Grasshopper Love

Found these guys hanging out on the door frame when I checked the mail this afternoon. The female has been there for a couple of days, perhaps waiting on a suitable male to show up. I believe they are "differential grasshoppers" (Melanoplus differentialis).
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Lose Sight of the Shore.

Hungover Bear and Friends is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald about animals and feelings. The main character is not an anti-hero, he’s just a bear in a sweater trying to make it all work.
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M9 (NGC 6333)

Globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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Memorable Milky Way

"This was an extremely time consuming picture! This was created using 55 individual pictures at 85mm. 55 raw files are pretty big but the final panorama was 3Gb making it very slow to edit." Photo and description by David Crombie (linked in sources).
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Barred Owl With Crayfish

Barred Owl (Strix varia) with crayfish, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Naples, Florida. Photo by Matthew Paulson (linked in sources).
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Why would I have my morning coffee at home when I can have it here with my two new best friends?

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Smell

Freefall: August 28 2015
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