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 Accidentally startled this little fellow, who leapt to the safety of my car's intake.
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Jul 1, 2022 02:00
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ArcMage posted:
Hey, that's my job  What a beauty!Hungry Computer posted:
It's always awesome seeing bugs that look exactly like wood or leaves or something. Insect camouflage is always so gorgeous & impressive.
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Jul 1, 2022 02:04
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How bad/lovely is it to try to buy Dragonfly Nymphs, and pray they stick around your flower bed? I'd love to have just swarms of them outside my house, but I don't think that's an easy task to complete.
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Jul 1, 2022 02:10
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blight rhino posted:How bad/lovely is it to try to buy Dragonfly Nymphs, and pray they stick around your flower bed? If you can add some kind of water feature to your yard, that's what will bring them in. My bird bath doesn't get visits (that I've seen, anyway) but I've seen tons at my neighbor's pool. https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/lawn-garden/how-to/a9191/attract-dragonflies-to-your-yard-for-all-natural-pest-control-15724186/
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Jul 1, 2022 02:24
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snek he is practicing camoflauge
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Jul 2, 2022 00:38
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more snek! after a few years of rats and where the hell are the snakes I have already seen 3 snakes this year and a pronounced decrease in rats 
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Jul 2, 2022 02:02
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Every time i see a snake i feel blessed. Goes for all animals really
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Jul 3, 2022 02:43
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dervinosdoom posted:Every time i see a snake i feel blessed. Goes for all animals really I also find that I talk to all of them in a cutsie tiny voice. From turkey vultures to spiders to deer.
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Jul 3, 2022 03:48
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Literally A Person posted:I also find that I talk to all of them in a cutsie tiny voice. From turkey vultures to spiders to deer. 
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Jul 3, 2022 05:58
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 Four-spotted chaser
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Jul 3, 2022 18:45
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Great photo! I found this guy and had to bring him home: 
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Jul 3, 2022 19:17
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Baby kildeer next to the parking lot at work: Fox kit in my parents' yard, who proceeded to spend five minutes playing with the neighbor's Westie:  And today I scared the piss out of a couple of fawns. No idea where momma was, they still looked pretty young and had all their spots: (video) https://imgur.com/FJx4DTq
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Jul 4, 2022 01:55
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 Not sure what this one is. Impressive peepers though!  I didn't know we had crayfish in our local creek, but I guess we do! I'll have to look out for a whole one.  Less excited to know we have these in our creek.  Our front yard is being occupied by groups of roving juvenile crows and magpies and I love it.  I found this idiot baby in the grass after mowing our lawn (thankfully with the push mower). The sparrows nest in one of our vents and there's usually a dead chick or two out there every year, so I guess this one got lucky. The vent isn't accessible so we took care of it overnight and got it to the local wildlife rehab in good shape. I spent last week in Jasper and there were SO MANY BEARS around our hotel. Pictures forthcoming!
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Jul 5, 2022 00:56
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 Hello there Mr Bumblebee, how are you today! …waaaait a minute.  You’re not a bumblebee, you’re a fly! Laphria flavicollis, perhaps? (photo credit to my wife)
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Jul 5, 2022 01:12
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
It's a mayfly. The long front legs and large eyes reveal that it's a male. There's 3,000 species of the things and most look very similar so I can't give a species ID. They spend 1-2 years as a nymph underwater, then minutes to 2 days as adults. Just long enough to bang and die. Trout love to eat them.
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Jul 5, 2022 01:12
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McGavin posted:It's a mayfly. The long front legs and large eyes reveal that it's a male. There's 3,000 species of the things and most look very similar so I can't give a species ID. They are also so numerous in some parts of the states that they have earned the name "fish fly" because vast numbers of them settle on the roads after they mate, then just sit there as cars drive over them, producing a putrid smell of dead fish.
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Jul 5, 2022 02:49
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McDermitt NV/OR was so overrun with mormon crickets a few weeks back that people were stopping on the side of the highway to gawk and take photos of them. The sole gas station in the town was a slippery mess of mashed katydid (they're not actually crickets), you couldn't take a step without getting some guts on your feet and hoards of them were climbing up the sides of buildings. A huge t storm rolled through and absolutely dumped celestial rear end for more than 24 hours and that gas station smelled exactly like a seaside fish market, it was unreal.
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Jul 5, 2022 04:29
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Look at all these mayfly facts! Thanks folks. I didn't realize they were the same as fish flies. We used to have tent caterpillar infestations in my hometown which were similarly slippery and disgusting, but I don't recall them smelling bad. Jasper pics!  The noblest chipmunk.  Love a good pika! I was proud to identify this one's cry before spotting it.  This family of marmots was living under the cabin next to us and I adore them.  I initially thought this was two bugs gettin' it on, but alas for the lower bug, that was not the case. And SO MANY BEARS.   Bears in trees!    Bears on the run!  Bears having a snack!    Bears RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR HOTEL WINDOW AAAH! There was a mama with a single cub, a mama with two cubs, and an orphaned yearling all within 100 metres or so of our lodgings. It was super neat, if a bit anxiety-provoking. Now if only the lighting/focus/steadiness had allowed for clearer photos. 
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Jul 5, 2022 17:31
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
It's a robber fly and his lunch.
