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A very, very strange looking spider sitting on a small green flower stalk. The entire top of the spider is a white circular hard disk with some small black spots. Arrayed horizontally around the white disc are six black triangular spikes sticking out. The head and front feet are black and can be seen poking out from under its hard shell. It's as if a round white turtle and a black spider had a love child about 3/8 of an inch across.

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A very, very strange looking spider sitting on a small green flower stalk. The entire top of the spider is a white circular hard disk with some small black spots. Arrayed horizontally around the white disc are six black triangular spikes sticking out. The head and front feet are black and can be seen poking out from under its hard shell. It's as if a round white turtle and a black spider had a love child about 3/8 of an inch across.
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My camera shoots fascists (mikal@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:40:09 JST My camera shoots fascists
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The other thing I've been doing, either up at launch while "parawaiting" for good weather or after I've landed while I'm waiting for the retrieve vehicle, is to snap photos for iNaturalist. I recently started using my mostly-dormant account for fun. I've probably got 60 or 70 different species observations to upload, mostly plants. And this is just what are probably considered common weeds around roadsides and farm fields. I got 20 new plant species this afternoon alone, plus this really cool beetle and spider.
#inaturalist #spider #beetle #botany #Colombia #Entomology

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