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Robby Deans

@hydaticus.bsky.social

Nature enthusiast, hobby photographer. All photos I post are mine! I am @hydaticus on iNaturalist

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Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Anagyrus paralia, a tiny parasitic wasp. Travis County, Texas, USA #insects #inverts #macro

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Opilioacarus texanus, a large primitive mite that shares many characteristics with harvestmen. Travis County, Texas #inverts #arthropods #macro

A purple mite with long legs feeling its way across a substrate of damp leaves and yellow strings of mold.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A dead leaf? Unicorn Prominent (Coelodasys unicornis) caterpillar. Forsyth County, NC, USA

Wide view of a cherry branch with 1 full leaf and another half eaten leaf with a green and brown caterpillar on the end. The caterpillar is camouflaged as the end of a dead leaf.

A closer view of the camouflaged caterpillar

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Green anole (Anolis carolinensis), Beaufort County, North Carolina, USA #herps

A sleeping green lizard on a cattail leaf. The lizard is covered in tiny, shiny dew droplets.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A quick collage of some snow flakes 🙂. Forsyth County, North Carolina, today

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Forbidden hot tub full of toe biters. Lethocerus medius, Brewster County, Texas. #inverts #insects #underwater

An inside view of small pool of water full of giant water bugs clinging to the rocky walls of the pool.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Bearded Weevil (Rhinostomus barbirostris), Veracruz, Mexico #inverts #insects #beetles

A big weevil with proportionally long and spiny front legs and a large snout nearly covered in orange fur, like a mustache and beard.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Eastern Black-necked Gartersnake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis ssp. ocellatus), Travis County, Texas #herps #snakes

A slender snake stretched out along a tree root on a mossy slope. The snake has a gray head, a tan body with black spots, and a neon orange stripe along its back.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Baird's Ratsnake (Pantherophis bairdi) eating a bat! Val Verde County, Texas. #herps #predation #snakes

A gray snake with longitudinal dark lines down its back and orange skin between the scales is coiled around a bat. The scene is inside a dark, rocky cave.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Mountain Woodsorrel (Oxalis montana), Watauga County, NC, USA #plants #botany

A closeup of a small flower above verdant shamrock leaves. The flower is white with pink veins and each of the five petals has a yellow spot near the center of the flower.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Heiligbrodt's Mesquite Moth (Syssphinx heiligbrodti), Cameron County, Texas #insects #inverts #moths #caterpillars

A green caterpillar with white stripes rears its front half. It has small spikes on the back of each segment, and longer spikes on the neck area and near its back end.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Common Sea Skater (Halobates micans), Nueces County, Texas. Water striders in this genus are perhaps the only insects that are truly marine, living most of their life on the open ocean. #insects #macro #invertebrates

A small chocolate-brown insect with a diamond shaped body and very long middle legs sits upon wet sand.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Long-nosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), Webb County, Texas. #herps #snakes

A snake with a pointy nose and a pattern of red and black triangles coiled on a sparse rocky landscape.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.), Tiputini, Ecuador #ants #insects #inverts #macro

Two ants on a mossy log, one carrying a yellow flower and the other carrying a small bit of leaf.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Grapevine Hills, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas #landscapes #desert #westtexas

A desert scene dominated by orange-brown spires of rock jutting out of rocky rolling hills with splashes of green shrubs against a clear blue sky.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Giant Lichen Orbweaver (Araneus bicentenarius), Travis County, Texas #spiders #camouflage

A green spider camouflaged among lichen in the crook of a hanging branch.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans), Beaufort County, North Carolina #mammals

A sleek mousy-brown flying squirrel comes down a tree. It has its legs spread so you can see the stretched skin (patagium) that assists in gliding.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Pocock's Lampshade-web Spider (Hypochilus pococki), Macon County, North Carolina. These long-legged spiders make lampshade-shaped webs on the underside of overhanging rocks and cave walls. Members of the family Hypochilidae are found in mountainous regions in the USA and China. #spiders #macro

A flat spider with very long legs sits encircled by its web on a cliff wall

Two lampshade-shaped spider webs decorate the side of a large boulder.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus), Trinity County, Texas #arachnids #macro

A close up of an orange scorpion with 2 gray stripes on its back. Its pincered pedipalps are held together at the tips.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander (Eurycea chamberlaini), Beaufort County, North Carolina. #salamanders #herps

A tan-yellow salamander with thin longitudinal stripes on each side of its back sits atop wet leaf litter.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus), Travis County, Texas #insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

A copper and green colored butterfly with white bars and fake antennae opposite the head.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Guyanan Sarota (Sarota gyas), Tiputini, Ecuador. #insects #inverts #butterflies #macro

A tiny butterfly with fuzzy legs and wing borders. Its color is orange around the outer edges, transitioning to a red-orange center. Alternating broken vertical lines of silver and black decorate the wings.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Birdwing Passionflower (Passiflora tenuiloba), Travis County, Texas #plants #botany #macro

A close up of a passionflower. The lower tepals are green, and above those is a whorl of coronal filaments. Above those are the nectaries, anthers and carpels.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Boneset Leaf Beetle (Ophraella notata), pale form. Forsyth County, North Carolina #inverts #insects #beetles #macro

A yellow beetle sits in the inflorescence of a boneset plant.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Mountain Lady's-Slipper (Cypripedium montanum), Kittitas County, Washington. #plants #flowers #orchids

A pair of slipper orchid flowers, which look like white ballet shoes with maroon laces.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Kidneyleaf Twayblade (Neottia smallii), Caldwell County, North Carolina. #plants #orchids #macro

A tiny yellow orchid flower. The shape looks a bit like a flying bird carrying a large pair of pants in its claws.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Black-banded Wasp Moth (Syntomeida melanthus), Brewster County, Texas. #inverts #insects #moths

A wasp-mimic moth. The moth has black wings and body with blue iridescence. The wings have broad whitish blotches and the body has thin yellow stripes.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Cascada los Colores, Cueva de los Guacharos, Colombia #waterfall #landscapes

A small waterfall drops into a rocky tea-colored stream in the Colombian cloud forest

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Northwestern Garter Snake (Thamnophis ordinoides), British Columbia, Canada. #herps

A small garter snake with a defensive posture in the lower branches of a tree. The snake is smooth and shiny, and it is mostly gray with three tan longitudinal stripes and small black dots above the lower stripe.

Robby Deans @hydaticus.bsky.social · last yr.

Ogre-faced spider (Deinopis sp.) , Tiputini, Ecuador #inverts #spiders #macro