Found a locust and my dad let me keep it over night and in the morning it had shed it's skin!

Catching Up

Lots to post. Been busy with first grade! School year almost over.

My dad found a tiny turtle at work. It is a yellow-belly slider. They love to swim so after pictures we drove to a pond and let him be free.

Finally caught one here at the new house. Didn't see many last year when we moved in but this year I found them.


This is a strange bug. Don't know the name yet but found in the backyard near some plants my mom planted.


Did I mention? We moved last spring, still in Virginia but a bit further south.

Imperial Moth

first we found this catipillar in October then it turned in to a pupa


posting a picture as soon as it hatches.

Leaffooted bug nymphs (juveniles)

The little guys were on the sage plant just hanging out.

Here is a butterfly that just flew in right as I got ready to take a picture of a praying mantis.


And here is the praying mantis

It's another beetle

Here is another Hercules beetle I found at Burke Park.