An orb weaver spider and her egg sack in the lowland Amazon. Pretty stellar colors 🕷️🕸️
Hola Giant Katydid
This tree hopper misses you and doesn’t know how to say
Poor wasp
Just a murderous fungus having taken over a wasp and compelled it to die in a place advantageous to finding more victims. With its tiny spores floating off through the air in hopes of just one landing on an exoskeleton.. nothing in the rainforest wants anything to do with this little scene here…
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Nathan Harness
Nathan Harness
Nathan Harness
Nathan Harness
Nathan Harness
Nathan Harness
Nathan Harness
Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.
Nathan Harness
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