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Mak0rz posted:Your first bumble bee is likely B. terrestris.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 22:51 |
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Cardiovorax posted:If it's Europe, then yeah, pretty definitely. Bombus hortorum looks very similar and shares most of the same habitats and distribution, but you can tell that it's B. terrestris by the way it has only one yellow band on its abdomen instead of the characteristic twin bands that you see on B. hortorum. There's also B. lucorum (or B. cryptarum or whatever the hell they're calling it these days). A member of a complex species group that can be found in upper latitudes of the entire northern hemisphere. It was once known as B. moderatus in North America, for those familiar with the species here. It looks almost the same except the butt is generally a stark white ompared to B. terrestris' more ivory ("buff") colored tail.
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 23:08 |
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I just got a new camera, so you get a whole bunch of pictures today. Tons bumbly and not-so-bumbly bees today, they really love that lavender. Once a grasshopper, now a spider's dinner. Scopula floslactata, I think, A.K.A. the Yellowish-White Tinymoth. No, really, that's what they're called here. Probably got named on a Friday afternoon or something. Firebug nymph, fifth instar. Pieris rapae, locally referred to as the Lesser Cabbage-Whiteling. Three guesses for what its caterpillars eat. Looks a lot creepier up close than I thought it would. Your standard trash-can variety blowfly, holding still for a really close shot thanks to some conveniently-placed old spiderwebs. A Stenodema grass bug of some sort. Probably laevigata, but they all look pretty much the same, so don't quote me on that.
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# ? Jul 14, 2020 18:04 |
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Mak0rz posted:Leafcutter bee. Family Megachilidae. Recall our conversation earlier about carrying pollen on their hairy bellies Cardiovorax posted:If it's Europe, then yeah, pretty definitely. Bombus hortorum looks very similar and shares most of the same habitats and distribution, but you can tell that it's B. terrestris by the way it has only one yellow band on its abdomen instead of the characteristic twin bands that you see on B. hortorum. Yeah I am in Europe (UK), thanks.
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# ? Jul 14, 2020 19:17 |
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So that thing that looks like a cluster of dead leaves is actually a caterpillar of some kind. They appear every year, eat all the leaves on a couple of rose bushes, then turn that leaf camouflage into a cocoon. What the hell is it and what will it be? (They're not my bushes, they're at the nearby Starbucks.)
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 16:34 |
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My butterfly emerged! I love the camouflage when resting vs. flashiness when flying vibe. Can't figure out an ID yet but I'll keep looking (Edmonton, Alberta).
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 17:40 |
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Chinston Wurchill posted:My butterfly emerged! Comma butterfly. https://bugguide.net/node/view/297/bgpage There are a few to choose from.
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 18:09 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Comma butterfly. https://bugguide.net/node/view/297/bgpage There are a few to choose from. Thanks! I thought that might be it but the spots seemed off. The butterfly emerged right before we took off to Jasper National Park for the weekend. The usually Jasper welcoming committee. I thought this might be a silverfish in our cabin but it doesn't look like it on further inspection. We had to tread carefully on our morning walks! I felt pretty nervous coming around a corner on a narrow path to see those three faces looking down. Although the big animals are always fun and pikas are even better (no pics sadly) I think the most interesting thing I spotted on this visit was rocks FULL of fossils on a hike. I guess we were near the Burgess shale, but I had no idea there were so many fossils! Shame it was snowing so we couldn't look around for long, but still super cool.
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 19:39 |
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
Also, no pikas? Aw. Pikas are cute.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 00:13 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Nope! It sure isn't. That's a bristletail, they're very common in certain habitats and honestly kind of look like they should be crustaceans. They're not, though, it's an insect. Also, the tails don't do anything, but certain other and similar-looking insects can breathe through theirs. Cool! I'll have to look into them some more. I spotted a couple pikas at a distance but they didn't stick around. Here are some photos from my last trip to Jasper in 2016 when they were far more agreeable.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 00:31 |
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So cuddly.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 00:33 |
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Saw this fellow while trying not to die of heat exhaustion earlier this week. I'm digging the colors but have no idea what he is... besides presumably a moth. I'm down in SE Georgia fwiw.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 01:36 |
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With those colors, definitely an Imperial Moth Eacles imperialis!
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 02:04 |
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Oooo. Dope, thanks!
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 03:28 |
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My dad found this 'un in his garden and can't identify. He lives in Austria, near Vienna.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 20:51 |
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Fairly sure that it's one of these here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenschr%C3%B6ter It's a type of stag beetle, lucky find! Looks like it's a female. If he puts her in a glass covered with a sieve, she might attract males.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 20:55 |
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Found a fresh one and put him on a tree. It was covered in shells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLhf2aSgsLE
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 21:12 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Fairly sure that it's one of these here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenschr%C3%B6ter Think it might rather be a female Lucanus cervus, on the account of the browner colour and finer puncturations of its elytra. And seems rather large. Here, for comparison, a Dorcus parallelipipedus i found a couple of years ago: Falukorv fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 17, 2020 |
# ? Jul 17, 2020 00:26 |
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I thought the coloring of the elytra to come from a reflection of the man's palms, which are very brightly red on that photo, but now that you're saying it, you might be right. I found a Lucano female once and it was far paler than that, so I didn't really connect them, but apparently the species has a surprising amount of variation in colors and sizes.
