This red spider (Male Phidippus Apacheanus) was really a big specimen, it's the largest jumping spider that I have ever seen. I wished I took more shots, but there was also a Praying Mantis really close and I didn't want to see this thing get possibly killed in his cockleburr home.

Shot in natural light...

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The Clean-up Crew is licking up the sap at the local vacated acorn shell...

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Gulf Fritillary Butterfly that is on a thistle weed that I took years ago.

Scientific name: Agraulis vanillae

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I PROMISE I won't bite you, (probably) well, that guy in the back, yeah, in the red shirt, yeah, him, I'd bite him, alright, I'd bite him real good! ️

Mikey really likes everybody!

Emerald Jumping Spider (I think)️

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Praying Mantis found in my backyard shot in natural light.

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