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I stumbled across a pair of nesting Spotted Pardalotes this week - amazingly tiny little birds that nest in burrows beside streams. This pair probably have young in their burrow, since they are both going out and dropping off food before heading straight out again. I managed to get some OK pictures of them going about their business:  Mr Pardalote sussing me out  Mr Pardalote returns from a successful foraging expedition  Mrs Pardalote on her way out  Mr Pardalote mid-flight Dia de Pikachutos fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Sep 3, 2023 |
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Those are amazing photos
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Sep 3, 2023 07:24
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Chard posted:Those are amazing photos Agreed.
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Sep 3, 2023 09:16
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Amazing photos of a beautiful bird.
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Sep 3, 2023 19:42
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If those are the OK ones, I wanna see the good ones! 
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Sep 3, 2023 19:47
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Spotted a green coneheaded planthopper, Acanalonia conica, climbing a tree in my yard.
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Sep 3, 2023 21:48
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McGavin posted:Spotted a green coneheaded planthopper, Acanalonia conica, climbing a tree in my yard. Cute leaf guy
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Sep 4, 2023 02:10
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Probably some of the last butterflies of the year Small tortoiseshell. Never get tired of these guys, A+ colors  Red admiral  Cabbage white
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Sep 4, 2023 19:25
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  Sorry, I have a gut level reaction to those after years of trying to grow show-quality cabbages. The caterpillars go right through those things if you don't keep ahead of them!
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Sep 4, 2023 22:02
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You're a cabbagemeister?
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Sep 5, 2023 01:30
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Captain Hygiene posted:Sorry, I have a gut level reaction to those after years of trying to grow show-quality cabbages. The caterpillars go right through those things if you don't keep ahead of them! 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Sorry, I have a gut level reaction to those after years of trying to grow show-quality cabbages. The caterpillars go right through those things if you don't keep ahead of them! I was always wondering why cabbage whites are so common here without me seeing a single cabbage field in my life, until I realized that canola is a brassica
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Sep 5, 2023 07:16
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 Any identification thoughts on these guys shared by a friend? Arkansas.
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Sep 5, 2023 13:46
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   My brother, the jerk, keeps finding salamanders when digging. I have never seen a salamander in Alberta.   I do, however, keep finding bees in my basement which raises concerns regarding the porousness of my home. I tried to give this one some sugar water but she wasn't too interested and pathetically hovered off after a bit.  A better picture of the mystery bees (?) that swarm around my mint plants.  This technically doesn't count as a wild critter, but I've never seen anyone with a turtle pond in their front yard around here - I thought it was a statue until it moved! I guess it must winter inside.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I have never seen a salamander in Alberta. Were you looking underground?
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Sep 5, 2023 17:53
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McGavin posted:Were you looking underground? They said in Alberta, not on Alberta
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Sep 5, 2023 17:56
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Spring is the best time in tropical Oz. Low humidity (about 70%), warm (20 to 28 oC) and sunny. Lacewing eggs  I haven't seen this one (my favourite moth) for ages  Geometridae
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Sep 6, 2023 05:51
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 Anisota virginiensis that can't fly / has an injured wing so I'm taking care of her til she passes. She's pretty active and drank some grenadine syrup off my fingers.  I'm leaving vegetation in there in case she lays eggs so I can take them back outside.
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That moth, holy poo poo! I had to look up more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milionia_queenslandica http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/enno/queenslandica.html Gorgeous specimen.
