Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


Janurary 09, 2016: Phidippus regius at Blackwater Creek Nature Preserve

Lov in the air - Several love bugs loving

jan 09 9801 mating insects

The mating game in action - caught in spider silk - position #1

jan 09 9827 mating position 1

Position #2

jan 09 9829 mating position 2

Position #3

jan 09 9829 mating position 3

Phidippus regius - note the black fangs and unusual palps - a male?

jan 09 9842 phidippus regius

Dorsal view - note the mite on the posterior part of his cephalothorax

jan 09 9847 phidippus regius

Posterior view with mite

jan 09 9851 male phidippus regius

The context - Saw palmetto leaves and spider silk with P. regius in the center and a love bug caught on the right

jan 09 9853 phidippus regius home

Specimen #2 - a female?

jan 09 9880 phidippus regius

A lone tree

jan 09 9884 tree

Pink flower and lovebug

jan 09 9887 black bug pink flower

Two pink flowers

jan 09 9895 flowers

Love bugs mating in the pink flower

jan 09 9898 mating black orange bugs

A green tree frog hiding in the palmetto leaves

jan 09 9904 tree frog

Another view

jan 09 9907 tree frog

Saw palmetto, Serenoa repens

jan 09 9916 palmetto

Phidippus regius and mite

jan 09 9924 pidippus regius mite

Map of Blackwater creek nature preserve

jan 09 9932 blackwater creek nature preserve

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