Tiny Little Life

My friends and I went looking for bullfrogs in a pond on a clear summer night.
Sometimes you catch one…

Sometimes you don’t.
After we taking some pictures, we let the frogs get back to their courtin’.

Here are some outdoor pictures from today: a spider and a flower.
Just a tiny web spinning spider looking for a good place to start.

And some yellow flowers (I’m not sure exactly what kind).

Some tiny insect larvae that hatched on the side of the bathtub (yuck).

The eggs for these larvae were most likely laid in a moist green scrubbie, which was covering a small puddle of water. This is probably similar to the way that some other insect eggs are laid in stagnant water, usually near rushes […]

Although I’m not sure what they’re doing, I thought I’d post these pictures of a large mass of ants.

The colony was sprayed before the pictures were taken, because (a) it needed to be done and (b) its a little creepy to see so many ants doing … whatever they’re doing.

It’s difficult to tell whether this […]

This website is officially 1 year old today.

Here is a crane fly I caught in a jar.
Even though crane flies look like giant mosquitos, they don’t bite. They still creep me out a little because of the way they fly, which is probably my learned response to seeing mosquitos in flight.