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Housesitting at my mom's this week, and have a couple cool roommates. I assume these are giant house spiders, and the one with the smaller spider is probably a female and the mini-me is a male? This is Oregon, btw.  
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Housesitting at my mom's this week, and have a couple cool roommates. I assume these are giant house spiders, and the one with the smaller spider is probably a female and the mini-me is a male? This is Oregon, btw. Species ID looks correct, but among giant house spiders it's actually the male that's bigger.
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Sep 19, 2022 21:54
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Mak0rz posted:Species ID looks correct, but among giant house spiders it's actually the male that's bigger. Huh, interesting. I watched the little one run up and tap the big one's leg, but the big one pretty much just ignored it. These are some big critters - it was hard to try to get something in the shot for scale.
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Sep 19, 2022 21:57
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my second picture of this dude is actually better i wanna know what the hitchhiker is
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Sep 20, 2022 03:24
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I couldn’t guess the species but it’s some kinda mite
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Sep 20, 2022 04:02
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moctopus posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_posture Oohh! Thanks for the Science.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:my second picture of this dude is actually better i wanna know what the hitchhiker is A parasitic mite. Velvet mites and water mites have a stage that's parasitic on insects and archnids. They attach when the host is freshly molted and are often found on insects that live near water or in damp habitats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombidiidae
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Sep 20, 2022 14:06
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I didn't expect to see much wildlife when I visited Montreal, but I was pleasantly surprised. Cormorant getting some morning sun.  This enterprising spider built its web across an entire row of graves.   A marmot paying its respects.
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Bug pals, I'm trying to ID a fly that has been common for the past few weeks in the Willamette Valley, OR. It's brown bodied, large clear wings, body about a cm long. The other clue is I recently watched A River Runs Through It and in the scene where main guy comes back and goes fishing with Brad Pitt and is out-fishing him, he sees a few of I'm pretty sure the same bug, and adjusts his fishing fly accordingly. That movie takes place in Montana so I imagine it must be a widespread bug west of the continental divide, at least in the north. Any thoughts?
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Sep 20, 2022 17:34
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Mayfly.
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Sep 20, 2022 17:37
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 This pretty big Noisy Miner just about sat on my camera bag while trying to con me out of my muffin at the Botanic Gardens cafe, so had to get a phone pic.   Wish I'd remembered to put the flash on for this one, no idea what it is  Even though it has no ID tag, this has to be an escaped pet Cockatiel chewing into some grass seeds, the wild ones are much further north and east NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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Sep 21, 2022 12:06
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NTRabbit posted:
Some kind of hoverfly, Syrphidae.
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Sep 21, 2022 13:29
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I've got some kind of wasp-patterned spider skulking around on my ceiling: It's pretty small, less than one centimeter in length. Anyone recognize the species? This is in Norway.
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Sep 23, 2022 17:49
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zebra jumping spider?
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Sep 23, 2022 17:53
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This tiny jumping spider was guarding the top of my car from pests. It was only about a centimeter big but didn't mind me getting my phone out and taking a picture. I've got a little arachnophobia but these guys are cool:
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Sep 23, 2022 18:20
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Tunicate posted:zebra jumping spider? Yeah, that looks to be it. Appearance and size checks out.
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Sep 23, 2022 21:10
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Rexxed posted:This tiny jumping spider was guarding the top of my car from pests. It was only about a centimeter big but didn't mind me getting my phone out and taking a picture. I've got a little arachnophobia but these guys are cool: As an arachnophobe who is utterly charmed by jumping spiders' little eyeball-y faces, I completely get it, even if I don't rationally get it.
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Sep 23, 2022 21:12
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YeahTubaMike posted:As an arachnophobe who is utterly charmed by jumping spiders' little eyeball-y faces, I completely get it, even if I don't rationally get it. I literally had a pet tarantula and still can't handle most spiders touching me or being too close to me. I can card-and-cup *most* of them but some still make me so sick to look at that my partner has to do it.
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Sep 23, 2022 21:30
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I found a small spindly spider near a light fixture! There were two more on the ceiling, too far away for a pic.
