider on a wall above a shallow pool at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson, Arizona, USA. Poor thing is missing two legs, but is a mom(see baby in lower right. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachids

Large, sprawling brown spider, missing two legs, on a wall above a shallow pool. Also, a baby spider in lower right.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 5:35 AM

#Arachtober third: A large female Green Lynx Spider has killed an American Snout butterfly, on a prickly pear cactus pad. Florida Canyon, Santa Rita Mts., Arizona, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Large, green spider with beige legs, clutching a butterfly beneath her, and with an empty egg sac to her right, on a cactus pad.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:34 AM

#Arachtober for today, a very leggy cellar spider (family Pholcidae), casts two shadows on the wall of the art gallery it is living in. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson, Arizona, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Very long-legged spider, upside down in a web, casting a double shadow on the wall behind it.
@bugeric.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:29 PM

Happy #arachtober everyone. Here is a running crab spider (Philodromidae), from yesterday at the visitor center in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. #bugsky #bugwatching #spiders #arachnids

Sprawling, cement-colored spider, facing up, on one of those binocular viewer things. Spider is mottled with darker markings.
@bugeric.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 9:44 PM

An change imposed by Blogger prompts this post.... bugeric.blogspot.com/2026/09/did-... #bugsky #bugwatching #Blogger #blogpost #blogging #YouTube

@bugeric.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 11:13 PM

Today is World Wasp Day, so here’s the newest species from our yard in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. This is an ichneumon wasp, Charops annulipes. You might recognize the banded cocoon it emerged from, more than the wasp itself. #bugsky #WorldWaspDay #bugwatching #insects #wasps

White cocoon with black bands and spots, attached to a long silken thread. Below is the small, very slender wasp that emerged from the cocoon. Wasp is mostly black, with white “feet.”
@bugeric.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 12:43 AM

This has been a banner year for Cloudless Sulphur butterflies here in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, where they are late summer and fall visitors. Solid yellow male on left, female on right. #bugsky #bugwatching #butterflies #insects

Big, all-yellow butterfly on a pink zinnia flower, in the sun. Big, yellow butterfly with pink streaks, and blotches circling white spots. Taking nectar from a pink zinnia flower in the sun.
@bugeric.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 12:43 AM

Here's the link to my presentation about wasps at The Linda Hall on Saturday. This talk gets more accurate, informative, and entertaining each time, as I learn more.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIDH... #bugsky #bugwatching #wasps #insects #entomology

@bugeric.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 2:10 AM

A couple things to look forward to, another....not so much.... bugeric.blogspot.com/2026/09/good... #blogpost #bugsky #butterflies #wasps #communityscience #citizenscience #bugwatching