sun spider in the night

 

a sun spider ran into the circle of our lantern light

stole an insect from the swarm there

and dragged it back into the darkness

 

on progress in evolution

 

organisms don’t strive to evolve

merely passengers

no final destination

 

(a student on my final exam in evolution)

 

winter’s end

 

first to walk the melting snow

winter stoneflies brave the day

spring is on its way

 

(by julia mlynarek)

 

apology to a fly

 

i originally named you Phthiria relativitae, but now you are a Poecilognathus

it was short-lived, and you were happy then;

i am very sorry, but you are no longer a funny fly

 

(by neal evenhuis)

 

3linesabout8legs: a spidery digression

 

the jumping spider Phidippus looks amazed and amazing, amused and amusing

i think that if all spiders looked like Phidippus

arachnophobia would just                  disappear

 

kafertannenbaum

 

what if on a warm winter day a thousand brightly coloured beetles

crawled up through the snow and up a fir tree to sit in the sun on its branches

while the fireflies flashed on and off?

 

the antlion in winter

 

all the sandy pits

are bulldozed under snow now

no more ants til spring

 

the rock crawler’s lament

 

we live on bare cold rock at edge of mountain snows

we live on dying things dropped by howling wind

tell me again how this is considered living

 

aka webspinner

 

embioptera embiidina embiodea

wave spin wave spin wave spin spin wave

i wave back but cannot recall your name

 

genetic plaything

 

today a leg sticks out of my head

tomorrow i have wrinkled wings

i am: drosophila melanogaster

 

(by neal evenhuis)