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Don Herbison-Evans (Butterfly House) is a bloody legend. Buck Richardson is also an incredible scholar of Australian moths. Fly tax 
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Cope's Gray Treefrog hiding in my roof line Making friends (and also making frogs)  Ugh gross this thing is filling up with mosquitos, wait a minute it's also filling up with...  Sigh...  This led to a tadpole rescue op, which was a great success  And what is this thing even? (It's in Durham, NC)  It's cicada season by the way so here's a cicada turning into an adult. (edit: yes that's a frog on the branch in the first one, I was ejecting it from my water lily container because it was making too much noise, again.)    Green anole  Hey did you know you can take phone camera photos through binoculars? Did you know that it's a terrible idea? Oh well let's do it anyway. Here's a great blue heron eating a fish.   Here's a double-crested cormorant, which will probably eat all of the rest of the fish  Here are some hummingbirds  And here's another lizard thing I can't identify (also Durham, NC)  Spiny orb-weaver  Anole eating a black soldier fly on my compost tumbler. Jerk.   Luna moth, in rough condition  Luna moth caterpillar I think  Another anole, this one looks like it just hatched 
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Sep 8, 2023 00:55
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That's a ton of awesome photos  The binocular ones are neat, I've done that with the moon before but they turned out to be really nice vignettes with those critters.
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I kinda like the aesthetic quality of the binocular photos ngl, especially the bird on a branch one
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Your mystery bee looking thing is a fly, can't give you more details than that though.
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I'm pretty sure based on both the appearance and its behavior that it's a hoverfly of some sort.
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Last night when I went down to get myself a drink I saw a moth fluttering and drowning in the kitchen sink. I fished her out, let her dry off on my hand until she was able to fly right, then brought her outside where it's (hopefully) safer for her. Can anyone help me ID her? I'm in Massachusetts.
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Dang ol fox, man: Came out to just check us out. More than happy to let me snap a couple grainy zoomed in pictures.
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Common buckeyes are, well, super common here, but I've never seen/noticed one that looked so much like an animal (snake?) face. Wildcat buckeye butterfly-8514
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I think this opossum is pregnant   I’m pretty sure all of them go blind eventually. After watching a video of a rescue opossum that can’t be released because lead poisoning has made her blind, I’m guessing that’s why most of them seem to go blind. I decided to wait till it left, so I got a few more pictures.      
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Sep 9, 2023 10:03
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Are they getting the lead from carrion? I know by its nature it has to be heavy but how is there not a better alternative for buckshot now?
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Opossums are marsupials, so they're only pregnant for about 2 weeks and the babies are about the size of a grain of rice when they're born. She's probably not pregnant, but might have babies inside her pouch.
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The Red Queen posted:Are they getting the lead from carrion? I know by its nature it has to be heavy but how is there not a better alternative for buckshot now? Eating poisoned mice & rats, rat bait, etc. will probably also do it (e: the blindness that is) poverty goat fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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The Red Queen posted:Are they getting the lead from carrion? I know by its nature it has to be heavy but how is there not a better alternative for buckshot now? Sounds expensive steel shot exists but it costs a whole 20c more per round and also you must have steel tolerant chokes in your gun so therefore No Thanks. They almost certainly get the lead from environmental exposure due to paint, fuel, and other accumulation rather than shotguns though.
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Some animals are just much better at accumulating heavy metals than others.
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goatface posted:Some animals are just much better at accumulating heavy metals than others.
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Comoon european adder/viper (Vipera berus) Nostalgamus fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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 Glanced sideways on a walk, saw a bee just chillin' takin' a nap.  Evening walk, this one was stalking the lavender.  Not sure why there was a pillbug convention, but I sure stumbled across it. https://i.imgur.com/fZLlIJt.mp4 Nessus Sphinx Moth flitting to and fro the other day. (Video)
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Nostalgamus posted:Pit viper It's...uh.... it's in a field....
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I could have sworn the name was translated as "Pit viper" the last time I looked it up, but wikipedia call it the common adder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder
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Nostalgamus posted:I could have sworn the name was translated as "Pit viper" the last time I looked it up, but wikipedia call it the common adder. Pit vipers are a thing. The term refers to a larger group of venomous snakes that have heat sensing "pits" near their nostrils. Essentially they have heat vision. It's badass as gently caress. Examples of pit vipers include rattlesnakes and copperheads.
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