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OneTwentySix posted:To be fair, most of the lizards you see in Florida are going to be invasive brown anoles or non-native house geckos. If Florida were more ecologically pure, you'd usually only see lizards if you were walking in more wild areas. When I go looking for reptiles and amphibians in Florida in the state and national forests, I see lizards but they aren't everywhere. A green anole came to visit me while I was playing BF1 the other day. He hung out on the windowsill for about ten minutes, caught an ant, and then mosey'd on. 
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Burrowing owls, watching the sunset. A (very) slightly better picture. 
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Doot Saw a bunch of Atala butterflies and caterpillars as well, but failed to get pictures.
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Is anyone else here worried about Moon Potato? He hasn't dropped any photographic bombs in here, recently.
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Jul 24, 2017 18:18
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Look at this stinky fucker: I've decided to name it Audrey III.
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Critterquest thread: I live in South Florida, and recently discovered (after a power company crew did a bunch of line-clearance tree-cutting in my yard,) a significant beehive in one of my trees. It's pretty high up, probably 12-15ft, but it's external to the tree, instead of in a hollow. I'm worried they might be Africanized honey bees, and I have a (dopey) dog. So far, I've had no issues, but I'm considering calling a bee keeper. Thoughts?
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Cumslut1895 posted:we should make ones which can collect material from their surroundings to produce additional robots Grey goo alpha test lookin' good.
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Bismuth posted:Theres something on my roomate's hand He ded
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Critter quest 2018: The search for Moon Potato Dryocampa rubicunda - Rosy Maple Moth
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Jan 20, 2018 22:00
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Little green heron.
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May 4, 2018 18:25
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The great blue herons around here seem to specialize in snagging Muscovy ducklings. They’ll stalk mama ducks, and wait for a duckling to get distracted. It’s kinda sad, and kinda amazing.
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So no pictures, because the light sucked, but as I was walking to my car last night after work, I saw a flock of flamingos fly over, headed west. I counted sixty two, which is super exciting. I’ve never seen them in the wild before, was pretty cool.
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El Burbo posted:Is this some sort of critter residue? There’s a lot of it and it always comes back in the same spot (right next to a wall) even after I clean it up That's termite droppings. Go up the wall inch by inch, looking for a hole. It might even be in the ceiling. There'll be a pinhole in the drywall/stucco/paint; It's coming from there. You can put a dab of hot glue or something over it, but you're only delaying the inevitable; Call an exterminator now, and not next week.
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Critterquest 2018: We Forgot to Make a New Thread
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Everybody loves owls. It is known. I had a burrowing owl hanging out on my mailbox this morning.
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Aug 19, 2018 11:56
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its all nice on rice posted:I found a tiny little bunny? Rabbit? Marsh Rabbit and Pileated woodpecker, ya. Where were the pics taken?
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its all nice on rice posted:Millersylvania State Park. Just south of Olympia, WA. Welp, it’s not a marsh rabbit.  I know ya’ll have invasive eastern cottontails, but the ears are REAL small for that.
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Left my house for about four hours the other day and this dude had built a web five feet wide by four feet tall about a foot off the ground, directly in the middle of my driveway. He was trying to catch a car, as far as I can tell. I had to break his web, but he was back again tonight so I got a better picture. He’s an industrious little dude. 
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  Found these two on one of the new coonties I brought home. Super excited. 
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  Arctic ground squirrel, Denali National Park, Alaska.
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As awesome as bats are (and thanks for being a good person and shooing them outside,) you really should look to getting your house sealed up against wherever they’re getting in. And build a bat box! Give them somewhere to live that isn’t your house.
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Aug 1, 2019 13:59
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Papilio polyxenes, the Black Swallowtail butterfly.
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Aug 2, 2019 22:06
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Anne Whateley posted:You can even take them in and raise them into butterflies to be sure they aren't eaten first. It's a bit of a project but very cool I just had a second round of Atala butterflies emerge from their chrysalides. I had three successful emergences, but they must’ve all happened at night or while I was at work, because there was no sign of the butterflies. One, then three. It’s a good trend thus far. Butterflies are cool as poo poo. Once-thought-extinct butterflies doubly so.
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OneTwentySix posted:That's a Cuban tree frog, an invasive species that is decimating our native frogs. I was thinking southern toad, but looking at the hind legs, you might be right. Most of the Cubans that we get around there are quite a bit greener and skinnier than that dude, so it threw me. I make sure to murder Cuban tree frogs on sight, but my parents (where the picture came from) have no such doctrine, sadly. Edit: Oh gently caress the feet. Look at the feet, idiot. Definitely a Cuban.
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  I think it’s a Cloudless Sulphur doot, but I’m not sure. He was on a Bahama Cassia.
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Conversely, desk weasel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CTVqt2wxU
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Scrub jays best jays.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
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Free Cheese posted:Using plants native to your area for your plantings is far and above the best way to foster local wildlife, especially pollinators I have a resident population of these dudes in my yard because I planted a bunch of coontie, their larval host plant, and firebush, among other native flowering bushes and plants. Tons of other less-endangered native butterflies, and the occasional hummingbird to go with them. Starting to get migratory orioles in my beauty-berry bushes, too.
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Almost ruined this poor girl’s night when I went to check the mail last night. She had half her web anchored to the door of the mailbox. She was munching on something.
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Scarodactyl posted:They like to weave webs right at head height. ...Across sliding glass doors, especially. The assholes.
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Tiggum posted:Anyone know what kind of spider this is? Location is Melbourne; specifically, my kitchen. It's clearly their kitchen, now.
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El Burbo posted:Big critter Swamp doggo. Gators are so hilariously chill for being multi-hundred-pound apex predators.
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So uh, MrsYenko just sent these from work.   Apparently Coconut Creek squirrels give zero fucks. Update: The squirrel is fine, the snake is dead. He took a pair of rodent incisors to the brain parts. Nature is a motherfucker sometimes. MrYenko fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jul 24, 2021 |
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