I think cicadas are one of the cutest insects, they have such sweet little faces!
Also, I know jumping spiders have been talked about plenty in this thread already, but I think it’s really cute when they tilt their heads up to look at the camera when I’m photographing them :]
13 Likes
Yup, I’m starting to see it!
1 Like
Any jumping spider generally
this grayish jumper though, attempting to hide under a small leaf while crossing a gravel path.
17 Likes
I love these guys. If you sit quietly in an area where they live they always seem to show up and check you out. They strike me as very curious birds.
1 Like
I’ve always liked this pic I got of a little andrena bee peering out from her nest (from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72538396)
Also always been fond of cicadas (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91216638) and maybe butterflies are too easy but skippers, for the same reason: their eyes always look freaking HUGE giving them a permanent “no thoughts head empty” look.
Look at this. Zero braincells activated. Just sippy. Whenever I see them I feel compelled to stick my tongue out, similar to how seeing a frog ribbit makes you puff your cheeks.
10 Likes
I always think Orange Mycena are amoung the cutest of fungi whenever I come across them. They look like piles of orange gumdrops. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141740875
Ghost crabs. Probably the cutest thing I’ve photographed. I think its the eyes https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133930147
This is a little more of an expected cute, but I’m still surprised that they let me get this close https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127936920
9 Likes
Unexpected and unfocused.
(I used this in another thread recently, but I think it qualifies as cute, too.)
10 Likes
I found the cutest little creatures today. No idea what they are but they looked so tiny and fluffy and I imagined them waving their tentacles at me while floating about on their rock…
5 Likes
A very young moss maybe?
1 Like
just had to post this here
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Cute=Yes
2 Likes
Someone identified it as Brothera leana or “sea urchin moss” 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142500014
Only the 7th observation of the species on inat (it has a worldwide distribution though and many herbarium records on GBIF, so just under-observed on inaturalist for some reason)
2 Likes
Cool! I searched and it can be little bit bigger, there must be more photos of it on iNat, but likely not ided yet (though smaller mosses are under-observed too).
1 Like
Oh, good point - a lot of my mosses I just put up as bryophyta myself and they never get identified, so yeah there could be more observations but just under bryophyta. I do have plans to get a moss book soon and at least put a genus to my own observations!
1 Like
Just out of curiosity I scanned through some random bryophyta observations left at phylum - and may have discovered one, but a bit too blurry for me to really say: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69802974
1 Like
Welcome to the forum! Whatever that is, it is adorable!
WAIT, IS THAT A WINTER COLOR COAT? (@fffffffff I can’t breathe it’s so cute)
2 Likes
Yup! Sadly out of all mammals and birds who change their coat/plumage for the winter I only saw a winter squirrel.
12 Likes
Welcome to the forum, @Tuktu. I think that my pancreas just melted from the cute!
(I have a major soft spot for Mustelidae. Which one is that, M. erminea or M. nivalis?) 
1 Like