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Here's a repost of porcupine romance from 2015: Such fond memories.
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Critter time again. Sorry about the blurryness on this, bug friend would not cooperate. As you can tell from the half-raised elytra, it was a bit of a struggle to keep This is Stictoleptura rubra, the Red-brown Longhorn Beetle. Locally known as the Redneck Bug.   edit: I found a Redneck Bug that was a bit more cooperative, so here are some good shots:   Standard housefly here. It is much smaller than the images may make it look, but it was amazingly cooperative, didn't even so much as twitch. It's a shame that they are so annoying, because they're kind of pretty up-close.   
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Jul 21, 2020 17:30
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Hey, I have a little question for you good people. Today I found this little Opilionid on my home's outside wall and it's not anything special except for the fact that, uh...   ...it seems to have pincers. I have absolutely no idea what the gently caress is up with that, because Harvestmen do not have pincers. They just don't. Can someone explain? Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Jul 21, 2020 20:49
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Cardiovorax posted:Hey, I have a little question for you good people. Today I found this little Opilionid on my home's outside wall and it's not anything special except for the fact that, uh... Fork-palped Harvestman?
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Jul 21, 2020 22:09
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Cardiovorax posted:Standard housefly here. It is much smaller than the images may make it look, but it was amazingly cooperative, didn't even so much as twitch. It's a shame that they are so annoying, because they're kind of pretty up-close. That looks a bit like a Sarcophagid (I.e., a flesh fly) but the only ones I know of are enormous compared to houseflies.
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Jul 22, 2020 00:15
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the yeti posted:That looks a bit like a Sarcophagid (I.e., a flesh fly) but the only ones I know of are enormous compared to houseflies. joat mon posted:Fork-palped Harvestman?
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Jul 22, 2020 00:19
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Found this blue garden flatworm (Caenoplana coerulea) I think? While well gardening this morning when I moved a cabinet. Didn't get a great shot cause I wanted to relocate it fast to some leaf litter but it's belly was luminous electric blue, you can see a bit of it near one of the ends. Also note the racing stripe. Hope it lives on to keep terrorising the local snail population. Also saw a spider that had a abdomen that was a dead ringer for the floret of a local wattle but it scurried out of sight before I could get a picture. It was cool though.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:26
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I found a click beetle inside and went to take it outside and also take a picture, and as soon as I got outside it clicked right the gently caress outta there so all you get is my anecdote and no picture
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Jul 22, 2020 10:49
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Captain Invictus posted:I found a click beetle inside and went to take it outside and also take a picture, and as soon as I got outside it clicked right the gently caress outta there so all you get is my anecdote and no picture My dog cornered one and the clicking WORKED. She eats anything small that gets into the house but she was confused by it flipping around long enough for me to rescue it and put it outside.
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Jul 22, 2020 12:53
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oh yeah even my 18 year old nearly deaf dog was not a fan of the clicking and bouncing around a previous one did when she was playing with it. click beetles rule.
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Jul 22, 2020 13:29
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There are a lot of things I like about having birds nesting in my yard (and vents). Finding dead chicks every year is not one of them.
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Jul 22, 2020 14:58
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Found this little Neotibicen hanging out upside down on the sidewalk. I may have grossed out some people sitting nearby by showing curiosity towards the little critter and helping it back up and onto a tree. Cicadas are so clumsy.  
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Jul 22, 2020 15:09
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 Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, Slug Jesus?
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Jul 24, 2020 16:12
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a millipede of some sort crawled out of my sink drain right as I was about to wash my hands so I gave him a flying lesson out the window  
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Jul 24, 2020 17:16
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I believe those are broadly called greenhouse millipedes
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Jul 24, 2020 18:10
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Cute little guy. From the shape of it, I would've expected that to be a centipede, though.
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Jul 24, 2020 19:05
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it's "one pair of legs per body segment is a centipede, multiple pairs of legs per body segment is a millipede", isn't it?
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Jul 24, 2020 19:25
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Yeah, it is, I've just never seen a millipede with such a segmented body and widely spread legs before. Normally, that's pretty characteristic for centipedes, so I learned something new today.
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Jul 24, 2020 19:35
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Cardiovorax posted:Yeah, it is, I've just never seen a millipede with such a segmented body and widely spread legs before. Normally, that's pretty characteristic for centipedes, so I learned something new today. There are cool black millipedes with yellow spots all over the Pacific northwest. Here's a picture I took with my film camera decades ago:  Whoa, and apparently they defend themselves by secreting cynanide. Badass!
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Jul 24, 2020 20:09
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My garden seems to attract more bees than butterfly's but I managed to get a few decent pics of some butterfly and moths who paid a visit. Cabbage white   Comma butterfly  Mint moth  Small brown unidentified moth, was out at dusk and had a white underside  I also found this little caterpillar which I believe is a cabbage white (found it on my arm, so didn't see what plant it came off)  
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Jul 24, 2020 21:53
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Commensalist mites on a carabid, or how you get away not paying bus fare.
