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Flannelette posted:Also do quail have a long hissy phase in their lifecycle? Ah, the lesser known cousin of long pig, long chicken
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I'm sorry about the loss of your quail, but that is a beautiful snake!
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The Red Queen posted:I'm sorry about the loss of your quail, but that is a beautiful snake! Carpet python if I’m not mistaken
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Jan 11, 2019 05:54
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Can anyone identify this insect? It was at my sister's house in Melbourne.   
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Jan 28, 2019 02:37
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Looks like some kinda bug to me
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Jan 28, 2019 03:48
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Tiggum posted:Can anyone identify this insect? It was at my sister's house in Melbourne. your pictures are a bit small and blurry but this fella looks to be the closest to those that I could find(I believe yours is a nymph of some sort), has the little white spots on the antennae too. https://twitter.com/ace_frawley/status/854847478583050240
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It's a nymph (immature) of a mirid bug, but not the one in Captain Invictus' post. Tiggum's bug has a red pronotum, and CI's is black. Miridae is a very species rich family, and nymphs can be quite hard to identify.
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axolotl farmer posted:It's a nymph (immature) of a mirid bug, but not the one in Captain Invictus' post. Tiggum's bug has a red pronotum, and CI's is black. Cool. Thanks for the info. :-)
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Jan 28, 2019 12:01
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Jan 28, 2019 15:19
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I managed to find an identical bug posted to a Flickr group in 2007 and nobody knew what it was then either  haven't found a single other photo of it yet im helping
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vaguely posted:I managed to find an identical bug posted to a Flickr group in 2007 and nobody knew what it was then either Sounds like you get to name that bug!
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Jan 28, 2019 21:49
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I FOUND HIM Dindymus versicolor, Harlequin bug he will not doot sadly into this night 
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but that's the one I linked and was told it wasn't the one!!!
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you posted a different instar but it turned out you were right all along  i should read all the posts, not just like half of them
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Can anyone identify this spider I found (while stripping a bed  ) in the SF Bay Area? I have lived here almost my entire life and have never come across a spider this big. Each leg is ~ 1.25 inches long and the body is maybe 2/3rds of an inch. With a few minutes of googling I am leaning towards it being a male Zoropsis spinimana, but I am wondering if some of the insect experts here have a better idea.Sorry for the crappy picture, it is a 5 year old phone through a pyrex bowl, but my wife said she would divorce me if it got out. It is more spindly than it looks in the picture, it is fairly long and thin. Edit: Could have sworn I attached the picture. Pain of Mind fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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You are receiving this broadcast as a dream...We are transmitting from the year one nine... nine nine ...You are receiving this broadcast in order t
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Jan 29, 2019 06:49
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Looks like a wolf spider of some type.
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Captain Invictus posted:Looks like a wolf spider of some type. It does, but I think their ID of Zoropsis might be right, which isn't a wolf spider. These guys are native to Eurasia but were introduced to the US, and are particularly common in the Bay Area.
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I've discovered that I like to say spinimana out loud.
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Captain Invictus posted:Looks like a wolf spider of some type. It does look like a wolf spider for the most part, it is just 10x bigger than any wolf spider I have seen here. I dropped it off at the park last night, so hopefully I cannot take any more pictures. Here is a worse picture with a quarter in the foreground for some point of reference.
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I am in Fort Myers (FL) for a few days, anything in particular to watch for in terms of birds, bugs, and other critters?
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Here, have a weta:
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jizzy sillage posted:Here, have a weta: 
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my cat is norris posted:I am in Fort Myers (FL) for a few days, anything in particular to watch for in terms of birds, bugs, and other critters? There are lots of dolphins and manatees in the area. If you spend any significant amount of time down by the water you'll probably spot some. If you have an extra couple of hours and a rental car, canoeing through the Ding Darling refuge (ie. a big ol' mangrove swamp) on the nearby Sanibel island can be a great place to spot lots of strange swamp critters and lots and lots of birds, specifically ospreys, herons, egrets and ibises.
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my cat is norris posted:I am in Fort Myers (FL) for a few days, anything in particular to watch for in terms of birds, bugs, and other critters? https://www.gotscience.org/2014/10/florida-lizards-evolving-rapidly/ The brown anoles are an invasive species introduced in the last few decades and the green anoles you see climbing everything are the native anoles, apparently doing just fine by evolving better climbing feet under pressure
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I've done it, I shot the most Floridawildlife.jpg picture
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:I've done it, I shot the most Floridawildlife.jpg picture gator “hell yea, I’m the fattest dude around” manatee “hellllllllooo” gator “...”
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free hubcaps posted:gator “hell yea, I’m the fattest dude around” That's actually an American crocodile, not a gator. 
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:I've done it, I shot the most Floridawildlife.jpg picture Good lads
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:That's actually an American crocodile, not a gator. How can you tell? I only really know about the snaggletooth method, but that isn't good here. Edit: whoops didn't realize you were the one that posted the picture to begin with and probably got a better look at it
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Mak0rz posted:How can you tell? I only really know about the snaggletooth method, but that isn't good here. It’s a little obscured there but the shape of the snout is a good tell. In American gators the snout is relatively broad and blunt, whereas in crocs it’s more of a triangular dealie. Crocs can also get way, way bigger.
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I found many critters that I will soon post! Edit: Kaiju, were you and I just at the same wedding... my cat is norris fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Feb 3, 2019 |
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the yeti posted:It’s a little obscured there but the shape of the snout is a good tell. In American gators the snout is relatively broad and blunt, whereas in crocs it’s more of a triangular dealie. Plus crocs tend to hang out near mangroves and are more tolerant of saltwater than gators
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I almost guessed it was a croc based on the color alone, but not being able to see the snout well went with the more common species. Gators are usually a much darker color I think
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When you know them well enough, you can just kind of glance at a picture and "crocodile!" jumps right out - there are a ton of tiny differences. Head shape is drastically different, too.
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No pics because it was far away and silhouetted against the sunset, but I just saw a HUGE horned owl on my neighbor's roof. This is the first time I've ever seen one in the wild around here. This is apparently an omen of bad luck, illness or death.
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poverty goat posted:This is apparently an omen of bad luck, illness or death. Yeah, if you're a mouse, vole or other varmit.
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