Florida Banded Water Snake (Nerodia Fasciata Pictiventris), Family Colubridae, Northern FL, USA

spider eye arrangements

i love this clip

a typical example of a juvenile turkey vulture perched next to a leucistic adult turkey vulture. leucism is a lack of pigmentation in feathers; it can be throughout the full body, or distributed in patches, like in this bird.

tell me about it

learning to identify bugs is awesome because i just found out i have a very cute species of isopod in my backyard native to where i live and it's literally better than crack

sparbossa x good graces

puppy want a treat?

puppy want a fucking break from it all

i love Opiliones!!! you may know that they're not spiders (Aranea) , but you may not know why they're not spiders-- these pictures provide an excellent couple examples!

unlike Aranea, Opiliones have less than eight eyes (up to six). the connection between the cephalothorax (head) and the abdomen (bulbous back part) is much less defined, lending them a more circular body shape than spiders. they do not have silk or venom glands-- their mouthparts are more suited to chewing than piercing. overall very cute and fun arachnids!

now go appreciate your local harvestmen and marvel at the world !

We really are sleeping on harvestmen. They're so cool, and most people don't know about any besides the common daddy long legs!

Amazonian harvestman (Protimesius sp.)

Callcosma sp. from Ecuador

Rilaena triangularis

Spiny harvestman (Propachylus singularis)

Bunny harvestman (Metagryne bicolumnata)

this is absolutely amazing and it sends me into convulsions but i genuinely thought you meant peter griffin and the horse. from . the horse is here .

Worst parallel to Will and Hannibal was definitely horse guy and Peter. Peter was genuinely good. Will was so eager to think they were the same, to empathize, feel less alone in his pain, yet...In the end, what matters most is exactly what he told Peter himself, "I envy your hate". As much as Will wanted to relate to Peter, he still chooses to let his killer live. He would always choose his killer. And he knows. It's why, when Hannibal suggests that Peter is in the same darkness as him, Will says "I'm alone in that darkness".

Maybe if you looked at the diversity of loricariids then you'd feel better

(From Lujan et al. (2012). Trophic diversity in the evolution and community assembly of loricariid catfishes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(124), 1-12)