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 Caught this awesome Gopher Tortoise mid-snack on a walk last week. Number of shits given about me infringing on his personal space: 0.
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 What a difference a day makes! I ended up bringing this pupa home because it was on an exposed bridge railing and I was worried about it getting squished or eaten. Hopefully I'm able to give it a good environment for metamorphosis!
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The Strangest Finch posted:
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Sad doot forever!
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The Red Queen posted:NEVER FORGET ew why. nice pic but ew  I think these are the perverts that are impregnating my figs. nice work guys. im not gonna start the wasp / hornet derail again so these fellas are gonna remain anonymous flubber nuts fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jun 28, 2020 |
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:ew why. nice pic but ew
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The Red Queen posted:NEVER FORGET It's a dog dick caterpillar, you can't prove it isn't. Google it, dog dick caterpillar, I dare you. turn safe search off you cowards
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Can someone with more caterpillar wisdom tell me if maybe the doot is dehydrated? It looks kind of shriveled.
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The Red Queen posted:Can someone with more caterpillar wisdom tell me if maybe the doot is dehydrated? It looks kind of shriveled. I think it just needs a shave
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Does anyone remember in what region Sad Doot was found?
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 what's this guy? They were all over this spring and I don't remember ever seeing one before but maybe I'm just dumb I dunno. Western Washington.
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Largus sp. (bordered plant bug), looks like there are a few very similar species so I'm not confident going any more specific than that
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Pick posted:It was discovered outside Duluth MN in July around 2014 or something In regards to sad doot
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Yeah the closest I thing I can figure about sad doot is that it's probably a gypsy moth, which I'm sure people have said before. There's still something really strange about it though. Cat turd looking rear end bug. Here's a not-dooty but still visually similar gypsy moth caterpillar for reference: 
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vaguely posted:Largus sp. (bordered plant bug), looks like there are a few very similar species so I'm not confident going any more specific than that thanks!
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The Red Queen posted:NEVER FORGET iNaturalist's Seek helpfully thinks it might be a member of the phylum arthropoda.
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Last night I dreamed that I found a sad doot in my office and was very excited to share it with my fellow Critterquesters, but before I was able to take a picture it formed a pupa. Then I was excited to see what would come out of the pupa! Unfortunately I woke up before I was able to get an ID. In real-life critter news:  I have attached my pupa to a stick using dental floss, as recommended by monarch people. Hopefully it emerges before my trip to the mountains in two weeks or I guess it will have to come along for the ride!   I see pileated woodpeckers around here all the time (and hear them even more often), but I think this is the first time I've spotted two at once. The one on the left may have been a juvenile as its crest didn't seem as prominent as the other's.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Last night I dreamed that I found a sad doot in my office and was very excited to share it with my fellow Critterquesters, but before I was able to take a picture it formed a pupa. Then I was excited to see what would come out of the pupa! Unfortunately I woke up before I was able to get an ID. well goddammit get back to sleep!!
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This is an owlfly, genus Ululodes. They are a kind of lacewing. Very cool find!  https://bugguide.net/node/view/4130/bgpage
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I was out for a walk the other day along a bike path, and one of the posts on a guardrail had a whole swarm of bees:  I assume they were off, looking for a new hive location. Looked a but but didn't see one that stood out as the queen. Not sure if the queen goes with them when they swarm for a new hive, or if they find one then someone goes back for here.
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axolotl farmer posted:This is an owlfly, genus Ululodes. They are a kind of lacewing. Very cool find! thank you!!! it looks so much like a dragon fly, they have to be related. someone posted the Dynastus Tityus earlier and I think I found a female today by my bug zapper. she's like twice as big as the males. big mama
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I FOUND A STAG BEETLE!!! I was sitting in the bar when a regular came in and called me outside to look at a weird bug. And was it weird! I've never seen a stag beetle in person before. We both took pictures of it on the sidewalk, but then I coaxed it onto my hand to move it to a big potted plant, because I knew someone would totally stomp it if it stayed on the concrete. What kind of stag beetle is it? Location is central Arkansas.    
