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Falukorv posted:This swallowtail chose a weird place to take a rest.
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 A friend of mine found this in Madrid, about 4 cm long. Anyone know what it is?
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Aug 25, 2018 20:10
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Looks like a watch.
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Aug 25, 2018 20:15
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OneTwentySix posted:Looks like a watch. Solved! Thank you
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Aug 25, 2018 20:18
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looks like a mammoth wasp Megascolia maculata / Scolia flavifrons (different names for the same bugg) largest wasp species in Europe apparently, cool find! harmless to humans as well
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Aug 25, 2018 20:28
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Thank you!
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Aug 25, 2018 20:39
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Left my house for about four hours the other day and this dude had built a web five feet wide by four feet tall about a foot off the ground, directly in the middle of my driveway. He was trying to catch a car, as far as I can tell. I had to break his web, but he was back again tonight so I got a better picture. He’s an industrious little dude. 
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Aug 26, 2018 02:05
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Found two wasp spiders (Argiope bruennichi and A. lobata I believe). I’m rarely afraid of spiders but these guys scare me more than tarantulas. A gut thing, I know they’re harmless. 
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Aug 28, 2018 22:35
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If there's a new thread title then I feel a need to bring up the Sad Doot again. It's still unidentified, right?
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Aug 29, 2018 01:06
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All four of the swallowtail cats are still around and growing. Dude in the front is the biggest and greenest of the bunch:
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Falukorv posted:Found two wasp spiders (Argiope bruennichi and A. lobata I believe). I’m rarely afraid of spiders but these guys scare me more than tarantulas. A gut thing, I know they’re harmless. Still in Portugal? Argiope bruennichi is common in certain places in Sweden now. I have seen it near Stockholm and on Öland. If you see a female in her web, always look for the male too. He's tiny and usually hiding in a corner.  Image from here: http://www.mikethurnerimages.co.uk/_photo_11772222.html
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Aug 29, 2018 09:57
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Also found some of them in a couple of places in Skåne. It's spread pretty rapidly since it was first sighted in the wild. I don't think it's been classified as invasive. Beautiful spider.
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Aug 29, 2018 13:59
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The Red Queen posted:If there's a new thread title then I feel a need to bring up the Sad Doot again. It's still unidentified, right? I haven't heard of this and now I'm curious.
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Sad Doot is a strange, hairy, poop-like creature that has defied identification from our large panel of experts. EDIT: Ah here we go...  quote:Sad Doot - the unidentified blob thing from SA - was found outside Duluth, Minnesota in July Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 18:05
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axolotl farmer posted:Still in Portugal? Argiope bruennichi is common in certain places in Sweden now. I have seen it near Stockholm and on Öland. Yes I am. I’ve heard about their increasing range in Sweden but haven’t seen any myself yet. Know people who have though (mostly in southern Sweden/Skåneland). At this moment I’m walking in a nature reserve and found two more female Argiope lobiata, and sure enough, there was a tiny male in the corner of both webs. I’ll put up a picture when I get home. It was challenging to get them both in the same picture as they were far apart and their sizes differ so much, had to take several takes to get the little Mr. Spider in focus. From a distance that covers both, the camera struggles to focus both spiders hanging freely in a net with a grassy background. Are male spiders of this genus in danger of being eaten by the female? Anything else would surprise me. Death by snu-snu! Falukorv fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Aug 31, 2018 |
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Aug 31, 2018 13:54
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Wikipedia posted:The differences of size of these male spiders actually allows the males to come into contact with the females in relation to their orb webs. The male Argiope bruennichi are able to enter into the female's orb and thus make their webs without being detected as prey and thus eaten before they are able to mate, a major fitness advantage. 
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Aug 31, 2018 16:53
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 Looks like "traumatic insemination" has a challenger.
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Aug 31, 2018 18:41
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Answer was better than I hoped! Anyway, here is mr and mrs Argiope lobiata. The male is marked with the red circle. It is from the camera display so bear with me, I don’t have my computer with me. 
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Have to show one of the Argiope females we spotted last year: Also found this pretty lady (?) at a local plant nursery. Anyone know off the cuff what it is? 