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# ? Jul 17, 2020 01:20 |
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More practise with my macro lens in the garden. Hover fly again. Small black thing, think both pics are the same insect but not sure. A different, slightly larger, small black thing! Not sure what it is but I love the iridescence on the wings. Leafcutter I think. (Focus is a bit off on the bee in this one but I love the colour of the flower in the background).
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# ? Jul 17, 2020 11:28 |
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Found a sleeping bumblebee in my lavender who worked for so long she couldn't make it all way the back home before nightfall. Imagine the tiny little buzzy snores, I guarantee you they were there.
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# ? Jul 17, 2020 21:14 |
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Surprise moth dropped in on me while I was doing coursework. Now with a complimentary 5-mm scale for easier identification. Enjoy.
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# ? Jul 17, 2020 22:53 |
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let my dog out and there were a handful of these fellas outside on the door. I used to find them all the time in the underbrush in the woods, I take it they're a local wild cockroach? this is in massachusetts. they're very small, only about half an inch long. sometimes I find them inside, but they've never been like, an infestation like american cockroaches do, it's just our house is a century and a half old and critters get inside no matter what we do. I didn't notice until I looked at that closeup that they've got a clear shell over their body, neat.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 14:27 |
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Captain Invictus posted:let my dog out and there were a handful of these fellas outside on the door. I used to find them all the time in the underbrush in the woods, I take it they're a local wild cockroach?
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 15:18 |
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yeah, it's much shorter and fatter than that one. I know these ones don't generally do well inside and aren't pests so unlike, say, the terrible little bastard flies that have started popping up probably from a dead mouse in the walls or something, I let them go free outside I flicked a fly on the windowsill and it rocketed straight into a spider web in the corner of the window, who freaked out momentarily before going "oh? ohhhh, what is this movement in my web? FREE LUNCH" and promptly tied the fly up as they do
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 15:25 |
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Back in Kentucky my apartment backed up onto pasture and the lights would draw wood roaches (Parcoblatta pennsylvanica iirc) like crazy. Never had the slightest indication they were actually living inside or anything one would just show up now and then when I had a window open
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 15:37 |
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NE US, forest. I’m pretty confident this is a bee mimicking robber fly based on the split feet and that I’m pretty sure I can see the stylet on the face. Not too familiar with those species though. It’s definitely not a bee based on wings alone.
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# ? Jul 18, 2020 23:28 |
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Your daily serving of garden critters today is spiders instead of bees. I thought I'd try something new and made a video this time. https://i.imgur.com/u6Unyu5.mp4 Please tell me if there are any issues with the size of the video, I have difficulties getting it to display correctly on SA. Works fine on Imgur, so no idea what is up with that. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jul 19, 2020 |
# ? Jul 19, 2020 16:08 |
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Just static jpegs for me
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 17:34 |
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Cardiovorax posted:
Don't use timg/img tags on videos, just drop the raw url in and the forums will parse it for you. Won't work in the preview, because the forums are exellently coded.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 17:38 |
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Awful app handles it fine, go figure
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 17:51 |
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Mordja posted:Just static jpegs for me SubNat posted:Don't use timg/img tags on videos, just drop the raw url in and the forums will parse it for you. Won't work in the preview, because the forums are exellently coded. e: anyone have an interest in me trying to capture some high-speed videos of insect flight, now that I know that this works? My new camera can do that, apparently, and thanks to my lavender I have no shortage of subjects. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jul 19, 2020 |
# ? Jul 19, 2020 18:26 |
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My new best friend wolf spider I caught and released back outside. Fish nests. I believe they were bluegills, I got somewhat of a look at them. Found this living barrel in my front yard.
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# ? Jul 19, 2020 20:00 |
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Skratte posted:
Ah, you must live in Transylvania.
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# ? Jul 20, 2020 00:54 |
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hummingbird egg shell! i have gone through some extra work this year to attract them, in addition to the feeders also setting up a small misting system to shoot mist into the air at various intervals during the day which i heard they liked. seems to have worked! edit: had a close encounter with a porcupine last evening and in looking up more info on them today i discovered that 'The male will dance for the female and then urinate on her to get her attention.' Mozi fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jul 21, 2020 |
# ? Jul 20, 2020 13:38 |
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Mozi posted:
I've been considering some hummingbird feeders but I'm not sure they'll show up in Edmonton. I actually saw the porcupine mating display on a morning run a couple years ago. I miss that running route, my new neighbourhood is far less reliable for porcupines.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 15:00 |
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Judging from the map here https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration-spring-2020-map.htm they do make it up there so you could give it a shot next year. Bug sighting, on tomato plant: never seen one like this before!
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 15:53 |
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I think that's a nymph of Acanthocephela terminalis, the black leaf-footed bug, of the true bugs. You'd expect it to be some kind of assassin bug from the appearance, but it seems like it isn't.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 15:58 |
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Mozi posted:Judging from the map here https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration-spring-2020-map.htm they do make it up there so you could give it a shot next year. I think it's a Big-Legged Plant Bug nymph, Acanthocephala terminalis.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 15:59 |
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Cool! I definitely recognize the adult form more. You're right I thought it might be some sort of assassin bug.
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# ? Jul 21, 2020 16:02 |