After some thought, I’ve decided the appropriate punishment for regime members and their DHS enforcers after the trials and convictions is to chain them to their precious fucking border wall and leave them there. Plenty of steel bollards.

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Many years ago, our collection permits for El Palmar national park in Argentina were delayed for a morning, so rather than do the science we’d planned I got out my camera to kill some time. Ended up finding phorid flies attacking Solenopsis macdonaghi fire ants and got this shot. Silver linings.

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For #Arachtober, here is a spider that's not a spider. It's Petrophila jaliscalis, a jumping-spider-mimicking moth - see the face-on spider pattern, with orange legs and sparkly dark eyes? I love finding these - I think they breed in my small goldfish pond, because the caterpillars are aquatic. 🌿🐙

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Awkward spider looks caught in the act 😳 😂 #Dolomedes albineus #fishingspider

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The aptly named Chrysina gloriosa, Arizona. I didn't have a proper white box to get even, soft lighting, but managed to preserve some detail in the reflective surfaces in the mirror-like stripes on its back - it's hard not to have them turn out either black or totally blown-out and overexposed. 🪲🐙

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