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If spicebush swallowtail caterpillars are kinda UV duds, I assume other swallowtail species' caterpillars would be too, but have you tried any others?
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At least in flight they're usually compared to hummingbirds, but they're super cute regardless!Slo-Tek posted:Interesting hypothesis. Have UV pestered both Black Swallowtails and Monarchs, and they are both not that bright compared to Lunas and Snowberrys. Maybe a butterfly vs. moth situation? Dunno. Will test more.
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Striped skunks really vary enormously in coloration imo. In a New England backyard, in different years, I've seen ones with nearly no black and ones with nearly no white, and a broad variety in between.
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If you go ever canoeing/tubing/etc. down a peaceful river, my favorite game is to see how many dragonflies will sit on me at once. I think my personal best was 6, with 3 species represented
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Worst worst case is getting bitten, in which case you need to go to the ER and get a rabies shot. Their fangs are so tiny you might not even feel the bite, so look for suspicious puncture pairs. poverty goat posted:Parsley-eating JERK id please
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I think a turkey's the only thing that big and that dumb?
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Captain Invictus posted:this little guy got blown into me by the fan at work
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Especially try not to put your face in a porcupine. They don't actually throw quills or anything, it's very passive defense. I've never seen a porcupine in the wild, but I'd love to. It's funny, I can't begin to guess the number of raccoons, possums, and foxes, but no porcupines yet.
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Rexxed posted:I posted a few days back with pictures of a nest a bird made inside the garage on a shelf. She's going to be left alone, but I was concerned that maybe she had built it with no way to get in or out and we keep the garage door closed most of the time. So, I set up a camera to make sure that things were okay. Good news, she seems to be fine and I think it's probably a Carolina Wren. So now I'm spying on birds with a security camera. Sorry about the watermarks. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 07:46 on May 5, 2021 |
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They do in my parents' backyard (and suet, and sunflower hearts, and cat food). If humans didn't exist, I don't know if they might eat all or almost all insects, but a lot of birds are a little more scavengey than they are textbook eaters.
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May 5, 2021 08:07
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The true test is trying to wear him as a garter, of course. If he falls off then it's probably a yellow rat snake
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I was in a cabin near a pond over the weekend when I saw my first dobsonfly, a huge female, stuck between the doors of a sliding door. A few of us got hands-on to chase her out to freedom. I didn't know what it was but when I looked her up later, not only was she enormous, she could also have given us a serious chomp. Also feeling lucky we didn't swim in the pond and meet a bunch of hellgrammites 
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:the dobsonfly you saw very likely came from a stream and not the pond. hellgrammites generally live in realtively fast-moving water, although the first one i ever encountered was in a lake. either way, they can't live in places with stagnant water like ponds and swamps, there's not enough oxygen there.
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