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Jul 5, 2022 18:30
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The critter train rolls on!  The bees are LOVING our honeysuckle! I counted 25+ out there, and saw at least 6 or 7 species over about five minutes.  This bumbler fell asleep on a flower. She's just sleeping, right? Bonus shield bug on there too.   A black-crowned night heron couple down by the creek!
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Jul 6, 2022 20:39
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Had a less than pleasant surprise visit this morning. Felt something on my leg like an ant was climbing it while sitting at my desk. Pulled my pants up to see and was surprised by this guy running out. They were evicted to the parking lot. E: just to defend where I work, our campus is nearly 100 years old and I'm in an outbuilding. Visitors like that are not welcome in the main spaces. -Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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Jul 7, 2022 13:04
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Was just hearing this terrifying wheezing cry at 3:30 in the morning, like someone going "AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!!" loudly over and over but like they were out of breath and wheezing, my dogs were going loving insane from it I took my stupidly powerful LED flashlight with focus function and poked my head out the second story window to look around. Apologies for the photos, by the time I ran and grabbed my phone to take a picture, the bastard had run into the woods and was in the bushes at the edge of the forest; the white dot is his eyes, staring at me from the leaves   Anyways, the source of the cries was a huge loving coyote, standing a few feet from my back door, making this really unsettling sound over and over. First time I've considered getting a rifle. I don't want my dogs getting attacked by a coyote, and this was a gigantic one, as big, maybe bigger, than a labrador retriever. I was preparing to get fencing to prevent my dogs from getting out, but looks like I'll have to consider getting fencing to prevent coyotes from getting in. Now for some critters I do NOT want to kill This beautiful iridescent weevil my neighbor found in his garden and brought to me, it would NOT sit still and so these are the best shots I could get   Bunnies at my dad's place that absolutely did not give a poo poo I was pulling into the driveway a couple feet from them and were EVERYWHERE  Right after having almost the entire property "scraped" by a landscaping company, our local groups of wild turkeys kept showing up to dig around in the freshly overturned soil for bugs. The blue thing is a tarp I put down to starve invasive weeds that got buried until the landscapers unearthed it lol  
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Jul 9, 2022 09:37
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Captain Invictus posted:This beautiful iridescent weevil my neighbor found in his garden and brought to me, it would NOT sit still and so these are the best shots I could get I spotted one of those guys on my car the other day:  It's a Pale Green Weevil (Polydrusus impressifrons). Native to Europe and first recorded in North America in 1906.
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Jul 9, 2022 13:24
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 giant leopard moth?
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Jul 9, 2022 13:39
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poverty goat posted:
Pretty likely. I think I see a glimpse of red between the bushy segments and that’s a tell for the species.
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Jul 9, 2022 13:46
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I pulled a heap of overgrown plants out of my little back yard pond today which dropped the water level down a couple of inches, and replaced the filter pump. When I went back out in the dark a few hours later to make sure things were still flowing well, I spotted what looked like a wolf spider on the wall of the pond, right on the water line. It looked a lot like the spider had fallen in and wasn't sure how to get out, so I got a stick and attempted to rescue the spider. Well the spider took one look at the stick, turned it's back on me and marched directly into the water a couple of inches deep then turned around and glared at me. I'm guessing it was a fishing spider all along, not that you can really tell anything from the photo.
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Jul 9, 2022 18:38
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This hare was checking out local community vegetable garden thing
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Jul 9, 2022 20:09
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Hares look so PARANOID compared to rabbits.
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Jul 9, 2022 20:22
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The Red Queen posted:Hares look so PARANOID compared to rabbits. This one has a good reason to look paranoid - in autumn bow hunters will be around that area. In other parts of the city hares don't give a poo poo about people or dogs.
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Jul 9, 2022 22:55
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This is the most spidery spider i have seen. It sits at the perfect center of platonic spiderness.
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Jul 10, 2022 06:04
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 I saved a lightning bug from my kid's wading pool yesterday.
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Jul 10, 2022 15:36
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thunderdome winner
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 Swallows at my apartment building.
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Jul 11, 2022 03:11
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Those guys look like guys you don’t gently caress with.
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Jul 11, 2022 03:16
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Swallows, at least the ones here, really do not care about humans. I have seen them fend off starlings with righteous wrath. But I can stand beneath their nests and not hear that warning call. They will buzz around you at ground level like you are just another obstacle.
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Jul 11, 2022 03:43
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a smol toad
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Jul 11, 2022 03:46
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Tunicate posted:This is the most spidery spider i have seen. It sits at the perfect center of platonic spiderness. That looks a lot like a web-spitting spider (based on the unusual dome-shaped caphalothorax). They spit silk from their fangs to catch prey.
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Jul 11, 2022 05:56
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Dia de Pikachutos posted:That looks a lot like a web-spitting spider (based on the unusual dome-shaped caphalothorax). They spit silk from their fangs to catch prey. poo poo dude i thought spiders only did that in video games
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Jul 11, 2022 16:24
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 Doe and fawn outside my office window earlier this afternoon.
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Jul 11, 2022 21:37
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my cat is norris posted:poo poo dude i thought spiders only did that in video games We get them around the office from time to time - they seem to like going after our black house spiders.
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Jul 12, 2022 07:19
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