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7/26/11

Lots of critters!!

After having talked to my brother Aaron about how much his wife, Krista loves creepy crawlies, this post is dedicated to her!  Love you, Krista!!!
Branson has a crazy abundance of critters and crawly creatures!!  Ok, so it's this whole area, and not just Branson.  We've had a lot of fun finding and discovering all of these bugs and animals, a lot of which we've never seen "up close and personal" before!
 it's a bee!
 Ryan-palm sized moth
 the spider that sparked the previously-mentioned conversation
 grasshopper
 pretty beatle
 leaf bug
 bug
 (squirrel)
 super scary looking spider
 those would be some major webs!
 razor back?
 cicada?  this guy was super noisy!
 ok, so you can't see it, but when we went swimming at the beach, we made friends with a see-through yellow fish that was as long as Janey's forearm!
 groundhog...found at the school
 Taylor observed this guy in order to improve his kung fu skills!
 sorry.. don't know names for everyone!

These next two pics are from National Geographic...we weren't able to capture good pics of our own.
 We really did see a litter of 4 baby skunks, playing at the edge of a parking lot one evening!
 opossum!


And for the next 2, we haven't seen any of these alive...
 armadillos... we've only seen roadkill...
 ALLIGATOR GAR!!!  We haven't actually seen one of these, but they live in our waters around here!  They can grow to 10 feet and 300 pounds!  Don't worry moms, they don't eat people!!


And here are a few pics of our very own critters!

 Janey fish
 Tay-zan
 
Callie Cat



This guy was my favorite friend!!  We found him outside our door one day!

I just noticed that the best spider pic didn't upload!  Bummer!
But no worries... we'll add it to our next post!