This is a good find. I don’t know scorpions but is this a desert hairy scorpion?
Now I’m dying to know what this game might be.
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It’s a bark scorpion. They’re pretty venomous and mighty mean.
EDIT: You may have been referring to the hair and dust inside the box? If so, very clever!
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a fellow arizonan?
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Yes, regrettably, I am here in the land of too damn hot.
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same—we actually just got some bird feeders to attract more birds to the backyard which will hopefully be a more natural way to take care of all the black widows we have back there (sorry, probably not appropriate for the bug thread)
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This looks like the beetle took a selfie and I love it
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I think black widows are neat but we don’t have them here (yet) so I have the luxury of thinking they’re neat.
Speaking of: in the past decade, thanks to climate change, the blacklegged tick aka deer tick has found its way into my neighbourhood. Now I have to worry about getting Lyme disease which was not ever a consideration when I was younger. It’s crazy and I hate it and anyway some of these critters do in fact need to fuck off and die lol.
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looking for a good book rec about ants if anybody has one of those… they accomplished an impressive feat wrt a banana peel i had left sitting and would like to know how those little dudes work, they are fascinating.
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Motht impressive!
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Those all look like butterflies to me!
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“don’t you wanna be a moth”
even though those are all definitely butterflies
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There was no pun to be made with “butterfly”, so I made a call.
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Oops! All butterflies!
went to a butterfly garden when they got released. lots of them flapping about and some having lunch. there was a mirror to make sure you didnt have any clinging on as you walked out. butterflies rule.
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i always find it funny how some species names have “common” in them, like “common morpho”…that guy is not common to me, never seen him before!
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Feeling pretty confident #2 is a pale owl and #3 is some kind of great Mormon. Have no idea about #1. It looks like some kind of fritillary??
went to a butterfly garden
Do you hold the answers?? I see a couple of malachites chowing down in that last one!
Also I want to add I love how French and Spanish distinguish between moths and butterflies as night papillons/mariposas and day papillons/mariposas.
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They had a few signs up about what they were but I was too busy looking around and taking pics to learn the names 
I believe #1 is a postman butterfly, this page lists one with similar coloring as being of the cyrbia subspecies. though maybe the wing shapes dont match?
from what i can tell you’re right about the others! trying to find the name of the brownish ones in the last pic.
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Postman looks right for #1 in your second post! I’m still at a loss for the #1 in your earlier post though.
They’re all butterfrees. 
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