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That does look disturbingly like a bedbug, but no, they don't get any bigger than about the size of an apple seed.
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looked down while getting some water before bed in algonquin park and freaked out when I saw this guy. what luck! he was right there! what a friggin cutie. 
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moths posted:I'm late to the party, but on what page do I find the OK moths? A reason to use my search? Hell yeah! Here you go: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3807356&pagenumber=45&perpage=40#post504369767
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Yeah I can’t see how it could be anything other than a cockroach nymph.
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The Red Queen posted:A reason to use my search? Hell yeah! Here you go: drat, all this time I was parsing it as meaning the whole thread was full of moths of adequate quality.
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yes, that's the joke
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It's my fault, sorry
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The Walrus posted:looked down while getting some water before bed in algonquin park and freaked out when I saw this guy. what luck! he was right there! what a friggin cutie. Hope he got better  
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Hope he got better It's really rare to find spotted salamanders outside the breeding season, even if you flip rocks and logs. I've only seen them three or so times late season like that, and only once without flipping. They're common, but spend most of their time deep underground. Nice find! Edit: quoted wrong post, hate phone posting!
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Finished sodding my lawn today, a few more friends showed up along the way. Some sort of big beetle grub, not big enough for a hercules so maybe a stag?  Another snake friend, this one all black. Also accidentally dug up one of the crowned snakes again but he was fine.  This beautiful velvet ant could have ruined my day if she was in the sod I was handling. I once found one in my parent's napkin drawer which was weird, and definitely suggests some ambush potential. Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sep 19, 2020 00:42
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 Who is this spiky being? Northwest Arkansas
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I'd say American Dagger Moth.
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joat mon posted:I'd say American Dagger Moth. Looks exactly right! I had to screen cap that from a friend's video. Wish I could have gotten a better picture. Very interesting little caterpillar.
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 Met a very patient toad on the nature trail today.
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got back to hiking up our favorite trail (Lime Ridge Open Space, Contra Costa County, California) after a long time of too hot/too much smoke. Not many people around so we saw critters! If you look closely on the right you'll see my footprint where I literally stepped on this poor snek without seeing him (I was staring up at birds like an idiot). It wasn't hurt at all apparently, seemed fine to wriggle away after we were done taking pictures. I think the sand cushioned my footfall hopefully.  tiny spiky boi    pretty sure this is a juvenile horned lizard, aka horny toad there's nothing visibly there for scale. I'd say he was no longer than my thumb, nose to tip of tail, so a very little duder. tiny smooth boi   maybe a juvenile alligator lizard? or fence post lizard? this guy was also very tiny, like maybe an inch and a half long? Habitat for all of these is hot dry chaparral, mixed open grassland/savannah with oaks and the occasional walnut, manzanita, buckeye, fireweeds etc., steep and hilly rocky terrain.
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Scarodactyl posted:
That velvet ant sure isn't very velvetty. The ones we have around here have floofy yellow or red butts.
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There are about 400 different species of velvet ant in North America, so you're going to see some variation there.
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here's a pink katydid  ...and a couple of OK moths Uraniid  Tiger moth exuding toxic froth 
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I'm really trying to get past my arachnophobia. I can pick up and move jumping spiders and baby false widows with my hands, and don't mind tarantulas, but some, like this beast I caught with the night vision, still give me the willies. That's a cinder block for scale. Central Kentucky. Any ideas? Hogna or Tigrosa maybe?
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Yeah either of those genera would be a good start—it’s definitely a lycosid.
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Hogna carolinensis seems like a safe bet, those are the right size for a large wolf spider and common in the area. Tigrosa is a bit more lanky than this one seems to be, but I would find it hard to say for certain from a picture like that.
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 Sorry this is a lovely picture, but there's a fox on my block!
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drat, I wish I got a pic of that wolf spider I rescued yesterday. My roommate had it under a clear bowl and was too scared to let it outside. He was a biggun!!
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I saw a neat bug on a customer's car, they were nice enough to let me photograph it.  Seek says it's a Western Conifer Seed Bug.
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Sep 28, 2020 12:23
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anyone know who this fella could be?
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El Burbo posted:anyone know who this fella could be? What's the location?
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Central Mexico, in Tlaxcala
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Yeah that seems like it. I think I’ve eaten those, even
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El Burbo posted:Yeah that seems like it. I think I’ve eaten those, even What’re they like?
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Pretty crunchy, but also a lot like shrimp meat. Cooked insects have a very similar consistency to those. With the right kind of seasoning it makes for good food.
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So does that mean bugs are land crustaceans? Or that crustaceans are sea bugs?
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BOOTY-ADE posted:So does that mean bugs are land crustaceans? Or that crustaceans are sea bugs?  I know this is a joke about food but insects are, in actual fact, crustaceans.
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Mak0rz posted:
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 hummingbird nest i set up a little outdoor misting system to attract them last year and i think it helped
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Scarodactyl posted:This fills me with frustracean. This guy doesn't speak in paraphyly, pal 
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 some kinda moth larvae, maybe. just west of xalapa, mexico
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That's a caterpillar of some sort of Tussock moth! Good find, very pretty.
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El Burbo posted:
That caterpillar looks like it should be dispensing philosophical wisdom of some kind - great picture.
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I found a Pholcus! I know what they look like and that they live in this region (though we live on the fringes), but I've never actually seen one before today!
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