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  A bear! We just saw a bear!

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  I've never seen a visibly pregnant snake before! Ms. snake here spent a while hiding under a car, and then spent a while exploring the undercarriage, and then a while half-in and half-out of the wheel rims, and I hope that my attention convinced her that the woods are a better place for her babies than the mechanisms of a Toyota Prius. #gartersnake #snake #snakestomeetyou

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  In case you need a trophy for your wall, @brooke

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  Look at this perfect little coziness! Probably from a potter wasp. #wasp #Eumeninae

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  On the one hand I hate that it is mosquito season; on the other hand I'm pretty sure that if the mosquito supply runs out these little monsters will start eating each other instead.

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  If only I had beautiful plumage this would be a pretty accurate self-portrait.

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  broke: cybercab woke: cybercrab

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  The last batch of Pantodon is doing well but they're still pretty tiny! 30 days old and I still need to sift their food.

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  Having a big "not everyone was raised by Quakers" moment.

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  I don't love that this downed tree is blocking my driveway but I do like its decorations #fungusfridays

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  A critter that's entirely new to me: long-eared owls. We spent a long time not seeing them and then, once we saw them, a long time laughing at their fashion choices. #owl #longearedowl #birdphotography

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  First look at a sun bittern! It gave us a few glimpses of its wings before settling down to its meal. #bird

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  Evening visitor

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  blep #mantis

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  The two prongs on the back of this spider shimmer as it walks so that from any distance it looks like a fly or a bee with wings. Very weird mimicry! Photo taken in foothill jungle in northern Costa Rica. #spider

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  Costa Rican immigrant geckos. I did see one native gecko last week (a yellow-headed) but didn't manage to get a photo. One of my greatest complaints about living in Minnesota is the lack of lizards. My MN house is so, so full of beetles, even in February! #gecko

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  Update: Turkeys are still super weird #turkey

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  The apparatus is nearly complete

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  It's early spring which means my house is 2.5% asian beetles by weight.

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  Urchins look boring from a distance but up close they're super busy. Pseudoboletia sp.