bawlmer Loc: Baltimore, MD

Just a few I found lurking around the house while I was cleaning up outside.

Spider 1


spider 2


spider 3


spider 4


spider 5


spider 6


Not sure what this one is


green bug 2


green bug 3


green bug 4


Flower 1


flower 2


Green bug side shot


Green bug side shot close up


flower 3


flower 4


Bee's A$$ covered in pollen

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Spider #5 & #6 may be a female Common House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum).

This is an imported spider with world wide distribution, common in gardens, on trees, walls and buildings. She typically hangs inverted in the center of her near-invisible web, with legs characteristically folded over her carapace, often with one or more gray to reddish-brown, papery, teardrop shaped egg sacs. Achaearanea may be distinguished from the similar Tidarren sisyphoides by the gray striped abdomen with a pattern of chevrons near and above the spinnerets.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

"Green bug" is a Spotted Cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_cucumber_beetle

bawlmer Loc: Baltimore, MD

That's exactly where I found it. It was hanging in the corner of my back porch, upside down.

bawlmer Loc: Baltimore, MD

Thanks for the ID. I have never seen one of them before. I thought it might be related to the lady bug.

bawlmer Loc: Baltimore, MD

The first spider I found when I was cleaning out the stairwell leading to the basement. There were a bunch of leaves and debris blown down there. When I cleaned up the last of it, this little one came crawling out. I scooped it up on the dustpan and it just sat there, like it was posing for me. Then I shook it off into the bushes.

tinusbum Loc: east texas

about half of them you really did a good job focusing.tom

bawlmer Loc: Baltimore, MD

Thanks.. that's saying a lot considering how shaky my hands can be, not to mention trying to steady the camera standing in a stairwell leading to the basement. :)

Mulachabu Loc: Sydney Australia

Thats a lot of photography for someone cleaning up, good to see you have your priorities right, really like the closeup in #14, oh and by the way, I think you need to spray for spiders.

bawlmer Loc: Baltimore, MD

Thanks. Cleaning up provides lots of opportunities for capturing some wild life such as spiders, etc. And if given a choice, I'll take the spiders. They eat other insects which keeps them under control. But I will take it under advisement. ;)