Huge moths are great. When I worked at Laurel Caverns we had a cecropia caterpillar and when I left it was in its cocoon.
So I'd been staring at this caterpillar for months and I leave when it's about to become the country's largest moth? Fuck!
Today I went hellbender-hunting (my girlfriend was in a class that went looking for them and found one almost immediately. We went back to the same area hoping for the same results, but got nothin'!).
And later on we were elsewhere trying to take pictures of some lampshade spiders.
Turns out they're hard to photograph!
http://klimp.dk/glown/SPIDR2.jpg
But there were also salamanders in the area! Hurray!
those didn't turn out well either!