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Mak0rz posted:Drones are produced throughout most of the season, but this time of year production is kicked up a notch because it's nearly winter and it's time for new queens to mate and start hibernating. This production pattern is called phenology and it varies between species and regions. Ohhh this is the best bumble bee PDF I've come across this afternoon, I think. I only have 2 species observed so far, B. impatiens and B. griseocolis. As an aside the plant I'm observing them on may well be Eupatorium sp, as noted on the B. impatiens sheet there.
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https://youtu.be/Vqwd2A8ECKI otter! 
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the yeti posted:Ohhh this is the best bumble bee PDF I've come across this afternoon, I think. Now I'm curious. How many more did you run into that day?  the yeti posted:I only have 2 species observed so far, B. impatiens and B. griseocolis. Yeah those two are pretty unmistakable. You're luckily on the fringe of B. rufocinctus' recorded range (or at least as reported in that document) and may not encounter them a lot. Those fuckers are a dime a dozen out west. 
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Mak0rz posted:Now I'm curious. How many more did you run into that day? Ah, I misspoke a little, I should have said guide rather than PDF, I find these harder to parse and navigate than the guide you posted by a long shot http://www.bumblebee.org/NorthAmerica.htm http://www.bumblebee.org/NorthAmericaCuckoo.htm Mak0rz posted:Yeah those two are pretty unmistakable. You're luckily on the fringe of B. rufocinctus' recorded range (or at least as reported in that document) and may not encounter them a lot. Those fuckers are a dime a dozen out west. Nice looking but I'd chalk those right up next to Carabidae as far as  to ID
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the yeti posted:Ah, I misspoke a little, I should have said guide rather than PDF, I find these harder to parse and navigate than the guide you posted by a long shot http://www.bumblebee.org/NorthAmerica.htm Ah, yeah the bumblebee.org ones are only so helpful in my experience. I found the PDFs infinitely more useful. I only thumbed through the book by Williams, Thorp, and Colla and haven't really used it, but it seems far better than the USFS ones. Regardless they're all written for laymen, hobbyists, and scholars alike.
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Mak0rz or anyone have any ideas about this one? My friend thinks it may be a leafcutter or mason, I am totally stumped. Found in the vicinity of the bees I posted upthread but on a different day. DSC_5008.jpg by photon_catcher, on Flickr the yeti fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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The mouth parts look so ant-y but the body looks kind of bee ish so I think you found someone's escaped Frankenstein experiment.
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the yeti posted:Mak0rz or anyone have any ideas about this one? My friend thinks it may be a leafcutter or mason, I am totally stumped. Found in the vicinity of the bees I posted upthread but on a different day. You're looking in the wrong direction. Fat head and big jaws makes it look like a megachilid, but its scopae are on the legs. Masons and leafcutters collect pollen only on their bellies! I think it's a sweat bee, Halictus ligatus. I may or may not have found that via the super scientific Google search term "bee with large head." Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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whatever it is, it's adorable
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Mak0rz, where did you move on to after grad school? Do you do insect research now or are you in a totally different field? Not to pry! I am doing a PhD in (non-insect) inverts and I'm always curious what kinds of fields people move into after. eta: gratuitous shot of my study species Lepidurus packardi  eeta: gratuitous shot of S. polymorphia from one of our field sites, shortly before I fled in terror: 
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Mak0rz posted:You're looking in the wrong direction. Fat head and big jaws makes it look like a megachilid, but its scopae are on the legs. Masons and leafcutters collect pollen only on their bellies! I searched for "bee with flat head" haha. Coming up with the right magic words is especially hard when it's bug ID stuff.
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InEscape posted:Mak0rz, where did you move on to after grad school? Do you do insect research now or are you in a totally different field? I went for an M.Sc. and decided not go continue with a Ph.D. (I'm from and went to school in Canada) so YMMV. I spent most of my post graduate life working retail at a mall. Worked a lovely job at a conservation society for s few months, then I got paid peanuts did an research assistant job for a few more months, then I spent a year as a university lab instructor, and now I'm a university lab technician. I still get paid peanuts  InEscape posted:eta: gratuitous shot of my study species Lepidurus packardi Tadpole shrimp are cute lil guys but so weird looking to me. They look like props from an alien sci-fi movie or something. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Here's another bee, maybe Augochlorini?  Halictidae by photon_catcher, on FlickrEd: InEscape posted:eta: gratuitous shot of my study species Lepidurus packardi 
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InEscape posted:
So adorable 
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 Is this a photoshop or a real insect?
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Dejawesp posted:
It's real. It's a male moth. He can inflate those tendril thingies and they stink real good and the ladies love it!
