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Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, in Key West.

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Garden flowers.  Cochise County, Arizona, April 2021.

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This is my new favorite animal.

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Tick-o-rama!

When I first spotted these clumps on tall grasses in Olare Motorogi Conservancy, in Kenya, I thought they were some kind of insect eggs. (My vision isn't as sharp as it once was.) But when I touched a piece of grass, the tiny specks started moving... because they were thousands of baby ticks!

There is no Lyme disease in Kenya, but there is an illness called African tick bite fever that is no joke. I didn't see a single mosquito during my trip - it wasn't their season - but these little guys made me glad to have hardcore insect repellent on hand.

So. Many. Ticks.

#onenicebugperday #tick #kenya #macro #grass #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #finger #not sure what was going on with the one adult tick #but i didn't stick around for a closer look #creepiest and crawliest

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Oh, the butterflies (again).

Cochise County, Arizona, September 2021.

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#spider #flower crab spider #grass #curl #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #seed head #face #eye #cute #dry #yellow #macro #arizona

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Nearly eight years ago (November 2010), I found a cattle wallow full of triops up near Prescott.  It was one of the strangest and most surprising things I’d ever seen, and I’ve looked for them ever since. Last month, I finally found some. 

These were in a series of very modest mud puddles which dried up a week later.  Behold the beautiful triops!  Cochise County, Arizona, August 17, 2018.   

#triops #puddle #water #mud #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #arizona #monsoon #mud puddle

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