David Alexander

A pair of Argyrodes dewdrop spiders in the woods. They're kleptoparasites, but these seemed to have a web of their own, no one else around - #Arachtober #spiders

Jumper in the back yard, posing - #Arachtober #spiders

A crab spider, Mecaphesa I think, lurking inside a hibiscus bud - #Arachtober #spiders

Mecaphesa, I think - I love finding crabs in the garden - #Arachtober #spider

Love those jumper eyes... #arachtober

Annual, or "dog day" cicada - what a face! Austin, Texas July 2023 #invertefest

An umbrella paper wasp climbing out of the bath for #InverteFest

A powdered dancer damsel passing through our Austin Texas gardens... #InverteFest

Here's a Texas wasp moth, Horama panthalon, in Austin Texas - October 2022. Most interesting moth I've ever seen, I think - #mothweek

Blue salvia flowers after the rain… #FlowersOnFriday

This little crab spider in our garden made a big catch - #arachnids #spider #macrophotography #nature #crabspider

A Geron bee fly for #invertefest - this one has found one of our mistflowers, and is spending several minutes there -

Here's another inverted invertebrate for #InverteFest - Texas wasp moth, Horama panthalon, hanging in the mistflowers -

An inverted invertebrate for #invertefest - this is a filmy dome spider, Neriene radiata. Instead of pretty spiral webs, they make these sort of amorphous, dome-like webs, and hang out inside them -

Here's another colorful moth. It's a Texas wasp moth, Horama panthalon, for #invertefest. I sure thought it was a wasp as it hung out in the mistflowers -

Here's a Carmenta bassiformis clearwing moth for #InverteFest - one of the more interesting and unusual little critters I've run across -

The wrens are fun little birds - you never know where they're going to turn up. Here's a Carolina wren for #Wrensday #birds #nature #birdwatching #NaturePhotography

Geron bee fly on mistflower #insects #macrophotography

Syrphid fly in our mutabilis roses - #macrophotography #insects #insectThursday

For #Arachtober 31st - spotted on our sidewalk - has a tarantula look, but very small, not so furry - juvenile? #macrophotography #spiders