Found this guy on the front porch. iNaturalist IDs it as a Wheel Bug Arilus cristatus. I can see why it has that name. Very steampunk. Predates steampunk, though, so is steampunk very wheel bug?

It is November. This little guy jumped out of my path, which is the only reason I saw him. iNaturalist IDs him as a cricket frog, which makes sense since I have seen crickets bigger than this well camouflaged little guy! Apparently it is their call, which sounds like a cricket, that gives them their name. And here I thought it was actually crickets calling at night. Interesting.

I found this pretty beetle when I was walking through the back woods. It was cold and wet, but readily grabbed onto the offered stick. I took pictures then put him in a dry sunny spot. iNaturalist says it is a Green June Beetle.

I grew up calling these arachnids “Daddy Long Legs”. This bad boy is about six inches from leg tip to leg tip and one of the largest I’ve seen (they grow them big in Texas). I plugged the photo into iNaturalist and their algorithms gave me the order of Phalangida. Wikipedia says the order is now called Opiliones and are also known as harvestmen (which seems much more sinister to me than daddy long legs, but maybe I watched too many old horror flicks as a teen). The Wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones) is quite detailed and may seed some more nightmares, even though these guys are harmless to humans.