I don’t often think of fungi as cute, but I think these two qualify. Big and little mushroom buddies.
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I think this is as close as a banana slug gets to smiling for the camera.
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Last one for now: My friend Capt. Craboo pretending to be a rock (poorly).
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We love Red-breasted Nuthatch sounds. We were not expecting the laughing sounds (or squeaks of sneakers on a basketball court?) that predominate this recording (may have to crank up your volume): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133718037
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I never thought of beetles as cute but this one changed my mind. It reminds me of a somewhat fuzzy version of the Queen’s Guard.
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This grasshopper was really large, honestly almost disconcertingly so, but still cute and so colorful and it used its front legs to keep hugging onto tall wildflowers.
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This Oriental Beetle:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96683119
It’s just peeking over the leaf. I can’t help but think these guys are adorable. Why are the pests so dang cute?
This sawfly larva:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124042736
Not really unexpectedly cute, though, is it?
This Weevil wasp:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121496738
It just stared up into the camera. Those big eyes wanting to know if I’m a danger or just wondering what I was doing (maybe).
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Hermit crabs are pretty cute to start with, but I love how this one looks like it’s yelling:
UNHAND ME AT ONCE, CHORDATE!
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And between its adorable little orange legwarmers and the perfect sproing of that antenna, this is one of my favorite pictures:
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Prothonotary Warbler sitting like a duck. It just hung out for a few minutes calling periodically
Bicyrtes ventralis digging away
a teny Sarracenia alata
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I remember half a year or so ago when people posted jumping spiders and I saw the pictures the disgust factor was much stronger for me than the cute factor and I had to quickly scroll past. Nowadays I can look at them indefinitely though. So something has changed, maybe I’m becoming more of a naturalist…
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I’d have been dumbfounded if someone had told me 5 years ago I would someday think a wasp larva was cute - especially if in a plant gall.
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That’s really pretty!
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I know people far from nature react to their photos the same way, I personally would like to see that attention being spread on every spider instead of a group with big grouped eyes that triggers something in humans.
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For me it is those looooong antennae – so graceful and expressive!
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and sample my fruitcake.