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free hubcaps posted:
It's definitely a meadowhawk of some kind, perhaps ruby or cherry-faced. They're very hard to distinguish. Very cool color. Couple of shots of a red-tailed hawk hanging out next to the road yesterday:  
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Aug 15, 2018 21:21
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Hey i was in grand tetons (lol) and there were these cool grasshoppers (?) that make clickety clackety sounds when they fly, what are they called?
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Aug 15, 2018 21:29
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What's with this thing I found? It looks like a bee except it's the size of a pebble. I could barely see it.    
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Aug 17, 2018 05:59
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Pyromaniac Ida posted:What's with this thing I found? It looks like a bee except it's the size of a pebble. I could barely see it. Long Horned Bee. 200 species in 14 genuses, so may need a bee-person to get much past that. https://bugguide.net/node/view/8019
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Aug 17, 2018 06:00
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Slo-Tek posted:Long Horned Bee. 200 species in 14 genuses, so may need a bee-person to get much past that. Awesome 
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Aug 17, 2018 06:06
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Everybody loves owls.  
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Aug 19, 2018 05:28
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Yes we do
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Everybody loves owls. It is known. I had a burrowing owl hanging out on my mailbox this morning. 
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Aug 19, 2018 11:56
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holy poo poo those are some nice owls
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Aug 19, 2018 14:29
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I found a tiny little bunny? Rabbit?  Also a (I think) Pileated Woodpecker. He was lower, but by the time I grabbed my camera, he'd gone farther up the tree, and I don't have a great zoom on my lense. 
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Aug 19, 2018 21:32
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Really small crab spider lurking in a zinnia. Zinnia petals are not large.
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Aug 19, 2018 23:22
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Slo-Tek posted:Really small crab spider lurking in a zinnia. Zinnia petals are not large. He's waving!!!!
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Aug 19, 2018 23:59
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Slo-Tek posted:Really small crab spider lurking in a zinnia. Zinnia petals are not large. they're always happy to see you!
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vaguely posted:holy poo poo those are some nice owls the first owl's free, but after that I gotta charge ya... 
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Aug 20, 2018 00:58
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its all nice on rice posted:I found a tiny little bunny? Rabbit? Marsh Rabbit and Pileated woodpecker, ya. Where were the pics taken?
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Aug 20, 2018 02:53
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Ooh, I love pileated woodpeckers.
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Aug 20, 2018 03:43
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MrYenko posted:Marsh Rabbit and Pileated woodpecker, ya. Where were the pics taken? Millersylvania State Park. Just south of Olympia, WA.
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Aug 20, 2018 04:17
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On vacation in Portugal, a lot of critters around.  European bee wolf. Hard to believe that this little cutie is an avid bee hunter.  An antlion.  Large gorgeous butterfly, a swallow tail (Papilion macaon, presumably).  Sphecid wasp (Bembix sp. ?)  Indian walking stick (Caurasus morosus). Popular as a pet, introduced species from Asia that has established wild populations now in the Iberian peninsula.
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Aug 20, 2018 09:39
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Almost forgot! Found a Hymenopteran (Ammophila or something similar?)carrying its caterpillar prey. Quality is bad though. 
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Aug 20, 2018 09:43
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its all nice on rice posted:Millersylvania State Park. Just south of Olympia, WA. Welp, it’s not a marsh rabbit.  I know ya’ll have invasive eastern cottontails, but the ears are REAL small for that.
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Aug 20, 2018 09:48
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Had a good caterpillar day. Turns out, Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillars are not particularly fluorescent under LED blacklight. Still slightly easier to find since the leaves turn red, and the cat stays green, but not glow-y like Snowberry Clearwing cats are. Spicebush Swallowtail:    
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So is that the head or the butt wiggling around at you?
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my cat is norris posted:So is that the head or the butt wiggling around at you? It's the head - they're mimicking snakes to scare off predators
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If spicebush swallowtail caterpillars are kinda UV duds, I assume other swallowtail species' caterpillars would be too, but have you tried any others?
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Anne Whateley posted:If spicebush swallowtail caterpillars are kinda UV duds, I assume other swallowtail species' caterpillars would be too, but have you tried any others? Interesting hypothesis. Have UV pestered both Black Swallowtails and Monarchs, and they are both not that bright compared to Lunas and Snowberrys. Maybe a butterfly vs. moth situation? Dunno. Will test more. Speaking of, freshly eclosed this morning Snowberry Clearwing Moth. They have black scales on their wings when they emerge that shed once they take flight leaving the clear substrate. Love these whimsy space-shrimps.    and here is a caterpillar and an action shot from years previous.  
