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Robby Deans

@hydaticus.bsky.social

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Nature enthusiast, hobby photographer. All photos I post are mine! I am @hydaticus on iNaturalist

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 18h

Baird's Ratsnake (Pantherophis bairdi) eating a bat! Val Verde County, Texas.

#herps #predation #snakes

A gray snake with longitudinal dark lines down its back and orange skin between the scales is coiled around a bat. The scene is inside a dark, rocky cave.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 5d

Mountain Woodsorrel (Oxalis montana), Watauga County, NC, USA

#plants #botany

A closeup of a small flower above verdant shamrock leaves. The flower is white with pink veins and each of the five petals has a yellow spot near the center of the flower.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry for the screen photo, but is this the maggot you are interested in collecting pupae of? Seen today in NC on a walnut husk.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Aug 6

Heiligbrodt's Mesquite Moth (Syssphinx heiligbrodti), Cameron County, Texas

#insects #inverts #moths #caterpillars

A green caterpillar with white stripes rears its front half. It has small spikes on the back of each segment, and longer spikes on the neck area and near its back end.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jul 30

Common Sea Skater (Halobates micans), Nueces County, Texas.

Water striders in this genus are perhaps the only insects that are truly marine, living most of their life on the open ocean.

#insects #macro #invertebrates

A small chocolate-brown insect with a diamond shaped body and very long middle legs sits upon wet sand.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jul 24

Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), Webb County, Texas.

#herps #snakes

A snake with a pointy nose and a pattern of red and black triangles coiled on a sparse rocky landscape.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jul 11

Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.), Tiputini, Ecuador

#ants #insects #inverts #macro

Two ants on a mossy log, one carrying a yellow flower and the other carrying a small bit of leaf.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jul 3

Grapevine Hills, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas

#landscapes #desert #westtexas

A desert scene dominated by orange-brown spires of rock jutting out of rocky rolling hills with splashes of green shrubs against a clear blue sky.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jul 1

Giant Lichen Orbweaver (Araneus bicentenarius), Travis County, Texas

#spiders #camouflage

A green spider camouflaged among lichen in the crook of a hanging branch.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 24

Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans), Beaufort County, North Carolina

#mammals

A sleek mousy-brown flying squirrel comes down a tree. It has its legs spread so you can see the stretched skin (patagium) that assists in gliding.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 20

Pocock's Lampshade-web Spider (Hypochilus pococki), Macon County, North Carolina.

These long-legged spiders make lampshade-shaped webs on the underside of overhanging rocks and cave walls. Members of the family Hypochilidae are found in mountainous regions in the USA and China.

#spiders #macro

A flat spider with very long legs sits encircled by its web on a cliff wall

Two lampshade-shaped spider webs decorate the side of a large boulder.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 19

Agreed, and thank you!

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 19

Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus), Trinity County, Texas

#arachnids #macro

A close up of an orange scorpion with 2 gray stripes on its back. Its pincered pedipalps are held together at the tips.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 19

Salamanders have smooth, slimy skin while skinks have dry, scaly skin. Skinks also tend to move a lot faster than salamanders!

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 18

Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander (Eurycea chamberlaini), Beaufort County, North Carolina.

#salamanders #herps

A tan-yellow salamander with thin longitudinal stripes on each side of its back sits atop wet leaf litter.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · Jun 1

Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus), Travis County, Texas

#insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

A copper and green colored butterfly with white bars and fake antennae opposite the head.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 29

Guyanan Sarota (Sarota gyas), Tiputini, Ecuador.

#insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

A tiny butterfly with fuzzy legs and wing borders. Its color is orange around the outer edges, transitioning to a red-orange center. Alternating broken vertical lines of silver and black decorate the wings.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you!

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 28

Birdwing Passionflower (Passiflora tenuiloba), Travis County, Texas

#plants #botany #macro

A close up of a passionflower. The lower tepals are green, and above those is a whorl of coronal filaments. Above those are the nectaries, anthers and carpels.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 27

Boneset Leaf Beetle (Ophraella notata), pale form. Forsyth County, North Carolina

#inverts #insects #beetles #macro

A yellow beetle sits in the inflorescence of a boneset plant.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 26

Mountain Lady's-Slipper (Cypripedium montanum), Kittitas County, Washington.

#plants #flowers #orchids

A pair of slipper orchid flowers, which look like white ballet shoes with maroon laces.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 22

Kidneyleaf Twayblade (Neottia smallii), Caldwell County, North Carolina.

#plants #orchids #macro

A tiny yellow orchid flower. The shape looks a bit like a flying bird carrying a large pair of pants in its claws.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 15

It’s a moth!

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 15

Black-banded Wasp Moth (Syntomeida melanthus), Brewster County, Texas.

#inverts #insects #moths

A wasp-mimic moth. The moth has black wings and body with blue iridescence. The wings have broad whitish blotches and the body has thin yellow stripes.

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · May 10

Cascada los Colores, Cueva de los Guacharos, Colombia

#waterfall #landscapes

A small waterfall drops into a rocky tea-colored stream in the Colombian cloud forest

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