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I have a seething hatred of brown recluses but everything else is welcome. Black widows get put back outside though. What a snipe. Here's a cool wasp!  
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That is a very cool wasp.
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Aug 25, 2022 01:34
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Tons of soldier beetles in the gardens right now, but I keep forgetting to take my phone out and grab pictures. Neat looking guys.
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Aug 25, 2022 02:39
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 I count 8 or so today
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Aug 25, 2022 16:41
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So I was having lunch and suddenly saw this guy crawling across the floor in one of the offices in my UPS hub. I have absolutely no clue how he got here, it's solid concrete/asphalt for like half a mile until you hit swamp. And he's a gigantic sucker too, about an inch and a half long or so.  Is it just a regular ol' mealworm grub? It's way bigger than any mealworm I've ever seen, like half again as big.
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Aug 26, 2022 03:57
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Darkling beetle larva aka superworm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zophobas_morio It's like a three course mealworm.
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Aug 26, 2022 05:52
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I've increasingly seen those when buying mealworms for chickens, so it probably escaped from a pet store shipment or the like.
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Aug 26, 2022 08:47
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Aha, that would absolutely make sense. We get tons of stuff shipped through ups, from ladybugs to preying mantis to turtles and live lobsters. Think it's fine to let him free in massachusetts? I feel like the little guy got lucky by wandering up to me and if it's safe to do so I'll just let him free in the yard. there's shitloads of mealworm beetles milling about freely outside at night. If it's a feed critter I'm guessing it's already spread far and wide through accidental escapes and such anyways, right?
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Aug 26, 2022 09:40
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If you put it in a jar with some dirt. It will dig down and pupate. After a few weeks you will have a really neat Zophobas beetle. Zophobas larvae are cannibals and won't go into the pupal stage if there are other Zophobas larvae around. They can be kept in a big bin in a pet store and will just stay larvae forever.
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Aug 26, 2022 12:48
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vortmax posted:I have a seething hatred of brown recluses but everything else is welcome. Black widows get put back outside though. That's a digger wasp. They catch caterpillars to feed their larvae. They are more closely related to bees than wasps, despite the name.
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Aug 26, 2022 12:48
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This little guy hitched a ride on my mom's car the other day, looks like he was missing a leg but was otherwise in good spirits:   I'm guessing some form of katydid but the wings look way shorter than everything I'm finding on Google 🤔
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Aug 26, 2022 17:08
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axolotl farmer posted:That's a digger wasp. They catch caterpillars to feed their larvae. They are more closely related to bees than wasps, despite the name. It was very into these flowers
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Aug 26, 2022 17:47
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Scarodactyl posted:Darkling beetle larva aka superworm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zophobas_morio Darkling beetles comprise a lot of species, included the common feeder mealworms. Buy some mealworms at the store, take care of them, and they will eventually pupate and become darkling beetles of some type (most likely the common Tenebrio molitor). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXIuSXFGX-k
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Found a bunch of cute li'l hermit crabs at the beach, chilling in a tidepool doing crab things  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEdMDdRoR2w e: Captain Invictus posted:So I was having lunch and suddenly saw this guy crawling across the floor in one of the offices in my UPS hub. I have absolutely no clue how he got here, it's solid concrete/asphalt for like half a mile until you hit swamp. And he's a gigantic sucker too, about an inch and a half long or so. I bet it's an escapee. I buy boxes of superworms that ship via UPS, and sometimes they can worm their way out of the container. It's usually just a cardboard box with some screen stapled over holes for air. 1-600-DOCTORB fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Aug 31, 2022 14:28
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Went to a friend's house and saw this cute little leopard moth on their porch. These guys are NOT lantern flies just to be clear!
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Aug 31, 2022 15:14
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Bula Vinaka posted:Darkling beetles comprise a lot of species, included the common feeder mealworms. This was fun when I kept these to feed to my sugar gliders. Woke up one day and SUDDENLY BEETLES.
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Aug 31, 2022 15:31
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What is this thing I saw crawling on the back fence? It is extremely fast.
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Aug 31, 2022 16:04
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House centipede!
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newts posted:House centipede! Ah, so it is. Sounds like it’s a good thing to have around (outside, not in my house  )
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MrMojok posted:Ah, so it is. Sounds like it’s a good thing to have around (outside, not in my house
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Aug 31, 2022 20:11
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the babies move just like the adults but they're mega small and cute and i love them
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Tonight I did some grilling after dark for the first time in a while. At first I was annoyed at all the bugs at the light but I found a couple of friends also enjoying an evening meal so I guess it's OK  The web wasn't there when I started fake edit: and as I went to post I checked on 'em to find a fully finished web and watched 'em make a catch within moments of me turning the light back on 
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Sep 1, 2022 04:20
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A bumbling bee of some kind 
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El Burbo posted:A bumbling bee of some kind From North America? Looks like a brown belted bumble bee, Bombus griseocollis.
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Sep 3, 2022 03:58
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Colorful fly that landed on my shoe And a grasshopper just chillin 
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Sep 3, 2022 05:51
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That's no fly, it's a cuckoo wasp. Beautiful little bug!
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Sep 3, 2022 05:59
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Mak0rz posted:From North America? Looks like a brown belted bumble bee, Bombus griseocollis. Yep NA, western Wisconsin
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Anybody know what this is? NE US. Tiny little guy.
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Mozi posted:Anybody know what this is? NE US. Tiny little guy. A nudibranch of some kind?
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Sep 7, 2022 23:08
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oh to be clear this is outdoors, it's on top of a black metal fence post
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Sep 7, 2022 23:16
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Don't touch it. It's a crowned slug caterpillar with spines that will gently caress you up.
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Sep 7, 2022 23:20
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sweet! it must have been very young as it was incredibly small
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Sep 7, 2022 23:24
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Thank you all for the bone cleaning advice! I've got it outside on the porch right now, I'll decide on a course of action and get cleaning. Saw this on a sunflower 
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Sep 8, 2022 16:21
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A squirrell:
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Sorbus posted:A squirrell: holy poo poo great picture
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Sorbus posted:A squirrell: Squirrel clutching it's chest in fear
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Inspector Hound posted:Thank you all for the bone cleaning advice! I've got it outside on the porch right now, I'll decide on a course of action and get cleaning. What is that? It looks vaguely mantid to me.
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Literally A Person posted:Squirrel clutching it's chest in fear When they do that they're grabbing their nips
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CaptainSarcastic posted:What is that? It looks vaguely mantid to me. It's a jagged ambush bug. Phymata americana maybe?
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Turtle
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thunderdome winner