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Silver Falcon posted: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. Also cottonmouths. Basically, all the venomous snakes in the US that aren't red.
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McGavin posted: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. Even neater, imo.
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Sep 9, 2023 19:50
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Rosy Wolfsnail, I believe. Eastern NC  It was really interesting watching him go from leaf to leaf. Also, they're very cute but also legitimately look like aliens with all their little head tentacles.
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Sep 10, 2023 02:57
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More bug eating bug. This time a dragonfly and some unknown victim bug. Bugs are hardcore as gently caress: https://i.imgur.com/hHnFMfv.mp4
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Sep 10, 2023 03:07
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Dragonflies are some of the coolest bugs, I'm glad it was chill enough to let you get some video while it was on its lunch break.
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Sep 10, 2023 04:04
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 Another bug rescue, this time a mantis in an abandoned spider web. He was PISSED and tried to fight about it. 
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Sep 10, 2023 04:13
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We had a visitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCJYWXS5Qw
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Sep 10, 2023 18:03
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Sep 11, 2023 12:31
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Mobile Gherkin! Quite beautiful, whatever it is
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Sep 11, 2023 14:30
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 dillmoncher black swallowtail. so many of them out there in the CSA garden today
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Sep 11, 2023 16:04
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Well, this was unexpected. What I thought was going to be an overwintering brood decided to emerge to try their luck and race fall. I don't know if there is going to be 7 weeks of leaves and fair weather left.
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Sep 11, 2023 19:28
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Slo-Tek posted:Well, this was unexpected. What I thought was going to be an overwintering brood decided to emerge to try their luck and race fall. I don't know if there is going to be 7 weeks of leaves and fair weather left. Whoa, that's an awesome pic, though. Were they all in the same place when they came out, or do they congregate together? Never saw more than one at a time before.
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Sep 11, 2023 19:36
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Captain Hygiene posted:Whoa, that's an awesome pic, though. Were they all in the same place when they came out, or do they congregate together? Never saw more than one at a time before. I've got about 200 cocoons in a big mesh box. 25 of them emerged yesterday, 24 of them male, so I set them out on the railing to seek their fortunes. Was a little chilly, so enough stayed put for a few minutes to take the picture.
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Sep 11, 2023 19:52
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Slo-Tek posted:I've got about 200 cocoons in a big mesh box. 25 of them emerged yesterday, 24 of them male, so I set them out on the railing to seek their fortunes. Was a little chilly, so enough stayed put for a few minutes to take the picture. Do they always emerge a bunch at once like that in a given brood?
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Sep 11, 2023 19:57
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Slo-Tek posted:I've got about 200 cocoons in a big mesh box. 25 of them emerged yesterday, 24 of them male, so I set them out on the railing to seek their fortunes. Was a little chilly, so enough stayed put for a few minutes to take the picture. Oh, that makes a lot more sense. That's a ton of cocoons though, there were enough moths in the photo alone that I wasn't sure you'd have been hatching them, picturing individual containers for each one 
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Sep 11, 2023 20:01
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the yeti posted:Do they always emerge a bunch at once like that in a given brood? Within a week or so of eachother, in a given brood. But as a total population, there is somebody on the wing from May to August around here, and year round in Florida and Texas. The last several years I've had one spring brood, one summer brood, and an overwintering brood. Three non-diapausing broods is a first, and might be a problem, because any caterpillars from this batch won't be done till pretty late in October, and we often get a freeze before Halloween. In a big batch like this, there are probably going to be a few overwintering bugs, but I am a little worried.
