Are you readyyyyyyyyy. Went to an invert show today. First ever show for anything and my god was amazing!!
I’ll drop pics and you can tell me what you think they are 
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Not sure of the type, but a cool looking roach, not sure of the second one. Then a bunch of Malayan jungle nymphs. No idea on ths slings, but hey I love tarantulas! Hissing cock roaches, bumblebee? Asian forest scorpion? And a snail?
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Here’s a cute little jumper that scared me by hopping onto my leg today while I was reading on the porch!
We have a huge brown (female?) in our mailbox named Debbie, and I see tiny black and white males a lot, but this (dude?) was HUGE
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That looks like one of the jumpers I have! 
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So porcelain roaches, nymphs atm!
2nd is a black beauty stick insect, we have 2.
Then you’re correct! They’re insane and love the variety 
4x Balfouri!! You may know them now, a lush communal tarantula 
Halloween hissers, and yup some white snails 
Also have another pair Madagascan hissers too!
Funny enough the Asian forest scorpion the oh has made very clear he wants nothing to do with… The man will own an OBT though! I’d rather the scorpion 
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Ive been thinking about nymphs since seeing them on The Dark Den. I have a balfouri, but just one. And I love all hissers!
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They’re amazing, eat oak, bramble and hazel!
And I mean they’re giant when grown
The oh was after a Balfouri, saw a few females at the show he liked but then I spotted the group of 4, there’s bound to be a female there
Hissers are my fav, I have this thing about roaches though, they’re just so cool to own! Haha
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Here is a very neat cicada I found on a walk!
Based on the wings being so buggered up, I’d guess its that color due to being “fresh” although his exoskeleton was pretty hard. Maybe leucisistic?
Not sure, but he was never going to survive, so I used long tongs to feed it to the toad that lives in my gutter hole
I’ll attach a picture of what the cicadas I get usually look like:
You can tell its the same kind from the head cap
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I used to dread the cicadas every summer and also what we Kentuckians called “June bug”. The little green hard shelled bugs 
! Lol!
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I recently saw a cicada like that in Oklahoma! The one I saw was right near a molt, so I’m assuming that’s how they look when freshly molted. I didn’t get a picture of the freshly-molted one, but I did get a picture of this guy I found near our car.
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Got Pluto and Venus into their new homes! They aren’t done yet, i need to get a plant into Plutos and i have cholla wood coming later today that i can put in there too. These are top opening which isn’t ideal for jumping spiders but i think i can encourage them to make their nests underneath the wood ledges instead of at the top. Very excited that they have proper enclosures now and not just gallon water jugs
I also put some of their old nest under the ledges so that maybe they’ll just try to repair it under there. 
Its worth a shot
Edit: The cholla came a lot sooner than anticipated so here it is!
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He’s sitting on his ledge! I have tons of these wood discs that i can cut in half so i’ll probably make more of these ledges for them soon.
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Very, very cool.
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Those enclosures look a lot similar to mine! I like what you have added inside too!
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Lookie what I found this morning in the garden at work! 
Given how fat her abdomen still is, I’d say that she’s either going to add more eggs to this sac (it was hard for me to tell if she was finished making the sac), and/or she’s going to make at least one more sac after this. Super excited that I found another green lynx mom and will get to watch her hatch out some babies.
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Thats pretty cool!
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I’m super stoked, I was really hoping I’d find another mom and egg sac this year. This momma is a little smaller than last year’s girl, and she’s a little more concealed and deeper in the bush than the first one, which makes her harder to photograph, but that’s okay.
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Wow! That’s amazing! You really have a knack for finding such beautiful treasures of nature! May I ask what you do? Just curious…… you are always out in nature…… 
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I work for a day program for adults with developmental disabilities. I teach a naturalist class on Friday mornings were we roam around our campus (which is beautiful and in the foothills along a creek) and find various critters, and I tell them whatever I know (and if there’s anything I don’t know, which happens often, sometimes we look it up together when we get back to the classroom). We do other nature-related activities too, but I really enjoy getting them out and observing things first-hand “in the wild” as much as possible. It’s a lot of fun.
I also just love to get out in nature on my time off, or look for nature (like spiders and other inverts, which can be found in all sorts of places) wherever I happen to be. Often I don’t manage to get pictures of my finds, but sometimes I get lucky.
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What a great job 
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