Female and male winter ant. Male is tiny! I saw them mating but couldn’t get a photo. “Prenolepis imparis is the first ant to hold mating flights every year in temperate North America. Alates wait out the winter and emerge on the first warm spring days.” They have burrows 5-6’ deep. #ants #insects
The best candy bar in the galaxy #goldenbergspeanutchews #jamesspader
Black lace-weaver (Amaurobius ferox) female in my basement today. #spider #arachnid big beautiful girl
Hard to tell with my potato phone camera, but that’s Mdou Moctar up there putting on a masterful performance last night. #mdoumoctar #brightonmusichall
Thank you Judy!
Antique bottles for defunct Providence food, drink, and medicine bottlers. #providence #antiquebottles
Said goodbye to this elegant old lady yesterday at the #copake swap. WW2-era Japanese #Fuji loop frame step-through, probably brought to the US by a returning American service member. Time for someone else to live her. N minus one
#DavidByrne last night at #TheVets #Providence was among the best things I’ve ever seen on any stage. I’m reeling. It was beautiful, marvelous, stunning.
Caterpillar of Isa textula, the crowned slug moth, distracted me briefly from the reality that our country is now a clown show sliding into the abyss. Amazingly pretty! About 1 cm. #lepidoptera Wolf Hill Forest Preserve in #smithfield #rhodeisland
#Devo and the #B-52s last night at #greatwoods with the kiddo was just as awesome as I expected it to be, musically and visually.
Red-Legged Grasshopper #orthoptera #grasshopper
Marbled Orbweaver on a Jerusalem artichoke providing 30 seconds of escape from me cogitating on the flaming dumpster fire that this country has become #orbweaver #araneidae
Female white-faced meadowhawk outside my office ❤️ #dragonfly #odonata #rhodeisland #newengland
Entitled Maserati owner also apparently owns the bike lane and the wheelchair ramp #bikelane #curbramp #asshole #providence
The spotted lanternflies are invading the indoors now! This one tapped into a bouquet in my cafe. #hemiptera #planthopper #lanternfly
Broad-faced sac spider #spider #trachelidae #arachnid #cutie
Eastern Pondhawk female. #dragonfly #odonata
Red-Headed Bush Cricket aka Handsome Trig #orthoptera #handsometrig #providence #rhodeisland #littlefriend
Toadlet in Catamint Woods, Cumberland RI. #bufonidae
Took the kid to see a few bands last night at #alchemy in #providence. Headliner the #dollyrots absolutely killed it. There’s nothing like live music!
The vinyl hunting was great yesterday in #portland #portlandme #maine Bob at Enterprise Records is one in a million!
