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How are you determining sex on spiders? That sounds like something my spider removal person (wife) would get really annoyed about me pointing out before she rescues me. (I like spiders as long as I'm not touching them and they're not above where I sleep)
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 I guess my phone doesn't like shooting by the light of a headlamp, but I gave this stinky kitty right of way on my morning run the other day. They seem more numerous than usual in our area this year.
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BonHair posted:How are you determining sex on spiders? That sounds like something my spider removal person (wife) would get really annoyed about me pointing out before she rescues me. (I like spiders as long as I'm not touching them and they're not above where I sleep) See those boxing glove things on his palps, to either side of his face? That's his junk. Also his butt's less chonky thanks to not having egg hardware.
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BonHair posted:How are you determining sex on spiders? That sounds like something my spider removal person (wife) would get really annoyed about me pointing out before she rescues me. (I like spiders as long as I'm not touching them and they're not above where I sleep) It depends. Some spiders are very sexually dimorphic, so males look very different from females and it's easy to tell them apart. In general, it usually comes down to differences in the size of the pedipalps (males have larger ones) and the overall size (females tend to be larger or more robust).
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Sep 29, 2022 22:15
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McGavin posted:... and the overall size (females tend to be larger or more robust). In some spiders, like black widows, this difference is seriously dramatic.  Widows where I live don't have back markings, just the belly, so the males are practically unrecognizable. I've never managed to get a picture of any local widows because sixteen years is apparently not enough time for me to internalize that I have a camera on me at all times. "Boy that's so cool, wish I could show it to friends. Oh well."
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Don't know what's up but I caught three of these guys in my basement in as many days, all male. Grass spider, I think.
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Sep 29, 2022 23:20
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Literally A Person posted:Grass spider, I think. Yep. That’s not a super specific designation but I don’t know jack about genus or species level id with them.
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the yeti posted:Yep. That’s not a super specific designation but I don’t know jack about genus or species level id with them. Same. I mostly think of them as the little guys who really enjoy sunbathing on my garden boxes. 
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Sep 30, 2022 03:30
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
Most importantly, did you pet it?
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Sep 30, 2022 04:39
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the yeti posted:Yep. That’s not a super specific designation but I don’t know jack about genus or species level id with them. https://bugguide.net/node/view/26084/bgimage Rabid Wolf Spider, a favorite of mine.
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I sometimes forget that wolf spider is a real species, it's become such a catch-all to mean "harmless" among people that aren't really into creepy crawlies.
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ArcMage posted:https://bugguide.net/node/view/26084/bgimage I don’t think it’s Rabidosa as they don’t have the big honkin spinnerets and op’s specimen lacks abdomen stripes
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Sep 30, 2022 12:49
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
Pretty good illustration of how well warning coloration works. It's just an amorphous blob yet I bet everyone who sees this photo will instantly identify it as a skunk.
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the yeti posted:I don’t think it’s Rabidosa as they don’t have the big honkin spinnerets and op’s specimen lacks abdomen stripes Oh true. Agelenopsis it is, then? https://bugguide.net/node/view/1891695
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The Red Queen posted:I sometimes forget that wolf spider is a real species, it's become such a catch-all to mean "harmless" among people that aren't really into creepy crawlies. Wolf spiders are a family, with hundreds of species, Lycosidae. They got the name from not building webs, but instead chasing down their prey.
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 Adult male Western Grey Kangaroo, hopped up close to where I was sitting at Mount Lofty Summit after the tourists that were pressuring them left Here's a few more of it and a female       The extra foot is from the rather large pouched joey
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Oct 4, 2022 07:21
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Nice to see a local post, good photos!
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Oct 4, 2022 08:26
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Not my picture
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katy lied
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MrYenko posted:Most importantly, did you pet it? Alas I did not. Maybe next time.  Office guest. Maybe one of these days it'll be a peregrine, but they tend to stick to the rooftops.  River rock pal!
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 I was on the fence about posting him kind of just a test of my new phone macro lens but he’s just such a devout buggy boy
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Oct 5, 2022 17:13
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photo quality doesn't matter here, always post cool bugs! i love your friend
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vortmax posted:Not my picture I wonder what Katy did that left such an impression someone decided to name an insect after them.
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It's starting to get cold at night and my dog has been getting up to bark at the door every night at 4am. This morning I was awake for some reason so I went to investigate. 3 raccoons and an opossum were having a party out there:  Time to start bringing in the bird feeder at night. At least there seem to be no rats. Bonus squirrel tits:  My crow friends completely bailed after July 4 and I was worried that something had happened to them, but with the tourists gone and cool weather here Mr. Crow came for breakfast today  . He brought 50 friends though, and I'm not too happy about that. I hope we can get back into our more intimate breakfast routine.
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Oct 6, 2022 14:13
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Eastern screech owl, I believe. Look at those legs :3
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The Red Queen posted:Eastern screech owl, I believe. Look at those legs :3 Owl legs are the best I mean super murdery but so it goes
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The bad news: a possum expired on the street in front of my house last Tuesday.  The good news: The streets dept. removed the entire carcass within an hour. The streets dept: https://i.imgur.com/dXhnFNI.mp4 We have tons & tons of turkey vultures in south Jersey. It's hard to describe just how large a bird they are; it always surprises me when I see one up close. This guy was joined a short time later by a buddy. The made extremely short work of the poor guy.
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PainterofCrap posted:The bad news: a possum expired on the street in front of my house last Tuesday. There's some that hang out near a shopping center I regularly go by and yeah, this. They like to perch on top of stop signs and watch cars go by. It's disconcerting.
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PainterofCrap posted:The bad news: a possum expired on the street in front of my house last Tuesday. We have tons of them here, on the opposite side of the country in Oregon. Earlier this year I saw one get mobbed by the local crows, and I felt kind of sorry for it.
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Three Views of an Isa textula Crowned Slug Caterpillar.  
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You should touch it.
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McGavin posted:You should touch it. Apparently, as you might imagine, those hairs deliver a painful sting.
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Those dudes look so cool.
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A dove crashed into the window when a hawk came through and left this
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Was the dove OK? I have had this happen on three occasions. On the two unprompted ones: one survived. The third was being chased by a sharp-shinned hawk. Hawk swerved; the dove didn't, so hawk was enjoying a leisurely meal under my window
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PainterofCrap posted:Was the dove OK? The hawks here only ever seem to eat the fat invasive Eurasian doves, which based on size is what this was. I didn't see the dove but I did see the empty-handed hawk so I assume this was a miss
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 Austral Ellipsidion - Ellipsidion australe The Beautiful Cockroach, Family Blattellidae (nymph of) Thanks AusPol discord and Scarodactyl 
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Oct 14, 2022 06:32
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That's a fancy blattellid cockroach nymph.
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Here's someone I found in the wood pile: Not sure what they are but it's certainly pretty.
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It looks like a False Widow. I can't tell you the species though.
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