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Sep 24, 2022 19:22
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It's a cellar spider, which I thought was a singular species since they're all so similar, but is in reality a family of over 1,800 spiders (pholcidae) Also called daddy longlegs, which is a name also shared by harvestmen and crane flies depending on region.
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Sep 24, 2022 22:11
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Forest Road #345 (the Snake Road) in Shawnee National Forest is closed to vehicles twice a year from March 15th to May 15th and Sept. 1st to Oct. 30th. In the spring snakes migrate from their hidey holes in the bluffs across the road to the swamps, in the fall, they migrate back. I went and saw snakes. Only found Cottonmouths and Water Snakes, but found a plenty of them. Fat and mean.     Worth a couple hour drive if you are anywhere nearby. Beautiful hike up to the top of the bluffs as well.  
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Slo-Tek posted:Forest Road #345 (the Snake Road) in Shawnee National Forest is closed to vehicles twice a year from March 15th to May 15th and Sept. 1st to Oct. 30th. In the spring snakes migrate from their hidey holes in the bluffs across the road to the swamps, in the fall, they migrate back. Danger… sausage
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Sep 25, 2022 05:05
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I love the chubby angry friends. Thank you.
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Sep 25, 2022 05:31
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I don't think he's angry... more like terrified. :\
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saw this big black beauty on a walk in CT yesterday...not sure if its a racer or ratsnake? he was pretty chill which made me think ratsnake but im not great at telling them apart 
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Sep 26, 2022 12:19
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Yep, the white lower lip and squared off nose are telltale for a ratsnake.
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free hubcaps posted:saw this big black beauty on a walk in CT yesterday...not sure if its a racer or ratsnake? he was pretty chill which made me think ratsnake but im not great at telling them apart Zooming with your feet 
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 not sure if he (or she)'s emerging or heading down
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Sep 26, 2022 16:26
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that's a blister beetle, no touchie likely emerging from a wasp nest that it parasitized
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Sep 26, 2022 20:56
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I think this guy's being chewing on my potato plant. As long as he doesn't kill it he can stay. 
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free hubcaps posted:saw this big black beauty on a walk in CT yesterday...not sure if its a racer or ratsnake? he was pretty chill which made me think ratsnake but im not great at telling them apart That is a pretty snake, the scales on its head are so shiny!
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Captain Invictus posted:that's a blister beetle, no touchie why is everything beautiful and interesting so horrifying and deadly
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Mozi posted:why is everything beautiful and interesting so horrifying and deadly a few weeks ago as i was leaving my step mom's house after a visit i spotted a Cow Killer just ambling across the walkway in front of the house. i hadn't see one of those in decades. feel like it was a good omen.
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free hubcaps posted:saw this big black beauty on a walk in CT yesterday...not sure if its a racer or ratsnake? he was pretty chill which made me think ratsnake but im not great at telling them apart My buddy and I caught one of those to show to my nieces a couple of months ago, about the same size. NW Indiana. We let it go after showing it to the nieces. Cool snake!
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Yesterday I found a tiny frog on the floor at work. I thought it was fake until I picked it up, then I thought it was dead, but it moved when I gave it a gentle squeeze. I got a little plastic cup and put it in some water, and hoped it would rehydrate. It moved a couple of times and I added enough water to float a bit. It's eyes were going from white to black. But it didn't seem to make it. I put the cup in my car, planning to give the body to the crows. But when I got home a few hours later, it was alive!! It hopped right out of the cup! I got a few (blurry) pictures and left it in my plants outside. I hope he enjoys the rest of his life!    
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Good work! 
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Didn't catch a picture but I saw a great black wasp today. Holy crap they're big!
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I just googled to see what they look like and wowza, did yours have that crazy gorgeous wing iridescence?
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Yes, it was very blue. The abdomen looked a bit fatter than the pics and it seemed to be at the very top of the size range, maybe 1.5 inches. Like a cicada killer but dead blue black.
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Don't know what's up but I caught three of these guys in my basement in as many days, all male.   They're nice and placid until the jar gets too close, at which point they leap inside and run crazy circles around the bottom for a couple seconds before settling down.
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