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Slo-Tek posted:Interesting hypothesis. Have UV pestered both Black Swallowtails and Monarchs, and they are both not that bright compared to Lunas and Snowberrys. Maybe a butterfly vs. moth situation? Dunno. Will test more. I remember I saw one of these and when I described it to my parents they said I was lying.
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Aug 21, 2018 17:08
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Nother one emerged today, took a five second buzz around the bug box, shook her wing scales off.
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They really do look like some kind of adorable bee/shrimp abomination
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At least in flight they're usually compared to hummingbirds, but they're super cute regardless!Slo-Tek posted:Interesting hypothesis. Have UV pestered both Black Swallowtails and Monarchs, and they are both not that bright compared to Lunas and Snowberrys. Maybe a butterfly vs. moth situation? Dunno. Will test more.
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Aug 21, 2018 23:26
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Man this is such an awesome shot. Great photo. One last portrait of the eurasian eagle-owl. I'll be working with the wildlife center taking care of these and a lot of other birds in the near future, hopefully all will be as photogenic as this fella! 
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I went to a music festival in northern Saskatchewan last month, and they had a garden full of flowers and insects. Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0007 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0008 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0010 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0012 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0013 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0014 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Ness Creek 2018 The Forest Garden-0015 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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Slo-Tek posted:Nother one emerged today, took a five second buzz around the bug box, shook her wing scales off. i think apart from all the other cute things about them, it's their cartoon antennae that i like the best 
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we have a hydrangea bush outside that has been swarming with all sorts of bees and flies and the like this summer, but the other day I saw a fly(?) that was cool looking and that I hadn’t seen before. It was a good size since I thought it was a bald faced hornet at first, but when I looked closer I noticed it was a blueish-black fly or bee. The two most distinguishing characteristics where that its abdomen was wide and kind of flattened looking, and that it had dark wings that it held straight out to the side at rest unlike how they appear swept back on most bees and flies I encounter. it was probably about the size of a honey bee or yellowjacket I’ve been trying to get a photo but havn’t seen him since, if anyone could help with id based on the description alone that’d be awesome! (Southeastern CT)
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Aug 22, 2018 20:11
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There was a fly posted upthread that sounds like what you're describing. Tiger fly or something like that.  Bumblebee covered in pale pollen from nearby rose of Sharon shrubs.  Pale furred bumblebee on something I was assured isn't a pepperbush. 🤔 There were a lot of these girls with pale almost white in some cases fuzz. Then your usual sunnier yellow colored bumbles and carpenters too.  Some sort of tiny solitary bee I reckon. Her head was triangular shaped and all black. She stayed in the base of this blossom for hours.  Marking a Carniolan honeybee queen.
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My parsley plant is now home to a some Eastern black swallowtail caterpillars. Early(ish?) instar:  This fella leveled up: 
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free hubcaps posted:we have a hydrangea bush outside that has been swarming with all sorts of bees and flies and the like this summer, but the other day I saw a fly(?) that was cool looking and that I hadn’t seen before. It was a good size since I thought it was a bald faced hornet at first, but when I looked closer I noticed it was a blueish-black fly or bee. Could it have been a carpenter bee? Although they aren’t that flattened and the ones I know in Europe are larger than honey bees and yellow jackets (even larger than bumblebees).
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Aug 24, 2018 11:24
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Found some more cool bugs in a Portuguese nature reserve. Cool as gently caress robber fly (genus Saropogon probably).  Dragonflies mating (Orthetrum cancellatum).  Swallow-tail (Papilio machaon).  Scoliid wasp. One of few insects that still put me on edge, they’re harmless but my gut feelings hasn’t adjusted to that fact. Those mandibles though! Falukorv fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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Aug 24, 2018 11:35
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This swallowtail chose a weird place to take a rest. Maybe it was stuck, anyway I removed it and it flew away. Even if it wasn’t stuck it would suck for it to be there when that car eventually drove away. Falukorv fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Aug 24, 2018 |
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free hubcaps posted:we have a hydrangea bush outside that has been swarming with all sorts of bees and flies and the like this summer, but the other day I saw a fly(?) that was cool looking and that I hadn’t seen before. It was a good size since I thought it was a bald faced hornet at first, but when I looked closer I noticed it was a blueish-black fly or bee. Do a GIS for Mydas fly.
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