Journal archives for July 2024

July 4, 2024

help me

Is there anyone who knows what jumping spider species has the following traits?

  • Dark/black body
  • Brown/copper limbs and pedipalps
  • Extremely small size, possibly only a few millimeters (I suck at visual measurements so I can't be precise, but I can say that they are extremely small)
  • Found in Colorado

I keep finding these little spiders but can't identify them! I'm fairly confident they're all the same species.

Posted on July 4, 2024 02:30 AM by antimatterbee antimatterbee | 7 observations | 0 comments | Leave a comment

July 6, 2024

Happy (belated) 4th of July!

Happy Independence Day, to everyone it actually affects/concerns. Unless you're the twat in my neighborhood who decided 2:00 P.M. was an acceptable time to shoot off ILLEGAL FIREWORKS, forcing me to abort the trail walk I had planned to emotionally support my dogs during this holiday. Raya panicked so hard that she got into our grill and shredded both the cover and the wiring, and now the grill is ✨useless✨!

I'm not even mad at my dogs though, I'm mad at the idiot who decided to use loud fireworks in a neighborhood that literally has more dogs than children. People like them are why lost pet numbers surge after Independence Day!

The 4th of July is definitely one of those holidays that gets worse as you get older, isn't it?

Dogs in question(Raya is on the right, Kuma is on the left):


(don't worry about the backyard, this is a slightly older picture. it looks much better now.)

Posted on July 6, 2024 02:00 AM by antimatterbee antimatterbee | 22 observations | 0 comments | Leave a comment

July 7, 2024

07/06 Trail Walk

Intended to do this on July 4th, but early fireworks prevented me from finishing it.

Temperature: ~84.5°F
Weather Conditions: Partly cloudy
Wind: ~North-South, ~7.5 mph
Humidity: 15%
Pressure: ~0.9965 atm
Visibility: 10 miles

Source: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@z-us-80831/historic

Posted on July 7, 2024 03:24 PM by antimatterbee antimatterbee | 100 observations | 0 comments | Leave a comment