Critterquest 2020: a pretty extensive list of OK moths

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Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

How much rent are you charging them, it's a seller's market

# ? Jun 12, 2020 15:37

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# ? May 24, 2024 23:49

The Real Amethyst: Apr 20, 2018; When no one was looking, Serval took forty Japari buns. She took 40 buns. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

Say hello to my Garden Fox who decided to set up residence in my backyard. It's a rural red fox. So cute and cunning. Approximately 2 months old.

# ? Jun 12, 2020 17:11

vortmax: Sep 24, 2008; In meteorology, vorticity often refers to a measurement of the spin of horizontally flowing air about a vertical axis.

The Real Amethyst posted:

Say hello to my Garden Fox who decided to set up residence in my backyard. It's a rural red fox. So cute and cunning. Approximately 2 months old.

This is too adorable!! I want one, except it will grow up.

PS I am now friends with the birbs and I love them.

# ? Jun 12, 2020 17:21

Cythereal: Nov 8, 2009; I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

vortmax posted:

This is too adorable!! I want one, except it will grow up.

PS I am now friends with the birbs and I love them.

Starlings. Cute babies, garbage invasive species.

# ? Jun 12, 2020 17:43

A Sometimes Food: Dec 8, 2010

Cythereal posted:

Starlings. Cute babies, garbage invasive species.

Well assuming they're not European(Eurasian? Not sure how wide they range natively).

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:19

free hubcaps: Oct 12, 2009

went for a hike on a rainy day last week and i saw so many of these newts along the side of the path. they're adorable!

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:26

Literally A Person: Jan 1, 1970; Smugworth Wuz Here

free hubcaps posted:

went for a hike on a rainy day last week and i saw so many of these newts along the side of the path. they're adorable!

Oh man. I want to hug that little dude. :3:

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:29

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

A Sometimes Food posted:

Well assuming they're not European(Eurasian? Not sure how wide they range natively).

There are native starling species to both Europe and Asia, they're just invasive to North America. The Common Starling is particularly widespread and can be natively found anywhere from the Westernmost edge of Europe to North Africa to roughly Northern China.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:35

my cat is norris: Mar 11, 2010; #onecallcat

Pictured in Florida:

Sharp-shinned? Red-shouldered? Having a tough time deciding.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:40

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

my cat is norris posted:

Pictured in Florida:

Sharp-shinned? Red-shouldered? Having a tough time deciding.

Looks like a Common Buzzard to me, but last I checked those weren't native to North America.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:43

my cat is norris: Mar 11, 2010; #onecallcat

Cardiovorax posted:

Looks like a Common Buzzard to me, but last I checked those weren't native to North America.

They are not! Also, the banding on the tail is too broad.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:47

joat mon: Oct 15, 2009; I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

my cat is norris posted:

Pictured in Florida:

Sharp-shinned? Red-shouldered? Having a tough time deciding.

Too small for Red-shouldered?

# ? Jun 13, 2020 00:51

my cat is norris: Mar 11, 2010; #onecallcat

Hmm, they're not THAT big, as far as hawks go...maybe it's a juvie?

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:02

joat mon: Oct 15, 2009; I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

my cat is norris posted:

Hmm, they're not THAT big, as far as hawks go...maybe it's a juvie?

I was looking at more pictures and thinking I might have spoken too soon. And thinking the pictures of juveniles did look a lot like yours.

This is one that lives in our woods from earlier in the year, poufed up for the cold, but still seeming longer of body.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:11

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

free hubcaps posted:

went for a hike on a rainy day last week and i saw so many of these newts along the side of the path. they're adorable!

I once went to a summer camp up in new hampshire that had these guys absolutely everywhere. they were the cutest and I would regularly rescue them from the road and such, feed them bugs, that sort of thing. even had a big ol' aquarium in the cabin that someone brought in and we kept a couple dozen of them in there. they're so drat adorable.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:24

PHIZ KALIFA: Dec 21, 2011; #mood

Hey, would any of you be interested in contributing to a weekly frontpage feature of cool nature photos? We're still working out the details, but ideally it'd feature a little blurb about the picture and your experience taking it, links to personal websites and places to buy prints of your work, alongside a more in-depth interview with a regular contributor. (i'm not going to let this move forward unless y'all would maintain 100% rights to your work, if that's a concern to anyone.)

