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A bat somehow got into the store today. I got it trapped in the bathroom and waited for it to settle somewhere. It took a few tries but I got it into a mesh trash can and then outside safely    
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Oof, bats are adorable but also such terrifying little disease factories.
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Oct 8, 2021 02:40
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Hey fellow SA poster, nice pics - love skinks and that gecko looks rad - most of the ones i've seen about have been smooth skinned ones, mostly Christinus spp. Cool to see something I less commonly encounter! Like you I have trouble remembering to take pics! Figuring there's going to be a lot of eastern brown snakes around here soon so I'll try to grab a shot of one of those along with lizards and spiders. If all else fails I have a ton of ringtail and brush tail possums that battle nightly upon my roof. vortmax posted:A bat somehow got into the store today. I got it trapped in the bathroom and waited for it to settle somewhere. It took a few tries but I got it into a mesh trash can and then outside safely Adorable. Got a lot of flying foxes and small insect eating bats here but they've proven pretty hard to get good shots of - the little guys especially, way too quick for me.
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Oct 9, 2021 14:52
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So whoever it was who said my mantis friend was pregnant was right! Look what I found!! (sorry for potato quality picture):
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Oct 9, 2021 17:28
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Literally A Ghost posted:So whoever it was who said my mantis friend was pregnant was right! Look what I found!! (sorry for potato quality picture): Really hoping the thread gets some tiny mantis content soon  Here is a mantis friend posing on some moss in southern Ontario   And a very shiny unidentified bug I found in Denmark this summer. I could see it reflecting sunlight from 2 meters away.
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Oct 9, 2021 17:38
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your 2nd bug there could be a six-spot burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) they are very fancy
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Oct 9, 2021 17:54
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There's also the Narrow-bordered five-spot burnet (Zygaena lonicerae) which is quite similar. But as far as I can tell, the five-spot variant has its "unpaired" spot at the tip of the wing, not the root - so yours is probably the six-spotted. Or as we call it in Denmark, seksplettet køllesværmer
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Oct 10, 2021 09:25
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 No idea what this little guy is, found him in the house and took him outside.  Then took a glamour shot of him.
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Oct 11, 2021 00:23
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If you're in the US I'd say it was a Pale Green Assassin Bug nymph, Zelus luridus.
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Oct 11, 2021 01:04
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So what the hell is this horror show of a creature: The back legs were loving 2.5" long!!! E: in coastal oregon
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Oct 11, 2021 23:56
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Literally A Ghost posted:So what the hell is this horror show of a creature: square legged camel cricket, or possibly a sasquatch
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Oct 12, 2021 00:15
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Found this absolute unit of a woodlouse spider (Dysdera crocata) on my back steps this morning. 
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Oct 12, 2021 01:40
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Bismuth posted:square legged camel cricket, or possibly a sasquatch It took all of my willpower to not stomp it dead while shrilly screaming like a 6 year old girl. Why does this have to live by me???
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Oct 12, 2021 02:13
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Literally A Ghost posted:It took all of my willpower to not stomp it dead while shrilly screaming like a 6 year old girl. The good news is, it's the only one There definely aren't thousands more near by
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Oct 12, 2021 02:29
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The Bloop posted:The good news is, it's the only one 
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Oct 12, 2021 02:36
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Whoopsiedaisy
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Oct 12, 2021 03:01
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Literally A Ghost posted:It took all of my willpower to not stomp it dead while shrilly screaming like a 6 year old girl. Why do you live by them?
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Oct 12, 2021 03:23
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Bismuth posted:Why do you live by them? drat it. Beaten again.
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Oct 12, 2021 03:25
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Literally A Ghost posted:So what the hell is this horror show of a creature: A russet nastyman
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Oct 12, 2021 03:46
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I love bugs that look like they were created with a modded character creator. "4x length legs mod by xXxNarutoxXx"
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Oct 12, 2021 16:12
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NFX posted:There's also the Narrow-bordered five-spot burnet (Zygaena lonicerae) which is quite similar. But as far as I can tell, the five-spot variant has its "unpaired" spot at the tip of the wing, not the root - so yours is probably the six-spotted. Or as we call it in Denmark, seksplettet køllesværmer In Sweden we call them "Bastardsvärmare" (=bastard hawkmoth) which is a bit of an ugly name for a pretty moth. Bastard had more uses back then, im guessing it referred to them resembling hawkmoths. Bastard could be used to describe a hybrid or something with mixed descent, or an inferior facsimile of an original thing. What does Kölle mean in Danish btw?
