a large assassin bug on a dead tree. it is mostly black, with a large white stripe across the center and orange spots around the margin of its abdomen. the back femur or 'thighs' are red Microtomus purcis, northern VA
this lil buddy's ready for halloween
#insects #bugguide #reduviidae
A photo of Bowie, a black and white cat in front of two out of focus computer monitors. The cat's face is mostly black with just her chin being white, and a white chest (When she sleeps head down she blends in with black surfaces and has occasionally generated panic in her humans who think she has gotten out somehow...). She has brilliant white whiskers and eyebrows which contrast wonderfully with her black markings and she is named Bowie as due to her slightly malformed eye reminded my son, who rescued her, of David Bowie. On the computer monitor to the left is the website Bugguide.net, open to a page on moths which I was researching, and the on on the right is open to a file browser.
My research assistant has the best whiskers 😻
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#Cats
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