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  Couple of chonky caterpillars finishing up the milkweed, will have to find some more for them to eat. If I'm lucky they'll cocoon nearby and can get more pictures.  Big patch of thyme in the lawn.   The pollinators like it a lot.
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I wasn't getting onto anyone, it's just always good to rep natives whenever possible. While most exotics aren't necessarily invasive, I believe it's been found that once a landcape drops below ~70% native plants, it can no longer support chickadees/insectivorous birds, so it is important!
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Big slugge.
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this little guy got blown into me by the fan at work a really pretty pink and slightly off-white coloring on the wings this lady set up shop in the corner of my back door's frame at around the start of the lockdowns and has been there ever since. I even caught her with her romantic partner once, and recently the fruits of her labor have manifested! 
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Is that one of those species where the males are itty bitty?
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The Red Queen posted:Is that one of those species where the males are itty bitty?
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BlancoNino posted:
drat that's a cool critter
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Aug 29, 2020 19:06
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ID request on this fella!
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The size of that ovipositor!
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Captain Invictus posted:this little guy got blown into me by the fan at work
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its all nice on rice posted:ID request on this fella! Here's a close up of your pic:   Probably some kind of Braconid (parasitic wasp).
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Captain Invictus posted:this lady set up shop in the corner of my back door's frame at around the start of the lockdowns and has been there ever since. I even caught her with her romantic partner once, and recently the fruits of her labor have manifested! 
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Telebite posted:Here's a close up of your pic: gently caress yeah nature is 
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Telebite posted:Here's a close up of your pic: Did you do this with some sort of neural network image upscaling? I've got a whole load of photos I'd love to sharpen up like this.
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treat posted:Did you do this with some sort of neural network image upscaling? I've got a whole load of photos I'd love to sharpen up like this. Edit: no wait, there is some upscaling done on the second one there! It looks great.
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treat posted:Did you do this with some sort of neural network image upscaling? I've got a whole load of photos I'd love to sharpen up like this. Yes! Gigapixel. Can't get enough of loving around with it. 
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I was getting some pictures off a memory card today and I came across a bunch of birds I may or may not have posted before. The usual winter crew:      A less common winter visitor:   Flickers have so much going on with their plumage, they look like some kind of Frankenstein bird. The usual summer crew:     Lots of juvenile corvids around - they're always so fun to watch!
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Cool! I see a ton of those bird feeder denizens pretty regularly. My feeder is dominated by cardinals but Carolina Chickadees straight up don't give a gently caress and get their lunch whenever and wherever. Hairy woodpeckers warrant some caution among the regulars but the flickers, thrashers, and bigger woodpeckers dominate everyone else. About half of our Cardinals have mites and they are literally bald, it's kind of a bummer to see but it apparently is more cosmetic than fatal. Bluebirds, Blue Jays, and corvids don't give a gently caress and don't hang around the feeder proper.
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Saw this cute Southern Flying Squirrel last night. He didn't fly over to my feeder but climbed on my roof and slid down the birdfeeder pole like a fireman.
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Couple of doves had been nesting/raising sequential babies for four/five months up on my front porch. Guess they’re finished, because the nest is knocked down and there’s no sign of repair. Got a photo of mom, dad and last chicklet a few days ago. Edit: or are those two chicklets? Mister Mind fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Hey, wild horses. The stallion is sporting the darker coat and consistently positions himself between us and his harem. The ladies are so good at hiding the smaller foal from sight I might not have even realized it was there if I hadn't gotten the drop on them. You can just about see her tiny toosh in the first two photos.   A mormon cricket searching for a place to lay her eggs. The ground here was as soft as powder and she spent all evening waddling around our campsite stuffing her ovipositor into the dirt for a few minutes before looking for another spot.   Some other crickets have bigger problems. I appreciate the acrobatics   A folded-wing skipper (Wallengrenia egeremet), I think. This isn't part of their natural range but butterflies get around   A young gopher snake I backed into a corner.  And this milk chocolate dream boat is the most gorgeous calf I've ever seen, I can't get over him. I hope he's gotten over his little cough by now. 
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treat posted:And this milk chocolate dream boat is the most gorgeous calf I've ever seen, I can't get over him. I hope he's gotten over his little cough by now. Gosh, I hope he isn’t a little...horse  Edit: Dad, it’s a calf.
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Mister Mind posted:Gosh, I hope he isn’t a little...horse Right, horses have 4 of those.
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so do calves, oddly enough
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Captain Invictus posted:this little guy got blown into me by the fan at work So beautiful 
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treat posted:A mormon cricket searching for a place to lay her eggs. The ground here was as soft as powder and she spent all evening waddling around our campsite stuffing her ovipositor into the dirt for a few minutes before looking for another spot.
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Free Cheese posted:Using plants native to your area for your plantings is far and above the best way to foster local wildlife, especially pollinators I have a resident population of these dudes in my yard because I planted a bunch of coontie, their larval host plant, and firebush, among other native flowering bushes and plants. Tons of other less-endangered native butterflies, and the occasional hummingbird to go with them. Starting to get migratory orioles in my beauty-berry bushes, too.
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Gulf Fritillary and Zebra Longwing (pretty sure). We have a couple native species of passion vines out back. They love that Tithonia too.  
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Cardiovorax posted:What a lovely shot. Are they as big as those images make her look? You have no idea  They're also all over the place. I commonly see crop dusters out in the field dropping bait/insecticide pellets along along the highways to lure them away from the road. Once a swarm crosses the pavement and gets mooshed by tires, thousands more swarm to feast on the corpses and meet the same fate. The road quickly becomes slippery with bug guts and creates a pretty serious traffic hazard. I've posted this one before but it's a good example of what it looks like after they've come and gone  
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Zebra Longwing (pretty sure). Yes, you are correct! They're so pretty. I have yet to have any caterpillars, even though I have three big passionflower plants in my backyard. I can get the fritillaries all day long, but no longwing babies. 
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Skutter posted:Yes, you are correct! They're so pretty. I have yet to have any caterpillars, even though I have three big passionflower plants in my backyard. I can get the fritillaries all day long, but no longwing babies. Cool, I'll have to keep an eye out and see if I can find any caterpillars. I've never seen these here before, but this year I have more flowers than usual.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiYUzpvn-mQ anybody have any idea? it is living in a puddle made when a carboard box was rained on. it has a small black head. northeast US
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Horsehair worm, perhaps?
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yep that seems like it, thanks!
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Yeah, I agree, that's definitely what this looks like. If you had looked more closely, I bet you could've found the host body that it escaped from.
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Saw this guy while I was looking for mushrooms to shoot. I was sure he was a salamander until I got a close look and spotted the scales.  Apparently young ground skinks are just a bit salamandery.
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Eastern tiger swallowtail (dark female coloring)
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Yeah, that looks about right. Was the topside bright yellow? e: sorry, I swear I saw a question mark in there somewhere before I posted. My eyes clearly aren't what they used to be...
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Cardiovorax posted:Yeah, that looks about right. Was the topside bright yellow? It's fine I almost put a question mark. I'm not a butterfly person, but I'm trying to learn them. From what I understand the dark form does not really have any yellow. We have yellow ones flying around here too though.
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