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Spotted this leggy friend on my bedroom curtains, not the best pic but had the markings of a wolf spider. Not that it means much since there are so many wild/house spiders with similar marks, but I like to imagine he was doing an improv rock wall climb to embarrass me, all like "yeah you WISH you could do this, fat bald monkey giant". He lived...for now
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Anyone familiar with this thing? Never seen it before and it's easily the biggest beetle I've seen here on the Central Oregon coast. Easily 1.5":
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Literally A Person posted:Anyone familiar with this thing? Never seen it before and it's easily the biggest beetle I've seen here on the Central Oregon coast. Easily 1.5": Ten lined June beetle or relative
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also i got eaten from the waist down by chiggers gently caress chiggers
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Jul 28, 2023 04:28
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These fuckkin guys Great shots otherwise but goddamn the Japanese beetle horde they’re gonna kill my beans
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Leperflesh posted:
Damselflies. My sister and I used to call them “thataways” Because when you tried to get a look at one it would fly off thataway >
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Jul 28, 2023 05:07
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 bunch of these guys just hanging out and practicing their planking technique  i know ants do this with aphids, but if those are aphids they're the weirdest i've ever seen
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Jul 28, 2023 23:54
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lol I love this one
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This seems like a reasonable enough place to ask - Anyone here have experience mounting/preserving insects? I posted a Hercules beetle here a couple weeks ago, and she unfortunately passed, and has been sitting outside my work for awhile. I scooped her up yesterday after a week of wondering "... Am I at a point in my life where I'm gonna become a bug mounting guy?" She is stinky, so I'm thinking to soak her in isopropyl alcohol, not sure if that's wise.
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Slugworth posted:This seems like a reasonable enough place to ask - Anyone here have experience mounting/preserving insects? I posted a Hercules beetle here a couple weeks ago, and she unfortunately passed, and has been sitting outside my work for awhile. I scooped her up yesterday after a week of wondering "... Am I at a point in my life where I'm gonna become a bug mounting guy?" She is stinky, so I'm thinking to soak her in isopropyl alcohol, not sure if that's wise. Some googling can probably set you straight —iirc isopropyl is not appropriate for preserving the specimen colors but I’m not sure what is better.
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It's been years, but as far as I remember, we put them in isopropyl for a bit before mounting them way back when I made bug displays for 4-H. I don't remember anything about color damage, but that'd definitely be worth looking up.
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What I've been seeing is that soaking will temporarily darken them, but it *should* lighten back up when they dry out. It's definitely a concern though. I'm tempted to just leave her in the shed for a few months to see if she stops stinking eventually. I think I need to soak at least briefly to pin it though, one way or another.
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Does anyone know what these are? I saw them on the beach in San Diego the other day. 
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Jul 29, 2023 11:45
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Some variety of ark clam?
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If it helps, they were pretty small, maybe a little under 2cm on the long axis.
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I thorougly regret not bringing anything that could take pictures when popping down to the local grocery store earlier today, because on the way there I saw the most metal bumblebee I've ever seen sitting on a flower. It was really beefy, and also almost completely black, with only one orange band at the end of its butt. Even the wings looked like they were made of black leather. Like a bumblebee that was also a biker. And then on the way back I saw a squirrel climbing up a tree, which isn't something I see often around here.
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Saw a cool wasp. Bonus bumble from earlier this year. 
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 Spotted a mantidfly of some sort.  Also this cool stink bug nymph.
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How did I not realize there was a thread that enjoys buggy pictures??? (Thought this was actually just a squirrel thread) I love taking pictures and videos of bugs and various critters I find. I shall return with my goods later today.
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Grey Cat posted:How did I not realize there was a thread that enjoys buggy pictures??? (Thought this was actually just a squirrel thread) Yes!! Also mantidflies are so cool and I forget they exist.
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rainy yesterday/last night means slimy friends this morning here is one having breakfast  
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my cat is norris posted:rainy yesterday/last night means slimy friends this morning Slugs and snails are great! Very silly little faces. I had a very large miss visit us the other day, she stayed there from when I woke up to about 2pm. I want to say she's some sort of owlet moth? Colorado.
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Romantic moth in jail visiting hours picture.
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sexy tiger boobs posted:Romantic moth in jail visiting hours picture. I'll wait no matter how long it takes, I know she's not guilty.
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spider baby update: they've moved to the other side of the planter so it's harder to see them, but they've dramatically increased in size while also dramatically decreasing in number. i'm sure these have nothing to do with each other...
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Jul 31, 2023 18:46
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I didn't keep an eye on my dill. Swallowtail
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Meanwhile the fennel I grew to attract butterflies to lay eggs is a good four feet tall and untouched 
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For the last few years I’ve encouraged a few patches of milkweed growing around my property. Is this what I think it is?
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Sammus posted:For the last few years I’ve encouraged a few patches of milkweed growing around my property. Is this what I think it is? Oh cool, I expect so, and presumably getting close to hatching based on the dark color! I wish I had photos, but hatching butterflies and moths is one of my mom's hobbies. Lots of monarchs, some luna and polyphemus moths, and occasional other random ones she finds. Watching them hatch out and spread their wings is really neat.
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Holy poo poo that looks cool. Like, comic book evil logo poo poo
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the only functional polycule (said function eventually being Lunch, for the fellas)
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BonHair posted:Had a dragon of some sort visit Copenhagen a few weeks ago, and I remembered the photo just now: Aeshna grandis, brown hawker/brun mosaikguldsmed/brun mosaikslända.
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Alterian posted:Aww yeah So is that their ending pose after they performed a dance for you? Cause it looks like a spider dance troupe.
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They're about to get busy and have dinner.
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Bored posted:So is that their ending pose after they performed a dance for you? Cause it looks like a spider dance troupe. If you give them 50 skulltulas you get the giant wallet.
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I hadn't seen my best squirrel friend in a few weeks and was afraid that something might have happened to her, but she came back to visit me this morning looking fabulous in her summer coat with a flower behind her ear  
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