Album Bugs

[Janice]

Sooooooo many of these caterpillars in Death Valley last week - all different sizes/instars - they're white-lined sphinx moths and the host plant we saw them on was brown-eyed primrose

 

[fossana]

I spotted a tiny glow on a road cut on my night hike. Upon closer investigation, I found a firefly larva, the first I've seen locally.

 

[wsp_scott]

A couple butterflies (or maybe moths)

 

[punkwood]

The perks of finishing your hike in the dark, meeting new friends
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Even being from Arizona, this makes me squeemish. I had a fear of spiders as a child and have mostly tamed it in regards to the size of spiders one might typically see. However, I never built up a tolerance to large spiders, especially not this big. Thankfully I'm mostly in my tent in the nighttime hours .