Just got lucky looks at one of these this week in Mass! Was shocked to see one this late in the year (cryptid photo my friend took)

Most beautiful eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) at the feeder from a week ago, theyve started coming around more lately

Gonna also post some local lads because i really am not traveling that much lol, so heres an ichneumonid wasp on the front of my house (could be Oxyrrhexis sp. maybe carbonator?)

Dug up more than a decade old photos from a trip to the cloud forests in Costa Rica, before I had any semblance of a decent camera or photography skills but here’s a (maybe?) Costa Rican Redleg Tarantula (Abdomegaphobema mesomelas) and either a Ctenidae or Lycosidae spider (?)

One of the coolest things I saw in India was this massive Indus Valley Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus) in a small pond next to a temple at a mountain fort. This one was jet black but the males can turn bright yellow with blue vocal sacs in breeding season :)

Last year we had a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) walk up from the nearby river and try and dig a nest in our yard. We think she was successful but never saw any babies emerge

I present to you two burrowing semi-aquatic crabs found on top of a mountain in the Western Ghats (probably Barusa guerini)

I sorta forget many people Do Not Like to see bugs so heres a non bug too, a kerala warty frog (Minervarya keralensis) i saw in the western ghats :)

Todays bug from the bug vault: Pure Green Sweat Bee (Augochlora pura), cute little lad

Since my vault does have many bugs heres a fun one: native Giant Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia) and invasive Wood Leopard Moth (Zeuzera pyrina)

Anyway heres a cool bug: