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Wow great page, such pretty snakes and spiders, thanks.
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I like your topeyes, honey.
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Sep 13, 2019 17:48
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This little guy (or gal?) was making a big racket outside my place. With sound! It's so wonderful how the trees and bushes are filled with critters all screaming out the equivalent of "Hey! Please come gently caress me!"
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Sep 13, 2019 18:50
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Didn't see the other spider it was munchin' on until I expanded the thumbnail "Look, I'm Zoidberg! WOOP WOOPWOOPWOOP  "The Zombie Guy posted:It's so wonderful how the trees and bushes are filled with critters all screaming out the equivalent of "Hey! Please come gently caress me!" Bugs: i rubbed my legs together pls respond
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Sep 14, 2019 00:01
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Captain Invictus posted:
Your weevil is a Curculio or very something close to that genus. Don't know the American specis, but check the descriptions and distributions and you could probably nail the species. https://bugguide.net/node/view/6682/bgpage
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Sep 17, 2019 15:44
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Just found this thread, I'm just in love with all these beautiful shots of cute arthropods! Makes me want to go out for a quick search but unfortunately there's an extremely high number of yellowjackets out and about and they tend to be a bit ornery this time of year due to the changing of the seasons. They're beautiful and lovely insects but I'm allergic!
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Sep 17, 2019 16:19
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 Sorry for the poo poo quality, but I was trying to snap a quick shot of this guy before he skittered away. Never seen a spider with red legs around here before, and this one crawls out from under the desk at work. Anyone recognize what this guy may be? This is in Ontario, Canada.
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Sep 17, 2019 22:31
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The Zombie Guy posted:
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Sep 17, 2019 23:29
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the yeti posted:The color fits, and I believe I make out the huge chompers of the wood louse hunter, Dysdera crocata I'd go with a Broad Faced Sac Spider. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1409515
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Sep 18, 2019 00:48
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Slo-Tek posted:I'd go with a Broad Faced Sac Spider. gently caress yeah you’re right 
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Sep 18, 2019 02:17
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Wish I could've got a pic before he skittered off but there was the teeniest, tiniest little jumping spider on my bedroom window blinds earlier. Like, body small enough to fit through the holes in the window screen if he wanted to. He was a quick little sucker too, I ended up opening my window so he could escape safely & go hunting for some other bugs...he kinda sat on my window for a minute like "what dis clear ting i cannot go past" it was adorable 
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Sep 18, 2019 21:53
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Usually I tolerate one or two house spiders in my bathroom in the summer to deal with the flying swamp creatures that always sneak in when I put my dogs out through there at night but this year its all these huge long-jawed orb weavers which somehow keep finding their way in. They won't just tend to one web in a quiet corner for a while like normal, respectable spiders; they insist on moving around and building new webs across the bathroom overnight, or just dangling from a strand of web in the doorway like Tom Cruise at the end of mission impossible waiting for me to get up for a piss at night. Idiots. They are the worst spiders. If you wanna be a big, webby spider, please take a lesson from the house spider, the barn spider and the garden spider. Build one nice web in a good spot that you can be proud of and stick to it, and maybe people will stop smashing you with a shoe
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Sep 18, 2019 22:07
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Two giant house spiders appeared beside my pc last week. This is one of the biggest I've seen in a while. Check out the huge trichobothria hairs  The big girl (i presume larger = female) sneaked up on the smaller one which kept edging away. Until the big one flanked it and faced it for a while. I thought they were either going to mate or fight but in the end they just ran seperate directions.  And today this little red dude was chilling with me on the dried lake bed. 
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Sep 21, 2019 00:07
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Southern house spiders look too much like insanely big brown recluses for my tastes. Especially when you wake up at 2am and see a vague shape on the wall by your bed, hit the lights and see one looking back at you, and had never even heard of them before.
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Sep 22, 2019 20:18
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A surprisingly large number of spiders does. If it helps any, brown recluses are notoriously, well, reclusive and averse to both biting and to ever being seen. There is one infamous case of a house that was infested by literally tens of thousands of brown recluse spiders and had been for years, but nobody noticed until one - just one - of them eventually bit a child. Sheer happenstance. The place eventually had to be for-reals torn down entirely, because numerous exterminators found that there was just no humanly possible way to get all of them with conventional techniques. The bodies were counted. There genuinely were at least that many, plus any that just got overlooked. So, even if you have brown recluses, and you might, they will likely never harm you all your life. 
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Sep 22, 2019 20:31
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uh Is this a crane fly? Mother in law provided for scale  It's loving huge
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Sep 22, 2019 20:46
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looks like a giant eastern crane fly, drat that's a cool bug
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Sep 22, 2019 20:49
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Yeah it was striking. the size / girth of the abdomen and the weird... Opaque patterns of the wings I've never seen before, this is in Hudson Valley NY
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Sep 22, 2019 20:52
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Yup, crane fly. Looks like the giantest mosquito to ever live and suck, but is actually entirely harmless. Complete vegetarians. Also, an awful flier. Seriously, those things are bad at even staying in the air. If one of them ever manages to land on you, then you can be certain it didn't actually mean to.
