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every mother thinks their child is handsome  today i rescued a black rat snake from the middle of the road. i had to stop traffic. i had to use a stick to get him uncoiled. once he wasn't quite so snappy i snagged him by the tail and put him in the weeds. then i let all the cars go by and everyone went on their merry way, snake included. he wasn't a full adult, maybe three feet long! very handsome though. had there not been other drivers involved i'd have taken a picture. i keep having cool encounters without my camera handy!!! lovely photos lately. i really love seeing us all so active out the in the world and celebrating nature.
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Jun 14, 2023 03:09
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Found a turtle and a frog hanging out under my sage bush today And while I was looking for that picture I found a pic of this lil guy I took last week with my crappy phone camera macro lens 
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Jun 14, 2023 03:12
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Friend posted:And while I was looking for that picture I found a pic of this lil guy I took last week with my crappy phone camera macro lens
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Jun 14, 2023 03:22
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Shiney McShine posted:Have seen these feeding on my flowers on and off for years and yesterday I got a buzz out of recording one  that buzzin little blue banded critter is not a beefly (Family Bombylidae; Order Diptera) after all. After advice from an entomologist, it is actually a solitary blue banded bee (Family Apidae; Order Hymenoptera). There are true beeflies in my area and some have banded butts (abdomens). Here is an actual beefly (Bombyliid) that I photographed in my garden several years ago  note that it has two wings and a blue eyed grasshopper to atone for my sins... 
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Jun 15, 2023 00:56
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Caught this little fella chilling in the open yard waste can at my parents. 
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Jun 15, 2023 01:23
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GOBBLE GOBBLE SUCKA it's Turkey Day in June  (birb was grateful for blueberries I quietly tossed out)
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Jun 15, 2023 01:51
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It Is Bunny Season 
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Jun 17, 2023 07:53
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 Porch cat decided he would like to return to the porch, after being a bathroom cat for a few days, after his attempt at diplomacy with a stray cat went poorly. This means all you can eat cat food has returned. It also wandered over to where the food jug used to sit, just in case.
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Jun 17, 2023 10:21
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I get so excited when I see a frog
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Jun 17, 2023 19:13
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Aloha from Maui! I’m at a resort at the moment but I have two trips planned to more nature-y areas where I hope to get some amateur wildlife shots. day gecko 🦎  night gecko   There were also wild chickens wandering around the parking lot at Safeway
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Jun 18, 2023 08:27
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Enfys posted:I get so excited when I see a frog     Just some of the frogs and toads I spotted while taking my kid on a walk in the woods yesterday.
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Jun 18, 2023 09:38
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i love this thread so much
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Jun 18, 2023 13:11
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Some stuff from a walk: Common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina  Seven spotted ladybug, Coccinella septempunctata  Some kind of metallic sweat bee idk, Halictidae, probably in Augochlorini 
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Jun 18, 2023 13:54
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Enfys posted:I get so excited when I see a frog  Saved this tree frog at a parking lot a couple nights ago. I also saw a toad and a field mouse when I dropped him off.
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Jun 18, 2023 13:57
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check out this eensy gecko friend   
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Jun 19, 2023 07:46
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 I rescued it from the litterbox. This isn't the first one to need rescue and it won't be the last.
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Jun 19, 2023 17:44
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I am attracting friends today. I accidentally got this one wet while watering flowers. idk what kind of jumper but all jumpers are cute so
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Jun 19, 2023 19:06
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Ralph Hurley posted:check out this eensy gecko friend It boggles my mind that such small lizards exist. Ralph Hurley posted:There were also wild chickens wandering around the parking lot at Safeway It's every parking lot.
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Jun 19, 2023 20:22
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my cat is norris posted:
I get why people are freaked out by house centipedes but they are so cool. Basically miniature housecats.
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Jun 19, 2023 20:36
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a housecat with 15 pairs of legs would have 120 toe beans 
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Jun 19, 2023 20:42
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FBS posted:a housecat with 15 pairs of legs would have 120 toe beans and it's my mission to poke them all!! another jumpboi at breakfast this morning 
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Jun 19, 2023 20:56
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 still there lots of crickets and ants crawling over the vines so he's pretty happy i guess his back has gotten a lot greener it seems
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Jun 19, 2023 21:04
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Had this visitor crawl up by my door, probably to avoid storm runoff. Amazing pattern resemblance to a water moccasin but he's just a banded water snake (or relative).
