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Insects and spiders (+ some other critters) close up
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Bird cherry oat aphid with the characteristic brown/bronze color on the posterior. Feeding on sorghum. check
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Bird cherry oat aphid with the characteristic brown/bronze color on the posterior. Feeding on sorghum. check

2009HemipteraSternorrhynchaAphididaeRhopalosiphum padibird cherry oat aphidsorghum

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  • Ants tending aphids on the bud of an eggplant. The ants feed on the sweet honeydew secreted by the aphids and the aphids are protected by the ants from parasitoids and predators.
  • Dorsal view of the head of a green stink bug showing the compound eyes and the reddish simple eyes. check
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  • Alate greenbug just exiting the old exoskeleton. The wings are highly folded at this point and are opaque white. Within minutes the wings were expanded, transluscent, and folded A-shape over the back of the aphid. check
  • Bird cherry oat aphid with the characteristic brown/bronze color on the posterior. Feeding on sorghum. check
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  • This spider hides among bits of old leaves and other debris in the web.
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  • Close up of a pupa showing the texture of the integument and the sharp spines pointed posteriorly on each segment. The spines may help emergence by preventing the pupal case from slipping backward as the insect moves forward out of the case. check. unknown id
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  • Cast skin of a cicada nymph showing the transluscent area over each compound eye that allows you to look through exuvia and see the leaves on the other side of the insect. check
  • Casting a wide net
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