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Gunshow Poophole posted:
Those white spots on it near its head look like parasitic wasp eggs or cocoons. I would have left it alone and enjoyed the bounty of wasps. Synnr posted:
I think that one's a Question Mark. They're named that because they have markings on the underside of their wings that look sort of like a comma and a question mark. Here's a picture that shows it and how to ID them: 
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McGavin posted:Those white spots on it near its head look like parasitic wasp eggs or cocoons. I would have left it alone and enjoyed the bounty of wasps. I moved him off the plant but didn't squish him so I still get a nice wasp harvest! Seen more and different bugs in my garden than ever this year, it's been great. Tons of asilidae tons of thin waist wasps, damsel and dragon flies, carpenter bees and tiger bee flies, buncha weird sawyer beetles
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Aug 21, 2021 22:39
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 Bird ID please, from Virginia. Can't find him in the app.
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Aug 22, 2021 21:57
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poverty goat posted:
American Redstart, a new-world warbler. Either a female or first year male. Not sure if they breed in your area but they may well be migrating south now.
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Aug 22, 2021 22:06
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Chill green grasshopper munching a palm leaf in Beaumont, California 
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Aug 23, 2021 01:08
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There is an eensy weensy baby lizard that has been hanging around my front steps but woah is he fast! My goal is to catch a picture of him for the critterquest. Edit: I have placed a dime next to the spot where the baby lizard hangs out for size comparison in hopes of sneaking a picture. Ralph Hurley fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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Aug 23, 2021 01:26
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BetterLekNextTime posted:American Redstart, a new-world warbler. Either a female or first year male. Not sure if they breed in your area but they may well be migrating south now. Thanks! And wow the adult male looks quite different. Definitely not a local. https://i.imgur.com/A6q8hsE.mp4
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poverty goat posted:Thanks! And wow the adult male looks quite different. Definitely not a local. this is very chill, love to watch caterpillars get fattttt
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Aug 24, 2021 01:28
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 I think this dude is a robin but not really sure as he is so scruffy. e. I think it is a common redstart Sorbus fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 05:45
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Sorbus posted:
That doesn't look like a robin to me - beak looks to short and the coloration is wrong. I find robins weird - like I just don't get them. Jays I get. Crows I get. Hummingbirds I get, Herons I get. Osprey I get. But robins just seem like their behavior is random and I can't get a read on them.
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McGavin posted:
I think you're correct, my partner was quite sure it was as well and very glad someone else agreed with her! Sorbus posted:
A female one? That's a scruffy bird, looks like it just got done toweling off after swimming.  My new place isn't quite as nice to look at birds other than the one (1) very grumpy adolescent bluejay and some little sparrows who refuse to get out of the street, but my trees have many visitors. I don't think I'm ever going to get a look at the very obvious owl living outside my office window, but it was very busy this afternoon. I do love a mockingbird, but I really want a picture of the vireo....  E; and a possum just walked by on my fence but I couldn't get the dang camera up fast enough to take a picture. New goal!
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That doesn't look like a robin to me - beak looks to short and the coloration is wrong. Yeah I think it is a juvenile common redstart and not a robin. Didn't think that at first even though it was what BirdID suggested as I haven't seen that species around before. I like robins, they are pretty bold but will not pose for pictures as easily as wrens and blackbirds do. Also they are easy to recognize in the woods as they constantly keep that tik-tik-tik sound 
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Ralph Hurley posted:There is an eensy weensy baby lizard that has been hanging around my front steps but woah is he fast! My goal is to catch a picture of him for the critterquest. Well, the little fella broke into my house, probably under the door. I don’t know how long he’s been inside. Found him on the floor, nearly stepped on him. He made it almost all the way to the bedroom, somehow not being discovered by the cat. Our floor is laminate and he was furiously squiggling his legs but getting no traction. He is exhausted. I’m letting him rest in this container for a while before I let him go. I hope he’s okay. 
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Update: I kept the babby lizard safe until my daughter got home from school because I knew she would want to hold it. It perked right up and darted into the dead leaves. Good critter encounter. 
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Aug 24, 2021 21:41
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Found a weird kitten And a fast worm 
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Aug 24, 2021 21:59
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I don't know if this counts, but I ran across it on the youtube channel, that I found because of wild pigs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16g5IVCdeE
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 Oh hey, what a neat caterpillar! Better get it off the sidewalk so no one steps on it.  No caterpillar! Only snake! Tiger swallowtail, I believe. I was tempted to take it home but I wasn't sure how far along it was - turns out when they're brown they're pretty much ready to pupate. Ah well!
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Aug 25, 2021 15:16
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Saw a Mud Dobber making a home at work
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Aug 25, 2021 22:18
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A Polyphemus after a rough night and a Texas Brown Tarantula that wandered over to check me out while I was fixing a tire. 
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I don't know what this is!  p i t t s b u r g h
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Aug 26, 2021 04:22
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Check Monocesta coryli
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joat mon posted:A Polyphemus after a rough night  Great spider shot
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This find was yesterday’s highlight, a very pretty bumblebee-mimicking robber fly, probably the largest extant Asilid species in Scandinavia (Laphria gibbosus). Larvae depend on dead wood so natura we found it in an area of burned forest. Formidable if you are a smaller flying insect. 
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Aug 26, 2021 06:26
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We got our first caterpillars this year, eastern black swallowtails on our fennel (planted for that purpose). I was worried that we wouldn't get any since my dad's place two doors down hasn't gotten any for years. I suspect the guys spraying for mosquitos have been lying about what they were using--hopefully now that he's discontinued that he'll have more luck next year as well.  
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Neat! I'm planting some dill next year in the hopes that I'll get some, but I'm at the extreme north of their range, so it's probably fairly unlikely.
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Aug 27, 2021 19:22
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Is this the start of phase 2? I've got a couple that have been hanging out like this all day. Also I'm truly in awe of the amount of poo poo these can produce 
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Aug 27, 2021 19:35
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poverty goat posted:Is this the start of phase 2? I've got a couple that have been hanging out like this all day. Yep, that silk tether is what will hold it to the plant during the chrysalis process and provide extra support after
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 There it goes
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poverty goat posted:Also I'm truly in awe of the amount of poo poo these can produce I didn't get any good pictures of it but I had a small worm come in undetected on a magic lily and disgorge what looked like twice its body weight in pink "frass" overnight 
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poverty goat posted:
i'm sure you will, but you'll need to document this journey e- What's a decently price camera, for pictures like this? I only have my old rear end iphone. It'd be basically strictly for stuff for this thread or other random poo poo. I'm not photographer, at all. $100? $200? Any recommendations?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:41
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I take all my photos on a pixel 4a, the best phone I've ever owned
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blight rhino posted:i'm sure you will, but you'll need to document this journey There are photography threads linked in the OP, and I'm sure one of them can guide you!
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Aug 27, 2021 23:26
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 This critter disapproves of smoking.
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Aug 28, 2021 04:10
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Was waiting for me on my doorstep.
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Aug 29, 2021 05:44
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Nice of him to offer you a little pocket change in these trying times.
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he's very prompt with the rent
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Aug 29, 2021 12:55
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Mantid nymph Green tree snake  Python hiding in the bird box on the old fig tree  What are you looking at? 
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