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Jun 20, 2023 00:32
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my cat is norris posted:
How did you keep it chill enough to handle?! Did it just stay in slow search mode and crawl into your hand? I picture any sort of guiding triggering their jump/fall/run flee response and at least one party flinging away legs in the process. The spirit of Critterquest has helped me come to accept and appreciate these beasts, but I can't imagine touching one let alone a rescue carry. Very cool.
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Jun 20, 2023 02:02
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Alpenglow posted:How did you keep it chill enough to handle?! Did it just stay in slow search mode and crawl into your hand? I picture any sort of guiding triggering their jump/fall/run flee response and at least one party flinging away legs in the process. Yeah I love all critters but I prefer to love centipedes from a distance as they're too unpredictable for my liking. I had one run over my foot while I was on the toilet once and I kept my feet on the bathtub when using it for the next few weeks.  A nifty fly.  A soggy dragonfly.  A blurry pileated woodpecker - looks like they're back to the same next hole as last year! I'll take my good camera next time. No pictures, but there was a commotion in my yard last night and based on past experience I knew it was an injured magpie being attacked by other magpies. Sure enough, that was the case, and I ended up making a late-evening trip to the local wildlife rehab facility with the poor magpie in tow. Definitely a wing injury and possibly a leg injury as well. I don't think I've gone a year without dropping at least one animal off at the rehab centre since I bought my house.
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Jun 20, 2023 17:35
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Alpenglow posted:How did you keep it chill enough to handle?! Did it just stay in slow search mode and crawl into your hand? I picture any sort of guiding triggering their jump/fall/run flee response and at least one party flinging away legs in the process. it freaked the gently caress out when i first went to scoop it but as soon as it was on my hand it just kinda hung out second one i've had do that, too. maybe it thinks freezing in place will make it less likely to be eaten. maybe it just likes warm hand. either way, i was able to carry it all the way upstairs for a pic by my spouse before releasing it into a dark corner.
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Jun 20, 2023 19:50
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Your spouse is a keeper
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Jun 20, 2023 20:58
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Opened the umbrella we keep by the door today and out popped a big 'old widow spider--not sure what type, real, false etc, sized like a black widow but dark brown. I didn't get to see its belly because it skittered around the back of the umbrella and evaporated, leaving its big egg sac behind.
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Jun 20, 2023 21:13
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If it has an egg sac it's a mature female, in which case if it was brown rather than black it's probably a false widow I think but idk maybe take a picture if you see it again mystes fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Jun 20, 2023 21:16
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Alpenglow posted:The spirit of Critterquest has helped me come to accept and appreciate these beasts, but I can't imagine touching one let alone a rescue carry. Very cool. yeah, house centipedes are high on my list of friends I never want to touch, along with most spiders e: found an adult dog tick crawling around on my dog last night
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Jun 20, 2023 21:38
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Jun 20, 2023 22:53
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is that odd lighting or did he just eat a firefly
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Jun 20, 2023 23:22
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my cat is norris posted:is that odd lighting or did he just eat a firefly Someone posted this video of a frog that ate a firefly in the blessed thread:
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Jun 20, 2023 23:30
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Found some Automeris io caterpillars in the act of hatching. These guys are covered in venomous spines, and grow up cool. Looking forward to raising these. Also some Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars. Thinking to plant some pipevine next year. Cool thing about these is that the adults have a whole mimicry complex around them. Bunch of other species want to look like they eat pipevine, and thus are not good to eat.  
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Jun 20, 2023 23:30
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Mozi posted:
i believe now that there are multiple frogs this vine has so many crickets on it it's crazy  frog heaven to be sure
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Jun 20, 2023 23:38
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Are those crickets or outdoor (as in not the home invadey kind) cockroaches?
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Jun 21, 2023 00:04
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you know i was looking at that asking myself the same question
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Jun 21, 2023 00:11
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yeah, there's lots of non-pest cockroaches and crickets, we have these tiny little tan "wood roaches" in our forest that are about a quarter inch long, they sometimes make their way inside but never set up shop like palmetto bugs and the like do.
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Jun 21, 2023 00:25
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speaking of, my sil texted me "omg is this a cockroach??" lol (click beetle)
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Jun 21, 2023 00:28
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