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if you ever wondered what moths had big butts for, the question has been answered: the proportionally biggest, hairiest dicks in the animal kingdom I know they're pheromone thingies and not dicks
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The biggest, smelliest non-dick
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a sexy little otter!
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Mak0rz posted:It's real. It's a male moth. He can inflate those tendril thingies and they stink real good and the ladies love it! Captain Invictus posted:if you ever wondered what moths had big butts for, the question has been answered: the proportionally biggest, hairiest dicks in the animal kingdom If I saw that on my window ledge. I don't even.... I would just burn the house down. There's nothing to retrieve any more. There's no god with twitchy, hairy tentacle penis moth on the window ledge.
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All I can think of with that moth is Tobias Fünke asking if a speedo effectively hides his thunder. There were a few little grasshoppers around, and a considerably bigger one:  Guessing it's a Melanoplus differentialis or something very similar. It didn't give a drat about a lens in its face. 
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 It was in a huge web, weird orb weaver type o' spider?
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spiny orb weaver Gasteracantha cancriformis aka a cute fat baby
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vaguely posted:aka a cute fat baby can confirm
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Forgive the potato phone quality. This lil dude ride in on an empty beehive I'm refinishing: For reference, that crumb of wax beside him is breadcrumb size without zoom. The little spider is less than a cm; maybe even half that. He was a shy guy and ran away from me. I think he might build webs, based on what was inside the hive, but they're not the orbspinner type of webs. More like a dryer sheet.
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could be some kind of sac spider, there are so many similar species that are difficult to tell apart especially without a location they don't generally use their webs for hunting (they're active hunters like wolf spiders) but will make themselves a little silk sleeping bag to rest in
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I'm in southern New England if that helps he was a cute lil dude. There's so much silk in the hive right now that I'm not sure what was very ambitious wax moths and what was spiders tbh. First tiny spider I've seen that I thought looked kinda chubby. Please do not explode into thousands of minute babies, new housemate.
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During vacation in Portugal this August i found this fella   It's an asian predatory wasp (Vespa vellutina), a hornet originally from Asia that has become invasive in Europe since it was introduced by accident via ceramic shipment to Bordeaux from China in 2005. Since then it has steadily spread throughout most of France and to Northern Iberia. In Portugal it is present so far in the Northern and northcentral parts of the country. Main ecological concerns are potential threat to local pollinators and possible competetion with the similar (but slightly larger) indigenous European Hornet (Vespa crabro). Also a threat to beekeepers, as they are, above all, excellent honey bee killers, probably the more measurable impact they've had so far. They're pretty though. Despite having seen them before this is the first good picture i've gotten of them, when they buzz around flowers to pollinate (which is when i mostly encounter them) they don't stay put for long. But the glass of lemon water really drew the full attention of the wasp, even overstaying its welcome after i was done taking pictures. Not keen to remove or shoo away a hornet, i let it stay and came back later to retrieve the glass. Falukorv fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Falukorv posted:During vacation in Portugal this August i found this fella Awesome! I never have any luck photographing wasps, they're just always so dang busy!
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Oh yeah! I forgot to post this. It's converted from phone video, so the gif is a bit janky. I'm guessing it's a cooper's hawk? We saw this guy chilling in a residential median in southern New England, if that helps. He's just chowing down on a gray squirrel. A woman gazing deeply into her iPhone walked past him, less than a foot of space between them, without apparently noticing an enormous bird of prey. And that bird is pretty freaking big -- almost as big as a bald eagle.
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A friend in Ghana is asking Facebook what this thing that she just killed is. Any takers?
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:Oh yeah! I forgot to post this. It's converted from phone video, so the gif is a bit janky. I'm guessing it's a cooper's hawk? We saw this guy chilling in a residential median in southern New England, if that helps. Yeah that's a cooper's hawk. Great video! (and good on him for eating those pesky grey squirrels...) I'd be sick if I'd missed something like that due to staring at my phone while walking.
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Beeswax posted:A friend in Ghana is asking Facebook what this thing that she just killed is. Any takers? It's a mud dauber. They murder spiders and stuff them into tubes.
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Mak0rz posted:It's a mud dauber. They FTFY
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ExecuDork posted:FTFY Actually yeah this is more accurate and also more hardcore
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Sounds dreadful. Thanks!
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Saw a bird. https://imgur.com/a/taL5W
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Falukorv posted:During vacation in Portugal this August i found this fella Ffffffuuuuuck wasps. (great photos)
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Dick Trauma posted:Ffffffuuuuuck wasps. (great photos) They’re not that bad, these hornets bother you far less than regular yellowjackets. Literally never been stung by a hornet, which is more than I can say about bumblebees.
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