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Small salticid (BL 2-3mm). Not very shy, likes to escape on a thread, falling halfway down.
This parasitic fungal growth was observed on Leatherwood amoung old growth Sassafras and Leatherwood at the bank of the Mersey River. Several old nodes were also observed on dead branches.
"The Art of Mother Nature".
These images represent the brief but beautiful display we get on the first hard freeze of a winter--if we get such a morning at all at our latitude. We've had a few cold mornings just below freezing in Austin over the past few weeks, but this Arctic blast was enough to keep the temperature in the teens and 20's for several hours. The result for Frostweed is frozen sap which splits the base of the stem and comes curling out in fantasticly beautiful "shaved ice" forms. Botanical icicles. The shapes are as diverse as snowflakes.
Day 82, one individual.
Relacionado con // Related to:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667158
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667199
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667420
Behemothia godmanii
Mariposa joya gigante
Familia: Riodinidae
Blue form of White-lipped Island Pitviper, from Komodo Islands
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