ive had my "Life under a rock" gallery on another (pop scene) site for some years now so you may have seen these photos
i just thought people that havent followed obscure links and sifted through all the galleries might enjoy them

reminds me of a bulldog with a spiked collar

silky ant nest

this nest was a huge hole under a big flat bottemed rock
as you can see the nest was filled with twigs n such

subterranean termite monolith

side view, see the termites antenna

top view, peek a boo

one of the troops

a common winter milli here and a wood louse
milli order Julida

i had hopped for a rattlesnake so i could beat my feb 11th early find record from past years
came up with 5 toads(yes i said 5 not a typo)

to give you an idea of size those logs next to the shroom are actually thin grass stems.

darkling (yeah love that generic name eh) beetle n shrooms

ground beetle n hitch hiker

as if i have to tell you guys what this is

one out of 4 creatures gotta love em

stuffs

interesting choice of web placement

lotsa stuffs

dang what was this called again where are my notes...
Parajulid yeah thats it

heres a much bigger milli Tylobolus species

it stains the flesh then bruises

assassins! i think

the tiny Serradigitus gertschi striatus
a first for january

nother parajulid

a cute widdle baby stone centipede and some spider

a snail

a thing that specializes in eating snails and whats left of breakfast
Tribe Cychrini ground beetle
is that a wasp tube?

widdle wolfie

Scolopocryptops
my guess would be that name has something to do with the lack o eyes
or eyes
or centipedes

nother view

i wonder if the dark part is its heart
or just a meal

one of these days ill figure out exactly what these guys are

i marked this rock with a very noticeable X (par usual) so i dont make the mistake later on of turning it over again when it starts to warm up

im sure any poor souls you happen to stumble upon my X rocks and with great joy and anticipation quickly turn it over will also remember not to turn over it again
(or mess around in my stomping grounds muahahahaha
no i dont attach snares to hornet nests but that is an interesting ideai just had aahah aahah aahah
just look at them eggs like little oblong pearls of death and pain.
i once watched a bunch o wasps strip the flesh off a freshly killed snake over 5 hrs

of course during all this my loving wife waited patiently on a log reading her book and enjoying nature in her own weird way
(shed say im the weird one for looking under every rock n stick in a field and carefully replacing them where they were
that an important thing to remember to do cause after you die you have to go around and turn them all back over if you forgot to do it before
i sure dont want to spend the first part of my eternity turning back over damn rocks do you

Tags: Nature Rock Log Centipedes Spiders Millipedes Beetles Snails Wasps Scorpion

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