galactic oribatid 8 colors, 240x135px #pixelart

tis the season for Amblyomma americanum - the "Lone Star Tick"🤩 here's an adult female w/ her white spot (left) and an adult male (right) #ticks #ixodidae

a fancy black and white jumper from Colombia - a male Phiale tristis🤩

unique "square-ended" crab spider in the genus Sidymella - note how much smaller and more transparent the last two pair of legs are - almost invisible against the leaf! Found at night in Colombia, aug 4, 2023 #arachtober

my first waterbear!!🤩 closing out 2023 by hunting for these little guys in lichens/mosses! Crop from w/ Laowa - Venus Optics Aurogon Supermicro 20x at NA 0.15 #macrobiotidae #tardigrada #waterbear

🌈waiting for the traffic to thin out a bit after the eclipse, I spotted this BEAUTIFUL rainbow scarab (Phanaeus vindex) dung beetle crawling about the clovers. First time photographing a male of this species - note the large horn! 🤩

some recent ants😎

Phidippus texanus abdomen

First youtube video in over a year! About 13 minutes of hunting for Habronattus americanus in Montana - including some courtship footage! youtube.com/watch?v=etw3Wp…

3 unrelated spiders w/ metallic pink gold abdomens - all shot in situ, NE Oklahoma thousands of tiny glittering scales - is the warm hue a result of structural coloration? 1 Oxyopes lynx spider 2 Habronattus decorus jumping spider 3 Philodromus running crab spider

little pelegrina in my zinnia🥰

almost exactly 10 years ago on the Oregon coast, I shot Ctenucha rubroscapus on Achillea. Looks like I'm using a fisheye on a teleconverter and diffusing the pop up flash:

this Phidippus putnami jumped up on my flash multiple times to drink my sweat off of it 🥵

🥳FINALLY finished a video review of the Laowa - Venus Optics Aurogon 10-50x Supermicro! Check it out for extreme focus stacking and WATER BEARS!🌟 youtube.com/watch?v=TkvBEp…

a few birds from yesterday morning - sniping from a shaded area w/ old tamron mirror lens 🫡 tufted titmouse, ruby-throated hummingbird, carolina chickadee, ruby-throat

hypnotic compound eyes of a little Holcocephala sp robber fly, in situ, Indiana Dunes National Park, August 2024 Laowa 2.5-5x on fuji + diffused flash

ooh it's #arachtober ! Share your Phids!🙏 Here's a classic october salticid (COS) around here - the incomparably beautiful Phidippus mystaceus! Found her by walking slowly beneath oaks - hopefully scanning forest edge, dry, rocky, NE OK #salticidae #phidippus

no longer here - follow me on bluesky: bsky.app/profile/tshaha… or iNaturalist: inaturalist.org/people/tshahan

These pink cylinder-swimmers were a nightmare to animate! About 46 seconds to make each trip around. Smoother loop: i.imgur.com/ULPwdYK.gif