March kind of snuck up on me, so I missed the first few days of #MarshMadness! Here's a couple marshy bugs I painted last year for the occasion.

Diceroprocta viridifascia, the salt marsh cicada, can be found in the southern US around the coast. Or, if not seen, then heard screaming, since they're cicadas.

One of my favorite beetles, Regimbartia attenuata, is a water scavenger beetle that can survive getting eaten and digested by frogs. They carry oxygen trapped under their exoskeleton on their journey through the frog's digestive tract, and remain unscathed by any unpleasant juices.

Another beetle, the whirligig beetle, family Gyrinidae, swims in massive chaotic groups. Its compound eyes are divided, allowing them to see both above and below the surface of the water.

Finally, even though it's only March 3rd I have a bonus fourth picture, because no marsh would be complete without the ubiquitous mosquito.

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Beaver lodge!

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North of Sitka town, Starrigavan Creek estuary, June 2016

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Masza, the #MarshMadness inspector, is slowly going mad.

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Mondays frequently feel like just hanging on kind of days.

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