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Jul 24, 2020 22:48
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Sometimes the critters come to you. This lil buddy figured they'd stay the day in my apartment. (It was ejected gently out the window after I took the photo.) It's.... a norwegian moth of some kind, but I couldn't find a sure ID on the site I looked up. The spots are fairly distinctive. (~3-4cm or so long.) (South-eastern Norway.) 
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Jul 25, 2020 13:43
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Ebola Dog posted:My garden seems to attract more bees than butterfly's but I managed to get a few decent pics of some butterfly and moths who paid a visit.  I thought you were reposting some of my images for a moment, it looked so similar.SubNat posted:Sometimes the critters come to you. This lil buddy figured they'd stay the day in my apartment. (It was ejected gently out the window after I took the photo.) VVV Actually, on second thought, it's probably this. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Jul 25, 2020 13:52
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SubNat posted:Sometimes the critters come to you. This lil buddy figured they'd stay the day in my apartment. (It was ejected gently out the window after I took the photo.) Maybe a Svensson's Copper Underwing, Amphipyra berbera.
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Jul 25, 2020 16:30
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Cardiovorax posted:Lavender buddy! I feel like if you want bees and butterfly's in your garden then you should get some lavender, not only do they love it but it also flowers for a long time and smells great! Only thing that annoys me is that the bumble bees are so big and buzzy they flop about every time they land on the lavender making it hard to get a pic!
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Jul 25, 2020 22:10
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Ebola Dog posted:I feel like if you want bees and butterfly's in your garden then you should get some lavender, not only do they love it but it also flowers for a long time and smells great! Only thing that annoys me is that the bumble bees are so big and buzzy they flop about every time they land on the lavender making it hard to get a pic! Lavender is great and I am planning to plant more of it. It's so relaxing to watch the little guys work.
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Jul 25, 2020 22:23
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
 This lil dude is living his best slug life.
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Jul 26, 2020 00:16
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Falukorv posted:Commensalist mites on a carabid, or how you get away not paying bus fare. That's so cool. You go acarids. You go. (They've arranged themselves in a very aesthetically pleasing manner that I appreciate)
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Jul 26, 2020 01:11
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It's important to sit in formation when riding the war beetle
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Jul 26, 2020 01:13
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Found this little Neotibicen hanging out upside down on the sidewalk. I may have grossed out some people sitting nearby by showing curiosity towards the little critter and helping it back up and onto a tree. I expected a lot more cicada action around me, but it's been surprisingly Lacking so far. A bit disappointing since I love them buzzing and also being goofy/ angrily buzzing when my kitten brings me one as big as his head. This fellow lives behind my faucet and comes out to hop around and look grumpy when I water stuff. I think he's a Flea Jumping Spider.   This I'm not sure, it doesn't look like the native hoppers but it certainly is one. Wouldn't stop jumping at me!  
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Jul 26, 2020 17:52
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Ebola Dog posted:I also found this little caterpillar which I believe is a cabbage white (found it on my arm, so didn't see what plant it came off) Figured out what this probably was. Found a more developed one munching on my rose bush and it is clearly some kind of sawfly larvae.  Also found this ladybird larvae  Along with a couple of ladybirds   Red Admiral   Think these two are the same, not sure what, maybe some kind of hoverfly?   Unidentified bee? 
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Jul 27, 2020 21:11
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I think those are both bee mimics. The second one looks pretty much exactly like Myathropa florea.
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Jul 27, 2020 21:22
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You’ve also got the invasive harlequin ladybird pictured.
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Jul 27, 2020 22:35
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My mum has been having her backyard in Wollongong (south of Sydney) visited by a pair of Satin Bowerbirds recently. I think it's probably a juvenile male, since the adult males tend to be more solitary: Sorry it's not the best picture (it was taken at max zoom on her ancient cameraphone), but I thought it was worth sharing since I've never seen a pair together before. e: Here is one of her more permanent backyard residents:  Dia de Pikachutos fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Jul 28, 2020 |
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Jul 28, 2020 08:49
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Oh, those are the ones that make color-themes nests, aren't they? That is pretty neat.
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Jul 28, 2020 08:51
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Cardiovorax posted:Oh, those are the ones that make color-themes nests, aren't they? That is pretty neat. Yeah, the males make a sort of a shrine that they decorate with blue objects to impress the ladies. Mature males are a deep, glossy blue-black, and have spectacular blue eyes. They're also quite quirky and fun to watch, although I've only seen them up close a few times. Another of my mother's backyard friends: 
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Jul 28, 2020 09:01
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I also went on a critter walk with my IR camera a few nights ago and managed to find one of our native tree-dwellers keeping a close eye on me: Very terrifying! 
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Jul 28, 2020 09:23
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Impressive orbweaver from last night (Nuctenea umbratica).
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Jul 28, 2020 09:45
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 This parking lot attendant wasn't very helpful.
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Jul 28, 2020 16:04
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I THINK this is a young zebra spider but I'm not sure. I'm not familiar with many horizontal stripes like that on jumping spiders.   A fledgling robin with it's spots still, I think it's finally not following it's parents around.  Sadly I couldn't get a shot of the cardinal family, the young ones look ridiculous shedding with their little mobile mohawks.
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