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Another funnel weaver has taken up residence inside, beyond one of my bedside tables. She was apparently thirsty since she cleared up the water droplets that I mustered around her hide. My cat noticed a recluse creeping around above her, so I squished it and put its very dead corpse outside her burrow. That corpse has now disappeared. So I think she may be willing to eat freshly killed things. I tried to get a video of her working on her new digs, waving her butt around to web the wall, but she noticed me and ran back into her den to hide, which is a good instinct.  I need to look up if they guard their eggs or not, cause I’m guessing she is planning to lay a bunch there and it is near my bed, so I would like to relocate them—outside if they don’t hatch until spring. Bored fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sep 14, 2023 08:35
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Bored posted:Another funnel weaver has taken up residence inside, beyond one of my bedside tables. She was apparently thirsty since she cleared up the water droplets that I mustered around her hide. Either she's willing to take sacrifices or she's extremely offended you left trash on her porch and destroyed all evidence of it.
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Sep 14, 2023 12:21
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Chaosfeather posted:Either she's willing to take sacrifices or she's extremely offended you left trash on her porch and destroyed all evidence of it. Yeah, I thought the second, too. Like, maybe she grabbed it, took it behind the table, and dropped it to the floor, all mad that someone is littering in her yard. Edit: Hope she doesn’t think it’s a threat :oh dear: Bored fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sep 14, 2023 12:47
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People feed tarantulas freshly killed prey for various reasons, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if other kinds of spiders also accept dead prey.
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Sep 14, 2023 17:40
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Went out for a post-storm walk and found this finger-sized 'pillar of the community waddling about.  Any idea what it'll turn into? (Central CT)
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Sep 16, 2023 21:43
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Elm Sphinx. I highly recommend the Seek app by iNatutalist.
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Sep 17, 2023 00:12
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Big spider in the back yard just now, approx 2.25" not including legs :3 Argiope bruennichi? Or something similar at least (thanks, Animal Crossing!).   
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Sep 18, 2023 19:59
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I think I’m gonna have to find a way to affix the opossum food bowl to the porch because the latest raccoon keeps stealing it to eat under the porch.
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Sep 19, 2023 00:41
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Argiope aurantia I think.  I don't know what this fuzzy thing is, but it's clearly some species of wasp food. (I think it's a sycamore tiger moth larva.) 
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Sep 19, 2023 01:27
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Does anyone know this little guy might be?
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Sep 19, 2023 11:14
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Weevil of some kind, I'd guess. They come in lots of shapes and sizes but almost all of them have that big ol' nose.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Does anyone know this little guy might be? Seconding Norris that it looks like a weevil. Where are you located roughly?
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the yeti posted:Seconding Norris that it looks like a weevil. Where are you located roughly? Oh yeah that might be important information. Blue Mountains National Park Australia.
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Sep 20, 2023 00:10
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Could that be a form of Batesian mimicry? I swear it's trying to look like a stink bug, and those taste bad, right?
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The Red Queen posted:Could that be a form of Batesian mimicry? I swear it's trying to look like a stink bug, and those taste bad, right? I def thought it was in that stink/shield/etc bug area at first so it’s certainly possible
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I had to get up at 330am and this tussock moth caterpillar was just chilling on a bottle of kahlua in my kitchen. I took pics to make sure he was real. I guess one of those grey moths that insist on following me inside was gravid.
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^^ I call them toothbrush caterpillars  https://i.imgur.com/Iq52lQb.mp4 shakin' midgee https://imgur.com/gallery/3Z8dic3 midgees making more midgees Shiney McShine fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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Sep 21, 2023 00:21
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Scarodactyl posted:I had to get up at 330am and this tussock moth caterpillar was just chilling on a bottle of kahlua in my kitchen. I took pics to make sure he was real. Lol, that's awesome, but unexpectedly seeing one would probably shock me awake for the rest of the night. They're cool, but they just have way too much going on for my tired mind to take in.
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https://i.imgur.com/7KXA6OE.mp4 Speakina caterpillars
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I saw an earwig on my patio this morning
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Is it normal for their heads to fall off?
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I thought something was going on with its head at first, but I think it just has a neck that camouflages with the concrete. Its neck has the same colors/pattern as the legs. It was scurrying around like this anyway
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Sep 22, 2023 18:29
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Transparency is fun.
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That's funny, it's so tough to see even knowing it's there. It's like a tiny little insectile Rayman.
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