This is the second black widow spider I’ve found on the front porch recently. Both were dead when I found them. Hubby thinks the black wasps that also hang out around the porch are preying on the spiders and that maybe they dropped this one. Great. A wasp may fly over me, lose its grip, dumping something poisonous and not-quite-dead on my head.
It’s always something . . .
A few dinosaurs in the Morian Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
A few more butterflies in the Cockrell Butterfly Habitat at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
On display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the Chronophage Clock by John C. Taylor. I wish my photos had turned out a bit better, but here they are anyway. There are blue lights that shine through the clock for the timekeeping. The grasshopper’s legs move the time pieces. Sometimes it moves its head and opens its mouth. I didn’t stand there long enough to determine the timing of those movements.
The Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is a living butterfly habitat. For me, it’s a beautiful, magical world.
