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For context, here's what they look like once they've grown up:

This gorgeous little lady has been living among my cucumber plant for 2 months. She recently moved onto my zucchini plant after I had to start spraying the cucumbers with neem oil for powdery mildew. Her zucchini leaf also has powdery mildew but I don’t have the heart to cut it off the plant because she’s made herself a little home there.

When I first saw her, she was missing 2 legs and she was very small.

Since then, I’ve noticed a few of her sheds in the cucumbers and she has tripled in size. Last week, she even caught 2 honeybees!

I never understood why people fear spiders. Just look at this beautiful gal! Such a pretty shade of green too 💚

We saw a pretty good amount of them in our yard this June. It was nice. I can't remember seeing many lightning bugs for years.

Additional pic for scale on this tiny boi:

Moths need love too!

Crossposted from https://crazypeople.online/post/2508535

Wikipedia link for anyone interested. Hope this fits the community. I think they're adorable.

I think this is the third molt.

Nhandu chromatus

Edit: latin name.

Libellula saturata resting on sage