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free hubcaps posted:Kingfishers are awesome birds. They dig their nests into sandy banks along waterways, so keep your eyes peeled for a ~3" diameter hole in an exposed bank near where you saw them! Woah i have seen such holes before and always wondered whether it was a burrowing mammal or a gigantic snake. I never suspected a bird.
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the jacamar is the richest bird on the island because he lives in the bank!
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Went on a hike today and saw a couple cool bugs. Southeast PA 
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 I'm afraid it appears the woodpeckers have acquired high explosives.
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Mozi posted:
Tex Avery tried to warn us...
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   friend probably bold because of the little bit of iridescence up front, not sure though
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This is an interesting one - visited the Baltimore zoo and encountered a small deer family (one mom, two fawns) living alongside the elephants.   Keeper said the deer moved in, the elephants don't seem to mind so they just get some big roommates. 
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 That is awesome, I had no idea they'd do that (the zookeepers or the deer)
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Captain Hygiene posted:
I imagine mostly they’re worried about disease and parasites in that situation, maybe deer and elephants don’t really share any.
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Elephants in nature probably don't give a poo poo about other herbivores, and the deer probably recognize a safe space with provided food. I know the Copenhagen Zoo keeps zebras, rhinos, giraffes and hippos in the same place, since that's how nature kinda works too. Have some lovely birds and their ruined island to compensate for talking about zoos:  Also a rat got into my god drat house, which is Bad. I mean, it was kinda cute, but also likely full of diseases and less full of piss than I would have liked. I only have pictures from after capture and execution, so you know, this contains blood and death: 
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I've actually had both rats and mice as pets (human raised and bred not from the wild) but when either enter my house they gotta die. I take measures to exclude them where I can, I've never understood people being squeamish about something that could do serious harm, but I was just talking to someone about how it might be the difference in growing up somewhere where hantavirus is a little more prevalent. I think the reason it's only so rare is most people know not to handle rodents, but I keep seeing more bare-handed handling by influencers and am just waiting to hear about something bad happening.
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Mousetales, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wQlSACel_s Oh they're soooo~~~~~~ kyute!!!! She also has small children, which I'm sure won't inevitably end badly. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 14:24
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I had a mouse in my apartment and honestly i wasnt squeamish about it, was just dreading having to kill it. All the traps just seemed so brutal id rather just capture it and let it out somewhere else
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Oh god. "This mouse's behavior is erratic, isn't that so cute and funny?" is even worse.
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Hihohe posted:I had a mouse in my apartment and honestly i wasnt squeamish about it, was just dreading having to kill it. I don't like killing anything at all and try to avoid it, but with some things it is just necessary. Ants, houseflies, yellowjackets, and rodents are all things that unfortunately have to die, most of the time, at least. And loving crane flies. With rodents I personally prefer old-school mousetraps because it seems like they are most likely to lead to an instant and painless death, whereas poison is unpredictable and glue traps are just loving nightmarish to me. I even have qualms about the yellowjacket traps I use, but yellowjackets are assholes so that mitigates it a little.
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Hihohe posted:I had a mouse in my apartment and honestly i wasnt squeamish about it, was just dreading having to kill it. There's super effective harmless traps now that will let you do just that. I assume there were before too, because it's so simple there's no way it's a new invention.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I don't like killing anything at all and try to avoid it, but with some things it is just necessary. Ants, houseflies, yellowjackets, and rodents are all things that unfortunately have to die, most of the time, at least. And loving crane flies. Yeah. Someone at my old apartment threw a glue trap with a live rat in the dumpster. I fished it out, because it seems like an awful way to go, freed the little bastard from the glue trap, then had to retrap it in my bathroom and let it loose outside. I have cats, so don’t generally have issues with mice and rats, even though all but one of my cats fail at hunting. Unrelated:Funnel weaver spider was pretty stoked this morning about the moth I fished out of the dogs water dish . It didn’t even hide while I leaned over and dropped the moth on its web. The light sucks in that corner, so I couldn’t get a decent picture of it standing over the moth. I have noticed that it is growing its web, so I think it must be pleased with the daily offerings. Also, these moths are always very happy to climb on my hands when I rescue them from places to put them back outside. They seem a bit too large to be spider food and I like their art deco wing patterns.   I guess they are “hill shepherd moths” according to the first Google results for “moth with art deco wings”. Bored fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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I've had success in live capturing rats and mice and relocating them to heavily wooded areas and sheds/barns in the past. Know that's not an option for everyone, but definitely feels better than having to kill them outright. https://i.imgur.com/VsXOO3B.mp4
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Yeah I live trap all of my rodent intruders. I once caught 17 mice in a house I was renting which was not reassuring. At that point I was using homemade Looney Tunes style traps but there are plenty you can buy to save you from sitting on the floor for hours waiting to pull a string to catch a mouse under a bucket. One time a mouse went up my pant leg instead of going for the trap which was upsetting for both of us. I've spotted the kingfisher a couple times since my terrible photo and I think I've narrowed down the area it's burrowing in. The creek banks are pretty heavily wooded though so it will be challenging to find a small hole.
