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Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Posted By: Saguaro
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    This one was photographed on the east side of Tucson, AZ on top of Reddington Pass. It was running across the ground quickly ...Click Here for full article

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Paper Wasps in the Desert
Posted By: Saguaro
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    Mustard yellow paper wasps (Polistes) are more slender than bees and have a severe constriction between the thorax and abdome ...Click Here for full article

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Quick Tick Facts
Posted By: Spear-Bar Kennels
Posted: Sat Jul 26 2008

    Tick is the common name for the small arachnids (mites). Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living on the blood of ...Click Here for full article

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Female Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sackeni)
Posted By: Bubba
Posted: Sat Jul 5 2008

    The flightless solitary Wasps are Order Hymenoptera/ Family Mutillidae. Sacken’s Velvet Ant eats bees and wasps. The hairs al ...Click Here for full article

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These are some pictures of some a spider found in a backyard in South Tucson. It may be a Sheet web Spider (Family Linyphiidae)

Sheet web Spider (Family Linyphiidae)
Posted by:
JiveOne
Posted on: Thu Sep 20 2007

This is a spider that lives in the workshop. I occasionally feed it a fly or mosquito by dropping them in its web when I swat one. One day I wondered if the spider could take on a whole cockroach.. It did, and it ate the cockroach too

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Spider eating a Cockroach
Posted by:
JiveOne
Posted on: Thu Aug 23 2007


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