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my cat is norris posted:They're harmless, though they can be pretty damaging with their hole-boring. You could try hanging up a bee hotel if you like seeing them around! It might lure them away from those delicious porchy parts. They got into my dad's front porch, then woodpeckers started enlarging the carpenter bee holes in the process of trying to eat them. So that can double down on the damage! It looks like there was a gun battle.
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It almost looks like a normal rat with a swollen face. I hope I'm wrong!
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Lots of cicadas, but how come I never see any healthyadas in this thread?
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Go back to the ocean where you clearly belong, velvet worm! Shoo!
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If anyone wants to attract bumblebees to their garden, I strongly suggest coleus plants. Two years in a row now I've gone out intending to cut off the flowers (makes them grow fuller) and couldn't bring myself to do it because every plant was crawling with bumblebees. I'll try to remember to take pics if it's not too cold tomorrow.
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Took me way too long to see the little brown bird.
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Got to check a lifer off the list - I've seen what I was PRETTY sure were barn swallows flying around before, but never close or still enough for a positive ID. This is at my work and I've already let the people in charge of maintenance stuff know they're there & they're taking steps to make sure they're not bothered. They're like 15 feet up though so this is a pretty safe spot w/r/t cats, birds of prey, etc as well as people passing through.
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So at work today the swallow nest-in-progress had doubled in size but the times I stepped out there to check I did not ever see either bird. Is it normal for them to be away from their nest for long spans during the day? Could something have spooked them away from it? We're close to a noisy road.
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Jun 11, 2018 22:29
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The swallows came back! I brought my good camera once I knew their schedule: 
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Jun 15, 2018 23:30
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I keep seeing what MUST be a house finch, because I'm in central Kentucky and it's summertime, but it's SHOCKINGLY red which makes me think it's a purple finch, but Audobon says they're only here in the winter time. Could he be confused? Trying to get a photo but he's flighty.
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Jun 25, 2018 23:28
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Sauer posted:I don't know what it is, but its about 1cm long, lives in southern Quebec and needs to see a hair dresser: Based on that size keep an eye out for more because itty bitty scruffy moths can mean someone's attacking your linens or your pantry. Great shot, by the way!
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Jun 28, 2018 23:26
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The barn swallows at work hatched FOUR hideous babies!
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Jul 10, 2018 01:30
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I took some better photos of the swallow babies, including probably the best timed photo I'll take ever. Also, apparently sometimes males will commit infanticide to get females ready to mate again, and I'm concerned that's what almost happened today when a THIRD swallow flew up and mom and dad chased him away. More joined the fray and there was temporarily a swallow tornado (I counted six adults!) in the open garage area they're in until the intruders gave up and flew away. 
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Jul 11, 2018 23:45
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If there's a new thread title then I feel a need to bring up the Sad Doot again. It's still unidentified, right?
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Aug 29, 2018 01:06
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I'm sorry about the loss of your quail, but that is a beautiful snake!
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Jan 11, 2019 00:09
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Isopods: https://imgur.com/a/9T2IDOA
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Mar 13, 2019 02:49
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the yeti posted:Looks like a fresh shed in that first one :3 Is THAT why it's that pretty peach color? I see so many brindle ones that I wasn't sure if that was another orange morph.
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Mar 16, 2019 16:47
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If I'd ever get around to setting up a habitat and keeping some like I mean to, I'd know, but the time gets away from me. I'm in central Kentucky in a smallish town and am surprised at what a fantastic variety we have here.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:15
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Clearly licorice flavored.
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Apr 2, 2019 11:34
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Whoa! I wonder where he got the battle damage.
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May 23, 2019 03:06
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I found a nest where a pigeon tried to kick a dead nestling out of it... into the corner the next was tightly wedged into. They can sometimes have funny personalities, but they're so, so dumb.
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Jun 21, 2019 00:26
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One of these? https://bugguide.net/node/view/6945
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Aug 28, 2019 11:31
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Invictus, I think your wolf spider might be a nursery web spider! The stripe gives it away.
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Sep 12, 2019 00:53
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Those eyespots really have some personality!
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Sep 22, 2019 23:30
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poverty goat posted:I'm in Florida surrounded by anoles but they are jerks and won't let me get a good photo I love that they look like boring brown or green lizards, unless there's a lady lizard around, in which case the boys whip out their absurd looking dewlaps.
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Definitely a diving beetle of some kind and thankfully not the stabby kind! Maybe one of these? https://bugguide.net/node/view/14513 drat, yeti beat me to it.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:07
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Looks like cicada brood IX will be in the state east of mine this year, but not here.  But they'll be all over the East in 2021! 
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Mar 13, 2020 13:35
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the yeti posted:Experiencing a brood emergence two springs ago up here was awesome, don't miss it. And don't forget to look for all the cicada-specific critters I know about he alarmingly huge wasps, any others I should keep an eye out for?
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Mar 13, 2020 23:00
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Gross and fascinating - reminds me of the fungus that eats daddy longlegs. I'll keep an eye out for the velvet ants as much for the sake of my feet as them being powerful cuties!
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Bald faced "hornets" being yellowjackets makes perfect sense. To date yellowjackets are the only bee-family bug I've been stung by. Still in awe that I let paper wasps make a nest over the back door that I and my rowdy dogs go through all the time and they left all of us alone. Took the chance after I nearly weed-whacked one and he just flew away completely unbothered.
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Mar 15, 2020 13:42
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I wonder if that one's carrying babies in its pouch or if it's just fat. Looks like it has a big tummy.
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Apr 2, 2020 12:49
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I moved from the West Coast to the South and I love seeing regional snail differences. In California they're golf ball sized Platonic Ideal Shell guys, where I live now they're itty bitty guys, and those ones are flat guys!
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Apr 12, 2020 13:42
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They start out so small! How many instars (am I using that right?) will they have?
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May 1, 2020 12:57
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:I was out on a night walk yesterday and I saw this spooky click beetle doing click beetle things, such as hanging out on trees and bumping into my headlamp. This looks so much like something peering at me out of a hole. I can see being confused by this if I were a predator.
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Do you know if they "ballooned" away? I always thought that was a great way to leave a conversation.
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Jun 10, 2020 12:38
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That's true, but also likely to lead to confusion or arguments over common versus scientific nomenclature. "Its colloquial names include the... ...white-rear end hornet"
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Jun 26, 2020 03:57
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NEVER FORGET
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Can someone with more caterpillar wisdom tell me if maybe the doot is dehydrated? It looks kind of shriveled.
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Captain Invictus posted:edit: maybe try harvesting some from that park and planting some on your property if you've got some space, sure they're thorny vines and can grow wildly out of control, but MAN does each plant produce a shitload of raspberries. my neighbor said he had a bunch growing on his property but they all died out for some reason basically all at once. This happened on my dad's property with blackberries. I'm not sure if they died off or got choked out - there's a thorny bush that's *almost* identical looking to them that grows there now but never blooms or fruits.
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Captain Invictus posted:I found a click beetle inside and went to take it outside and also take a picture, and as soon as I got outside it clicked right the gently caress outta there so all you get is my anecdote and no picture My dog cornered one and the clicking WORKED. She eats anything small that gets into the house but she was confused by it flipping around long enough for me to rescue it and put it outside.
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