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Sep 22, 2019 20:53
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Cardiovorax posted:A surprisingly large number of spiders does. If it helps any, brown recluses are notoriously, well, reclusive and averse to both biting and to ever being seen. There is one infamous case of a house that was infested by literally tens of thousands of brown recluse spiders and had been for years, but nobody noticed until one - just one - of them eventually bit a child. Sheer happenstance. The place eventually had to be for-reals torn down entirely, because numerous exterminators found that there was just no humanly possible way to get all of them with conventional techniques. The bodies were counted. There genuinely were at least that many, plus any that just got overlooked. I'm glad not to be living in that house anymore. In addition to the usual spiders, roaches and camel crickets it had a slug infestation in the bathroom. The first one was about 4 inches long and they got progressively smaller over time, which is just weird. Would have been good for posting in this thread though.
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Sep 22, 2019 20:55
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what Seriously, how does a bathroom even get a slug infestation. There is, like, nothing there that they actually eat.
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Sep 22, 2019 21:07
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Cardiovorax posted:what Towel mushrooms and mildew
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Sep 22, 2019 21:09
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My parents' house had a water problem in the corner of the house sunk into the hillside, and slugs started showing up in their laundry room. After a couple years they got a contractor that was able to deal with the whole thing, but the slugs are still showing up even though there is no longer water coming in or a drainage problem. It's like the slugs spontaneously generate in there now or something. Some of the slugs will show up weirdly pale, like they are rapidly evolving to be cave dwellers.
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Sep 22, 2019 21:42
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Way to be a stereotype, parsley worm...
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Sep 22, 2019 21:56
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Alucard posted:Way to be a stereotype, parsley worm... pretty
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Sep 22, 2019 23:02
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Those eyespots really have some personality!
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Sep 22, 2019 23:30
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Not wildlife but still pretty wild, and there's no active kitty thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7NVlLjVYo
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Sep 22, 2019 23:45
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The Red Queen posted:Those eyespots really have some personality! Same genus, different species https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBHYWUw2Kw
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Telebite posted:Not wildlife but still pretty wild, and there's no active kitty thread the cat thread is in yospos: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3201527 and the dog thread is in gip: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3553037
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Sep 23, 2019 00:09
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Cardiovorax posted:Yup, crane fly. Looks like the giantest mosquito to ever live and suck, but is actually entirely harmless. Complete vegetarians. Me & my family used to see them all the time when we lived in England, they were indeed the dumbest & most worthless fliers ever
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Sep 23, 2019 03:14
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Me & my family used to see them all the time when we lived in England, they were indeed the dumbest & most worthless fliers ever I hate crane flies with a passion. As far as I know they are an invasive species in the Pacific Northwest, are a lawn pest, and are the most pathetic zombie-like insect there is. Look at one of the fuckers wrong and a leg falls off. Swat one and its corpse desegments and glues itself to walls and windows. The only good thing I can think of about them is the Bewick's wrens like to eat them, and those are good birbs.
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Sep 23, 2019 03:33
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Phantom crane flies are awesome. I remember being young playing in our creek and occasionally seeing five white dots mysteriously floating in the air (they never had all six legs)
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Sep 23, 2019 03:55
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I hate crane flies with a passion. As far as I know they are an invasive species in the Pacific Northwest, are a lawn pest There are over fifteen thousand species of cranefly and they have native ranges all over the world, including the Pacific Northwest. You're thinking specifically of Tipula paludosa, the European cranefly, which is invasive here.
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The Real Amethyst posted:Two giant house spiders appeared beside my pc last week. This is one of the biggest I've seen in a while. Check out the huge trichobothria hairs The larger spider looks more like a male though. Female house spiders are typically fatter with shorter less ganlgy legs and from what I can see yours also has a bulbous end on its pedipalps.
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Sep 23, 2019 16:18
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A western fence lizard, I believe:  It wouldn't let me get very close, but in the second pic you can see how vivid blue its belly is!
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Sep 26, 2019 23:05
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Xposting from the Herp thread:Chaosfeather posted:I went fishing and made a friend! I promise I released them unharmed.
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Oct 3, 2019 20:20
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Oop thanks, I was just about to post that. Thanks for showing me the thread! Edit: To contribute, here are some other friends! Everyone lived. Hungry lady mallards.  I got peenched. (I 100% deserved it, first time catching one)  Catch and release 4 lyfe. (brown trout)   Itty bitty rainbow trout.  Mule deer doe x2  Brand new to this thread - please let me know if the fish/fishing bothers you and I'll be happy to exclude them or remove them. My family is big on catch and release but we love documenting what we catch. Chaosfeather fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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Oct 3, 2019 20:23
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We've had things like that posted here before! I love seeing those pics, that little rainbow trout is cute!! I think the only no-no is posting something that's gruesomely deceased. Sometimes that gets posted, too, but it's treated sorta like NWS links instead of in-post images. The focus is on the scientific, too, not for the entertainment of "hey here's a dead animal." Welcome to the thread!
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Chaosfeather posted:
The one on the right is actually a male. Check the beak color. Yellow beak = male. He is in his eclipse plumage. Telebite fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Oct 5, 2019 |
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Telebite posted:The one on the right is actually a male. Check the beak color. Yellow beak = male. He is in his eclipse plumage. I had no idea this was a thing. This explains why I see what looks like large groups of female mallards around here sometimes. Thanks for posting it!
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