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Eastern Hercules Beetle? e:https://bugguide.net/node/view/2877 joat mon fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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vortmax posted:I FOUND A STAG BEETLE!!! hell yeah these little dudes are literally everywhere right now. I saw them for the first time myself just a couple of weeks ago. flubber nuts fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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drat that's a cool rear end bug
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Nip I’m envious that those are plentiful where you are
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:thank you!!! it looks so much like a dragon fly, they have to be related. Lacewings (Neuroptera) are about as far from dragonflies as you can get among insects. Dragonflies are one of the first groups to split off from the rest and lacewings are actually more closlely relateed to beetles. One easy way to tell them apart is that all dragonflies have tiny tiny antennae. Pretty much just a bristle.
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Adult antlions can also look very similar to dragonflies at a first flance when they are stationary, even though they are not at all closely related. But related to the previously mentioned owlfies but with shorter and curved antenna tips, and absolute monsters as larvae (hence their name) but that part is also true of owlflies and lacewings in general. Unlike dragonflies it can roof its wings over its body, and other similar differences compared to dragonflies (antennae, eyes, fuzzy etc). Here is an etxremely cute antlion i found a few years back  Acanthaclisis occitanica or Synclisis baetica, not sure which. Falukorv fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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I love this thread. thanks everyone for making it an excellent place to share pictures and information of the bugs amongst us.  no we didn't kill these guys they are just dying all over the place out here. they smell like a turd when their doing it too. we found another couple this morning.  heres what I suspected to be the female. she was easily twice as big as the males with the horns. looked like a giant june bug. I threw her in the bug box to try and get some good pics but I left it cracked over night so she could do her thing and she was gone this morning.
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Falukorv posted:Adult antlions can also look very similar to dragonflies at a first flance when they are stationary, even though they are not at all closely related. But related to the previously mentioned owlfies but with shorter and curved antenna tips, and absolute monsters as larvae (hence their name) but that part is also true of owlflies and lacewings in general. Unlike dragonflies it can roof its wings over its body, and other similar differences compared to dragonflies (antennae, eyes, fuzzy etc).
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(These are all in Southern Finland if someone enjoys further id'ing.) A green lacewing.  Some sort of solitary bee?  A basic bee.  A bee of the bumbling variety. Bombus terrestris or Bombus lucorum, I presume.  A beetle trying to look like a bee. Trichius fasciatus.  A green rose chafer (Cetonia aurata) hiding in a flower.  Long boi.  A green spider. Araniella cucurbitina?  An orb-weaver, I think, maybe Araneus diadematus.  A hoverfly.  A run-of-the-mill fly.  Tiny fren.  Silhouette.
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Neat bee-mimicking beetle! Bee-tle?
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You got Araniella right for your green spider, but to go any further than that you need microscope ID - there's a couple of basically identical species which you can only tell apart by comparative hardcore spider pornography I think your hoverfly could be Volucella pellucens the pied hoverfly, a very smart looking boy 
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cäterpïll wëërd tïnÿ bṻg  frṏgg  fröög  shrȫȫm búgz  blëu chêê shrüm   dððg 
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Alrighty, it's kind of a long shot but I figure if anyone can figure out what the heck this is, it's you guys: This little critter was found on the leaf of a wild black cherry tree (sorry it's blurry, all I have is a camera phone) and it's a few millimeters long at best. I'm in Southwestern Ontario.  edit: replaced with a better photo YggiDee fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 3, 2020 |
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Neat bee-mimicking beetle! Bee-tle? Thanks, here's another pic with the back showing a bit better.  vaguely posted:You got Araniella right for your green spider, but to go any further than that you need microscope ID - there's a couple of basically identical species which you can only tell apart by comparative hardcore spider pornography Okay, maybe we'll just let them be unknown. I don't wanna bother them too much. quote:I think your hoverfly could be Volucella pellucens the pied hoverfly, a very smart looking boy Cool, thanks! That one appears to be called "wasp guest" in Finnish, because it lays eggs inside a wasp nest so the larvae can feed on debris there. Nature's so weird and cool.
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YggiDee posted:This little critter was found on the leaf of a wild black cherry tree (sorry it's blurry, all I have is a camera phone) and it's a few millimeters long at best. I'm in Southwestern Ontario.
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