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.

Saw this big guy crossing the path as we were headed to the chicken coop. It was about an inch and a half long. My eldest snapped a picture, then was incredulous when I snapped a picture and the beetle stopped and posed for me (because the first thing we both do is whip out our phones and take pictures of new creatures!) iNaturalist identified it as a Horned Passalus Beetle. Neat.