Robby Deans

@hydaticus.bsky.social

425 Followers 178 Following

Nature enthusiast, hobby photographer. All photos I post are mine! I am @hydaticus on iNaturalist

A purple mite with long legs feeling its way across a substrate of damp leaves and yellow strings of mold.
Wide view of a cherry branch with 1 full leaf and another half eaten leaf with a green and brown caterpillar on the end. The caterpillar is camouflaged as the end of a dead leaf.
A sleeping green lizard on a cattail leaf. The lizard is covered in tiny, shiny dew droplets.
An inside view of small pool of water full of giant water bugs clinging to the rocky walls of the pool.
A big weevil with proportionally long and spiny front legs and a large snout nearly covered in orange fur, like a mustache and beard.
A slender snake stretched out along a tree root on a mossy slope. The snake has a gray head, a tan body with black spots, and a neon orange stripe along its back.
A gray snake with longitudinal dark lines down its back and orange skin between the scales is coiled around a bat. The scene is inside a dark, rocky cave.
A closeup of a small flower above verdant shamrock leaves. The flower is white with pink veins and each of the five petals has a yellow spot near the center of the flower.
A green caterpillar with white stripes rears its front half. It has small spikes on the back of each segment, and longer spikes on the neck area and near its back end.
A small chocolate-brown insect with a diamond shaped body and very long middle legs sits upon wet sand.
A snake with a pointy nose and a pattern of red and black triangles coiled on a sparse rocky landscape.
Two ants on a mossy log, one carrying a yellow flower and the other carrying a small bit of leaf.
A desert scene dominated by orange-brown spires of rock jutting out of rocky rolling hills with splashes of green shrubs against a clear blue sky.
A green spider camouflaged among lichen in the crook of a hanging branch.
A sleek mousy-brown flying squirrel comes down a tree. It has its legs spread so you can see the stretched skin (patagium) that assists in gliding.
A flat spider with very long legs sits encircled by its web on a cliff wall
A close up of an orange scorpion with 2 gray stripes on its back. Its pincered pedipalps are held together at the tips.
A tan-yellow salamander with thin longitudinal stripes on each side of its back sits atop wet leaf litter.
A copper and green colored butterfly with white bars and fake antennae opposite the head.
A tiny butterfly with fuzzy legs and wing borders. Its color is orange around the outer edges, transitioning to a red-orange center. Alternating broken vertical lines of silver and black decorate the wings.
A close up of a passionflower. The lower tepals are green, and above those is a whorl of coronal filaments. Above those are the nectaries, anthers and carpels.
A yellow beetle sits in the inflorescence of a boneset plant.
A pair of slipper orchid flowers, which look like white ballet shoes with maroon laces.
A tiny yellow orchid flower. The shape looks a bit like a flying bird carrying a large pair of pants in its claws.
A wasp-mimic moth. The moth has black wings and body with blue iridescence. The wings have broad whitish blotches and the body has thin yellow stripes.
A small waterfall drops into a rocky tea-colored stream in the Colombian cloud forest
A small garter snake with a defensive posture in the lower branches of a tree. The snake is smooth and shiny, and it is mostly gray with three tan longitudinal stripes and small black dots above the lower stripe.
Up close and personal with a hairy, brown ogre-faced spider. The spider has two large black forward-facing eyes and its chelicerae are hidden by its curled pedipalps.
A large horsefly whose abdomen is distended with blood sits on a mountain mint leaf. The fly has green eyes with subtle red stripes and a golden yellow fuzzy body, noticeably reddish where the abdomen has stretched.
A tiny baby rabbit poking its head up out of a hole in the gravel substrate in a West Texas desert
A tiny dome-shaped beetle taking a step forward with raised antennae
Tall, showy sunflowers and goldenrods against a blue sky with puffy white clouds
A tiny moth with gold and blue scales on its wings and fuzzy scales around its head.
A colorful fly with complex patterns on the wings and eyes.
A tiny jumping spider with a chestnut brown head and a showy third pair of legs that are orange with iridescent blue highlights.
Layers of grassy hills shrouded in a light swirling mist.
A small butterfly with long tails on the hind wings. It is mostly blue with black wing tips and a magenta stripe across the base of the tails.
A colorful bird perched on a large grape vine. The bird has a blue head, yellow underside and rump, and green shoulders.
A snake with a copper colored head, large brown eyes, and a white chin. The body is black with a beautiful pattern of pale blue spots, one on nearly every scale.
A blue-green spider with yellow accents sits atop lichens with the same color scheme.
The inflorescences of a spiny plant. Each set looks like a purple pineapple on a platter of spiky purple leaves.
A brown and yellow striped insect with raptorial front legs sits atop a coneflower.
A tawny mouse with a white belly perched in a dead shrub
A brown bird with a white chin and grayish cap looks down curiously from a branch.
Groups of aphids on the undersides of several leaves. The aphids are all facing the same direction, and about half are orange and the other half are black.
A tan gecko sitting on some grass and sticks with its tail curled over in the background
Waves crashing on a rocky shoreline
A black dome-shaped treehopper that appears to have the letters IL written on its side
Large clusters of purple, five-petaled flowers atop leafy foot-tall stems
A dark blue butterfly with thin shiny blue stripes and orange-red spots at the front of the wings
A black snake with a white chain-like pattern
A brown shiny beetle with yellow flecks on the grooved elytra. This male has flat, sharp mouthparts
A floating leaf of a water fern. Each leaf has four leaflets that come together at right angles to form an X. The central leaf in the photo has a drop of water in the middle that is shaped like a bowed out square.
A bluish butterfly with orange stripes and several black eyespots at the back of its wings.