Polka-dot beetles! (I have since come to understand that these are the nascent, dread lanternflies.)
Raccoons!
Spider-eating wasps. (I kid you not. I saw SOME kind of hymenoptera dragging a frikkin’ GIANT wolf spider along as takeout. I tried to get a picture of this clash of the Titans, but then the wasp dropped its meal and stated menacing ME. Got the hell out of there.)
L0035565 A gold memento mori pendant Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Open) Photograph 18th Century Published: – Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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