Zach Stremmel Photography

06/24/2024

📸 Bold Jumping Spider | Phidippus audax

5-5-24

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The Bold Jumping Spider has earned its name through its distinctive behaviors and appearance. Unlike many other spiders, Bold Jumping Spiders produce silk but don't build webs to catch their prey. Instead, they rely on their incredible agility to sneak up and pounce on their targets. They use their silk to create shelters, egg sacs, or safety lines in case they fall during their jumps.

One of the most striking features of the Bold Jumping Spider is its fangs, which exhibit a greenish-blue sheen. Although the fangs themselves are black, this iridescence is due to microscopic structural coloration, where light reflects off the intricate structure of the fangs, giving them a beautiful green hue. This feature makes the Bold Jumping Spider easily recognizable and sets it apart from other spiders.

06/03/2024

📸 Ebony Jewelwing ♀ | Calopteryx maculata

6-3-24

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The Ebony Jewelwing is a species of Damselflies. The males and females can be told apart by the white spot on the tip of the wings (in the photo). The Males will have completely dark wings, while females will have the small white mark on the tip. They lay their eggs on vegetation in the water, and can be seen as an indicator of good water quality, due to their sensitivity to pollution.

05/26/2024

📸 Pharoah Cicada | Magicicada septendecim

5-25-24

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Meet the Pharoah Cicada. One of the two cicadas everyone’s been talking about this year. It is classified as a “Periodical Cicada” because this particular species emerges every 17 years. (The other cicada being talked about emerges every 13 years)

They only emerge once every 17 years to be able to survive. They hide so predators can’t find them, then they emerge synchronous to eachother so that the predators can’t eat all of them at once. Ensuring a balanced life cycle.

04/16/2024

📸 Phyciodes tharos | Pearl Crescent Butterfly

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04/11/2024

Wacky Wednesday #1 | 👅

4-10-24

04/08/2024

Canton, IL
Solar Eclipse
4-8-24

01/23/2024

📸 Cardinalis cardinalis | Northern Cardinal ♂

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11/28/2023

📸 Melanerpes carolinus | Red-Bellied Woodpecker

[11/28/2023]

11/28/2023

📸 Antheraea polyphemus | Polyphemus Silkmoth

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