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This little jumper welcomed us to a beautiful campsite on an island in a large lake in northwestern Ontario, in July. Blueberry-Pike Island-0004 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Blueberry-Pike Island-0005 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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Okay what kind of bee is this (on the left). It was huge, about an inch long, and way different than the normal bees I'm used to seeing around here (on the right). This was in the Heronswood Botanical Garden near Kingston, WA.  She's so pretty! Edit: or maybe it's a hornet or wasp? Anony Mouse fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Oct 5, 2018 21:14
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Anony Mouse posted:Okay what kind of bee is this (on the left). It was huge, about an inch long, and way different than the normal bees I'm used to seeing around here (on the right). Looks like a great example of a great golden digger wasp. Cool find!
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Oct 5, 2018 21:22
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I couldnt get a picture because my drat phone was dead but I was working at a wedding tonight on an old farm and after sunset I watched a skunk foraging for grubs about 20 feet away for a good 10 minutes, it was really funny and kinda cute. The weird thing is that I was able to get a really good long look at it and I swear that it was a hooded skunk, which should be nowhere near connecticut. Does anyone know if they are ever vagrants in the northeast? Oddly enough I saw a (native)striped skunk on a different part of the property a while later, so it was pretty easy to contrast the two.
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Oct 7, 2018 05:13
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I mean...it could be an escaped pet or something. Or a pet that was dumped? Or maybe it's just a striped skunk with some leucism?
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Oct 7, 2018 06:20
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I saw a black bear lazily walking down the opposite side of the road in the Poconos recently. Never seen a bear before in my life. Dude driving ahead of me totally stopped his car and I was like "wtf is this dude doing" but then the bear meandered past. I tried to take a picture but it went off into the woods. Pretty dang cool though
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Oct 7, 2018 20:52
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Found this beautiful lady on a hike in the Rockies.
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Oct 8, 2018 01:07
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Striped skunks really vary enormously in coloration imo. In a New England backyard, in different years, I've seen ones with nearly no black and ones with nearly no white, and a broad variety in between.
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Oct 8, 2018 01:15
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i like nice words
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New Pupa, who dis? Found a good sized pupa on a bike trail through tall grass on an industrial brownfield. Assuming it is a Sphinx moth, but it doesn't have the separated jug-handle sheath for its proboscis like a Manduca sp. Be cool if it was not roasted by the pavement, and also if it were a Pandorus sphinx. https://imgur.com/a/yLI0QF8
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Oct 8, 2018 02:12
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 I don't know what this wiggle worm is. Just found him the weekend before in the Adirondacks of upstate NY.
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Oct 8, 2018 19:36
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:
You are correct. That is a professional Wiggle Worm and from his coloration I’m pretty sure that he loves you
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Oct 8, 2018 23:54
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Aesop Poprock posted:You are correct. That is a professional Wiggle Worm and from his coloration I’m pretty sure that he loves you  We actually saw a few of these guys dooting around. I've seen fuzzy black caterpillars elsewhere that seem fairly similar. Something about all that fuzz makes me leery about touching them though...
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Oct 9, 2018 05:02
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:
Maybe a type of tussock moth caterpillar, named bc of those little tufts of hair. They itch/burn fosho but i would too if someone was messing with my fashionable coat
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Oct 9, 2018 12:47
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I have a love/hate relationship with caterpillars.
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Oct 9, 2018 16:44
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When I was a kid I would see these guys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrharctia_isabella) every year, but I haven't seen one in probably twenty years. I miss them they were cool dudes.
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Oct 9, 2018 17:09
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This pretty lady was hunting for something under my hammock among the pine-needle-litter and lichens on the island we camped on in July. North-western Ontario, White Otter Lake. Blueberry-Pike Island Wasp-0001 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Blueberry-Pike Island Wasp-0002 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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Oct 9, 2018 17:27
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  Found these two on one of the new coonties I brought home. Super excited. 
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Oct 11, 2018 22:16
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ExecuDork posted:This pretty lady was hunting for something under my hammock among the pine-needle-litter and lichens on the island we camped on in July. North-western Ontario, White Otter Lake. Ichneumonid parasite wasp. Looking for insect larvae to lay eggs in.