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MagpieConcept posted:I've had success in live capturing rats and mice and relocating them to heavily wooded areas and sheds/barns in the past. Know that's not an option for everyone, but definitely feels better than having to kill them outright. I might have to look into getting a couple to keep on hand, just in case. At least relocating would give them a fighting chance. As it is, right now the cats seem to take care of rodents well enough - just this week I had to remove the decapitated corpse of one off the front porch.
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MagpieConcept posted:I've had success in live capturing rats and mice and relocating them to heavily wooded areas and sheds/barns in the past. Know that's not an option for everyone, but definitely feels better than having to kill them outright. (Boots mine, Past Tense packrat not mine)   Big as guinea pigs and eat through EVERYTHING. That stack of boxes along the wall? A lovely apartment building you set up for them!  I trapped 4 or 5 before I got the barn sealed up enough that they didn't just come back.Not rat related: No idea where to start iding this lil thing, but it was kinda neat! 
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Saw a cool mantis on a truck tire today:
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Yeah I live trap all of my rodent intruders. I once caught 17 mice in a house I was renting which was not reassuring. At that point I was using homemade Looney Tunes style traps but there are plenty you can buy to save you from sitting on the floor for hours waiting to pull a string to catch a mouse under a bucket. lol I did those a few times, then I learned the magic of the tube trap: precariously balance an old paper towel tube on a shelf with bait on the overhanging end, with a 5gal bucket or other steep, deep container below. Mousey goes for bait, tube tips into can, mousey trapped and alive. Just make sure the container is substantially taller than the tube so the tube + a jump doesn't offer an escape route. It was incredibly effective for me until we got a cat and it wasn't an issue anymore.
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There's a similar 5 gallon bucket trap that works like that, except it's not for one mouse, it's for multiple. At least until you look and there's only one very fat mouse left. Uncle had one on a farm in a barn that would just fill with the little jerks. It was wild.
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MehrTentakelnBitte posted:
A weevil, and it look like it belongs in Entiminae, broad nosed weevils.
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i drove two hours away to my hometown and my friend came along for the ride. better look at some of their colors and banding, no longer sure on ID:    also this guy showed up:  my car attracts spiders because we park under a maple tree that constantly drips little spatters of sap onto the car so these amber-colored ants come out to eat the sap and then the spiders come out to eat the ants. it's nice.
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my cat is norris posted:i drove two hours away to my hometown and my friend came along for the ride. better look at some of their colors and banding, no longer sure on ID: The jumper might be a Phidippus putnami male? That whole genus is hugely variable tho I kind of give up on IDing them to species.
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This little critter was caught on some rocks after a storm but it perked right up when I put it back in the creek.
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axolotl farmer posted:A weevil, and it look like it belongs in Entiminae, broad nosed weevils. Thank you! A lucky google found this semi-local Ericydeus lautus immediately~ https://bugguide.net/node/view/223598
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Turns out my single solitary black raspberry that arched itself over formed a perfect frame for a friend to build a web.  Unsure what kind of orb weaver it is, but it's welcome to hang out.
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I think it might be a spotted orb weaver (Neoscona crucifera)
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That's what I was thinking too. I'll see if i can get nicer pictures in the sun in the morning or tomorrow evening, maybe check it's underside too. But, that one has the right kind of pattern and the spiky legs, and most of the other orb weavers around here don't, so it seems pretty likely.
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Took these pics of some wild Drop Bears living in the forest around a reservoir down the road, next to the walking trail I was on      Same place, different parts of the trail, a week and a half apart. The Ranger knew of 3 adults with 2 joeys living in the park, but my photos of the big boy were proof of a fourth     Hangin' low
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 Bit of a surprise on the backup camera the other day (upper left).
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Some kind of fly right next to the red gear icon. Based on the posture it might be a robber fly but I'm not sure.
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No pictures because they move quick, but today's Yard Spotting (ATL GA): -Brown Anole -so many eastern gray squirrels -Tufted Titmouse -Cardinal -Chickadee -Chipmunk -Joro spiders (it's the season for them, I'll be knocking them down with brooms later)
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Speaking of squirrels, I've got a group of them running around the big tree in my front yard today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhpXzlalbtM They mostly just go down that branch and jump from the one tree to the other, then back again. I was thinking maybe they're a litter that's getting to explore for the first time? Edit: I like it when they bunch up at around 0:38.
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Rexxed posted:Saw a cool mantis on a truck tire today: Wish I'd got a picture of the big green mantis on the window at my work office. Had to have been at least 6-7" long, they look cool as hell though. Always makes me do a little evil Zorak laugh in my head whenever I spot one lol
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