Some Arizona inverts

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Gordon C. Snelling

Some Arizona inverts

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Along with the few herps I found in Arizona I did find numerous inverts.

Genus Anomala if I recall correctly.
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Chrysina gloriosa
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Small scarab, alas I can not recall the genus.
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Male Xyloryctes.
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Male Copris, probably C. arizonensis
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Tiger beetles.
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Large buprestid, Lampetis drummondi
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Potter wasp.
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Large black tarantula hawk
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Spider sneaking a meal at my black light.
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A cool jumping spider
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Spider sex
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But I love you this much
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Walking sticks getting it on
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A freshly molted mantid
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A cool caterpillar, one of the Tussock moths but not sure which one.
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Clear wing tiger moth
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Small crab spider having a snack
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And another one
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This spider is apparently an obligate predator on Pogonomyrmex harvester ants
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A young swallowtail larvae
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White line sphinx feeding
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The local clean up crew
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Love gone awry
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Fungus growing ants, genus Trachymyrmex
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Neivamyrmex nigrescens on the alert for parasitic Phorid flies.
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Prenolepis imparis tending aphids.
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Ant lion larvae
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and an adult feeding. I thought I had stepped on it until it finished and flew away.
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Common in the mud puddles after the rain
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Evil bambi
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Sunset
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Cool stuff, I like seeing the Triops. Some stores sell the eggs at the check out lines around here.
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Some great pics of some interesting creatures there, GS. :thumb:

Uropygid humor. :lol:
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Nice pics, and a ton of interesting (and mostly unspoken) zoological narrative!
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Re: Some Arizona inverts

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Thanks Warren, I am indeed a man of many words. Mostly unspoken.
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