ALT "Your pet trilobite wanted to meet you, but never got the chance. Untold years ago, he fell asleep between two warm stones, imagining they were your hands, hoping he'd wake up in them."

ALT I'm holding a very, very chonky dark southern toad about the size of my palm

ALT Bright red castianeira, ant mimic sac spider, penultimate male. He has a white stripe down his head, and white bands across his legs. He's cleaning one of his palps in his mouth, while resting on my fingernail.

ALT Top view, on my fingernail

ALT Side/top view, as he rests on a metal surface

ALT Top view, resting on a dried oak leaf

ALT A shiny, slim, pale brown/pink katydid; wings significantly longer than the body. Perched on dry swamp grass of some sort, a few of the seeds underfoot

ALT A miniscule wasp, seen from the front. She's brown, with black eyes, her antennae have a little ball on the end, and she has the silliest tiniest pair of mandibles one will ever see

ALT The nugget, seen from the side. She's very Compact, sort of a half-circle shape, with silly little wasp legs on the flat side, and the antennae flapping.

ALT The nugget from the side, with a pink pinhead looming above her like a balloon over an ant

ALT The nugget seen from the top. Just a little cylinder with flappy antennae at one end and tiny legs.