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Oct 12, 2018 08:29
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Saw this in my backyard the other day... not sure exactly what it is but I'm intrigued https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfbPGXcMLM
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Oct 12, 2018 08:33
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lmao this rear end in a top hat's never seen a cat
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Oct 13, 2018 20:19
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Pick posted:lmao this rear end in a top hat's never seen a cat maybe u can ID these things I found going through my garbage can last night, they were v loud 
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Oct 13, 2018 22:30
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Mushrooms are sort of animals yeah? What are these growing in my garden?   They're all over the place. Asked a friend and he said he doesn't know but said not to eat them.
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Oct 16, 2018 14:57
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Pyromaniac Ida posted:Mushrooms are sort of animals yeah? we have a mushroom thread! but that said just like with everything else ID related it helps to know where you are. Also in this case, what kind of trees are around your garden.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:31
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the yeti posted:we have a mushroom thread! but that said just like with everything else ID related it helps to know where you are. Also in this case, what kind of trees are around your garden. Awesome.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:57
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vacation pics! Bull Elk  Golden Eagle (was trying to use a spotting scope as zoom lens for these next two, didn't really work  ) Juvie Ospreys screaming "FISH! FISH! FISH!"  a large birb  A Liz.  Yellow Bellied Marmots  a birb of some sort  baby bison  I dunno. A bug?  Badger  Pronghorn  Mule Deer 
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Oct 24, 2018 13:39
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Your beetle looks to be a darkling beetle of some sort, I think. Not sure exactly where you were but I wager you can narrow it down by locale if you really want to, there's a lot of the bastards though.
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Oct 24, 2018 13:47
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Your large birds are sand hill cranes.
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Oct 24, 2018 14:33
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The lizard is some sort of fence lizard, Sceloporus spp.; either a western fence lizard or a sagebrush lizard.
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Oct 24, 2018 15:50
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Captain Invictus posted:Your beetle looks to be a darkling beetle of some sort, I think. Not sure exactly where you were but I wager you can narrow it down by locale if you really want to, there's a lot of the bastards though. Ayup, that's a tenebrionid. The can look pretty much like anything, but nearly all of them have a distinct chemical smell.
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Oct 24, 2018 19:21
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OneTwentySix posted:The lizard is some sort of fence lizard, Sceloporus spp.; either a western fence lizard or a sagebrush lizard. I like to think that fence lizard means that they will buy stolen property.
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Oct 25, 2018 13:31
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I literally haven't seen a tree frog in years and here one shows up at my job: All hail the frog overlord: 
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Oct 27, 2018 22:39
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that frog rules
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Oct 29, 2018 00:39
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it was a good year for window frogs here
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Oct 29, 2018 02:16
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what a cutie. frogs are some of my favorite critters
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Oct 29, 2018 04:14
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That's a 10/10 frog. There's a pair of red foxes that occasionally visit my yard, at least I'm pretty sure they're red foxes even though they're grey. They aren't exactly easy to get pictures of but I happened to have my phone in my pocket this evening when one of them made an appearance. 
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Oct 29, 2018 05:24
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waggles posted:I literally haven't seen a tree frog in years and here one shows up at my job:
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Oct 29, 2018 15:43
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:I like to think that fence lizard means that they will buy stolen property. Unfortunately, it's not quite as cool - these are just lizards that sword fight. Potential BFF posted:That's a 10/10 frog. This looks like a gray fox to me. They're really neat - I think I've seen one live gray fox and a body in the woods once, vs. maybe twenty-five or so red foxes in my life. They can climb trees!
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Oct 29, 2018 16:24
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Tiny garden friends!! Excuse me where were you two months ago when I needed you for pest control hmmmmm??  Maybe your babies will stay nearby and live in the tomato plants next year.  Gotta love that face.  A strange web in the aloe... And what's that small dark spot??  It's everyone's favorite fuzzy friend, the bold jumping spider Phidippus audax!!  Look at those shiny green chelicerae! vortmax fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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Oct 31, 2018 16:18
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There is nothing tiny about that
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