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Robby Deans
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Nature enthusiast, hobby photographer. All photos I post are mine! I am @hydaticus on iNaturalist
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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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.
October 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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.
October 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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.
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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.
July 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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.
July 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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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.
July 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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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.
July 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Giant Lichen Orbweaver (Araneus bicentenarius), Travis County, Texas

#spiders #camouflage
A green spider camouflaged among lichen in the crook of a hanging branch.
July 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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.
June 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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.
June 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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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.
June 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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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.
June 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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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.
June 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Guyanan Sarota (Sarota gyas), Tiputini, Ecuador.

#insects #inverts #butterflies #macro
A tiny butterfly with fuzzy legs and wing borders. Its color is orange around the outer edges, transitioning to a red-orange center. Alternating broken vertical lines of silver and black decorate the wings.
May 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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.
May 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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.
May 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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.
May 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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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
May 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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.
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM