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Joezilla said:
That looks to be a giant root borer. I bet it made a popping noise! Did your dog try to eat it?
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No she didn't. I think your right about what it was. Lots of tarantulas were crawling around that day, I think they were migrating somewhere.
 
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I like taking closeups of bugs. Spiders are particularly cooperative, since they generally don't move. Click the thumbs for much larger pictures.

This is an Argiope (garden spider)


This is a wolf spider with young on her back. She was moving, so the young aren't in focus, but you can still see what they are.


This is a closeup of a millipede.



These next two, I'd like help in identifying. This first is just some weird little thing that kinda looks like a larval form. Anybody have any idea?


These next two are some kind of water bug. It appears to have eggs on its back, but I've been wondering if it was something that it or its mate does, or was this thing parasitized and is about to be eaten when the young hatch? Or are they something other than eggs?
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The second unidentified one is a giant water bug (belostoma) and its eggs. I believe it's the males that back-brood and females compete for access to the guys "real estate." Barring incident the father suffers no ill effects although sometimes a female sneaks up and dumps a few of someone else's kids on him.

I know I've seen the first unidentified one but I cant think of it, nice pics.
 
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Joel Stave said:
This first is just some weird little thing that kinda looks like a larval form. Anybody have any idea?
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Mealy bug or scale bug? The ones I've seen were white and fuzzy or brown and scaly, but the overall look is the same.
 
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Joel Stave said:
I like taking closeups of bugs. Spiders are particularly cooperative, since they generally don't move. Click the thumbs for much larger pictures.

This is an Argiope (garden spider)


This is a wolf spider with young on her back. She was moving, so the young aren't in focus, but you can still see what they are.


This is a closeup of a millipede.



These next two, I'd like help in identifying. This first is just some weird little thing that kinda looks like a larval form. Anybody have any idea?


These next two are some kind of water bug. It appears to have eggs on its back, but I've been wondering if it was something that it or its mate does, or was this thing parasitized and is about to be eaten when the young hatch? Or are they something other than eggs?
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Man, that little green guy is tricky. It could be a kind of caterpillar. Do you have any other pictures of it. Its really interesting.


that one with the eggs on the back is another belastomatidae or giant water bug, electric bug, toad stabber. I can't believe you didn't get zinged by it either! I'm going to have to go mess with one and find out just how aggressive they are. Thats a really cool picture of the eggs on the back, thanks for sharing!
 
Joezilla said:
Man, that little green guy is tricky. It could be a kind of caterpillar. Do you have any other pictures of it. Its really interesting.

that one with the eggs on the back is another belastomatidae or giant water bug, electric bug, toad stabber. I can't believe you didn't get zinged by it either! I'm going to have to go mess with one and find out just how aggressive they are. Thats a really cool picture of the eggs on the back, thanks for sharing!
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I have another picture of the little green guy, but it's basically the same as this one, only not in good focus. It was found in a stand of beech trees in New Hampshire in the fall, if that helps anyone.

I saw a toe-biter once -- it was much larger than this water bug and had these huge, scary stabby-looking front legs. This guy was much smaller and the front legs weren't so scary (my wife probably wouldn't have held him for me to photograph if it was!). It was quite placid too -- it didn't even try to escape, but just sat there while I took pictures. Once I got the Belostomatidae pointer I looked around the web (the wikipedia page has some interesting information) and found that there are a bunch of different species of this type of bug. This must have been one of the less evil kind.
 
hmm. Maybe it was all drained out from laying the eggs. Yep, there are all sorts of 'em, and you may be right about some being more docile than others. I have a picture of me eating some in a salad, somewhere around here.

I am still working through that caterpillar
check out this sick video of a parasatoid emerging from a similar looking insect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgDoerNS30&feature=related
 
Here are a few of mine... I'll start with a Spiny Orb Weaver Spider (approx. 3/8"):

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Banana Spider (approx 4.5"):

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Both taken in Boynton Beach, FL
 
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