A Couple Of Tags On My Previous Comic About Opiliones Were Talking About Other Daddy Longlegs - Thats

A couple of tags on my previous comic about Opiliones were talking about other daddy longlegs - that’s the trouble with common names!

(Deleting and reposting because I realized I uploaded it wrong - sorry to anyone who commented, I’m still getting used to Tumblr again and very much enjoying it!)

The ground nesting bees have decided the weather is good enough to make an appearance. If you see these lil gals, please let them be(e)! They’re very unlikely to sting (I’ve bothered them so much, no stings) and are great for native plants! iNaturalist suggests to me these particular bees are the unequal cellophane bee, Colletes inaequalis.

A little guy flies by to say hello.

The rather large (by mosquito standards) elephant mosquito, Toxorhynchites rutilus, with jack-in-the-pulpit plants. Designed for a fellow lab member that works with mosquitoes. Though you may not be a mosquito fan, you might like this one - as larvae, they eat other mosquito larvae. As adults, they don't bite but instead both males and females feed on sugary substances.

My research partner (the house centipede - Scutigera coleoptrata) with my favorite flower. House centipedes pay rent with labor, eating cockroaches and any other bugs they might find. They’re also clean little houseguests - they carefully groom themselves, one leg at a time.

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