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YETI I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE A CAT I NEED TO PET. And critters.
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 This is the first time I've ever gotten a look at a cicada up close. They were very polite and held very still for me to get a good picture!
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Jul 9, 2018 23:09
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The barn swallows at work hatched FOUR hideous babies!
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Jul 10, 2018 01:30
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"That's a weird big leaf stuck to this concrete pillar...  "Solid 5"+ wingspan Polyphemus, the first I've ever encountered. drat, Saturniidae are awesome.  (I moved her away from the busy bus stop wall where someone might lean on her or freak out.) (Assuming her based on wispy antennae?)
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Jul 10, 2018 02:03
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Jul 10, 2018 07:34
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Kith posted:
I'm always struck by how beautiful their wings are. That's a really cool picture
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Thank you! My only regret is that I didn't have something stronger than my phone on me. The picture I snapped doesn't do justice to just how iridescent its wings were.
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Jul 10, 2018 12:48
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These guys are fairly common here on Vancouver island. I'm not sure what it is (the potatophone picture doesn't help), but lookit those chompers!
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A couple of months ago we found a fairly large snake shed near the flower garden, so we knew we had snakes around, just not what type or quantity. Today, we almost stepped on a young garter snake slithering through the yard.  I hope we see more garters soon, they're so neat!
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DavidAlltheTime posted:These guys are fairly common here on Vancouver island. I'm not sure what it is (the potatophone picture doesn't help), but lookit those chompers! Do you have an overhead photo? Looks a bit like Calosoma sp. and relatives; they put a hurtin on caterpillars with those jaws my cat is norris posted:YETI I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE A CAT I NEED TO PET. And critters. Lmao the yeti fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jul 11, 2018 |
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Jul 11, 2018 04:30
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My pal ID'd it as Omus dejeani - I like that it's a relatively ancient species!
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DavidAlltheTime posted:My pal ID'd it as Omus dejeani - I like that it's a relatively ancient species! 'Night stalking tiger beetle' 
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the yeti posted:Lmao I saw the pictures. I was told, in detail, about the warmth and weirdness. I need in on that.
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I took some better photos of the swallow babies, including probably the best timed photo I'll take ever. Also, apparently sometimes males will commit infanticide to get females ready to mate again, and I'm concerned that's what almost happened today when a THIRD swallow flew up and mom and dad chased him away. More joined the fray and there was temporarily a swallow tornado (I counted six adults!) in the open garage area they're in until the intruders gave up and flew away. 
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Jul 12, 2018 08:26
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D'awwww. They're so cute! A male eastern box turtle looking for snails (hint: there's one right along the right edge of the photo, yummy.) 
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So I finally got those pics from my trip to Cape Breton off my camera. It's an old thing and I lost the cord what plugs into my computer and had to order a new one but here they are, like, a month late.  Anyway, enjoy some crappily composited critters.       These last two are cheating because they're from a wilderness park but whatever I got to handfeed reindeer and baby bears.   Not pictured, but seen: a couple super chill porcupines trundling along and what we're pretty sure was a juvenile lynx that ran across the road in front of us on the Cabot Trail.
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Baby bears are cool. I have yet to see them but apparently there's a lot rolling through the TN valley right now due to their seasonal migration westward or something. I keep looking around the nearby state park in hopes of seeing one. One for the thread title. 
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Found a bug I've never seen on my roof in nyc before, there's two of them of slightly different colors: Wings are weird to be a horsefly. It flies weirdly like a beetle with a big doofy abdomen hanging down, but obviously no elytra. Keep them around or gently caress em up?
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Found a bug I've never seen on my roof in nyc before, there's two of them of slightly different colors: Looks like a tiger bee fly to me: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2803
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Neat, I've even got some Xylocopa for it to parasitize Thanks!!
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Jul 19, 2018 23:29
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This spider had a wizard hat and a sack lunch. 
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the yeti posted:Looks like a tiger bee fly to me: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2803 Whoa, thanks for this. One of these was pestering me at my front door a couple days ago and I didn't know what it was. Makes sense we'd have them, we've got a bumper crop of carpenter bees.
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Hmm found some “pests” this week. Hope they wandered in from the outside, haven’t found any infestation, just these two specimens. What I think is a larder beetle on a curtain. Haven’t found any others of its kind, nor any infested food or larvae.  Mealworm, found in my work building. Presumably flew in from one of our open windows. Has and still is an abnormally warm and dry summer where I live.
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A couple of critters I happened across in Mexico 
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This is a velvet mite. The early stages are parasites on insects, and later stages are predators that live in soil and leaf litter.
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Vakal posted:Yesterday my cat was causing a fuss in the woods behind my house so I went to take a look and he had some sort of rodent cornered under a tree. I managed to get a picture before it ran away. Looks like it could be a numbat. But why you would see one of them in Canada is beyond me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbat 
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What's this? Friend though it was some sort of Carabidae, but I don't think so. Head, legs and antennas are too thick and the scutella is too prominent. Edit: Sorry - found in southern Sweden, about 4 cm long. Looks like a Cerambycidae to me - might it be P. coriarius? anatomi fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Jul 24, 2018 |
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anatomi posted:What's this? Friend though it was some sort of Carabidae, but I don't think so. Head, legs and antennas are too thick and the scutella is too prominent. I think that's a solid guess. It's def Prionus unless Europe has some lookalike genera.
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anatomi posted:What's this? Friend though it was some sort of Carabidae, but I don't think so. Head, legs and antennas are too thick and the scutella is too prominent. Definitely Prionus coriarius. Taggbock in Swedish. Cool find, they’re gorgeous!
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So, a few weeks ago a critter got into my outdoor nesting box and ate a couple dozen of my pupas. The sole survivor just emerged today, big pretty female Eacles imperialis.  
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Slo-Tek posted:So, a few weeks ago a critter got into my outdoor nesting box and ate a couple dozen of my pupas. The sole survivor just emerged today, big pretty female Eacles imperialis. Aw, sorry to hear about that. What sort of protections do you have around your outdoor boxes, do you have pictures of the enclosures themselves?
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Hey I wanna give this thread a new title, give me some suggestions!
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Critterquest 2018: We Forgot to Make a New Thread
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I've always thought that Duke of Cornwall was a pretty good title.
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OneTwentySix posted:I've always thought that Duke of Cornwall was a pretty good title. hey "Duke of Burgundy" is an actual critter if we're going that route!
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