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30 July 2012 @ 12:06 am

[ 0042 ]

Here's another day of two particular species getting featured that I haven't had the chance to before! Everything's a bug and most of them have wings on, but I'd hope that you might find at least a few of them cute. I'll be showing them at diffferent stages, too, since the baby ones look very different from adults.

That's right, today we take a look at butterflies and moths!

BUTTERFLIES

monarch caterpillar

~~caterpie~~ swallowtail caterpillar

cabbage white chrysalis

~~metapod~~ swallowtail chrysalis

glasswing butterfly

~~butterfree~~ swallowtail butterfly

MOTHS

sycamore caterpillar

saddleback caterpillar

cyana(?) chrysalis

hicory tussock chrysalis

pink-legged tiger moth

hummingbird moth

There we go! One more creature with two more legs to go. Today's spider might be a bit odd, but it's definitely interesting...

And here it is:

source

This elegant spider belongs to the family Deinopidae. They're net casting spiders! Like many other spiders do, ones in this family use their nets as ways to trap prey. Unlike many other spiders, they don't just weave their webs and set it up; they weave smaller webs of two different types of fibers then use those as nets to catch prey. Here's a video of one of those in action, narrated by the esteemed Sir David Attenborough, and here are two more pictures of it, to get a better look at a very odd creature.

source

BUTTERFLIES

<img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/1/1273649_9c9fa53e7e.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamtonyang/1273649/">monarch caterpillar</a>

<img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4013/4643389136_d26cc4223c.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37814769@N08/4643389136"><s>caterpie</s> swallowtail caterpillar</a>

<img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/212/464015027_5e86b4ad48.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91116392@N00/464015027">cabbage white chrysalis</a>

<img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5080/5821205027_4da93400d9.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwayne_taylor_photography/5821205027/"><s>metapod</s> swallowtail chrysalis</a>

<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3443/3365801458_944cb42cc1.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24687645@N00/3365801458">glasswing butterfly</a>

<img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2410/4522523107_d1a5790d63.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9132113@N04/4522523107"><s>butterfree</s> swallowtail butterfly</a>

MOTHS

<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3270/2938854485_63e5327b7f.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15121707@N00/2938854485">sycamore caterpillar</a>

<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3280/2957326506_b8a24a9ea9.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/33695431@N00/2957326506">saddleback caterpillar</a>

<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6410065093_683066d09f.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/77995220@N00/6410065093">cyana(?) chrysalis</a>

<img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4010/5145075966_cb25b13b2d.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14833125@N02/5145075966">hicory tussock chrysalis</a>

<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3327/3329708523_d548e70fed.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustyblackbird/3329708523/">pink-legged tiger moth</a>

<img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4099/4886025646_320ed85b30.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51521558@N06/4886025646">hummingbird moth</a>

There we go! One more creature with two more legs to go. Today's spider might be a bit odd, but it's definitely interesting...

And here it is:

<img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4066/4466742460_ff32b1d802.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40132175@N06/4466742460/">source</a>

This elegant spider belongs to the family Deinopidae. They're net casting spiders! Like many other spiders do, ones in this family use their nets as ways to trap prey. Unlike many other spiders, they don't just weave their webs and set it up; they weave smaller webs of two different types of fibers then use those as nets to catch prey. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehjos8Zc3E&t=2m2s">Here's</a> a video of one of those in action, narrated by the esteemed Sir David Attenborough, and here are two more pictures of it, to get a better look at a very odd creature.

<img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3391/3482854995_2ecbca884b.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7873166@N02/3482854995">source</a>

<img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2606/4057032339_cc69c2eb0c.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34380767@N07/4057032339">source</a>

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