Tiny Little Life

This picture is upside down — the spider was clinging to the ceiling near my kitchen light. I think it was trying to look menacing by putting up its front legs.

An inverted ceiling makes an interesting landscape. You can see the raised front legs and its large jaws a little better in this image.

House centipedes are attracted to water… like the glass of water you leave on your bedside table.
Its difficult to capture in a photograph how fast these things actually move, but suffice to say you don’t want to see one anywhere close to where you sleep — even if they do eat all kinds of actual […]

This is a Daring Spider, which was hunting around my porch.
It’s quite small; that rusty thing next to it is the head of a nail. You can just make out its white jaws, which were constantly moving while I watched it.

Here are some long-exposure photos of planes taking off and landing at the Las Vegas Airport.

Taking off (the view from my hotel room).

Landing (the view from my gate).

These worms are aptly named.
I’m not sure what they’re doing above ground at night, but I did see them hunting around in grassy or leafy patches. Whether that means they eat dew, sleeping insects, or the plants themselves is beyond me.

These worms are pretty long as they lay out on the soil, but they contract […]