calosoma-amitch:

THROWBACK THURSDAY

A female orbweaver spider (Argiope sp.), Sinton TX. July 2013. 

One of the largest I’ve seen, but everything is bigger in Texas.

These orbweavers spend most of their mornings rebuilding their webs along fieldsides, grasslands, and in gardens. Many produce a zig-zag pattern in the center of their web called a stabilimentum, which was, at one point, thought to help hold the web together. Nowadays, it is thought as a means to reflect light in the web that attracts unsuspecting insects, and future meals.

She’s all fat with eggs, looks like. 

Orb weavers are cool because they’re really chill. They just sit in their web, and that’s it. They don’t skitter around all fast or jump on things. Plus, they make huge, pretty orb webs.

thatsthat24:

megbiediger:

queeringfeministreality:

hollowedskin:

sysichi:

did-you-kno:

The largest cat in NYC, and possibly
the world, is a 28 lb., 4-foot-long
Maine Coon named Samson. He’s
bigger than most bobcats (and most
toddlers), and every day he likes
to sit on his owner’s chest first
thing in the morning. Source Source 2

@hollowedskin

him big

i want to cuddle him ❤

WHAT THE FUCK

i want this cat to sit on my chest first thing in the morning

The bodest of the bodes.

coelasquid:

vaezthewanderer:

gallusrostromegalus:

thantos1991:

tyrranitime:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

@gallusrostromegalus

This Big Boy is a Brahma, the largest breed of chicken.  They’re also one of the gentlest and tamest chickens out there, a bit like the Great Danes of poultry.  He lives in Kosovo with his (very proud) owner Fitim Sejfija, and two hens, where he is a good and gentle man and very loved.

Brhamas typically don’t get quite this big (He’s 16.5 lbs and almost 3 feet tall. most are closer to 14 lbs and 2′6″) but they’re really nice and cuddly birds.  

@coelasquid I saw this and immediately thought this is where they got the fluffy space-future raptors from

A Good Bird.