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Aug 31, 2018 20:23
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Araneus diadematus, garden spider she's a pretty one 
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Aug 31, 2018 20:59
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Bugs! Monarch Butterfly  Some sort of bee mimic flower fly  Jumping spider keeping some eyes on me  A wheel bug chilling waiting for a meal  Whole lotta polinating with a bumble bee, a honey bee, and some sort of wasp in the back  Zabulon Skipper posing
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Well, I tried to snap a shot of an odd flying insect today but failed. (My camera just isn't good enough, the bug is invisible in the pics I took.) Perhaps someone might have an idea of what it was anyway and is willing to humor me? I'll be taking a better camera with me when I visit those hives next week, so perhaps I'll get a second chance... I'm in southern New England. The bug looked like a carpenter bee in size and shape, and had the same all black body -- it definitely didn't have a waspy shape. However, it also had dusty, blue-gray fur and a fuzzy butt, and that didn't appear to be due to rolling around in pollen or something. The mystery bug was hovering around the entrance to a honeybee hive around 10 a.m. We hit a bit of a dearth of nectar here thanks to no recent rain, so it's not unusual for bees and wasps to scout hives and attempt robberies. Osmia ribifloris seems unlikely, since that bee seems limited to out west and was much more colorful than what I saw. The body shape is right, but this bug didn't look metallic and had that fuzzy butt. While hunting around for possible leads, I found this bit of news from spring: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-promising-backup-to-the-honeybee-is-shut-down/
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Sep 6, 2018 22:29
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I have a mud dauber nest in my bbq. I was wondering, the daubers seem to come outside every so often and sit on the outside beating their wings while standing in place, are they trying to cool down or something? There is a thermometer on the outside of the q and it's reading near 170 Fahrenheit. They're kind of cute
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Sep 6, 2018 22:56
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there are at least 8 house spiders clustered around my back door and all their babies have hatched this week
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Sep 6, 2018 23:26
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These little guys are everywhere!! This one looks like it's trying to hide in the foliage, but it's on the wrong side of the window. When I left for work this afternoon I noticed a dark spot on my aloe plant. I hoped it was a spider friend, but I didn't expect it to have food with it!   That may be the best picture I've ever taken with my phone. IDs would be appreciated. Central Arkansas USA
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your spider looks like everybody's buddy Phidippus audax (bold jumping spider) she looks like she's had a lot of success hunting! fatty fat butt 
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  Two toads found waddling and hopping around. The dryness we had in Sweden made me worried for our Amphibian friends, a great amount of ponds and swampy areas were completely dried out, but the toads atleast seem fine.
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Sep 9, 2018 21:12
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You're not fooling me, buster! 
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Sep 11, 2018 23:40
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That isn't realistic! Patterning suggests a spadefoot toad, but they have vertical pupils.
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Also, ten inches seems like a real big toad.
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Shifty Nipples posted:Also, ten inches seems like a real big toad. You should see my hog.
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Literally A Person posted:You should see my hog. What does a motorcycle have to do with the length of amphibians?
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Dick Trauma posted:You're not fooling me, buster! I legitimately have one of these, it is sitting right next to me with his buddies  It has started to crack sadly, the mouth is now open in a surprisingly realistic but unintended way
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Welp, looks like I've got a house centipede sharing the place with me now. On second thought I should have ran for a bowl instead of a camera because now I'm not sure where it went. He's a big one, an absolute unit. I live in a studio apartment so I've some trepidation; hopefully he sticks to the walls and floor...
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House centipedes look scary, but they're really very good for your home. They eat lots of pests!
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Yeah I looked it up and they're basically harmless/beneficial. It's just that he showed up on the wall above my desk, which is next to my bed and I'm just hoping he doesn't get cold and want to cuddle when I go to sleep.
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speaking of harmless/beneficial bugs, it's been a big cicada year but almost every cidada I've seen this summer was already spider food. good job everyone!
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Sorry for the bad phone pic, would anyone be able to identify this spider? It was maybe 3 inches wide and I'm in Colorado.
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house centipedes are basically like tiny cats- -fast moving ambush predator that provides pest control -loves warmth (thus their moving into houses when the weather gets cool) -groom themselves regularly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAheSfKEbHA
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Apple Jax posted:Sorry for the bad phone pic, would anyone be able to identify this spider? It was maybe 3 inches wide and I'm in Colorado. looks like Tegenaria sp. or a close relative, hard to say more than that I think
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