Category: Natural History
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Crawling on your back…doing the Grub
Found this huge grub in the topsoil pile the other day as I was adding soil to some garden beds. When disturbed, it curls itself into a C-shape as do many grubs. But this one then did something that only a very few grubs do – it started crawling away on its back. I first… Read more…
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Shed in the shed
Found a large spider shed in my shed this week. Believe it to be from a Dolomedes species (probably D. tenebrosus). This one would have been close to 3 inches across in total leg span! Their group is known as the Fishing Spiders, but this species is often found far from water, as in this… Read more…
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Roads End Naturalist 