If the SA store featured more member-created murch, would any of you want to sell prints on the shop? What kind of percentage overhead do other POD print joints usually charge?

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:44

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

I don't particularly want to do that, myself, but I'm fine with the idea as long as it stays out of this thread. Critterquest has always been about amateurs making amateur-level photos of cool critters just for the hell of it. If it suddenly becomes a monetized thing, I can see that die an ignominous death as people with equipment and an interest in selling their work come in. How many people in this thread could compete with that, or feel like putting their crappy little phone cam pics next to it?

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:48

Falukorv: Jun 23, 2013; A funny little mouse!

Starlings have actually been in decline during the last few decades in Scandinavia and the reasons are not fully clear, but probably related to agricultural shifts and reduction of cultivated landscapes and pastures.

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:52

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Hey, would any of you be interested in contributing to a weekly frontpage feature of cool nature photos? We're still working out the details, but ideally it'd feature a little blurb about the picture and your experience taking it, links to personal websites and places to buy prints of your work, alongside a more in-depth interview with a regular contributor. (i'm not going to let this move forward unless y'all would maintain 100% rights to your work, if that's a concern to anyone.)

If the SA store featured more member-created murch, would any of you want to sell prints on the shop? What kind of percentage overhead do other POD print joints usually charge?

imo just make it a minor photoshop phriday-esque feature if anything and don't further monetize it

as great as the moon potatoes of the thread are, I also like it a lot for the casual phone camera posts of people finding a cool beetle on a leaf outside their office

# ? Jun 13, 2020 01:57

Enfys: Feb 17, 2013; The ocean is calling and I must go

Falukorv posted:

Starlings have actually been in decline during the last few decades in Scandinavia and the reasons are not fully clear, but probably related to agricultural shifts and reduction of cultivated landscapes and pastures.

Same in the UK and Ireland. Not as common to see huge murmurations anymore in autumn

# ? Jun 13, 2020 09:50

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

some help identifying a specific critter: I believe it was a hummingbird moth, it would absolutely under no circumstances sit still for even a second for me to take a photo or catch it so I can only describe what I saw the half-seconds it hovered in place before flitting again. it was extremely interested in my dog's poop, had transparent wings and a black body, and two distinct bright yellow bands on its lower abdomen like a wasp's banding. it was about two inches long. those criteria into google seem to identify it as a Snowberry Clearwing, though the one I saw had two almost neon yellow bands on its abdomen that were clearly separated, not the single dark yellow band I'm seeing in all the photos on google, like this one(not my photo)

is there perhaps a subspecies with a brighter banding or something?

there was another butterfly flitting about that flew away super quickly, but it had mostly completely clear wings, black borders on the wings with two white dots on the tips of each with a wingspan of about 3 inches and its wing layout was similar to a zebra butterfly's, this is in massachusetts, anyone able to identify it? no idea what it was, and nothing on google looks similar(that is near massachusetts anyways).

Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jun 13, 2020

# ? Jun 13, 2020 17:59

the yeti: Mar 29, 2008; memento disco

I think you're right with Snowberry clearwing, Hemaris diffinis --Those moths can be pretty variable and then they take a good bit of wear and tear on their coloration as they age and fly around.

Have a peek here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2639/bgimage

# ? Jun 13, 2020 18:07

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Hey, would any of you be interested in contributing to a weekly frontpage feature of cool nature photos? We're still working out the details, but ideally it'd feature a little blurb about the picture and your experience taking it, links to personal websites and places to buy prints of your work, alongside a more in-depth interview with a regular contributor. (i'm not going to let this move forward unless y'all would maintain 100% rights to your work, if that's a concern to anyone.)

If the SA store featured more member-created murch, would any of you want to sell prints on the shop? What kind of percentage overhead do other POD print joints usually charge?

Creative Convention has a whole photography subforum and I would guess you'd find a lot more interest (and much better photos) there?

# ? Jun 14, 2020 03:01

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

A tame weasel showed up in our backyard and hopped into this cage when we put it out and now I'm not sure what to do with it.

I believe it's a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata; native), maybe a stoat (Mustela erminea; non-native). This is very strange!

Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Jun 14, 2020

# ? Jun 14, 2020 03:51

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Congrats to your free weasel, I guess?

