Psychometal47 Exotic Pet

29/05/2025

28/05/2025

Hypnotic Gaze: Band-eyed Drone Fly in Extreme Macro 🐝👁️

Experience the mesmerizing beauty of the band-eyed drone fly, captured up close by Vida Shams. Its strikingly patterned eyes, adorned with bold yellow and brown stripes, make this pollinator truly unforgettable. The fine details of its fuzzy face and delicate mouthparts highlight the wonders waiting in the insect world.

🌻 Fun Fact: Those vivid eye patterns help drone flies blend into flowers, making them look like bees and providing protection from predators!

28/05/2025

Horse Fly: A Close-Up Portrait 🌿🔍

Behold this striking close-up of a Horse Fly, beautifully captured by Shihas Nalil! This image might show a Greenhead horse fly (Diachlorus ferrugatus), Chrysops relictus, or a blue eyes fly. The iridescent colors and intricate details are truly captivating.

🦟 Fun Fact: Horse flies are known for their large eyes and can be quite persistent in their search for a blood meal. Only the females bite, needing the protein in blood to develop their eggs.

27/05/2025

The green tree python (Morelia viridis), is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is native to New Guinea, some islands in Indonesia, and the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. First described by Hermann Schlegel in 1872, it was known for many years as Chondropython viridis. As its common name suggests, it is a bright green snake that can reach a total length (including tail) of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb), with females slightly larger and heavier than males. Living generally in trees, the green tree python mainly hunts and eats small reptiles and mammals. It is a popular pet, and numbers in the wild have suffered with large-scale smuggling of wild-caught green tree pythons in Indonesia. Despite this, the green tree python is rated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.