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Oct 12, 2021 16:26
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Club or cudgel. Like for hittin stuff. I think, my Danish etymology isn’t great. Direct translations are fun though, then the bug would be called a “six-spotted club swarmer” 
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Oct 12, 2021 22:06
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Fruits of the sea posted:Club or cudgel. Like for hittin stuff. I think, my Danish etymology isn’t great. Yup. The family (Zygaenidae) is "køllesværmere", is supposedly named after the shape of their antennae. As I was looking this up I noticed that in Norwegian they're named Bloddråpesvermere, literally "drop-of-blood swarmers" 
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Oct 13, 2021 07:49
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 Yoink! My part of the world consists mostly of wheat, sheep and canola farms; there are a few little pockets of relict vegetation remaining, mostly in places too gravelly to farm (and in Australia, that's saying something.) One such nature reserve, 5km out of town, comes across as a sad and dreary dumping ground for random rubbish, but wander even fifty metres in and you find an extraordinarily diverse and beautiful assortment of plant and bird life.  I won't post any more bird photos or I won't be able to stop, but it really feels magical. Cross one little rise and suddenly you're literally surrounded by all these different birds, who will quite unconcernedly flutter down and land on a branch all of a metre away from you, or swoop down to eat the bugs you've disturbed with your footsteps. And then there are pockets of wildflowers, grass-trees, pines coated in saffron lichen, and- best of all- little meadows populated entirely by mushrooms and carnivorous plants. I feel like drosera peltata here almost counts as a critter; you can see its lunch at bottom left. 
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Oct 16, 2021 07:12
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There's no such thing as posting too much. Place sounds incredible, I'd love to see some of those mushrooms!
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Oct 16, 2021 14:06
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Love those rainbow bee eaters, my mum is a serious birder and was on a quest for months/multiple trips away before she finally saw some.
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Oct 16, 2021 21:15
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I thought you caught one poopin' before I realized it's a feather lol.
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Oct 16, 2021 21:40
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Tree Bucket posted:little meadows populated entirely by mushrooms and carnivorous plants. 
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Oct 17, 2021 03:14
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Literally A Ghost posted:So what the hell is this horror show of a creature: it almost looks like a mammoth sized tardigrade. which I don't think exist, but whatevs. 
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Oct 17, 2021 03:24
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Besides the previous chonky spider who had taken up residence in my office window, the naturalist app I use tells me I appear to have a mild invasion of Heptagonal Orb Weavers? I've certainly never seen these guys before. I like that their butts look almost gold flaked, but they have this weird like dent in it.
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Oct 17, 2021 03:29
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Is this a critter? Looked small enough to fit in a palm of a hand and was sort of undulating underwater. 
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Oct 18, 2021 19:50
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That looks like an Upside-down Jellyfish (Cassiopea andromeda). Definitely a Cassiopea of some kind.
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Oct 18, 2021 20:34
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El Burbo posted:Is this a critter? Upsidedown Jellyfish? e: beaten, stung, left for dead joat mon fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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Oct 18, 2021 22:21
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blight rhino posted:it almost looks like a mammoth sized tardigrade. which I don't think exist, but whatevs. I think your eyes glazed over the legs
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Oct 18, 2021 22:42
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McGavin posted:That looks like an Upside-down Jellyfish (Cassiopea andromeda). Definitely a Cassiopea of some kind. joat mon posted:Upsidedown Jellyfish? Neat thanks. Guess it wasn't upside down at that moment tho
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Oct 19, 2021 00:11
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 Wolf spider friend? The image sucks because he's on the ceiling in my apartments hallway. I try not to bring too much attention to him so he won't get killed. I'd catch and put it outside but it's getting cold and he'll just come back in
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Oct 19, 2021 02:35
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Treecko posted:
Looks kind of like what we would call a grass spider.
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Oct 19, 2021 02:38
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I think you're correct! I thought wolf spider because it hasn't made any sort of web in the week I've been watching it. But the grass spider images are closer. Makes sense, he's right by the door and can grab whatever insects fly in when people come and go.
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Oct 19, 2021 02:53
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Treecko posted:I think you're correct! I thought wolf spider because it hasn't made any sort of web in the week I've been watching it. But the grass spider images are closer. Makes sense, he's right by the door and can grab whatever insects fly in when people come and go. When I lived in the hot rear end valley they used to gather by literally the hundreds on the sunny parts of the wood that my garden boxes were built of. They're cool little dudes!
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Two more photos from the nature reserve just out of town, in the category of "absurdly tiny birds holding absurdly tiny sticks to build their absurdly tiny nests."  
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