But in all seriousness, check if there are any wildlife sanctuaries in your general area that might be able to and interested in taking the little guy off your hands. If he's just walking into a cage of his own accord, he might be sick or so close to starving that anything seemed better than staying in the wild. They're not usually kept as pets, so it's probably not "tame" in the proper sense.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 03:57

MrYenko: Jun 18, 2012; #2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Conversely, desk weasel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CTVqt2wxU

# ? Jun 14, 2020 03:59

Literally A Person: Jan 1, 1970; Smugworth Wuz Here

Yell, "HEY I GOT YOUR WEASEL HERE!!!"

# ? Jun 14, 2020 04:02

Literally A Person: Jan 1, 1970; Smugworth Wuz Here

Someone will take it.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 04:03

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

Cardiovorax posted:

Congrats to your free weasel, I guess?

But in all seriousness, check if there are any wildlife sanctuaries in your general area that might be able to and interested in taking the little guy off your hands. If he's just walking into a cage of his own accord, he might be sick or so close to starving that anything seemed better than staying in the wild. They're not usually kept as pets, so it's probably not "tame" in the proper sense.

I live directly next to a wildlife sanctuary, so I'm gonna check with them tomorrow. I kinda wonder if he escaped from there. I'm friends with DNR people but all I got from them was �\_(ツ)_/�

# ? Jun 14, 2020 04:06

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

I live directly next to a wildlife sanctuary, so I'm gonna check with them tomorrow. I kinda wonder if he escaped from there. I'm friends with DNR people but all I got from them was �\_(ツ)_/�

Well, he seems very calm and comfortable with the situation in that image, so that hints at being relatively used to close contact with people. Worth asking!

# ? Jun 14, 2020 04:09

vortmax: Sep 24, 2008; In meteorology, vorticity often refers to a measurement of the spin of horizontally flowing air about a vertical axis.

Captain Invictus posted:

imo just make it a minor photoshop phriday-esque feature if anything and don't further monetize it

as great as the moon potatoes of the thread are, I also like it a lot for the casual phone camera posts of people finding a cool beetle on a leaf outside their office

I second this idea. Just choose some of the recent posts from the last week or two and PM the posters for permission and commentary. Both the high-quality and the blurry-phone quality.

Like this

# ? Jun 14, 2020 05:07

free hubcaps: Oct 12, 2009

Fitzy Fitz posted:

A tame weasel showed up in our backyard and hopped into this cage when we put it out and now I'm not sure what to do with it.

I believe it's a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata; native), maybe a stoat (Mustela erminea; non-native). This is very strange!

Id guess long tailed just by the face but its tough to tell without seeing the tail or relative body size. what a strange guy, definitely unusual to say the least to have a weasel approach a person let alone be friendly. He must've been hand raised or something.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 06:04

poverty goat: Feb 15, 2004

It's probably just some kind of primal trickster god

# ? Jun 14, 2020 14:32

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

I hate it when I get one of those, everything always tastes like purple for a week.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 14:42

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

I found a really nice example of what I think is Zygaena ephialtes, the Variable Burnet Moth. Super pretty. Normally, they're just kind of spotted, but this one has very lovely red wing edges.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 16:07

my cat is norris: Mar 11, 2010; #onecallcat

Those are clearly racing stripes.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 16:28

vaguely: Apr 29, 2013; hot_squirting_honey.gif

Cardiovorax posted:

I found a really nice example of what I think is Zygaena ephialtes, the Variable Burnet Moth. Super pretty. Normally, they're just kind of spotted, but this one has very lovely red wing edges.

isn't that a cinnabar moth Tyria jacobaeae? nice pic, very pretty :kimchi:

# ? Jun 14, 2020 16:59

BOOTY-ADE: Aug 30, 2006; BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Visited my folks yesterday & they were telling me about their newest "residents" - some baby mantis hatchlings! :3:

They both noticed when they were out on the porch & saw them all over their bench, said it was a big swarm & they likely set up shop in the bushes in the front yard.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 19:16

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Cardiovorax posted:

I found a really nice example of what I think is Zygaena ephialtes, the Variable Burnet Moth. Super pretty. Normally, they're just kind of spotted, but this one has very lovely red wing edges.

Yeah, that's a Cinnabar Moth. I'm guessing you live either in the Pacific Northwest or Europe.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:04

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# ? May 24, 2024 23:49

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Central Europe, yeah. You guys are right, Cinnabar Moth it is.

# ? Jun 14, 2020 22:06

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