Text Box: Look at this page and see if you know what it is… Sometimes we may not know either! Text Box: This was found under some leaves in our garden. It is about 3 inches long, and has these cool colours and legs...what is it? Click on it...and read the caution!! Text Box: These fella’s were found under the leaves when we were cleaning out the spirea bushes. They are obvious? But, aside from being the garden variety, how much did you know all this about them?? Text Box: This cocoon was found on the second floor of the outside of our house. I have seen them hanging from cedar trees, and even noticed the bottoms hollowed out...like an escape hatch, what are they? Click on the picture to see! Text Box: To reply to this or any other posting: Email me @ Homeschool@ramseycentral.com What Is It? Text Box: We found this at VA Beach...What is it?? Text Box: Home Text Box: Home Text Box: In Japan, we called these bugs ‘Geji-Geji’ and I am not sure what they are called here. Any ideas anyone? I have an email into What’s that Bug? To see if they can tell me about them. Creepy huh? Update! It is called a house centipede!! I still find it creepy! Text Box: This is attached to an azalea bush on a dead branch. It is about 1 1/2 inches tall. What is it? Click on the picture to see! Text Box: We found this freakish beetle out in the woods of our home. It has that stinger looking thing, and in the above photo you can see a small white thing that looked like tissue paper, well, that thing would come out of its ‘stinger’ and wave around. At first, we thought it was oozy and dying. But, it seemed unphased. So, we wonder if it was a kind of trapping system like snappers have to lure prey to them? This beetle was HUGE, and the stinger end, although I predict is harmless...we all decided none of us wanted to find out! So again...What Is It???

Tonight, I went out to the garden and saw this AMAZING moth.  Yes, moth.  It is as big as a hummingbird, but silent.  I got the above million dollar photo (if I do say so myself) and you can just make out a VERY long tongue coming off of his mouth.  I remember seeing these on tv, but cannot say what they are.  The photo on the right shows the wingspan from the head on position.  So, again I ask...What is it?? 

 

Whatever it was— it was too cool.

Yesterday in the garden I came across this wild spider!  It is perfectly camouflaged in this garden flower.  I don't know what kind of spider it is, but she uses camouflage to capture her prey.  This time she got this young butterfly.  I tried to rescue her, but she died shortly afterwards.  The spider apparently eats well...if you look at the lower corner you can see a honey bee she captured earlier. 

 

What is it??