Cruising around the garden, which is currently swarming with flies, we found a couple of happy arthropods chowing down on the bounty.
Here’s Tetragnatha with the mangled corpse of some kind of fly:
A meadowhawk was standing on some horrible, unrecognizable mass.
There are still plenty of flies available for feasting!
Dragonflies are like ladybugs as those insects that truly brighten my day. Ornate crab looking spiders do that too.
As for arachnids I never want to encounter would be the ticks conferring beef allergies or other horrific life altering nonsense. And people worry about recluse bites…well I still do, but fuck them nasty ticks spreading diseases. Oh and kissing bugs too.
Recently in my most recent installment of “Is that a termite?” I rediscovered isopods on my bathroom floor. When I picked one up and put on my reading glasses I was like “Too many legs for a termite I think”. Put that on my lifelist of earwigs and other crawlers across my bathroom floor. A regular petting zoo.
No wonder the flatties don’t succeed. They stick to the bathroom ceiling instead to watch me shower. The floor is the all you can eat buffet.